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Salnax on 23 May 2014
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May 3, 2014

Title Year Publisher PS4 One Wii U Combined
Call of Duty Ghosts 2013 Activision 2.18 1.73 0.15 4.06
New Super Mario Bros U 2012 Nintendo 0 0 3.93 3.93
Battlefield 4 2013 Electronic Arts 1.79 1.3 0 3.09
Nintendo Land 2012 Nintendo 0 0 2.98 2.98
FIFA Soccer 14 2013 Electronic Arts 1.93 0.88 0 2.81
Assassin's Creed 4 2013 Ubisoft 1.6 0.77 0.17 2.54
Super Mario 3D World 2013 Nintendo 0 0 2.02 2.02
Titanfall 2014 Electronic Arts
1.69
1.69
Killzone: Shadow Fall 2013 Sony 1.66 0 0 1.66
New Super Luigi U 2013 Nintendo 0 0 1.5 1.5
NBA 2K14 2013 Take-Two 0.88 0.57 0 1.45
Forza 5 2013 Microsoft 0 1.26 0 1.26
Need For Speed Rivals 2013 Electronic Arts 0.89 0.35 0 1.24
Infamous: Second Son 2014 Sony 1.22

1.22
Wii Party U 2013 Nintendo 0 0 1.21 1.21
Madden NFL 25 2013 Electronic Arts 0.63 0.54 0 1.17
Knack 2013 Sony 1.05 0 0 1.05
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2013 Warner Bros 0.48 0.32 0.24 1.04
Dead Rising 3 2013 Microsoft 0 1.02 0 1.02
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker 2013 Nintendo 0 0 0.93 0.93
Ryse 2013 Microsoft 0 0.9 0 0.9
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes 2014 Konami 0.67 0.15 0 0.82
Pikmin 3 2013 Nintendo 0 0 0.76 0.76
LEGO City Undercover 2013 Nintendo 0 0 0.75 0.75
Thief 2014 Square Enix 0.43 0.26 0 0.69
Just Dance 2014 2013 Ubisoft 0.18 0.22 0.27 0.67
ZombiU 2012 Ubisoft 0 0 0.67 0.67
Skylanders Swap Force 2013 Activision 0.14 0.14 0.26 0.54
Tomb Raider 2014 Square Enix 0.39 0.14 0 0.53
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze 2014 Nintendo 0 0 0.53 0.53

 

Publishers

Company PS4 One Wii U Combined
Nintendo N/A N/A 14.61 14.61
Electronic Arts 5.24 4.76 N/A 10
Activision 2.32 1.87 0.41 4.6
Sony 3.93 N/A N/A 3.93
Ubisoft 1.78 0.99 1.11 3.88
Microsoft N/A 3.18 N/A 3.18
Take-Two 0.88 0.57 N/A 1.45
Square Enix 0.82 0.4 N/A 1.22
Warner Bros 0.48 0.32 0.24 1.04
Konami 0.67 0.15 N/A 0.82

 

North America

Title Year Publisher PS4 One Wii U Combined
Call of Duty Ghosts 2013 Activision 1.18 1.22 0.11 2.51
New Super Mario Bros U 2012 Nintendo

1.82 1.82
Battlefield 4 2013 Electronic Arts 0.84 0.87
1.71
Nintendo Land 2012 Nintendo

1.67 1.67
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag 2013 Ubisoft 0.71 0.51 0.11 1.33
Titanfall 2014 Electronic Arts
1.19
1.19
NBA 2K14 2013 Take-Two 0.65 0.49
1.14
Madden NFL 25 2013 Electronic Arts 0.52 0.49
1.01
Super Mario 3D World 2013 Nintendo

0.9 0.9
New Super Luigi U 2013 Nintendo

0.9 0.9

 

Europe

Title Year Publisher PS4 One Wii U Combined
FIFA Soccer 14 2013 Electronic Arts 1.31 0.56
1.87
Call of Duty Ghosts 2013 Activision 0.79 0.41 0.03 1.23
Battlefield 4 2013 Electronic Arts 0.72 0.37
1.09
Assassin's Creed 4 2013 Ubisoft 0.71 0.22 0.05 0.98
Killzone: Shadow Fall 2013 Sony 0.82

0.82
New Super Mario Bros U 2012 Nintendo

0.74 0.74
Nintendo Land 2012 Nintendo

0.69 0.69
Need For Speed Rivals 2013 Electronic Arts 0.39 0.09
0.48
Super Mario 3D World 2013 Nintendo

0.45 0.45
Forza 5 2013 Microsoft
0.41
0.41
Titanfall 2014 Electronic Arts
0.41
0.41
Infamous: Second Son 2014 Sony 0.41

0.41

 

Notes:

  • This week, the biggest jump came from Titanfall, which rose 60,000 units on just the Xbone. This allowed it to overtake Killzone: Shadow Fall, taking the 8th place for overall best-selling console game of the generation. The other notable shift worldwide was Infamous: Second Son overtaking Wii Party U, in addition to all the usual minor increases you'd expect.
  • The difference between the #30 and #31 spot widdened this week, as Rayman Legends is being outpaced by both Tomb Raider and Tropical Freeze. Unless MLB: The Show sells over half a million units on the PS4 in its first few weeks, Wolfenstein looks to be the game to knock one of them off the table.
  • From a publisher standpoint, this week belonged to Electronic Arts. They had a jump of roughly 140,000 games in the Top 30 worldwide, reaching 10 million in the Top 30, compared to Nintendo's 100,000 and, say, Activision's 30,000. Titanfall can only be accredited with less than half of this jump, the rest coming from launch games like FIFA. Whether EA can remain the fastest growing remains to be seen, as of course Watch Dogs and Mario Kart 8 are made by other companies already invested in this gen. If Mario Kart 8 only sells 100,000 copies a week for a while, that would be disappointing, but would still make Nintendo by far one of this gen's leaders as a software publisher.
  • Although there was little change in North America this week, note that Titanfall is selling at the fastest pace. If Watch Dogs and Mario Kart 8 don't rustle its jimmies, it can overtake Assassin's Creed 4 as the #5 best-selling console game of the generation. However, it is unlikely to overtake Nintendo Land in the near future, at least before those two games intervene.
  • In Europe, you may have noticed that there are 12 games listed. This is because the exclusives Infamous: Second Son and Titanfall are now on par with both Forza 5 and each other. Which of these three games breaks ahead and becomes the true #10 will be interesting to see.
  • So far, four of the top ten best-selling games of the gen are shooters: Battlefield, CoD, Titanfall, and Killzone. Three more are platformers in the Mario universe, then we have Assassin's Creed, FIFA, and Nintendo's theme park party game collection. One one hand, this might not seem like the most inspiring gen so far. On the other, the gen's just started and two of the Top 10 games are new IP's (Titanfall and Nintendo Land).


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