Japan Sales Week 34 (August 18 - 24)

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benji232 said:

tbone51 said:

benji232 said:

And wiiu got an even bigger drop then last year. Expect more 2k weeks this year because it's currently on an almost identical sales path as last year. One would have thought that kart would have kept it from going back down that horrible sales road but unfortunetely, that doesn't seem to be the case.

What? MK8 might not of pushed 30k-40k+ like we wanted on release and do amazing but to say this? ^^^

MK8 kept it from doing much worse (close to that of 2k-4k like last year) and the games been out for just about 3 months now. Holing a 7k-9k is definitely much better than under 5k. (of course im  not  saying its doing well, just pointing out that MK8 has been maintaining a better baseline and its 3 months from 1 game.)

Mario kart 8 did nearly nothing on the HW side in Japan. Compare this year's weeks to last year's weeks and you will see that they are nearly identical YoY. And the bolded is a bunch of lies, wiiU started doing 2-4k in September and October, and it's heading towards those sales once again with this drop. Last year, it had sold 12k last week and then dropped to 7k, this year, it sold 18k last week and dropped to 7.5-8k this week. Yea, you can see that the sales pattern is very similar. Mario kart 8 sold great by itself, but it did nearly nothing for the hardware.

Not going to happen this year, atleast in September, the Wii U has Mario Kart 8, Hyrule Warriors to support it, unlike last year, and even  though not huge games, Bayonetta 2 is releasing the 20th, and Fatal Frame V, the following week. Those 4 should be enough to keep it away from the 2k-4k weeks in Japan, and should maintain it at okay levels during October. The one we should be worried about is the PS4.