Kyuu said:
It's actually quite a big drop considering the awful first week numbers. When your game opens with rock-bottom sakes, a 66% drop is dreadful. |
First of all, I don't know where this 66% come from. The game sold 18,272 in the first week and 8528 in it's second. The sales in the second week are 46.6% of the sales in the first week, so a 53.4% drop.
Secondly, the drop is never influenced by initial sales. The genre influences it. So more casual games tend to have better legs, while more core games seem to be more fronloaded. More hyped up games are also more frontloaded. Sequels are often more frontloaded than the initial outing of the series. But sales-volume has no recognizable influence on the second-week drop.
And finally, let's make the real comparison. The game dropped in it's second week in the US to 39.2% of it's first week sales on PS4 and to 53.2% of it's first week sales on Xbox One. The Switch drop in sales is right there in the middle of it with 46.6%. So it's a pretty normal hold, not a great one like xMetroid claims, it did not drop 66% as Megiddo fudged the numbers and it is not a big drop as you claim. I don't know what's up with people, we have numbers and we can compare, why do people make so much completely unfounded claims. All around the spectrum, regardless the fanbase.
