In the wake of brazillian market as the fourth country in the world in gaming market, and fifth in consoles alone(take that, random europe first world country), it's time to start track down this sales. The data is from GFK brasil, and is publish monthly by veja magazine. They only give us the ranks, not actuall sales off each game(like in UK), and monthly, not weekly. They realease some notes too, but i not this month, appeareantly. The numbers were around here for some time, but i tried to get a declaration from gfk about the official launch of PS4, X1 and WiiU, but so far nothing. So, don't expect them to start traciking next-gen for now. The numbers:
X360:
1 FIFA 2014
2 GTA V
3 PES 2014
4 Just Dance 2014
5 Minecraft
6 Call Of Duty: Ghosts
7 PES 2013
8 Kinect Sports: Ultimate Collection
9 BF4
10 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Signature Ed.
PS3
1 FIFA 14
2 GTA V
3 Gran Turismo 6
4 PES 2014
5 Call of Duty: Ghost
6 BF 4
7 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Signature Ed.
8 FIFA Soccer 2013
9 God of War: Ascension
10 Batman: Arkham Origins
Wii
1 Just Dance 2014
2 Just Dance 4
3 Super Mario Galaxy 2
4 Nintendo Selects: Super Mario Galaxy
5 New Super Mario Bros
6 Super Smash Bros Brawl
7 The Legend of Zelda Twiligth Princess
8 Mario Party 9
9 Wii Sports
10 Chaves
Last month(December): http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=177364&page=1
So, virtually no new games on any plattaform. On 360 we have the return of PES 2013. On PS3, we saw the return of Batman(not the movie :P). On wii the we have Chaves as the new entry of the chart, for the frst time ever. It's a tie-in to a cartoon(that is horrible) to a comedic mexican show(that is awsome). This comedic show aimed for kids has been reprised for over 3(maybe 4) decades and to this day i still laugh at the best episodes. They made a cartoon that ruined it, but gained some traction and release a game for Brazilian public. Never played, and if by the premisse that a game is aways worse than the show, avoid this like was the son of satan.
Again, props to warner, because the game has localization, a thing still odd between some publisher(specially nintendo). But should be noted: the localization is horrible(maybe this explain why they are at 10th place).
Anyway, no word on how was 2013 for brazillian industry still a let down, there should be some comments.
"Hardware design isn’t about making the most powerful thing you can.
Today most hardware design is left to other companies, but when you make hardware without taking into account the needs of the eventual software developers, you end up with bloated hardware full of pointless excess. From the outset one must consider design from both a hardware and software perspective."
Gunpei Yoko
