Week 1, 2016 (Jan 04 - Jan 10)
Week 2, 2016 (Jan 11 - Jan 17)
Week 3, 2016 (Jan 18 - Jan 24)
Week 4, 2016 (Jan 25 - Jan 31)
January
- The new year begins! There are isolated positive results, but as a whole it was a rather weak month for hardware and software.
- The New Nintendo 3DS LL was just barely able to outdid the PS4 for February, one got essentially no major releases while the other one got two, as a whole it was a rather positive month for PlayStation with a good deal of hardware and software moved, as said before, the PlayStation 4 did well, so did the Vita. With the holiday effect over Wii U is back at dead levels, PS3 keeps fading away and Xbox One is essentially a ghost.
- At the end it was Dragon Quest Builders on Vita the best selling game of the month, dashing my prediction, the game sold better than expected, and that's always a good thing, having a Vita game on top of the chart is rarity, so to start a year with that is impressive. Apart from that other January releases like Yakuza: Kiwami and Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, both remakes, did well. Old games like Monster Hunter, Minecraft, Yokai Watch and Splatoon also did alright.
- For the first month of the year, all hardware SKUs but the PlayStation 4 are down from January 2015 and down year on year, software as well, everything but the PlayStation 4 (who had a tremendous bump from January 2015) and the PlayStation Vita are down year on year in what was a somewhat mediocre start for 2016, things shouldn't get better in February as compared to February 2015 there is nothing big coming out.
What to expect next month?
This
4th (25 days of tracking)
[PS4]Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4
10th (19 days of tracking)
[PS4]Valkyria Chronicles Remastered
[3DS]Shin Megami Tensei IV: FINAL
18th (11 days of tracking)
[PSV][PS4]Ikenie to Yuki no Setsuna
[PSV]Kan Colle Kai
[PS3][PSV][PS4]Attack on Titan
[PS4]Street Fighter V
[3DS]Mario & Sonic at Rio Olympics
Compared to the huge February 2015 there's essentially nothing coming out, just a bunch of middleware releases, so expect things to look worse year on year, on both hardware and software; Vita and PS4 might be able to maintain the growth they've had from 2015 but don't expect for the growth to increase.
Due to the boring month is rather hard to predict what the best selling game of the month will be, but from what I see it's down to three games, Vita's long delayed Kancolle Kai, 3DS' Shin Megami Tensei IV: FINAL and this month's big game, Dragon Quest Builders on Vita. My money is on Kancolle, but as said before, this one isn't easy to predict.
As for hardware, well seeing how close the two were this month it might be the PlayStation 4, as said before, hard to tell, don't be surprised if the 3DS or the Vita sold the most though.
Also another February with no Wii U games.
No point on posting the 10 best selling games of the year list.
Here's an addition for this year's threads.
Comparing performance year on year for hardware and software should be fun. As said before everything is down but the PlayStation 4. On software everything down but PS4 and PSV.
Two Thousand Fifteen
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