Welcome to the first entry of the System Mover Game of the Day, which I plan to add to the rotation of the "Sales of the Day" threads and articles. The purpose of these threads will be to look at how big of a hardware increase some of the bigger software release gave their consoles. In the threads, I will be deciding how big of a system mover a game is by how big of a percentage increase the game gave the hardware from the previous week. Obviously, the impact of a big game is more complicated than just one week's sales, so the follow up articles will be more in depth, and you are free to comment about what impact the game had on hardware outside of its launch week. Games that caused less than a 10% increase in hardware worldwide will not be considered system movers. Because this is a new series, if you have any suggestions for ways to improve this series please let me know, including things such as better responses for the polls, or more data you think I should include in the original post.

System Mover Game of the Day

Article to be posted (11/11)

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Description: Super Smash Bros. Brawl was the most eagerly anticipated Wii game before its release, with hype for the title being built with official daily updates from Nintendo for over a year. When the game launched it accumulated a massive worldwide first week total of 2.7 million. Making it the biggest opening week ever for a Nintendo title on a home console. In addition to selling a massive amount by itself, Wii hardware sales also increased by 53% during the week of release. In America only, the Wii sold 93,000 more consoles than the previous week. Both Japan and Europe also experience hardware boosts with the release of Super Smash Bros. but not near as large. So can the large increase in Wii hardware the week Super Smash Bros. released be attributed to people buying the Wii to play the game, or is there another explanation for the increase in sales? If you think the game did move systems, why was it able to sale hardware? Vote in the polls then leave a comment letting us know what you voted for, as well as any other thoughts regarding the impact of Super Smash Bros. Brawl on Wii console sales.

Really fun game to play.

America is Brawl's biggest region by far, and the Wii was still sold out there when it came out. Early 2008, remember?

I'd say it's the supply increase.

c0rd, you are right, at least part of the reason the Wii had a big % increase in Americas is because the week before it had very low numbers due to low supply. Still the game did sell 1.6 million copies in its first week in the Americas, so without supply constraints the increase would have probably at least been similar to the other two regions or higher.

THE POWER OF THE FIRST PARTY Wii GAMES !

@09tarheel

Next one should be MGS4 !

When I made this thread, I forgot I had also intended that people would say why they think a game was able to move systems, if they think it was the cause. So I've added a new poll. So please comment on both if you think the game moved systems, and if you do think it sold hardware why it was able to do it.

@MetalGearSolid_4ever, thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely do one for MGS4 at some point, but the next one will probably be for a game that isn't so clear cut of a system seller.

Brawl is a system selling, becuase it's a fun game. That's it. You can pick it up and play it any time you want and that's what makes it great.

What ps3-sales said....I voted for it moved systems and convinced many people to buy system due to awesome reviews!!

Anybody else have any comments?

I like this idea, system mover. MGS4 will be a good one to do sometime.