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Demotruk on 17 March 2010

Wii down again. Looks like they just managed to get extra supply in from another source last week, or something.

Last year:

Wii 187,465
DS 142,621
360 96,497
PS3 73,824
PSP 42,111
PS2 26,120

PS3 and 360 both strongly up, FFXIII was a much bigger hardware mover than RE5.



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SpartanFX on 17 March 2010

how could a platform be successful in one region (PSP in japan) and dead in other 2 regions????



 

 

 

GreyianStorm on 17 March 2010
SpartanFX said:
how could a platform be successful in one region (PSP in japan) and dead in other 2 regions????

Handheld craze in Japan means they are willing to pay higher prices?



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kingofwale on 17 March 2010
SpartanFX said:
how could a platform be successful in one region (PSP in japan) and dead in other 2 regions????

PSP isn't dead in "Others".



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)
ChrisIsNotSexy on 17 March 2010

AMAZING FF XIII numbers
PS3 version is at 2.30 mil now
2.5-2.7 mil with Others!
And most of that is from First Week
Yes!!!



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GreyianStorm on 17 March 2010
Console Software Sales (Weekly Change) Total Attach Rate
PS3 1,426,000 (+11%) 114,544,774 8.64
Wii 1,388,514 (-4%) 269,660,035 8.34
360 1,315,721 (-15%) 241,190,745 10.75
DS 883,292 (-4%) 253,290,909 5.54
PSP 251,347 (-18%) 89,173,369 4.65

PS3 software outsold 360 software this week in America? Wow.



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ethomaz on 17 March 2010

Low sales for Final Fantasy XIII in America... especially the 360... I expected a little more for both version.

PS3 selling very well for supply-constrained... Wii too low (supply-constrained)... 360 is fine.

Heavy Rain WOW again... third week with 60k... only 20% down from last week.... 1M until end of this month.

Yakuza 3 = 50k... fine... but not good.



Galaki on 17 March 2010

Next week chart (this week) should have some large numbers from Canada for X360. The Arcade version is $130 for the whole week everywhere.



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Spankey on 17 March 2010

intersting numbers
wonder how much Gow3 will push PS3 numbers next(this) week

c'mon Nintendo, you must have Wii stocks somewhere!



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Hyruken on 17 March 2010

400k for FFXIII on PS3 is pretty dissapointing i think. Everywhere you go or if you turn on your tv or pc you see adverts for it everywhere. The advertising for it has been massive. To see it sell nearly half of what BC2 sold on 360 is very shocking to me. Yes one is a fps game and the other a RPG. But so is Dragon Age and that almost matched those sales. Mass Effect 2 nearly doubled those sales in its 1st week.

So if we roll back 6 months with all the hype, all the threads on here, the E3 announcement etc etc would people have expected it to sell just 400k on its 1st week? Can you call as series AAA with those kind of sales? Because if you do means your have to start calling a lot more games AAA if 400k is the boundry.

Another thing is what happens if we roll forwards a week when we see GOW3's numbers posted and they are similar to this FFXIII effect for both hardware and sales? PS3 went up around 15k on last week with FFXIII release. Will GOW3 really push hardware up further then that?

One thing is for sure, this week is PS3's big week. Beyond that they don't have the strength in line up of titles to match this weeks again this year. Unless GT5 comes out this year, which it most likely won't in my opinion.

Any other week and i would say those were great numbers. But this was the first FF game of this gen, so much hype for it over the years. To be happy with just 400k is just weird to me.