PAL Charts - Week 14

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JimmyRay on 12 April 2010

Sony need to advertise more in the UK. It's quite easy to forget the PS3 even exists here since EVERY game has a Xbox360 ad for it!

There's been little to no hype for God Of War 3 over here that I've notice and I don't think I've seen a single ad for it. I certainly wasn't excited about it or looking to buy it, Heavy Rain had better hype and expectations about it!

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palancas7 on 12 April 2010

JimmyRay said:
Sony need to advertise more in the UK. It's quite easy to forget the PS3 even exists here since EVERY game has a Xbox360 ad for it!

There's been little to no hype for God Of War 3 over here that I've notice and I don't think I've seen a single ad for it. I certainly wasn't excited about it or looking to buy it, Heavy Rain had better hype and expectations about it!

You probably don't watch TV often.

GOW3 and Heavy Rain were advertised like crazy on TV here.

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binary solo on 12 April 2010

A racing game in the UK in an established and quality franchise on a console with a 50% greater user base is outselling a H'n'S game in a quality and established franchise. And this is noteworthy how?

PS3 has 2 million higher userbase in Others than Americas yet GoW III in Others is selling at about 2/3 of Americas. Others is over 5 million 360's behind the Americas yet FM3 in Others is 30% ahead of FM3 in Americas. God of War III is going to sell better that FM3 in Americas with 2/3 the userbase. FM3 is going to sell better in Others than GoW III with a roughly equal userbase. Racing games in general and FM3 in particular are very popular in Others (esp Europe), H'n'S games incl. GoW not so much. That's all you need to know to be able to put GoW III vs. FM3 in context, regardless of the fact that GoW III is only in its 4th week of sales.

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palancas7 on 12 April 2010

binary solo said:
A racing game in the UK in an established and quality franchise on a console with a 50% greater user base is outselling a H'n'S game in a quality and established franchise. And this is noteworthy how?

PS3 has 2 million higher userbase in Others than Americas yet GoW III in Others is selling at about 2/3 of Americas. Others is over 5 million 360's behind the Americas yet FM3 in Others is 30% ahead of FM3 in Americas. God of War III is going to sell better that FM3 in Americas with 2/3 the userbase. FM3 is going to sell better in Others than GoW III with a roughly equal userbase. Racing games in general and FM3 in particular are very popular in Others (esp Europe), H'n'S games incl. GoW not so much. That's all you need to know to be able to put GoW III vs. FM3 in context, regardless of the fact that GoW III is only in its 4th week of sales.

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huaxiong90 on 12 April 2010

Seeing FM3's amazing legs, I seriously can't wait for GT5 to drop and see how it holds in the charts, given the PS3 isn't strong in the UK.

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--OkeyDokey-- on 12 April 2010

Forza 3 must be heavily bundled in the UK. It's not selling anywhere else.

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huaxiong90 on 12 April 2010

--OkeyDokey-- said:
Forza 3 must be heavily bundled in the UK. It's not selling anywhere else.

That, or word of mouth is doing wonders for the game.

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Noobie on 12 April 2010

HR still doing heavily good. :) I think overall PS3 is not well advertised in UK at all.. now is the time to advertise it like no other.. Good price, awesome games and if they get some gr8 ads the sales will start seeing some very positive effect.

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