Reasonable said:
Nice RDR launch. I thought it might even sell a bit more on 360 in ratio but that's very good for both consoles I think. With good reviews and word of mouth it should sell very nicely over time.
AW I think actually good for the title - pity so many thought the title was going to be some huge FPS level monster; that kind of wish fulfillment thinking simply set the game up to fail from that perspective.
Again, I really think Remedy went the wrong route being exclusive with AW. They'd have seen far more sales from being multi-platform particularly if they'd supported PC and PS3.
MDR actually in line with many racers launches in Europe that went on to sell very well, so only time will show if it's a hit or not. Again, people bringing all kinds of wrong expectations to judging it. MDR's success depends on legs, no initial sales. And we're going to have to wait to see how those pan out.
Looks like both 360 and PS3 are going to have a good 2010. PS3 obviously looking the bigger YOY winner so far 360 doing fine considering it's age.
Next stop Move and Wave (or Wave and Move) and the Holidays.
Wii doing okay but strange to see the SW total behind PS3 and 360. Adding the HD consoles together really shows that right now the big ratio of SW being sold is HD titles. SMG2 should change that a bit but I think Nintendo need to find a way to get a better stream of popular titles on the console.
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While MDR's success would depend on legs, first week number could still tell us something.
A leggy hit usually goes on to sell 10-15 times its first week WW total. With 54K in Others and based on VGC pre-order chart, it's likely MDR would sell under 200K first week WW. That puts MDR to 2-3 million units WW if it were to have legs in its sales.
