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GuyDuke on 14 January 2011
thx1139 said:

YoY change

Wii down 26%
PS3 down 12%
360 up 32%

Yep, still, 360 isn't even able to pull out Wii numbers >_<



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Alby_da_Wolf on 14 January 2011
Carl2291 said:
CGI-Quality said:
Carl2291 said:
ethomaz said:
NeoRatt said:

Who would have predicted that Kinect would outsell many of those other titles...  Especially GT5 (In fairness GT5 has been out less time, but weekly Kinect is outselling it so it doesn't matter)?

You expected a game to outsell an accessory?

The majority of us did. Microsoft only expected to move 3 Million in the Year, and then upped it to 5.

A lot of people expected GT5 to do more than 5 Million by Years end.

Problem with that is people will use it to claim GT5 underperformed/failed/flopped. Many thought it would do 5.5 million by year's end (I thought 4.5-5mill, which it did). It did 4.91mill by year's end, certainly less than Kinect, but not because it underperformed, but because Kinect outdid just about every expectation (including Microsoft's).

So while I hear you on this, I can see where ethomaz is coming from.

It's not a problem at all really. NeoRatt didn't claim GT5 underperformed/failed/flopped... He just said nobody expected it. And hardly anyone at all did.

ethomaz is pretty much damage controlling. Instead of saying "Yeah, Kinect did well"... He has to come up with something like that. It's pointless. Most of the people here expected GT5 to outsell Kinect. Kinect was expected to do 5 Million MAX by Years end... 3 Million was MS' expectations. GT5 was expected to hit 5 around years end and possibly surpass it.

IMVHO Kinect's success hit a lot more Balance Board and Move, GT5 was more damaged, at least in USA, by MS heavy bundling Forza 3 during its launch. I don't think it did a huge damage, but from BF to New Year I don't think it's unlikely that 100-200k undecided buyers chose Forza 3 instead.

Obviously Kinect's success made every other big game or item, even successful, look smaller, so it dealt an image blow to almost everything else, and it's also true that being rather expensive it was most probably the only major purchase for many gamers, so indirectly hitting everything else on sales too.

What's curious, though, is that Black Ops, with its incredible sales, will deal a deadly blow to the image of other FPS' with best seller ambitions for years, but it looks like almost everybody is forgetting it. Oh well, I guess we'll have to talk enough about BO when even Treyarch won't be able to replicate its success and Skrotick will suddenly turn from buddy into the usual bastard douche we got used to know towards them too.   



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Notorius.A.i.G on 14 January 2011

- Usual Nintendomination

- GT5 crosses the 5 Million mark

- Kinect is holding up



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tendoronie67 on 14 January 2011

I like these numbers all round 

&KA is on top of the software charts...



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--OkeyDokey-- on 14 January 2011

360 doesn't really seem supply constrained to me. It only sold 10k less than the Wii in America.



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--OkeyDokey-- on 14 January 2011
RolStoppable said:

Looks like GT5 is continuing its bombing spree.

There should have been more bets running regarding its sales, but oh well. Missed opportunity is missed.

Your sig tells me you're not too good at bets.



Carl on 14 January 2011
--OkeyDokey-- said:
RolStoppable said:

Looks like GT5 is continuing its bombing spree.

There should have been more bets running regarding its sales, but oh well. Missed opportunity is missed.

Your sig tells me you're not too good at bets.

Rol, as far as I know, actually has a 100% record with bets regarding GT5.



                            

arcane_chaos on 14 January 2011

meh...okay sales all around



psrock on 14 January 2011
BHR-3 said:

Seece said: I assume you think 360's magically downfall will hit straight away in 2011 and PS3 will be back to first straight away?

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3804408

 

Yes Seece it will magically do that

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=40552&reg=World&date=40545&console=&maker=

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=40552&reg=World&date=40552&console=&maker=

 

OT if 360 is low in supply than PS3 must be getting discontinued with ts sub 100k americas sales im not buying it, MS won 6 NPDs in a row even against the Wii prior to Dec, didnt they think they needed more consoles? im not buying it ill admit it was a little hard to get kenict and the kenict HW bundles Nov-Dec but thats it, in my area its supply is nowhere near as bad as it was with the PS3 last year and the wii yrs back

I have never laughed so hard in my life. 



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Gojimaster on 14 January 2011

Does anybody else recall the huge debate that arose here about how well DKCR would sell.  There were a few people that were very adamant that DKCR would not break 2 million since DK games haven't sold that well since N64 days. Good to see that Donkey Kong's star is rising as one of Nintendo's most popular characters.   Unfortunately Samus didn't have the same luck....



 

Most anticipated games of 2011:

Uncharted 3,Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Rocksmith

Modern Warfare 3, Super Mario 3D