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Forums - Sales - Global up 24th November 2012 (Black Friday and Wii U week)

Heavenly_King on 29 November 2012

I can believe those PS3 and PSVITA sales. Hopefully they are undertracked.



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Galaki on 29 November 2012
Chandler said:

What was that about Vita overtaking 3DS this week?

Seriously, nice reality check.

Vita did great. It gained a whole .1% in 1 week.



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italo244 on 29 November 2012

Wow, Vita sales are daaaaaaamn terrible! Worst than PSP's last year BF!



Euphoria14 on 29 November 2012
D-Joe said:

2011 2012
X360 1,302,261 982,471 -24.6%
PS3 832,249 643,109 -22.7%
Wii 866,825 387,463 -55.3%
DS 340,017 332,879 -2.1%
3DS 891,302 615,127 -31.0%
PSP 189,577 52,488 -73.3%
WiiU N/A 470,099 N/A
PSV N/A 141,221 N/A
Total 4,422,231 3,624,857 -18.0%

 

really DS?


That's what happens when you release a new pokemon game for your previous handheld right before the start of the shopping season.



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lordmandeep on 29 November 2012

"Far Cry 3 is coming soon. It won't be huge, but should sell reasonably well. Other than that, there isn't much left to release. This year you'll see big sales for Blops2, Halo4 and AC3"

Yeah and it looks like Black Ops 2 has better legs then MW3 already....

yeah AC3, Halo 4 and BO2 will be the top games for the PS3 and Xbox till past X-mas...



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DanneSandin on 29 November 2012
HappySqurriel said:
DanneSandin said:
HappySqurriel said:
DanneSandin said:
Great, great numbers for xbox360!

And that's some pretty impressive attach rate on NSMBU and NintendoLand!

ZombiU doing almost 100k, and having an attach rate of 20% is pretty good as well! Wonder what Ubisoft thinks of those numbers... Any one knows have the other 3rd party games on Wii U fared??


I think Ubisoft would have to be pleased with the ZombiU sales ATM ...

While they don't have any sales numbers associated with them, I suspect the sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (#35), Assassin's Creed 3 (#40), Disney's Epic Mickey 2 (#51), Scribblenauts Unlimited (#59), Sega All Star Racing Transformed (#60), and Batman: Arkham City are all in line with expectations being that they all probably have an (above) 10% attach rate. Whether or not these games are "successful" in the eyes of the publisher will probably depend on their attach rate staying relatively high worldwide over the next several months.

I'm eager to hear what the 3rd party publishers have to say! This could tell us how much support Wii U will get later on... AT least until x-mas 2013...


I'm of the opinion that the Wii U was likely to have strong third party support (compared to the Wii) until at least Christmas 2014 regardless of how these games performed. Companies can do a minimalist port from the XBox 360/PS3 for very little money (probably about $1 Million as a guess), and can create a truly dedicated version of the game for the Wii U for less than most Wii games cost; and there is (probably) a lot of money to be made adding the Wii U to cross platform development with the XBox 360 and PS3 even with rather poor sales.

IMO the first year of sales for the Wii U (when the PS4 and XBox 720 are not on the market) will impact third party support in 2015, and the following years will impact 2016 and beyond. As a guess, I would expect most publishers are primarily focused on cross-generational development for 2014 at the moment (design around PS3/XBox 360 and enhance for next generation consoles) and if the Wii U sells well they will continue this strategy into 2015. For 2016 (and beyond) sales of the Wii U have to be strong enough to justify it being the lead platform, or sales for the PS4/XBox 720 have to be poor enough to disqualify them as the lead platform, to continue this kind of strategy; which is possible but difficult to expect without knowing anything about the PS4/XBox 720.

You know, I started out hopeful regarding Wii U, but the more I hear the less enthusiastic I get... If it's to get 3rd party games after 2014 it has to become the leading platform, and that requires good sales, and good sales require good (and many) games, which Nintendo will provide, but to become the leading platform they also need 3rd party games. Nintendo games can only move so much units (22m to be more precise). This doesn't bode well...



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RazoDigimax on 29 November 2012
pezus said:
spurgeonryan said:
@ pezus


Yes. Yes we do expect japan to go wii u crazy first week.


I am surprised darksider 2, one of the highest reviewed games on the wii U did not sell too great.

So you think it will do 700k+ first week there? This, while Nintendo said they would allocate the most units to NA, where it sold only ~450k?

Why do you say it "only" sold 450k when you know full-well that it was SOLDOUT?

Hard to say how much would have sold if there was unlimited supply, but don't judge sales based on supply constraints.



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Vinniegambini on 29 November 2012

It's official, Vita is a flop no matter how you look at it, it's underperforming in every level possible. Wii U had respectable numbers. Furthermore, alot of its software launch titles were available on Eshop day 1 so maybe a 10-20% more to be added or no?



Conegamer on 29 November 2012

Great numbers for 360 and WiiU Software, especially Mario and ZombiU, proving a market for the hardcore. Hopefully this will be capitalised upon...

Poor Vita. Need I say more?



 

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crissindahouse on 29 November 2012
Vinniegambini said:
It's official, Vita is a flop no matter how you look at it, it's underperforming in every level possible. Wii U had respectable numbers. Furthermore, alot of its software launch titles were available on Eshop day 1 so maybe a 10-20% more to be added or no?

hard to say but i think people who buy a new console buy the games directly with the console in the shop and only people who already own the console will download games in the future.