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Jay520 on 01 December 2012

Global = Lifetime Sales
Year = First 52 weeks on sale
Week = First Week
Metascores coming soon

Game Year Publisher Global Year Week Meta
LittleBigPlanet 2008 Sony  5.02 2.6 281  
Assassin's Creed 2007 Ubisoft 4.47 3.1 446  
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune 2007 Sony  4.29 1.8 108  
Resistance: Fall of Man 2006 Sony  4.09 2 194  
MotorStorm 2006 Sony  3.75 2.1 221  
Batman: Arkham Asylum 2009 Eidos Interactive 3.56 2 434  
Sports Champions 2010 Sony  3.4 2.6 150  
inFAMOUS 2009 Sony  2.3 1.5 263  
Heavy Rain 2010 Sony  2.23 1.6 413  
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2008 LucasArts 1.91 1.3 355  
Dead Space 2008 Electronic Arts 1.84 0.7 140  
Borderlands 2009 Take-Two Interactive 1.72 0.9 104  
Demon's Souls 2009 Namco Bandai Games 1.66 0.5 122  
Dead Island 2011 Deep Silver 1.6 1.5 228  
Heavenly Sword 2007 Sony  1.57 1.2 88  
Rock Band N/A Electronic Arts 1.54 n/a 45  
Dragon Age: Origins 2009 Electronic Arts 1.49 1 161  
MAG: Massive Action Game 2010 Sony  1.26 1.1 318  
Rage 2011 Bethesda Softworks 1.17 1.1 247  
[Prototype] 2009 Activision 1.16 0.9 188  
Army of Two 2008 Electronic Arts 1.12 0.9 146  
Valkyria Chronicles 2008 Sega 1.08 0.6 108  
Mirror's Edge 2008 Electronic Arts 1.07 0.8 58  
Bayonetta 2009 Sega 1.06 0.9 138  
BioShock 2008 Take-Two Interactive 1.05 0.5 66  
Dante's Inferno 2010 Electronic Arts 1.03 0.8 179  
GRID 2008 Codemasters 1.02 0.6 37  
DiRT 2007 Codemasters 1.01 0.6 47  
             
AVERAGE  
2.1 1.3 188  
25th PERCENTILE  
1.1 0.8 107  
MEDIAN  
1.6 1.1 155  
75th PERCENTILE  
2.6 1.7 251  
Game Year Publisher Global Year Week Meta

*First Year sales were estimates from the Game Comparisons Chart
FW = First Week Sales
Metacritic Scores coming soon.

 

- STATISTICS IN PROGRESS -

What do you guys make of this? I personally think it's surprising that of all of the PS3's new IP million sellers, the average First Week sales are only 188k! That's seriously low. That's nearly as low Playstation All Stars: Battle Royale, which launched at 176k (not including digital sales or Japan sales). And we all know Battle Royale is a flop, no MAJOR flop!

Any questions, comments, suggestions, complaints, feel free to ask.



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SunofKratos on 01 December 2012

As i always say. First week sales arent an indiacation of a games success. It depends if the game has legs.



Salnax on 01 December 2012

Okay, so PSASBR didn't fail yet.



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Kresnik on 01 December 2012

I understand the point you're going for with this thread but just a small note: GRID isn't a new IP, it's part of the 'Race Driver' series which in turn is an evolution of the TOCA series.



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Jay520 on 01 December 2012
Kresnik said:
I understand the point you're going for with this thread but just a small note: GRID isn't a new IP, it's part of the 'Race Driver' series which in turn is an evolution of the TOCA series.


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happydolphin on 01 December 2012

Very interesting indeed. Given an MSRP of 59.99$ on average for FY1, could we get an estimate of the sales figures in one of the columns? And then, broken down between first and 3rd party games, could we get an idea of the slice of the sales the studio is getting (generally 34$/60$ of the sales figures go to 1st parties, and 27$/60$ go to 3rd party publishers)?

These 3 new columns under the same FY header would be good.



Galaki on 01 December 2012

How does price gauge into this chart?
If a game becomes 50% of its retail price within a month sell more than the one that retain its full price for 6 months, are they really the same "legs" if their sales numbers are close to the same?



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Jay520 on 01 December 2012
Galaki said:
How does price gauge into this chart?
If a game becomes 50% of its retail price within a month sell more than the one that retain its full price for 6 months, are they really the same "legs" if their sales numbers are close to the same?


I did not consider price. It would be interesting though. Maybe I will add it in later if I can even find that type of data.

cloud1161 on 01 December 2012

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Jay520 on 01 December 2012
happydolphin said:
Very interesting indeed. Given an MSRP of 59.99$ on average for FY1, could we get an estimate of the sales figures in one of the columns? And then, broken down between first and 3rd party games, could we get an idea of the slice of the sales the studio is getting (generally 34$/60$ of the sales figures go to 1st parties, and 27$/60$ go to 3rd party publishers)?

These 3 new columns under the same FY header would be good.


I'm not sure what you mean by "estimate of sales figures." Those are sales figures under the "Year" column. Do you mean "revenue? As for everything else, I can only give a maybe. Seems like a lot of work. Perhaps after I add in the Metascores, as I'm sure many people will be interested in that.