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Forums - Sales - UK Sales: Mario still being outsold by Knack, GT6 launch sales just a fifth of GT5

SocialistSlayer on 09 December 2013
pezus said:

Do we know the opening week sales of the other GT games? I think GT5 was a massive improvement in that respect over the previous titles. GT6 might be close to them, even though it's far from GT5.


well also GT5 released on 24 Nov 2010, that was a wednesday. GT6 released on 6 Dec 2013, a Friday. Also i dont know if the UK has sales somewhat similar to black firday, but GT5 released black friday week, GT6 missed it, and had less days of the week to sell.



 

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Rogerioandrade on 09 December 2013
Rustynail said:
Rogerioandrade said:
Not a big deal. Mario 3d World will sell for a long time worldwide. Knack will soon be forgotten

Lol, stop making excuses, just admit it, Wii U is a flop.

Lol

If you want we could rise the bar of this comparison and taking it worldwide. Shall we ?

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/71544/knack/

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/73166/super-mario-3d-world/

until 11/23 - Knack: 140k  Mario 3d W: 380k. 

UK numbers won´t be enough to change that.



Cheebee on 09 December 2013
outlawauron said:
Cheebee said:
Dem dudebros. -_-'

dudebros are buying knack?

... Knack? Why? That game's not even in the top 10. I was talking about the bestsellers. Look at the list in the OP; top 5 = 100% dudebro.



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outlawauron on 09 December 2013
Cheebee said:
outlawauron said:
Cheebee said:
Dem dudebros. -_-'

dudebros are buying knack?

... Knack? Why? That game's not even in the top 10. I was talking about the bestsellers. Look at the list in the OP; top 5 = 100% dudebro.

Oh. With the focus on Knack vs. Mario 3D World and GT5, I overlooked the rest of the charts. 

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SupBambiKing on 09 December 2013
fighter said:
Rogerioandrade said:
Not a big deal. Mario 3d World will sell for a long time worldwide. Knack will soon be forgotten


this, and GT6 sales are not a surprise, it's a franchise in decline


Just the greatest Racing Franchise out there with absolutely no real competition cause they can't come close to that quality =)

GT6 is a money grab and nothing more.
They just take what they can get from the fans,will probably still sell 5 Millions(more than competitors will in the whole Gen) and release the next GT 1 year later.
The news PD could imagine releasing the next GT already in 2014 probably made its round too in the community.
Then obviously you have DriveClub coming up in a few months aka the first real NextGen Racer and people will settle with that rather than getting excited about a LastGen Racing Game.
GT6 as a releasegame for PS4 wouldn't have been an option either - You don't release a 10+ Million Unit moving franchise on a console that can barely meet demand.It could move 10-15 Million Units easily but not without consoles.GT for NextGen is already in the work if we can believe that some people already have seen trailers.GT6 on PS3 is just there to make money without risk.
Lets wait and when Sony has enough supply of the PS4 we can expect the real driving simulator on NextGen.



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ninetailschris on 09 December 2013

Knack is bundled with killzone in the uk last time I checked.



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Somini on 09 December 2013
ninetailschris said:
Knack is bundled with killzone in the uk last time I checked.

So is Mario.



Mummelmann on 09 December 2013

GT 6 falling hard, I'm one of the biggest GT fans on the planet and have been playing them for hundreds of hours since the first one came out but I can plainly see that the series needs to take some fairly big measures to stay relevant. As much as Yamauchi loves cars and racing, he still lacks aim and his vision is too expansive as it stands. The sad microtransaction fest taking over is also a clear sign that Polyphony are letting the market at large to a lot of the thinking for them in a field where they were pioneers and world leaders a decade ago (console racing sim, that is).

In short; PD needs to get their shit together.

As for Mario being outsold by Knack; well, the PS4 already has about twice the installed base of the Wii U and isn't exactly rife with appealing software so a lot of mediocre titles will be tossed into the cart by default. This doesn't really mean much in the big picture.



ninetailschris on 09 December 2013
Somini said:
ninetailschris said:
Knack is bundled with killzone in the uk last time I checked.

So is Mario.


Mario bundle is limited. 1,000bundles vs 250,000 . Let's stop and think.



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Somini on 09 December 2013
ninetailschris said:
Somini said:
ninetailschris said:
Knack is bundled with killzone in the uk last time I checked.

So is Mario.


Mario bundle is limited. 1,000bundles vs 250,000 . Let's stop and think.

The limitation is WiiU's sales not the bundle itself. I can't help it if the WiiU isn't selling any better. You must've noticed that the WiiU has been selling better since the arrival of the bundle. Hence my point.