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Forums - Sales Discussion - The Best-Selling Games On 8th-Gen Consoles (Will be updated weekly)

List updated. In the latest week:


1. Watch Dogs debuted at #6 in the list and Mario Kart 8 debuted at #16 in the list, pushing Ryse: Son Of Rome and The Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker HD out of the list.

2. These are the only 20 games on current-gen consoles so far which have sold atleast over a million units.



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Great thread. 

you should consider making a version 2 of this thread and call it the 8th generation state of affairs or somthing to that effect. in it you would have three categories.

  1. Top 20 games sold. VGC numbers and official numbers if given. official numbers should take priority for chart placement in relation to time when compared to VGC numbers.
  2. console global hardware and software totals. updated monthly. This paints a better picture of how well each console is really doing.
  3. Attach rate.


List updated. In the latest figures:

1. Watch Dogs sales have been adjusted down from 2.76m in its first week according to last week's charts to 2.64m in its first two weeks.

2. Mario Kart 8 has moved up from #16 to #12 in a single week.



This list just proves my point that the PS4 is only selling so much better than Wii U because of smart marketing. If you look at software sales the PS4's supposed killer ips like Second Son and Shadow Fall haven't even sold as much as Super Mario 3D World. People aren't buying PS4 for the games. They're buying it because the marketing has made it seem way more appealing than it really is.



HyrulianScrolls said:
This list just proves my point that the PS4 is only selling so much better than Wii U because of smart marketing. If you look at software sales the PS4's supposed killer ips like Second Son and Shadow Fall haven't even sold as much as Super Mario 3D World. People aren't buying PS4 for the games. They're buying it because the marketing has made it seem way more appealing than it really is.

PS4 has got more games than just exclusives. You should check out there sales too.

Also the system has already sold over 21 million software units while Wii U has only sold 4 million more in spite of being on the market for much longer and having many more exclusives.



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Ucell said:
HyrulianScrolls said:
This list just proves my point that the PS4 is only selling so much better than Wii U because of smart marketing. If you look at software sales the PS4's supposed killer ips like Second Son and Shadow Fall haven't even sold as much as Super Mario 3D World. People aren't buying PS4 for the games. They're buying it because the marketing has made it seem way more appealing than it really is.

PS4 has got more games than just exclusives. You should check out there sales too.

Also the system has already sold over 21 million software units while Wii U has only sold 4 million more in spite of being on the market for much longer and having many more exclusives.

I agree the marketing for the PS4 was brilliant (that E4 and Xbone fiasco policies was half of it), but the actual diference between PS4 and the WiiU is the behaviour of the 3rd parties. At first they appeared to support the console, but at the last moment they ran away, leaving Nintendo with a severe drought the first year. Not many games, not many game sales. Now that the games are arriving the sales are growing quickly, both hardware and software.



You know it deserves the GOTY.

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List updated. In the latest week:

1. Super Mario 3D World outsold Killzone: Shadow Fall to become #8 in the list.

2. Mario Kart 8 outsold NBA 2K14 to become #11 in the list.



Great topic!

Interesting to see, that the Top 3 exclusives are all for WiiU. I'm curios how it will develop till the end of the year.



So I've updated this post to reflect MK8's new sales reports directly from Nintendo. It has now outsold Titanfall (X1) to enter the top 10 of this list.

Rejoice, Nintendo fans!



No offense dude, but there's already a much higher quality version of this thread being done by Salnax.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=179972&page=1#

This thread should really be locked.