****. I knew I had forgotten to do something this week.

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Worldwide Top 30 as of June 7, 2014 (Archived)

Publisher Shares of Top 30

North America

Europe

Japan

Notes:

• Thanks to the many major adjustments made by VGCHartz this week, including a down-sizing of Watch Dogs's first week, it is kind of hard to say exactly how certain games changed positions. Nevertheless, we'll ddo our best.
• The Top 30 entries remain constant this week, with Watch Dogs actually losing over 100,000 sales even after its second week due to adjustments. This is not tragic for Ubisoft, as sales were still fantastic, but it makes some of the statements I said last edition hyberbole.
• The true big story of the week in terms of growth was Mario Kart 8, which jumped from #18 to #13 of all console games this generation after having nearly 300,000 sales in a week. True, Watch Dogs sold even more, but its legs were proportionately less impressive. MK8 is also one of the 6 Nintendo Games in the Top 20, and if legs continue to be strong it can reach the Top 10 this summer.
• Mario Kart 8 is already on par with Knack in Japan, and seems destined to overtake it next week. This would make MK8 a bigger game than any PS4 title, within three weeks of release.
• Despite the success of MK8, the Top 30 includes over a million more copies of PS4 games than Wii U games. Basically, Infamous: Second Son prevents it from being a de facto tie. However, neither platform is crushing the Xbone.
• The big multiplatform games of the next couple of months are EA Sports UFC, Sniper Elite 3, Madden NFL 15, and Transformers. The PS4 is getting The Last of Us Remastered and the Wii U is getting Wii Sports Club. None of these games are likely immediate hits, but can easily take us by surprise. Also note that Hyrule Warriors is an August release in Japan, but based on series history, I doubt that it will ever make the Top 30.

Weekly Update done!

Just a note, even though you do have Mario Kart 8 with more sales than Knack and Nintendo Land in Japan, it still is in it's spot from last week, and not moved up to 4th in Japan position wise on the chart.

Yep, MK8 in Japan needs fixed, as Numberfox said. Pretty impressive how quickly it's climbing. It might be number 1 by the end of this year at the rate it's going. After those gains from Watch Dogs, Ubisoft will be suffering pretty bad soon as it loses two games from the charts. Activision will probably end up above EA by the end of the year. Destiny will put it above Ubisoft easily, and the next COD should push it above EA.

Shouldn't it be publisher totals in the top 30? Eh, whatever. Hey, here's an idea, what if you were to put the publisher totals by region as well? As in, next to the PS4, XBO, and Wii U columns, you could put a North America, Europe, and Japan column, to show differences between the regions for each publisher.

What the hell is Nintendo Land? And great thread btw

How the hell do you not know about Nintendo Land?!? It was the launch game for the Wii U, bundled with every Wii U for the first half year or so. Served the same purpose as Wii Sports, demonstrating the kind of gameplay that made the system unique.

Weekly Archive! June 21st data will be up in a few.

Worldwide as of June 14, 2014

Totals in the Top 30

North America

Europe

Japan

Weekly Notes:

• FIFA reached 3 million worldwide this week, the fifth game of this gen to do so, as well as 2 million in Europe alone. It'll likely overtake Nintendo Land next week to reach the #4 spot.
• Watch Dogs continued to slow down this week, not going up any spots. Mario Kart 8 had similar sales, but due to its closer competitors, went up from #13 to #12, overtaking NBA 2K14.
• Last, Wolfenstein went up to the #28 spot worldwide, overtaking Just Dance 2014 and ZombiU.
• New this week to the feature is a count of games by each publisher. Nintendo alone has 9 of the Top 30 spots, followed by EA with 5, Ubisoft with 4, and Sony and Microsoft each with 3. Of the other publishers in the Top 30, Activision is #1, thanks to the strong sales of CoD: Ghosts.
• Japan actually had a bit of shifting around, thanks to Mario Kart 8 leaping up two spots. It's now the #4 game of the gen for consoles in Japan, and will likely overtake 3D World this summer.

Please alert me of any errors I've made. This thread will be updated about once a week, after new numbers come in.

Enjoy!

Well now you archived it with the error! Japan sales! Mario Kart 8 should be above Nintendo Land! Just don't forget for this week.

Weekly Update Done.