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binary solo on 27 March 2014
prayformojo said:
And to all of those that mocked me for saying Titanfall wasn't going to do jack squat after week one, who's laughing now?

It's not doing jack. It's the $450+free game, which makes Xb one cheaper than PS4 now, that's doing the jacking. If Xb one was still $499 the HW drop would have been much greater this week, almost back to the level it was pre TF launch. TF has had it's hardware effect.



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jlmurph2 on 27 March 2014
MoHasanie said:
Puppyroach said:
So, a 106% boost for MS in the week ending march 15th and a 66% boost for Sony in the week ending march 22nd. These games are working their magic, hopefully some momentum can be kept during summer as well.

The increase in sales can't only be attributed to these games. X1 had a price drop for the Titanfall bundle to $450 and Sony shipped lots of stock for inFamous' launch. 


The price drop didn't happen during Titanfall's 1st week though.



binary solo on 27 March 2014
jlmurph2 said:
MoHasanie said:
Puppyroach said:
So, a 106% boost for MS in the week ending march 15th and a 66% boost for Sony in the week ending march 22nd. These games are working their magic, hopefully some momentum can be kept during summer as well.

The increase in sales can't only be attributed to these games. X1 had a price drop for the Titanfall bundle to $450 and Sony shipped lots of stock for inFamous' launch. 


The price drop didn't happen during Titanfall's 1st week though.

It happened the week before in the UK. And there was effectively a $60 price drop with TF being given away for free. If the TF bundle was $550 the boost would not have been as much as it was. Pricing was a significant factor in the TF boost, cf Infamous where the inFamous bundle which was not a free giveaway for the game but still lead to a larger numerical boost, albeit a smaller % boost.



“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

 

Jay70sgamer on 27 March 2014
Welfare said:
Jay70sgamer said:
@welfare....lol mario kart and super smash said hi.....you said by end of year xbox one should easily outsell wii u... I disagree on that ...yes titanfall is boosting xbox one at this time but once mario kart 8 arrives watch how many wii u's fly off the shelves worldwide ....I see mario kart 8 if properly advertised sell over a million software and at least 200000 to 300000 thousand console boost first week ...more than titanfall 900,000


Lol. Kinect Sports Rivals, Halo 2 Anniversary, Forza Horizon 2, $100 price drop, and new SKU's say hi. For all we know, MK8 will only sell to the ~6 million Wii U onwers that will already have one, just look at Titanfall. 900k sales week 1, but only 150k Xbox Ones were sold the same week. MK8 will have the Wii U hover around +120k for a week, then stay below 90k untill the Holidays/SSB come out.

The notion that MK8 and SSB will save the Wii U is bonkers. Did Double Dash and Melee help the Gamecube that much, a console that is tracking ahead of the Wii U launches aligned? MK8 and SSB will push some Wii U's, but will only sell to consumers that have bought a Wii U al

Do you really believe the only people that will be buying mario kart 8 are people that own the wii u already ..this is the game that people have been waiting for or  on the fence on getting a wii u and it's convenient you left out how you talk only about mario kart on GameCube and not on the wii whereas it sold 35 million copies lol and don't say because it's base for GameCube was the same as the current wii u this is the game people buy Nintendos  for  ...you will be surprised how well this game will sell systems and I'm going to say mario kart says hi ......lol and to compare  kinect sports rival ,Forza or halo anniversary to mario kart is a joke ...mario kart has sold more than all those titles combined on wii ...one game lol 35 million



jlmurph2 on 27 March 2014
binary solo said:
jlmurph2 said:
MoHasanie said:
Puppyroach said:
So, a 106% boost for MS in the week ending march 15th and a 66% boost for Sony in the week ending march 22nd. These games are working their magic, hopefully some momentum can be kept during summer as well.

The increase in sales can't only be attributed to these games. X1 had a price drop for the Titanfall bundle to $450 and Sony shipped lots of stock for inFamous' launch. 


The price drop didn't happen during Titanfall's 1st week though.

It happened the week before in the UK. And there was effectively a $60 price drop with TF being given away for free. If the TF bundle was $550 the boost would not have been as much as it was. Pricing was a significant factor in the TF boost, cf Infamous where the inFamous bundle which was not a free giveaway for the game but still lead to a larger numerical boost, albeit a smaller % boost.


He said specifically the $450 price drop. Not any of that other stuff.



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existenz2 on 27 March 2014

Why havent they updated the front page on this site (again)?

 

VGChartz just needs to do better at updating the front page in a timely and consistent manner. I mean its the main reason its here..

 

Its rarely done at a consistent date/time and there is no reason for that.



jlmurph2 on 27 March 2014
existenz2 said:

Why havent they updated the front page on this site (again)?

 

VGChartz just needs to do better at updating the front page in a timely and consistent manner. I mean its the main reason its here..

 

Its rarely done at a consistent date/time and there is no reason for that.


At least we get numbers. Calm down.



DamnTastic on 27 March 2014

XB1 still over a 100k.
PS4 nice over 200K

and PSV outsold ps3? 65K is nice



GameAnalyser on 27 March 2014

The question is whether the price-cut for X1 is doing anything for it currently...I hope it doesn't decline to pre-TF phase in the coming weeks.



MoHasanie on 27 March 2014
jlmurph2 said:
MoHasanie said:
Puppyroach said:
So, a 106% boost for MS in the week ending march 15th and a 66% boost for Sony in the week ending march 22nd. These games are working their magic, hopefully some momentum can be kept during summer as well.

The increase in sales can't only be attributed to these games. X1 had a price drop for the Titanfall bundle to $450 and Sony shipped lots of stock for inFamous' launch. 


The price drop didn't happen during Titanfall's 1st week though.

Oops, thought it was in the first week. Well then I guess X1's 106% boost that week was due to Titanfall. 



    

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