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Welfare on 19 August 2015
Carl2291 said:
Welfare said:

1TB sku launched June 16, or E3 week. That's pretty major.


Like I said, look at the bigger picture. VGC numbers are within 5% of NPD numbers for June.


That's great and all, but VGC shows weekly numbers, so it would be nice if specific weeks were more accurate. 



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Carl on 19 August 2015
Welfare said:

That's great and all, but VGC shows weekly numbers, so it would be nice if specific weeks were more accurate. 


Hah, lets try and get regular weekly updates first eh



                            

darkenergy on 19 August 2015

I'm pretty sure the 360 is still selling, VGChartz.



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darkenergy on 19 August 2015

I expect software for the 360 to be above the One for July base on NPD results in the USA for 4 weeks starting the next update.



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binary solo on 19 August 2015
MoHasanie said:

Yay, numbers! Even though they are more than a month old, this was the second most interesting week of the summer.
The hardware numbers are expected and good for the PS4. but I'm surprised to see Batman selling so much better on the PS4.

Why are you surprised?

PosGamePlatformYearGenrePublisherNorth AmericaEuropeJapanRest of WorldGlobal
1 Batman: Arkham City PS3 2011 Action Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment 2.60 1.82 0.11 0.77 5.30
2 Batman: Arkham City X360 2011 Action Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment 2.92 1.27 0.04 0.40 4.63
3 Batman: Arkham Asylum PS3 2009 Action Eidos Interactive 2.19 1.30 0.07 0.59 4.16
4 Batman: Arkham Asylum X360 2009 Action Eidos Interactive 2.14 0.95 0.02 0.30 3.41
5 Batman: Arkham Origins PS3 2013 Action Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment 0.99 0.76 0.04 0.38 2.18
6 Batman: Arkham Origins X360 2013 Action Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment 1.08 0.55 0.00 0.14 1.77

And this is with the global install base being in Xb one's favour, by a fairly decent margin in 2009 when the first game came out. 

Now with PS4 approaching a 2:1 global install base lead a large difference in Batman sales should be expected. At week 2 Arkham City was at 2.5 million across PS360. At week 2 Arkham Knight is at 2.6 million. Sales basically the same, just proportionally weighted to PS4 because of the large discrepancy in install base worldwide. So this sales difference is actually completely expected if you think about it.

You should expect this sort of result during this generation for franchises that did better on PS3, esp while PS3 was behind. The proportional difference in sales this gen for such franchises will be much greater than the proportional difference in install base.



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GribbleGrunger on 19 August 2015
MotherBound said:
I haven't gotten around to picking up Splatoon and I really want too, one day :(

Get it. I went around to a friends house and watched him play.



 

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tak13 on 19 August 2015
GribbleGrunger said:
MotherBound said:
I haven't gotten around to picking up Splatoon and I really want too, one day :(

Get it. I went around to a friends house and watchined him play. played it with him


Fixed that for you...:P Don't lie! :P



Normchacho on 19 August 2015
MoHasanie said:
AEGRO said:
MoHasanie said:

Yay, numbers! Even though they are more than a month old, this was the second most interesting week of the summer.
The hardware numbers are expected and good for the PS4. but I'm surprised to see Batman selling so much better on the PS4.

 

Why does it surprise you? Almost (?) every game ends up selling significantly more on the Ps4 in comparison to the X1.

 

Matter of fact, is there even a game that have sold more on the X1? 

But Batman on the PS4 is outselling the X1 version by almost 3:1. I didn't expect such a large difference.  

Dat exclusive marketing brah...



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NewGuy on 19 August 2015
Welfare said:
Aaron Greenberg said that in the US, week 3 (E3) for June was up 79% from week 2 and they were the top selling console that week. VGC is wrong on both accounts.


Honest question, how would Greenberg know that? AFAIK NPD does not release weekly figures. Maybe he's talking about MS' internal tracking for the week?



GribbleGrunger on 19 August 2015
tak13 said:


Fixed that for you...:P Don't lie! :P

I'm not fond of the WiiU controller to be honest. I watched him play a chunk of the singleplayer and a smattering of the online and all I could think was 'brilliant'.



 

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