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zorg1000 on 18 April 2018
duduspace1 said:
zorg1000 said:

This week (last week)

NSW-36,308 (40,016)

PS4-10,964 (14,500)

3DS-8546 (9422)

Vita-2921 (2929)

XBO-72 (119)

 

How did you come up with 6k drop? It was less than 4k.

4k it is, don't know how I looked at 36k but somehow saw 34k LOL. Not as bad as I first thought then, I might have panicked because I thought it would be able to easily keep the 40k baseline..............still a far cry from some of the mid 20k baselines of last year despite a significant gap in notable releases.

Spring is a pretty slow time for sales so it was expected to drop under 40k for a few weeks but with Labo next week, Golden Week after that and Donkey Kong the week after that, it should return to 40k+ for the next few weeks.



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Kerotan on 18 April 2018

psn cards currently unavailable. god of war never appearing on amazon uk, among many other games for pre order. sony and amazon are definitely having a dispute.



Barkley on 18 April 2018
Kerotan said:
psn cards currently unavailable. god of war never appearing on amazon uk, among many other games for pre order. sony and amazon are definitely having a dispute.

Something is definitely wrong, every psn card is out of stock, even every ps+ package is out of stock...



Megiddo on 18 April 2018

That looks great! Well done to both you and nero for your efforts!



PortisheadBiscuit on 18 April 2018

Tropical Freeze trending pretty high for being 3 weeks away from release. Doing better than I expected

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SWORDF1SH on 18 April 2018
zorg1000 said:
quickrick said:

SSB only did 10 million on one platform and that was called wii, it not guaranteed to do 10 million on switch. 

Smash 4 did ~14 million, yes its on 2 platforms but thats irrelevent, you dont segregate the sales of cross-gen/multiplatform games.

If somebody asks you how much FIFA 18 or COD: WWII sold, you would say over 15m and over 18m. You wouldnt just take the sales of a single sku to determine its sales.

Unless I'm missing something, you also wouldn't say Fifa 19 will sell 15M on PS4 because Fifa 18 sold 15M across 3 different consoles. If you're comparing sales for one console, you stick to using data for that console. 



peachbuggy on 18 April 2018
quickrick said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

You point out something telling it's silly, only to follow up with something that's even far more silly. GoW selling 10 million is certainly possible with the hype if the sales ain't very frontloaded, but for Smash doing less than that it must be a totally broken failure to achieve such low numbers On a console with adequate sales numbers like the Switch.

As for 3D Mario vs Animal Crossing: AC is generally the bigger seller, because apart from 64, Galaxy and now Odyssey, they really don't sell that well. 7.5M for Galaxy 2, 6M for Sunshine, 5 for 3D World. And all of them had bundles (especially Galaxy, Sunshine and 64) helping their numbers even further. The real sellers are the 2D Marios, which normally sell about 3 times as well as the 3D ones.

That said, Odyssey is an obvious masterpiece and selling appropriately. It will, without a doubt, outsell any other 3D Mario by a country mile, considering the best-selling one is 64 with 11.9M sales (Maybe even as soon as the IR Meeting  next week). While AC is bigger, it's just slightly so. It will get tough to beat Odyssey for Animal crossing

laughable. how many games have broken over 5 million for animal crossing? only 2 in the past 18 years. Lets look at every entry in both franchises. its not even close, 3d mario is much bigger.

mario 64 11.9 million

mario 64 ds 11.09 million

mario sunshine 6.31 million

mario galaxy 12.7 million

mario galaxy 2 7.7 million

mario 3d land 11.7 million

mario 3d world 5.75 million

mario odyssey probably 18 million ltd. 

 

animal crossing.

 

2001 GameCube Animal Crossing 2.32 million[1]
1.68 million in US, 641,300 in Japan[2]
2005 NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World 11.75 million[1](March 2015)
2008 Wii Animal Crossing: City Folk 4.32 million [1](December 2013)
2013 3DS Animal Crossing: New Leaf 11.59 million[3] (September 2017)
2015 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer 3.04 million[4]
2015 Wii U Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival <<1 million

 

 

 

 

Animal Crossing (Mainline) games are historically bigger than 3D Mario, at least in terms of sales. You have had that shown/proven to you in the past with figures. Your table shows 2 games which were both spinoffs and major cashgrabs, especially Amiibo festival. As for the Wii version, yes that had subpar sales but the impression i got for that was because the game buying public saw it as too similar to wild world. If you want to do comparisons, then compare wild world and New leaf with past 3D Mario titles, as these were the mainline Animal Crossing iterations for their respective consoles. Admittedly in any other metric 3D Mario is bigger and yes, i'm sure the next Animal Crossing will have a tough time competing with the masterpiece that is Odyssey. However, if the trend of Nintendo franchises selling  best ever figures on the Switch and if the next AC is truly groundbreaking and is a great game, then, sure it has a shot at beating out Odyssey in LT sales.

 

As for Smash Switch not selling 10m on Switch.

1. LOL!

2. Any game that has enough built up hype that it goes to #1 on Amazon the DAY AFTER the reveal with literally no gameplay/release date info shown other than 2018 is going to be massive!

3. Did you not see the reaction Videos to the reveal? Youtubers and others were literally screaming and crying!

4. "OMFG! OMFG! OMFG! It's all they needed. It's all they needed baby!" :- Etika 2018.



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ANDY MURRAY:- GRAND SLAM WINNER!

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Oneeee-Chan!!! on 18 April 2018

This thread is fine . Good.



zorg1000 on 18 April 2018
SWORDF1SH said:
zorg1000 said:

Smash 4 did ~14 million, yes its on 2 platforms but thats irrelevent, you dont segregate the sales of cross-gen/multiplatform games.

If somebody asks you how much FIFA 18 or COD: WWII sold, you would say over 15m and over 18m. You wouldnt just take the sales of a single sku to determine its sales.

Unless I'm missing something, you also wouldn't say Fifa 19 will sell 15M on PS4 because Fifa 18 sold 15M on 3 different consoles. If you're comparing sales for one console, you stick to using data for that console. 

Thats true but hardly has anything to do with what we are discussing.



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JRPGfan on 18 April 2018
PortisheadBiscuit said:

Tropical Freeze trending pretty high for being 3 weeks away from release. Doing better than I expected

It was the best platformer on the Wii U... which alot of people never had the chance to play, it deserves to do well.
So thats a very good thing imo.