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SleepWaking on 06 May 2008
Oyvoyvoyv said:
Dang, it looks like Carnival Games (made by Take Two) won't outsell either GTA IV versions (made by R, owned by Take Two)

Everybody is overlooking the horrible truth - if EA gets Take Two, they will also get the carnival games series!

Too bad for TWEWY, it had a 66% dropoff rate.

As I'm telling about the stuff that people won't really look at by themselves, Call of Duty 4 (360) actually outsold SMG yet again this week. SMG got a very very small boost only from the massive sales.

Mario Kart Wii passes 3M and is sitting at 3.2M without Europe and Japan numbers for this week.

Iron Man across all consoles sold very well. 72K X360, 40K Ps2, 35K Ps3 and 24K Wii.

That might appear totally uninteresting, but most have thought that Wii had the perfect movie cash-in demographic, but for this, and some others, this isn't the case. Any ideas why?

Imagine: Fashion Designer (DS) has sold for 27 weeks, but did this week see its by far biggest week in NA, more than 25% ahead of the next one. Toghether with this one, many "girl" games sold much more than usual. This leads to the case that big "core"(not hardcore) releases also makes the family buy an extra game, for either the family or the daughter. This leads to the thought that there is a heavier % of families (teens) than most people seem to think.

Overall, pretty slow week in NA.

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alpha_dk on 06 May 2008
SleepWaking said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:
Dang, it looks like Carnival Games (made by Take Two) won't outsell either GTA IV versions (made by R, owned by Take Two)

Everybody is overlooking the horrible truth - if EA gets Take Two, they will also get the carnival games series!

Too bad for TWEWY, it had a 66% dropoff rate.

As I'm telling about the stuff that people won't really look at by themselves, Call of Duty 4 (360) actually outsold SMG yet again this week. SMG got a very very small boost only from the massive sales.

Mario Kart Wii passes 3M and is sitting at 3.2M without Europe and Japan numbers for this week.

Iron Man across all consoles sold very well. 72K X360, 40K Ps2, 35K Ps3 and 24K Wii.

That might appear totally uninteresting, but most have thought that Wii had the perfect movie cash-in demographic, but for this, and some others, this isn't the case. Any ideas why?

Imagine: Fashion Designer (DS) has sold for 27 weeks, but did this week see its by far biggest week in NA, more than 25% ahead of the next one. Toghether with this one, many "girl" games sold much more than usual. This leads to the case that big "core"(not hardcore) releases also makes the family buy an extra game, for either the family or the daughter. This leads to the thought that there is a heavier % of families (teens) than most people seem to think.

Overall, pretty slow week in NA.

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 I think (although I may be wrong) he means that we aren't seeing the software increases we would expect for such a huge number of consoles sold.



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Leni on 06 May 2008

wow!! GTA IV totally killed the Wii (as you can see) !!

also Mario Kart was close to GTA IV (Ps3) sales!!

where has the "prediction" gone?

as i said, "Wii will kill GTA IV" !!!! whahahahahahah :p
that's why GTA IV won't see the sales of San Andreas......

 

*sorry for acting like that, but i saw so maaany stupid things this week...



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Super Smash Bros Brawl: 1161 1357 5188
Mario Kart Wii: 1633 4506 4319
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Viper1 on 06 May 2008
OT7 said:
Stever89 said:
alpha_dk said:
OT7 said:
Stever89 said:
ssj12 said:
The Wii might have outsold the HD consoles in hardware but GTAIV overall killed all Wii software.

All things considering, the Wii did pretty well softwar-wise, being outsold in software by 700k by the 360, and outsold the PS3 by 800k. I'd consider that a victory since GTA4 is probably the biggest game of this generation.


I'm not sure about your analogy.

Why?because a single game (GTA4) outsell the whole Wii's game line,even if Mario Kart Wii and SSBM were there to help,so,in another kind of logic and respecting your opinion,for me the GTA4's performance was a clear winning for any HD game.


Gee, how terrible. Let's go back a few weeks...

Oh, look! SSB:B outsold the entirety of the PS3 + 360 software sales combined!!! ZOMG!!!

Perhaps, rather than a 'clear win for any HD game', this is more of 'something to be expected when the most anticipated game among hardcore gamers on the console comes out.'

 


This is basically what I would have said.

Obviously if the Wii wouldn't have Mario Kart (and to an extent, SSB:B), the software would look a lot worse, but these software sales are going to be so inflated due to the huge first week sales that these types of games produce. We're going to have to wait 3 or 4 weeks to see where sales settle to say who really "won" the war of Wii vs HD and 360 vs PS3.

Edit: On second look, the 360 version of GTA4 sold 2.3 million, and the Wii had 2.9 million software sold, so you're first sentence isn't true.


 Obviously I'm referring to the whole franchise numbers,(both 360 + PS3

Perhaps under your kind of logic you could think that getting both HD systems numbers is not correct,but even if GTA4 was launched in only one system it will surely got that numbers,so my first sentence is true Stever89,I always respect your assumptions but like you say,we have to wait a little longer to see the hardware boosts (like if Wii is getting another short supply,or an increment or decrement in HD consoles) and the legs of these games(great everyone of them by the way - GTA4,SMK Wii,SSBM - )

Wait, did you just suggest that had GTAIV only sold one one console it still would have sold the total PS3+X360 number?

Looks like you need one too.

 

 

 

 



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Mummelmann on 06 May 2008

Wow @ numbers in general, this is an incredible percentage wise sales spike all across the board! Year over year this must be the biggest rise in console history!



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jjseth on 06 May 2008
Sqrl said:
jjseth said:
Lets see how far back the Wii falls next week though when they have fewer then normal consoles out for sale at retailers. Can we say less then 60k wiis sold in NA for next week? It's expensive to ship 400k wii's for the MKWii / attempt to distract from GTA4 sales week. Although, all the news channels have been talking about the past couple of weeks is GTA4 and nothing about Wii or MKWii.

That is simply amazing that the news sources you (a self-professed "hardcore gamer", PS3 fan, and a person with a firm dislike of the Wii) listen to are reporting GTA news and not Wii news.


It was everywhere Sqrl.  And I'm more of a news junky for everything, not just video games.  So it was all over the Mainstream media.  Local papers, national news stations, local news stations, everywhere you looked someone was talking or writing about GTA4.   And I can't recall hearing anything in the MSM about the Wii.



 


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The Ghost of RubangB on 06 May 2008
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