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Forums - Sales - PAL charts week 19 (2008), gta 4 second week

BKK2 on 12 May 2008
lombard2578 said:

BKK2 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Oh oh.....Mario Kart Wii falls BEHINd Gt 5 prologue in UK!

Good, as long as CT give their % change it should be possible to backtrack on GT5:P sales and start tracking again (assuming it sold only slightly more than MK) which wasn't possible last few weeks as they missed a week.

Don't forget the gran turismo 5 prologue games sold in bundles with the console, it can explain that. Because of this bundle, gran turismo 5 prologue can't drop really in the chart track data.

It's the same for forza 2 and viva pinata on 360, which normally must not be in the top 40.


Yes, but after second week Chart-Track stopped giving % change, so I don't know what it leveled out at. As long as Char-Track give MK % change I can have a rough idea what GT5:P is selling. Plus Chart-Track gave % change for GT5:P last week, so if we get it again this week I can backtrack a couple of weeks too.

Current Tracked Games:

Mario Kart Wii:

1: 100% ~200k
2: -22% ~156k
3: -62% ~59k
4: -61% ~23k
5:

Total:

Wii Fit:

1: 100% 238k
2: -58% 100k
3:

Total:

GTA IV 360:

1: 100% 514k
2:

Total:

GTA IV PS3:

1: 100% 413k
2:

Total:

GT5:P

1: 100% 120k
2: -40% 72k
3: ???%
4: ???%
5: ???%
6: -02%
7:



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BKK2 on 12 May 2008

‘GTA IV’ retains top spot in the All Formats Chart for a second week despite a massive 77% drop in sales.

The record breaking Take 2/Rockstar title still outsells ‘Wii Fit’ at No2 by 4 to 1 this week, while the Xbox 360 version widens its sales advantage over the PS3 version by accounting for 62% of sales this week compared to 55% last week. ‘Wii Fit’ sales slip by 48%, but holds on to No2, while ‘Wii Play’ swaps places with ‘Mario & Sonic’, up from No4 to No3. Over the last 2 weeks the sales difference between ‘Wii Play’ and ‘Mario & Sonic’ has only been a matter of a few hundred units. Nintendo remains the most well represented All Formats Top 10 publisher with 4 games, while Sega now has 2 thanks to a strong 2nd week for ‘Iron Man: The Official Videogame’ up from No11 to No5. The remaining All Formats Top 10 titles all shuffle places with ‘Mario Kart Wii’ putting on the breaks, down from No5 to No9. Every remaining game in the All Formats Top 40 loses sales this week except ‘Carnival: Funfair Games’ from Take 2 with sales up 25%, climbing from No37 to No22. There are no new releases in the All Formats Top 40 and no changes at the top of each of the individual format charts.



BKK2 on 12 May 2008

GTA IV: 213k

360: 132k
PS3: 81k

Wii Fit: 52k



koffieboon on 12 May 2008

That's a bigger drop off for GTA than I expected, seeing how the game seemed to be completely sold out last week. Still great numbers for a second week, maybe my expectations were just a bit too high when a game already sold close to 1M units.

Does anybody know what WiiFit availability is like in the UK?



BKK2 on 12 May 2008

UK Top Ten

01 01 GRAND THEFT AUTO IV XB360 (132k)
02 02 GRAND THEFT AUTO IV PS3 (81k)
03 03 WII FIT WII (52k)
04 04 WII PLAY WII
06 05 MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES WII
07 06 GRAN TURISMO 5: PROLOGUE PS3
05 07 MARIO KART WII WII
08 08 DR KAWASHIMA'S BRAIN TRAINING DS
10 09 RAYMAN RAVING RABBIDS 2 WII
12 10 COOKING MAMA 2 DS

Current Tracked Games:

Mario Kart Wii:

1: 100% ~200k
2: -22% ~156k
3: -62% ~59k
4: -61% ~23k
5: -??% ??k

Total:

Wii Fit:

1: 100% 238k
2: -58% 100k
3: - 48% 52k

Total: 390k

GTA IV 360:

1: 100% 514k
2: -74% 132k

Total: 646k

GTA IV PS3:

1: 100% 413k
2: - 80% 81k

Total: 495k



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BKK2 on 12 May 2008

Quite a bit bigger drop off than I expected too, and a bigger share to 360 than I was expecting (although I did expect it to widen). It will be interesting to see where it settles. Supply should no longer be a problem in UK anyway.

This week's estimate was off, but my end of month still looks ok (360: 800k, PS3: 600k).

Unfortunately no % change was given for MK, we can no longer track it unless it goes Double Platinum, which won't happen for a while at current rates.



kamil on 12 May 2008

Percentage wise GTA4 dropped 2% less than Halo 3 after first week. It's not that bad if we take into account that GTA4 had one extra day in first week (however I was expecting more).



johnsobas on 12 May 2008

weird, in the netherlands the PS3 version of GTA sold more despite the 360 selling more last week, but now this week in the UK the 360 one sold considerably better than last week in comparison to the PS3 one.



currently playing: Skyward Sword, Mario Sunshine, Xenoblade Chronicles X

EaglesEye379 on 12 May 2008

Interesting. Based on these percentage drops for GTA4, assuming this will hold worldwide (I know it wont but this is just assuming), then WW for GTA4 2nd week will be:

360: 0.9m (-74% from 3.3m)
PS3: 0.5m (-80% from 2.6m)



BKK2 on 12 May 2008
johnsobas said:
weird, in the netherlands the PS3 version of GTA sold more despite the 360 selling more last week, but now this week in the UK the 360 one sold considerably better than last week in comparison to the PS3 one.

Well, the installed bases in Netherlands are a lot closer than in UK, so it's not particularly surprising. We don't know how close the number of units was between the two formats in Netherlands last week either, it may have only been a small amount.  It's also possible that PS3 version was more supply constrained than 360 version last week in Netherlands. This was supposedly the case in Sweden at least.