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BKK2 on 26 November 2008

It's not perfect as we're combining different trackers for Japan, and some of the UK data also includes PC software, which is particularly a problem for Q3 08 as I don't think the 15% increase included PC software.

Anyway I'll try to make a rough estimate of UK software excluding PC software for the rest of the year since H1 by applying the same percentage of PC software to the total as occurred in H1 (12.46%). Obviously the actual percentage won't be the same, but should be in the ballpark.

Estimated console software unit sales (excluding PC) through week 46 2008:

Japan: 54.2m
UK: 50.0m

It's far from a perfect estimate, so should be viewed with caution, but probably gives a reasonable ballpark figure. I'm sure we'll get "official" figures come January.



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johnsobas on 26 November 2008
BKK2 said:
It's not perfect as we're combining different trackers for Japan, and some of the UK data also includes PC software, which is particularly a problem for Q3 08 as I don't think the 15% increase included PC software.

Anyway I'll try to make a rough estimate of UK software excluding PC software for the rest of the year since H1 by applying the same percentage of PC software to the total as occurred in H1 (12.46%). Obviously the actual percentage won't be the same, but should be in the ballpark.

Estimated console software unit sales (excluding PC) through week 46 2008:

Japan: 54.2m
UK: 50.0m

It's far from a perfect estimate, so should be viewed with caution, but probably gives a reasonable ballpark figure. I'm sure we'll get "official" figures come January.

this is only consoles no handhelds?

 



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FinalEvangelion on 26 November 2008

Gaming really is dying in Japan...



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BKK2 on 26 November 2008
johnsobas said:
BKK2 said:
It's not perfect as we're combining different trackers for Japan, and some of the UK data also includes PC software, which is particularly a problem for Q3 08 as I don't think the 15% increase included PC software.

Anyway I'll try to make a rough estimate of UK software excluding PC software for the rest of the year since H1 by applying the same percentage of PC software to the total as occurred in H1 (12.46%). Obviously the actual percentage won't be the same, but should be in the ballpark.

Estimated console software unit sales (excluding PC) through week 46 2008:

Japan: 54.2m
UK: 50.0m

It's far from a perfect estimate, so should be viewed with caution, but probably gives a reasonable ballpark figure. I'm sure we'll get "official" figures come January.

this is only consoles no handhelds?

 

It includes handhelds, just not PC.

 



BKK2 on 28 November 2008

OP updated.

Week 47:

UK: 3,043,323
JP: 1,768,075



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Hyruken on 28 November 2008

UK has pretty much obliterated Japan's importance in this gen

If you look at it like this to win the gen you would need to have US and UK to win. If you had US and Japan and the competitior had 2nd in US and 1st in UK would most likely be enough to win.

Point being to win this gen you need either UK or US. Which before it would of been you needed Japan.



BKK2 on 28 November 2008

Well, according to some rough estimates Japan is still ahead for the year in software units (excluding PC), it's just that UK market is more heavily tilted to Q4. Also, UK only made up 29% of software unit sales in Western Europe during 2007, so Europe as a whole is really key rather than the UK alone.

This includes PC:



Vanadium2k8 on 28 November 2008

Not a 100% fair comparison considering Japanese holiday season hasn't even started yet. 1.7 million in one week is only the build up to the holiday season, as you can see from the hardware sales most Japanese gamers haven't started holiday shopping.



Bet - "PES 2009 (PS3) will sell (closer to) 150k first week in Japan" - Pooperscopper
"It will sell closer to 125k" - Me I agree. ME = OWNED :(

End of '09 Predictions:

Wii: 78 million
X360: 35 million
PS3: 27 million

koffieboon on 28 November 2008

So total software sales in the UK were around 3 million the week Call of Duty World at War launched. Can we use this to narrow down the range for the first week sales of Call of Duty? Charttrack reported Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero World Tour accounted for 25% of total sales in that week, so about 760k in total. So if we can estimate the amounts for World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero we know how many copies Call of Duty sold.



Vanadium2k8 on 28 November 2008

For PC, Chart-Track counts stuff like Microsoft Word as software, no?



Bet - "PES 2009 (PS3) will sell (closer to) 150k first week in Japan" - Pooperscopper
"It will sell closer to 125k" - Me I agree. ME = OWNED :(

End of '09 Predictions:

Wii: 78 million
X360: 35 million
PS3: 27 million