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Forums - Sales Discussion - PAL Charts week 50 (2008), Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness debut

Seneque said:
Aj_habfan said:

Is that a typo in the main paragraph for UK: "LittleBigPlanet’ up from No29 to No16" Shouldn't it be 21 to 6?

It's a comment on the All Format chart, not the individual one.

 

Great, thanks.



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About the LBP increase, I want it to do goodm but wasnt there a UK only bundle released last week...

Also the 360 bundles do not cost more... they essiantially are giving away games in order to increase the percieved value of the console.



End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)

Wii- 72 million   3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases

360- 37 million   Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak

PS3- 29 million  Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut

bigjon said:
About the LBP increase, I want it to do goodm but wasnt there a UK only bundle released last week...

Also the 360 bundles do not cost more... they essiantially are giving away games in order to increase the percieved value of the console.

According to amazon UK, the bundle came out on the 5th of December, check here, which would mean there would have been some boost last week, but most this week, so it is a major factor



BKK2 said:

I don't even know if there is any non-bundled 360 hardware, and if so how much cheaper it is selling. Here's an example for Wii Play:

If you look at the Total Software by Label/Company charts you will see that there is a disparity between the units sold by Nintendo and the value this month.

"The reason behind this difference is partly due to Wii Play. Wii Play always shifts a lot of units (All Formats number three in February), however, we split the controller and game up when working out the value, with the remote retaining its full price.

"In other words, Wii Play only comes in at £4.99 in terms of value.


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Apparantly there are tenthousands of non-bundled 360 hardware.

Last week (In Others) the 360 sold ~320k consoles, but only about 85k official Pro/Elite bundles (because of Kung Fu Panda's / Lego Indi's sales) and about 45k official Arcade bundles (SEGA Superstar Tennis sales)

But the price is the same.



The 'Lego Indy + Kung Fu Panda' bundle is sold apparently as a not free separated product, according to this Amazon link. But I don't know if it's a general offer or just specific to Amazon.



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Seneque said:

The 'Lego Indy + Kung Fu Panda' bundle is sold apparently as a not free separated product, according to this Amazon link. But I don't know if it's a general offer or just specific to Amazon.

Well there you notice the price is £100, and the way amazon UK do things is not to create new products in the database for soft bundles, you just buy the items at the same time, and get the discout at checkout



Continued Nintendo dominance with Mario Kart WII and WII fit/play huge sellers. Great rebound by Little Big Planet even though the bundlefactor has to be taken into consideration like some have said.



Wii is back with a vengeance this week. All the big 3rd party games are ranking up their in the top 40 along with the evergreens.

Nice to see LBP staying high as well.



Ireland

(01) 01 FIFA 09 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
(02) 02 NEED FOR SPEED: UNDERCOVER (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
(03) 03 CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
(05) 04 DR KAWASHIMA'S BRAIN TRAINING (NINTENDO)
(04) 05 MARIO KART WII (NINTENDO)
(07) 06 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2009 (KONAMI)
(17) 07 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. (NINTENDO)
(13) 08 GEARS OF WAR 2 (MICROSOFT)
(06) 09 WWE SMACKDOWN VS RAW 2009 (THQ)
(__) 10 QUANTUM OF SOLACE (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
(19) 11 MORE BRAIN TRAINING FROM DR KAWASHIMA (NINTENDO)
(11) 12 TOMB RAIDER: UNDERWORLD (EIDOS)
(14) 13 LEGO BATMAN: THE VIDEOGAME (WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE)
(09) 14 RESISTANCE 2 (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
(10) 15 WII PLAY (NINTENDO)
(08) 16 WII FIT (NINTENDO)
(__) 17 LEGO INDIANA JONES: ORIGINAL ADVENTURES (LUCASARTS)
(12) 18 FALLOUT 3 (BETHESDA SOFTWORKS)
(20) 19 FAR CRY 2 (UBISOFT)
(18) 20 MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES (SEGA)


Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit are sure shot for a million in UK.