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Forums - Sales - WKC sells more PS3s in japan then MGS4 did

Kzoellner on 12 January 2009

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Posted Jan 12th 2009 10:30AM by Jem Alexander
Filed under: Hardware, News

The latest Japanese hardware sales figures show White Knight Chronicles' continued impact throughout the region. Numbers rose from 45,989 during WKC's launch week to 60,654 the next. A rare occurrence, as sales have tended to substantially drop the week after a big release in the past. In fact, the increase means that White Knight Chronicles has sold more PS3s during its two-week launch period than Metal Gear Solid 4.

While MGS4 had higher launch week sales (75,311) it dropped considerably to only 20,336 the next week. A total of 95,647. White Knight Chronicles, on the other hand, has sold a total of 106,643 during its two week launch period, almost 11,000 more. We're intrigued to see how sales of both the game and hardware continue. White Knight Chronicles has already proven a greater success than we first suspected.


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Xen on 12 January 2009

Holidays and regular weeks are not comparible.



mrstickball on 12 January 2009

I guess the article writer lacked something called 'analysis' or 'reason'.

What a crazy argument - that WKC pushed more consoles. Um, did he not know that there is this thing called 'Holidays' in Japan that traditionally boost console sales across the board, and WKC just happened to be there?

By the same argument, we could say that Fable 2 for the 360 pushed more consoles than The Last Remnant did - because more consoles were sold after Fable 2 launched than TLR.



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tombi123 on 12 January 2009

Umm... no.



papflesje on 12 January 2009

LOL

Funny thread. Stupid reasoning by the article maker, but judging the site it's coming from, that shouldn't be a surprise imho.



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NJ5 on 12 January 2009

The hardware sales boosts after game launches have always been pretty irrelevant... When there's a boost (which is rare), it always disappears after 2-3 weeks. This goes for all the platforms by the way.

 



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colonelstubbs on 12 January 2009

I think a little thing called christmas might have helped WKC....



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edjevink on 12 January 2009

2 words: Holiday Season



Kzoellner on 12 January 2009

colonelstubbs, i agree



c0rd on 12 January 2009
colonelstubbs said:
I think a little thing called christmas might have helped WKC....

In Japan, I believe their biggest holiday is New Year's, which sparks the sales. That's why their biggest week is one week later than the other regions. It also explains why there was an increase in PS3 sales on its second week (WKC released just before on Christmas).