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toastboy44562 on 25 February 2009

dont argue with brett...



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averyblund on 25 February 2009

As it stands it seems bizarre, it did great in the UK and bombed everywhere else? How could something like that happen?



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TWRoO on 25 February 2009
averyblund said:
As it stands it seems bizarre, it did great in the UK and bombed everywhere else? How could something like that happen?

It's probably banned in Germany (I can't confirm this, I am just guessing based on many violent games being banned there, and RE4 seems to have been distributed in small numbers as if retailers own rules stop them selling it) It might have not even reached some regions. or might just not be popular in them.

Having said that, if UK was 13k for second week it does seem exceptionally low for it to only be 7k everywhere else.... but it is still plausable given the retailers reluctance to put out 3rd party Wii games even with big names like CoD... which was supposedly really hard to find for it's first week. This is probably part of the reason Wii games ave such low opening weeks compared to lifetime sales.

 



megaman79 on 25 February 2009

I think supply was clearly lite given the impression that it woulnd't be so successful.

Let's watch US and see what happens next week but i do agree the rest of others region is completely un realistic. Ofcourse its an english dev. and they have prob. got shitloads of British pride. UK is gonna be high but everywhere else needs a little clarification i think.



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Parokki on 25 February 2009

Something's definitely up with this game. I tried looking for it last week, and nobody at a local store had even heard of it. I tried the Gamestop next, and apparently they had received an email of the game being delayed for at least another week. =\

Wouldn't be too worried, though. HotD 2+3 opened with under 50k on week one, and is hitting a million any week now.



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shakarak on 25 February 2009

I guess we'll see when official sales come out for it.



Barozi on 25 February 2009
TWRoO said:
averyblund said:
As it stands it seems bizarre, it did great in the UK and bombed everywhere else? How could something like that happen?

It's probably banned in Germany (I can't confirm this, I am just guessing based on many violent games being banned there, and RE4 seems to have been distributed in small numbers as if retailers own rules stop them selling it) It might have not even reached some regions. or might just not be popular in them.

True that. Madworld will be banned as well.

http://www.nintendo-online.de/news/2312/house-of-the-dead-overkill-madworld-nicht-in-deutschland/



TWRoO on 25 February 2009
Barozi said:
TWRoO said:
averyblund said:
As it stands it seems bizarre, it did great in the UK and bombed everywhere else? How could something like that happen?

It's probably banned in Germany (I can't confirm this, I am just guessing based on many violent games being banned there, and RE4 seems to have been distributed in small numbers as if retailers own rules stop them selling it) It might have not even reached some regions. or might just not be popular in them.

True that. Madworld will be banned as well.

http://www.nintendo-online.de/news/2312/house-of-the-dead-overkill-madworld-nicht-in-deutschland/

There we go.

The game is banned in Germany, knowing Australia it is probably late or limited shipments early on, Nintendo don't directly distribute to Scandanavia so perhaps it's late there too.

So we are left with the UK (where the game is probably relatively popular compared to other regions, as well as the huger userbase advantage) France, Spain, Italy and Benelux.

 



palancas7 on 25 February 2009
TWRoO said:
Barozi said:
TWRoO said:
averyblund said:
As it stands it seems bizarre, it did great in the UK and bombed everywhere else? How could something like that happen?

It's probably banned in Germany (I can't confirm this, I am just guessing based on many violent games being banned there, and RE4 seems to have been distributed in small numbers as if retailers own rules stop them selling it) It might have not even reached some regions. or might just not be popular in them.

True that. Madworld will be banned as well.

http://www.nintendo-online.de/news/2312/house-of-the-dead-overkill-madworld-nicht-in-deutschland/

There we go.

The game is banned in Germany, knowing Australia it is probably late or limited shipments early on, Nintendo don't directly distribute to Scandanavia so perhaps it's late there too.

So we are left with the UK (where the game is probably relatively popular compared to other regions, as well as the huger userbase advantage) France, Spain, Italy and Benelux.

 

 

It charted at number 6 in Australia. :S



 

Man on 25 February 2009

Yeah its everywhere in Australia. Every video game store has multiplpe copies from what ive see.