Stats87 said:
Well, I assume that 2.1M is shipped to retailer, not sold to customer. Uncharted has 2.32M sold to customer according to VGChartz and was bundled very recently, so the actual non-bundled/sold to customer sales are probably quite close. Forza also came out 6 months eariler then Uncharted to a much bigger install base and a genre that was pretty starved at the time. Plus, those numbers you provided are kinda old |
As per the data.
- Numbers are based on official records from NPD and information provided to Next-Gen by publishers. Publicly available data and analysis was also taken into account, as well as dead reckoning and sanity checking from the Next-Gen staff when exact counts (such as unified sales data for Europe) were difficult to corroborate, conflicting, or unavailable.
- Numbers take into account only titles released and sold between March 1, 2007 and March 1, 2008. Each game only had to be released in one western territory to be included.
- Numbers take into account North America and Western Europe only.
- Numbers represent retail sales only.
- Pack-in titles were not counted.
- Older games re-released in the last year were only included if they included significant changes beyond a lower price. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition is an example of the former (thanks to its new control scheme). Hitman Trilogy, a collection of three Hitman games with no content changes, would be an example of the latter.
And you're wrong about Uncharted, Sony's been bundling it since December 15th 2007, nary a month after it was released.
Plus VGC includes bundles in its figures, hence Wii Sports at 45 million+
| Max King of the Wild said: the date on that article is 08. FM2 was bunled in 07 |
Uh...yes. Given it's an article about "The Top 100 Selling Games of the Last 12 Months" it would probably have to be after 2007, but as you can see, bundles are not counted so it's not really relevant.
