Yeah, that's notable. Even assuming digital is 70%, one would expect physical to still be in the top 3. Not a good sign for the game.
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Where did you get that information from?
Edit: Just seen it oh s**t
Yeah,EA gonna pull the plug on that thing in the next few months.
MagicPork also listed the three best selling games for retail only, and they were Smash, Jump Force and KH3.
From magicpork's post. Top 3 physical are smash, jump force and KH3.
A huge budget multiplayer looter shooter got outsold by a jrpg that released last month. That is kind of crazy
Last year, 3DS did 103k in February. This year, it looks like it did 54k, having the sharpest decline YoY of any of the listed systems (-47%)
Maybe a bit early but I think the UK chart was more indicative of the games sales than people wanted to believe.
You got a link or have an idea where you read that?
It wasn't just the UK: the Spanish chart showed the same. In Japan, the debut was rather good but the weekly sales drop have been terrible. It was to be expected (also when looking at Benji's comment) that US would follow suit.
XB1 definitely overperformed my expectations majorly. It's a good sign the decline was healthier than expected.
Switch overperformed my expectations by a small amount. Everything continues to point to Switch having a massive year, especially once the major titles they have planned start dropping.
I got the PS4 pretty close. At this point it just continues to plug along and I expect it will remain steady most of the year, though obviously it will be down yoy most months due to how well it has sold in the past few years.
Switch overperformed my expectations by a small amount. Everything continues to point to Switch having a massive year, especially once the major titles they have planned start dropping.
I got the PS4 pretty close. At this point it just continues to plug along and I expect it will remain steady most of the year, though obviously it will be down yoy most months due to how well it has sold in the past few years.
Yeh I agree, the decline is there but definitely not as bad as certain people are making out
I knew that as well, but a whole load of people who don't follow sale's thread are convinced the UK sales has zero relevance to overall sale's. I think it's because it's the first data point we get.
There are obviously caveats to be made (for example, JRPGs like KH3 perform relatively worse in UK, and games on Nintendo platforms seem to do the same), but for XB1/PS4 in general, the UK is not too out of line with the industry at large: for a game like Anthem, a bad performance in the UK definitely does suggest a poor performance worldwide.
I would through fighting games into that caveat as well but as you said it usually good indicator for worldwide performance. I might make a thread on this subject this weekend. This dismissive attitude towards data has really started to annoy me.
Over January and February Switch is about 16% up YoY with 1 less tracked week compared to last year.
With a limited release schedule over the first half and still seeing an improvement like this we might see some sort of crazyness from June and on in terms of Switch sales
With a limited release schedule over the first half and still seeing an improvement like this we might see some sort of crazyness from June and on in terms of Switch sales
wow Switch. When it gets a price drop and/or revision things will be crazy for a bit.
the eff at anthem. physical would have been expected to be higher.
not surprising this point at Jump Force. DBZ and anime games have been doing crazy well.
Heroes will be interesting since it's not traditional action. So we'll see if the trend of overperforming keeps up. And not on ps4 or xbox.
the eff at anthem. physical would have been expected to be higher.
not surprising this point at Jump Force. DBZ and anime games have been doing crazy well.
Heroes will be interesting since it's not traditional action. So we'll see if the trend of overperforming keeps up. And not on ps4 or xbox.
That's actually a good idea. I have to admit that I have been guilty of downplaying UK's results in the past myself but after having followed the PAL charts for a while now I have come to the conclusion that the UK video game market is not really that much different from the rest of the world. Sure there are a few differences here and there (Crash or lower sales for JRPGs or Nintendo products) but which market doesn't have them (Japan is obsessed with Splatoon, Spain's leggiest Nintendo game is Mario Odyssey and Germany likes Farming Simulators for example). All in all it's not fair to dismiss UK's results because "lul COD and FIFA".
Anime also seems to be doing well on Switch judging by the Dragon Ball games, but the genre is also a question, as you said. We'll see how it goes!
oh it's definitely more of a genre question. Seemingly every game has done well, even something low key like Boruto Shinobi Strikers.
But this one is less actiony.
The platform part was more a sidenote. But at the same time, anime sales are huge on ps4 and xbox, so it'll make some difference.
We'll just take it into account that it's exclusive when comparing its performance to recent games like jump force or shinobi striker
Yeah, alright, that's fair. I don't think Switch is worse for anime sales compared to PS4, but combining PS4/XB1 should give an advantage to that pair, I agree.
(You can find them in the OP as well).
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Thanks for the numbers - consoles doing well overall and Bamco will be very happy about Jump Force.
Thank you very much, sorry that I missed that the information was in the OP.
Nintendo should ship somewhere around 3.5 million Switch in Q4 WW. They have been consistently up 25-30% in Japan and US in tracked sales.
If Smash is still near the top of the software chart (let's say Top 5) in two months with numerous high profile releases like Kingdom Hearts 3, Resident Evil 2, Anthem, Crackdown 3, Metro, and Jump Force... Switch software should be staying crazy as well.
If Smash is still near the top of the software chart (let's say Top 5) in two months with numerous high profile releases like Kingdom Hearts 3, Resident Evil 2, Anthem, Crackdown 3, Metro, and Jump Force... Switch software should be staying crazy as well.
Actually the averiage over the first 10 weeks of the year - the average is roughly 47% in Japan :O
So unless they very much overshipped last quarter 3.5M should be the minimum for the quarter.
Actually assuming there's nothing funky going on with this year's shipments or last year's shipments a 25%-30% WW increase would mean a 3.6m/3.9m range for Q4 shipments.
There should be some float compared to last year where they were just breaking the 2017 shortages, which I was trying to take into account.
3.5M to 4M is still possible for sure though.
That would put Switch at >18.5m this fiscal year, approaching the 20m initial target.
Great sales all round IMO. The switch continues to perform really well even in a quiet month. With the SW slate and possible price drop coming we're going to see massive numbers later his year.
The PS4 just keeps on chugging and posting impressive numbers. You can see why Sony hasn't cut the price just yet. If they do a price drop it seems like the PS4 will be pulling some crazy numbers this late in its life.
The xbone best most expectations and has held well compared to last year.
The PS4 just keeps on chugging and posting impressive numbers. You can see why Sony hasn't cut the price just yet. If they do a price drop it seems like the PS4 will be pulling some crazy numbers this late in its life.
The xbone best most expectations and has held well compared to last year.