Knack 2 Sells an Estimated 67,000 Units First Week at Retail

[tgrfawcett]

http://www./article/269948/knack-2-sells-an-estimated-67000-units-first-week-at-retail/

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/605/1605038/

The action platformer game from Sony Interactive Entertainment - Knack 2- sold 67,494 units first week at retail, according to our estimates.

Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in Europe with 33,129 units sold (49%), compared to 21,538 units sold in the US (32%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 6,501 units in the UK, 6,211 units in Germany, and 4,212 units in France.

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Mark Cerny's atonement seems to have not done so hot. By comparison, the first game sold an estimated 1.75 million copies in its lifetime with 82,521 in its first week peaking at 128,944 thousand by its third week while maintaining sales through the rest of December 2013. Maybe it will be a slow drop off over time and be somewhat close to a million sales. According to Dengeki sales charts it only sold 2,106 copies opening in Japan while the first sold 316, 787 copies as a pack-in title.

All is not lost though because we still have dancing Knack. If we can thank Mark Cerny for anything, it is this gift:

 

[erekiddo]

Worse than I expected.

but not by much.

 

[ILikeFeet]

VGChartz....nah

 

[Nauro]

as always

life...

is unfair

 

[Jawbreaker]

Chartz isn't banned?

 

[kuroneko0509]

chartz...

 

[Deleted member 1273]

How many are the ones we got for free?

 

[Minthara]

VGChartz is a very poor source because they tend to be so wildly inaccurate they miss the barn while aiming straight at it. Considering they don't really have any other sources, this doesn't seem very reliable :(

 

[Raw64life]

VGChartz is to sales reporting as Knack is to video games.

 

[CaptainBojangles]

Most of the original's sales were probably based on being one of a few launch titles, and it had some pretty poor word of math. I hope Sony wasn't expecting numbers beyond this because this isn't all that surprising.

 

[DriftingSpirit]

I'm sure it didn't sell all that well...but Chartz.

 

[LewieP]

Remember when people were laughing at how much more the first one sold compared to Mario 3D World?

I wonder how this will compare to Mario Odyssey sales.

Edit: Oh vgchartz, yeah doesn't really mean anything.

 

[Escalario]

lolchartz
Tho wouldn't weird me if it's close to reality. One of the biggest bombas this year.

 

[Oliver James]

Yeah, I'm not just feeling Knack.

 

[Deleted member 5491]

Well... VGChartz is not reliable at all.
Have to wait for Fiscal Quarter numbers but I guess Sony won't mentioned it if it underperformed

 

[Doorakz]

Well there's no knack 2 ps4 bundle this time around right? That should hinder sales a fair amount.

 

[The Pet of the Month]

That's very low, wasn't the first game also bundled with PS4s? Or did it do well because it was a launch title?

On the other hand, I have a knack for not having any good puns for this.

 

[erekiddo]

Also, I don't trust any website or restaurant that ends with a z.

Good Donutz? I thinkz not.

 

[tgrfawcett]

VGChartz is a very poor source because they tend to be so wildly inaccurate they miss the barn while aiming straight at it. Considering they don't really have any other sources, this doesn't seem very reliable :(

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There are a few other reports about its lackluster sales numbers. Let me see if I can get those rounded up.

 

[carlosrox]

I'm not one of those sales...yet.

Fully planning on jumping in sometime this year. I really enjoyed what I played of Knack 1 and it doesn't deserve the memetic response it's gotten.

 

[Shauni]

No way it's right since it's chart. No way that 7 is there

 

[Deleted member 6573]

directly tracks only a tiny fraction of 1% of total sell-through and estimates the other 99+%, so this data point (and subsequently the crux of this thread) is meaningless, thus rendering further discussion unproductive.

 

[Suicreeps]

Knack makes even the most unreliable sites reliable, thank you savior.

 

[FelipeMGM]

Knack 2 did bomb in Japan at retail

but VG Chartz is not a source for anything OP

 

[Nirbion]

A forced meme doesn't turn out to be a hot seller? I'm shocked.

 

[funky]

Chartz are clearly off by a few million

 

[Unlovedjew]

Is there a site more accurate than vgchartz for game sales? I've always gone to them to check that stuff out whenever I'm curious.

 

[Deleted member 1378]

would honestly be shocked if it actually sold through >50k

 

[ethomaz]

Please... stop using non reliable (guestimates) data.

 

[FelipeMGM]

Is there a site more accurate than vgchartz for game sales? I've always gone to them to check that stuff out whenever I'm curious.

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there is no such thing since we mostly dont get official numbers from publishers

And you should never trust Chartzzz numbers, its just a fancy guess

 

[tgrfawcett]

Knack 2 did bomb in Japan at retail

but VG Chartz is not a source for anything OP

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Going to compile some other sources to update the original post. I have always used vgchartz as a rough estimate so its fine.

 

[ZhugeEX]

VGChartz is an unreliable source for sales data.

Please use reliable sources such as NPD, GfK, Media Create or Publisher data.

Thank you.