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May UK charts: God of War remains at No.1, Nintendo continues to go from strength to strength
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Nintendo isn't 'traditionally weaker' in the UK. The Wii and the DS sold utterly insane amounts over here. The issue is the UK market tends to be quite price conscious and the Wii U was an utter disaster right out of the gate. If Nintendo brings the goods people buy what they are selling.
When I say Nintendo is "traditionally weaker", I mean Nintendo does relatively weaker in the UK compared to how it does in NA and Japan. Similarly, when I say Xbox is traditionally stronger, I mean it does stronger in the UK compared to how it does anywhere else in the world (except for USA and LatAm). I do know that Nintendo has had some very successful systems in the UK (GB, GBC, GBA, Wii, DS).
Well That what Happen When You mess up Things and Do not Clean it In The right Time. And Now Now Just Not a necessary Device. So The Switch Taking Over is not Surprise.
And Now we are at the end of Gen So There is nothing they can Change only Hope they learn the lesson And Start Strong Next Gen
And Now we are at the end of Gen So There is nothing they can Change only Hope they learn the lesson And Start Strong Next Gen
It's not 23.8 Nintendo, it's 23.8% Switch. I imagine the 3DS variants are an additional few percentiles if Nintendo isn't that far behind Sony. Depending on whether they are just counting the market as home consoles, or all available gaming platforms.
You're misunderstanding the statement. This was just software sales in May.
Yes I know It's Software....
If the software goes up, hardware will rise with time. They are still Games Coming For the Switch This Year.... It is expected to exceed 20 million copies of this year..
Actually The Crew 2 and Crash (all formats) are down for end of June. Although they might actually miss out on the monthly chart depending on when they go up to.
Why would you be suprised. Xbox has 1 new release with 2 Week of tracking. While The switch also had 1 release with more days tracked and as the chart shows Mario kart is right behind State of decay. It's not that surprising
The op is changed to show x1 and switch instead of what it was at first.ms and Nintendo .
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The source absolutely says Switch and X1.
3DS SW still sells, same for PS3/360/etc, even if it's not much.
Haha I just checked and he changed it to xbox1 and switch .at first when I posted my post it was Nintendo and MS in op.
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Legs of a god.
And if I'm reading this correctly, the Switch has only overtaken the Xbox for the month of May right? No way Nintendo has already caught up to Xbox's lifetime sales, right?
You might be confusing GoW for Detroit.
And if I'm reading this correctly, the Switch has only overtaken the Xbox for the month of May right? No way Nintendo has already caught up to Xbox's lifetime sales, right?
You might be confusing GoW for Detroit.
I can't think why they would exclude any game software, they all go in the same chart normally.
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First of all i think the market share press release is about software and not hardware. Second it's only about May, third it's ahead on the value chart ( not units) and fourth is a retail only chart.
This is software though and the problem with that Xbox is sharing all of it's third party with Sony, I'm guessing most of the third party this time of year leans heavily on PS4. Most of the casual third party games, COD, Fifa, shooters etc that does big on Xbox too are usually in the latter parts of the year. The platform is at it's most unattractive right now though in my opinion
Yeah, I can't either.
Sometimes PRs have used market share to just mean home consoles (or even just two of the three) in the past if it offers more favourable reading for their product or they only care about the relative position of direct competitors, which is why I tend to question exactly what any source (or any secondary interpretation of the numbers) is counting the market as when posting percentages of market share.
I figured it was only May. Didn't realize they were talking about software. Were there any big 3rd party releases for May? I don't think there were. There was Dark Souls Remastered, but that's about it. So I can see how the Switch pulled ahead software-wise.
But it being retail-only most certainly means the Xbox remains ahead since digital splits are much higher than on Switch.
Donkey Kong seems crazy high. Still upset Nintendo price hiked a late port like that, but good for them for getting the success they deserved with the Wii U.
State of Decay made an impressive debut, when you consider Game Pass (I assume this doesn't count GP downloads)
Lol. I didn't noticed that at first. Great job to who made that gif.
I suppose so, i'm putting it down to more adverts for Nintendo on tv than Xbox, this is anecdotal but just what I've experienced, and people who've been waiting for the library to fill out and are getting recent deals.
FC5 is still the best selling game this year by a decent amount I believe. I don't think people are sleeping on it.
The problem its the 'ERA'. Nice legs for God of War. So proud.
Amazing gif.
If you want context for the complete change in the fortunes of Microsoft and Nintendo in the UK, here are some estimated revenue figures from 2013 (which is only 5 years ago!):
And remember that those 2013 percentages for Sony and Nintendo include both their home and portable systems combined whereas the comparison here is just between Switch and XB1.
And remember that those 2013 percentages for Sony and Nintendo include both their home and portable systems combined whereas the comparison here is just between Switch and XB1.
No what I meant is that people praising Gow financial success but not many praising fc5.
This thread is all over the place, and I love it, lol.
Detroit at #2 after only two days of recorded sales strikes me as a pretty good result for Quantic Dream. Or as the company is better known here - David Cage.
