Sorry, I wasn't clear. 280k for XBC2 is accurate, but it's not accurate to say that Skyrim is necessarily below that. It could be slightly above XBC2 but below it in revenue due to the special edition XBC2 had.
Here you go.
I don't know what Tokyo Xanadu is, but I kind of want to play it just for the name.
I'm very confident Skyrim should be well past 200k by now. From John Harker about November:
So, Skyrim <150k. This month, it will have continued to sell, so I think >100k is very reasonable as an estimate. That would put it closer to 250k than 200k (assuming John didn't define something like 105k as "below 150k). That said, I think Skyrim might have sold a bit more than 100k, possibly up to 130k-150k, putting the absolute upper limit at 300k. Now, that would probably violate its ranking below Xenoblade, so we need to go down, but I think maybe 250k to 280k is a fair guess. Skyrim will continue to sell, too, so it should comfortably pass the 1 million mark imo.
It will definitely be interesting to see. Nintendo managed to sell over 30 millions balance boards at $90.
Balance Board was a great product though. I was still using mine until last year when my Wii stopped reading discs
Looking at last quarter's LTD shipments, we see the following:
I really don't see any other way to say it. Do we have an all time December sales list to compare it?
The few days of spotlight for Labo are already counted as right now Microsoft Research Labs are developing a counter-attack to best this cheap cardboard nonsense. As technological leader they will release their own construction kits based on chipboard, including a jigsaw and wood glue.
Maybe, but the same could be said about the 7.63 million shipped number as of September 30th (namely that the actual sell-through number is lower), so it should just about even out.
The most mainstream crowd doesn't care about that variety for the most part. In fact, there's somethiing to be said for the idea that having a larger variety of less popular titles makes it even less likely that one of them will break the top 10 for the year, as the audience for it will be split between the many great releases.
Europe itself is now a larger market for PlayStation than the US ( with the gap growing). Over here Horizon has also played a more prominent role in retailer promotions and bundles. When tallying up these things we also tend to underestimate 'other' territories, particularly as many are emerging markets.
The game sold 2.6 million in two weeks after release. Meanwhile, the US sales number for the game was just over 1 million according to John Harker, and this is after more than 4 weeks of sales. It seems reasonable to assume that at least at the end of March, the ratio US:ROTW was 1:2 (1 million US, 2 million ROTW). If that ratio has kept up, then WW would be under 6M by your estimation. I personally think that 5M-5.5M is a reasonable if uneducated guess for the game, which is nothing if not a really good debut for an exclusive new IP by a studio with no pedigree in this genre.
I expect it to consistently do middling numbers, with peaks for holidays and other seasonal periods, but won't make any top ten lists outside of launch. See the LEGO games for an example.
Even the biggest yearly multiplats only sell to a fraction of the usersbase. We get hooked into lumping all multiplats together, and often underplayng the importance of exclusives or smaller titles. Everyone has different tastes, a mix match of games, it's this diverse library that gives a system mainstream appeal.
how often do you guys check steam spy? given the nature of PC gaming, it's probably the best measure (even if flawed) of the landscape. too bad there's no Origin Spy or Battle.net Spy
