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European Software Sales: 2013 Top 20 Half-Year Chart (Has actual numbers)
- Thread starter Bruno MB
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Nintendo much have pretty good lower end sales if they're the number 2 publisher with only 2 titles in the top 20.
Luigi Mansion 2 is doing surprisingly well everywhere, I wonder what's its worldwide LTD by now? Should handily outsell the original at least.
Same big retail chains actually sell most games lower than the MSRP (Mediamarkt, Saturn, etc etc...). Some other big ones sell it much higher (Fnac, I'm looking at you, 70 euros for a Wii U game? Really?). So I guess it evens out...
Luigi Mansion 2 is doing surprisingly well everywhere, I wonder what's its worldwide LTD by now? Should handily outsell the original at least.
Same big retail chains actually sell most games lower than the MSRP (Mediamarkt, Saturn, etc etc...). Some other big ones sell it much higher (Fnac, I'm looking at you, 70 euros for a Wii U game? Really?). So I guess it evens out...
Angelus Errare
Banned
Oh man the commas and periods being switched threw me off D:
RamzaIsCool
The Amiga Brotherhood
Yup, considering it was only out for two weeks, released during the slowest period of the year, is an exclusive and a new IP. Really impressive! That said, it being the only new IP in the top 20 makes me sad.
NobleGreenBeast
Member
Nice showing for New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Luigi's Mansion. I am really happy about the success of The Year of Luigi.
Acquiescence
Member
Wait, so in the span of a mere two weeks The Last of Us managed to make it to fourth place?! That game must be making Sony some mad moolah.
They should use the momentum and start giving out info about the single player DLC.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Does it stir the loins too?
Luigi's Mansion 2 is at around 2.18 million units so far worldwide. Massive success for sure.
MrCookiepants
Member
Woah, TLoU sold that much in 2 weeks? Should be well over a million now.
67 million in revenue from Europe alone. This game must have made a tidy profit. SE is like Eidos' strict Asian father. Impossible standards. Never satisfied.
67 million in revenue from Europe alone. This game must have made a tidy profit. SE is like Eidos' strict Asian father. Impossible standards. Never satisfied.
lol @ strict asian father SE
Canis lupus
Member
Wow with only 2 weeks sales TLOU jumped to nr 4, probably passed Blops 2 and Tomb Raider by now or happening soon.
Visualante2
Member
heartening to see Last of Us and Far Cry 3 do so well. Maybe it is time to end the Assassin's Creed machine? Need for Speed used to be way higher, further evidence that racing games aren't as important these day.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Two weeks and TLOU is already 4 lol
It also has a disgustingly high price average.
It also has a disgustingly high price average.
Here in Spain, at least, it's still 60-69 euros. If the game keeps selling well at full price, why would retailers drop it?
In the stores I often go FarCry 3 is always in the Top5. I'm used to see it 1st or 2nd in weeks with no releases or small releases like Tales of Xillia.
Fnac is amazing. I've seen 2 years old games still at full price when you can buy it in Amazon for 15 bucks. Or in Game/Gamestop for 25-35. It's laughable.
Lagspike_exe
Member
Insane TLOU sales. Well done, ND.
Magicpaint
Member
So great to see TLOU up there already. Fantastic game.
LM2 was at 2.65m worldwide according to the last Quarter report from Nintendo. Yeah it's beating the original and going past 3m LTD when all is said and done.
LM2 was at 2.65m worldwide according to the last Quarter report from Nintendo. Yeah it's beating the original and going past 3m LTD when all is said and done.
Canis lupus
Member
The Last of Us sold-through numbers in june:
NPD: 985k
EU: 858k
MC: 150k
~2m retail copies sold! No idea if it was released in other territories. Sony reported sales (shipped+digital sales) of 3.4m in early july. TLOU was pretty much sold out everywhere so they exhausted most if not all of their stock. I'm guessing the total shipment was no more than 2.4-2.5m and I'm being optimistic. That would leave an impressive ~1m digital sales.
NPD: 985k
EU: 858k
MC: 150k
~2m retail copies sold! No idea if it was released in other territories. Sony reported sales (shipped+digital sales) of 3.4m in early july. TLOU was pretty much sold out everywhere so they exhausted most if not all of their stock. I'm guessing the total shipment was no more than 2.4-2.5m and I'm being optimistic. That would leave an impressive ~1m digital sales.
Not only they don't include digital sales, but they're ordered by revenue, not by units sold: in fact, The Chart shows in higher positions some titles with less sales than the others under them.
And I believe that, probably, there would have been way more Nintendo titles with a Individual SKUs units-based top 20.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Sony probably turned a profit on it, but it's done nowhere near the numbers of the previous games. Ghost of Sparta sold about 1.2 million (as of June 2012), so hopefully Ascension will at least do better than that. I thought it was an excellent game which was almost as good as its predecessors, but it definitely felt like the franchise needed a major overhaul next time around, and I had so little interest in the multiplayer I don't think I played it even once.
I don't know where they should take it next plot-wise (I would like to see a character other than Kratos, at least as the protagonist), but I played Darksiders II shortly after playing Ascension, and I thought SSM would do very well to take inspiration from that game; at least in terms of depth and game design. I really hope the next GoW game doesn't closely follow the same format, with the prescribed linear routes, fixed camera angles and an inability to jump anywhere you're not allowed (Ascension was pretty heavy on the invisible barriers).
Um, Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, Gears of War, BioShock, Red Dead Redemption (basically a new IP), perhaps Mass Effect. Not taking anything away from TLoU of course, because it is an exceptional game and has done incredibly well. I'd be interested to know its sales to date. I think it'll easily sell as much as the Uncharted games (i.e. 5-6 million units).
Kenshin001
Member
Amazing TLoU numbers for just a couple of weeks of sales. Fully deserved too.
Chris23235
Banned
My guess is, it stands for "keine vorige Messung", which would mean "no prior measurement".
Given the price avarage on GoW it doesn't seem to be a simple result of price cuts.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
At least now we can stop puerile saying that the UK market is dead/irrelevant, software sales are down across the board because it's a generation transition.
Well it was sitting at 3.4 million world wide by 9 July according to Sony. Given that it's only been slowly dropping in monthly game charts (only just dropped outside UK top 10 this week) I would say they may have already racked up another mill WW on top of that.
Terbinator
Member
I bought TLoU for forty notes on release.
I regret nothing.
I regret nothing.
Zoramon089
Banned
I'm not sure how Nintendo is #2 with their games that low on the charts...they must have a TON of titles just outside the top 20 I'm suspecting