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PAL Charts - Week 39, 2010
- Thread starter dabra
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The PC exclusive FIFA is still in Beta: http://fifa-online.easports.com
Windom Earle
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Castlevania and Enslaved have only been on sale for one or two days, right? Still not great though I expect Castlevania to have some legs. Also surprised at the PS3 version charting higher. "People don't care about tech differences" is a stupid meme after all?
Cosmonaut X
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schennmu said:
The "only on sale on or two days" thing applies to every single new release in this chart. Also worth noting that games like Castlevania and Enslaved typically don't have "legs" - they blow their load in the first week or two, so if they don't get great opening sales then they don't get great LTD sales.
The best you could hope for with CV:LoS is that its messed-up release and decent word-of-mouth means a better-than-usual second week hold, but that's about it.
EDIT:
Spiegel said:
Yeah, but only just - there have been some pre-release ads with (IIRC) JLS, but I'd expect them to get in full swing this week and for us to see the now-typical second-week bounce.
I do wonder whether the forced bundle w. a Remote is harming its sales potential, as most of the audience will have enough controllers by now (assuming they bought their console (1), Wii Play (2), Wii Sports Resort (3) and perhaps one more along the way)
Bad news for Castlevania and Enslaved, but then I haven't come across any adverts myself so that could be a factor. Even worse are the sales of Wii Party - I've seen this advertised everywhere* and it only just broke the Top 10? I'm not really shocked at PES's performance though; it really has been on a steep downhill slope for years now.
*Though to be fair, the adverts were horrendous.
*Though to be fair, the adverts were horrendous.
schennmu said:
Since the UK charts are weekly and almost every game in the UK is released on Friday, almost every game 1st week sales are "only one or two days".
Still most of the games peak in the 1st week with only those "one or two days" sales and I don't see why Castlevania would have legs, especially against the typical Fall releases. It will have legs but only when UK retailers drop the price to £19.99 and after a couple of weeks at that price it will disappear from the charts and never return.
StealthGoblin
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Dabanton said:
Yup. They'll be forgotten once Fallout, GT5, Fable etc are released.
Opus Angelorum
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Opus Angelorum said:
Some more data:
ALL FORMATS
1. FIFA 11 - 303,770
2. PES 2011 - 82,000
3. Dead Rising 2 - 42,689
4. F1 2010 - ?
5. Halo Reach - 26,000
6. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - ?
7. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - ?
Castlevania and Enslaved are similar action adventure style games, and their combined sales would appear to be pretty equal on both platforms. Maybe PS3 owners just favoured Castlevania because Enslaved is less enticing on a console with Uncharted 2. Who knows. The numbers are probably tiny anyway.
71:27:2 for PS3:360Opus Angelorum said:
Chttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/oct/11/video-games-chart-top10
Opus Angelorum
Member
Almost a 4:1 split then (I forgot the PC version).
And FIFA 2010 Wii sold just over 9k (3%), which gives us a maximum Castlevania number.
And FIFA 2010 Wii sold just over 9k (3%), which gives us a maximum Castlevania number.
Opus Angelorum
Member
miladesn said:
Indeed, and the Xbox 360 version is around 9k.
Just noticed FIFA 11 PSP is 6,075 (2%), so Sports Champion dropped 9 places from 8k [Week 39] to < 6k.
Psychotext
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I like how 101% of Reach's sales are on the 360.Road said:
StealthGoblin
Banned
The January bargain bins are going to be awesome at this rate.
Ninja Theory can't seem to make a game that will sell well, even when it does have a massive ad campaign.
Ninja Theory can't seem to make a game that will sell well, even when it does have a massive ad campaign.
Windom Earle
Member
Empty said:
I usually hate this attitude but I'm gonna wait for Castlevania bomba. Give me a decent framerate, some polish (don't corrupt the freakin' save state!), Castlevania music and Castlevania enemies and I'll be there day one.
Opus Angelorum
Member
miladesn said:
Yes, total for Castlevania is around 20k.
StealthGoblin
Banned
Apparently Mercury Steam has already begun development on a LOS sequel. Sales at this rate don't warrant it.
Opus Angelorum
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ALL FORMATS
1. FIFA 11 - 303,770
2. PES 2011 - 82,000
3. Dead Rising 2 - 42,689
4. F1 2010 - ?
5. Halo Reach - 26,000
6. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - 19,000
7. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - 18,870
1. FIFA 11 - 303,770
2. PES 2011 - 82,000
3. Dead Rising 2 - 42,689
4. F1 2010 - ?
5. Halo Reach - 26,000
6. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - 19,000
7. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - 18,870
Opus Angelorum
Member
Kenka said:
And that's FIFA's second week.
slaughterking
Member
And it's a shame really. You could say they brought this upon themselves (the PSP is a virtually dead platform in the west, PES was mismanaged for years while FIFA took many steps forward and their LoS marketing was basically non-existent), but these are still quality products underperforming left and right. I hope they can catch some breath with MGS Rising and maybe try a thing or two on 3DS.miladesn said:
BattleMonkey
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Galvanise_ said:
Well if the word of it having been cheaply produced is true, then it might happen. The game also doesn't seem to have had much of any marketing money spent on it either.
miladesn said:
PES sells much better in mainland Europe and this year's version will surely outsell MGS4 like each one of them did before.
It's true that the PES cash cow is getting smaller and smaller and they will have to do something soon to stay out of trouble but not next year. They have two Metal Gear Solid games lined up in 2011.