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PAL Charts - Week 47, 2011

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dabra

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Many many thanks to Raist, felipeko, BishopLamont and dabra for taking their time doing it every week!
Thanks to Captain Smoker, Frankfurter, test_account, donny2112 , Phife Dawg, tiong_fi, sensi97, 830920, Verve, Dash Kappei, Road, slaughterking, Loudninja, BKK and Twister Flipper for their contribution.


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UK:

Originally Posted by Chart-Track:

28/Nov/2011

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’ (-41%) keeps its grip on top spot for a 3rd consecutive week after launch, a feat predecessor ‘Black Ops’ couldn’t manage last year (denied by Gran Turismo 5).

‘Assassin’s Creed: Revelations’ clings to second place despite a 61% drop in sales, while ‘Saint’s Row: The Third’, up from No4 to No3 (-40%) swaps places with ‘Skyrim’ (-43%) even though both titles are down by similar amounts. ‘FIFA 11’ (+22%) and ‘Just Dance 3’ (+22%) are the only Top 10 titles to increase sales this week with EA’s Christmas football favourite a non-mover at No5 and Ubisoft’s popular dancing sequel up 2 places to No8. The new releases are coming thick and fast, but nothing on the scale of last week’s ‘Assassin’s Creed: Revelations’ with ‘WWE 12’ the highest new entry at No6 (22% up on THQ’s 2011 title), one place ahead of another chart debutant - Nintendo’s ‘Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call’ new at No7.

The Top 10 is rounded off by ‘Battlefield 3’ (-4%) down one place to No9 and ‘Super Mario 3D Land’ (-12%), also down one place, to No10. ‘Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo’ (+85%) jumps from No18 to No12, boosted by a big ‘Black Friday’ promotion, while ‘Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games’ (+82%) also shoots up the charts, climbing from No20 to No14 with the help of the new blue Wii hardware bundle. The only other new release to make the Top 40 is Warner’s ‘Lord of the Rings: War in the North’ at No38.
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Week 47, 2011 - Individual Formats (Units)

01 (01) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
02 (03) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
03 (__) NDS Professor Layton And The Spectre's Call (Nintendo)
04 (05) 360 Saints Row: The Third (Thq)
05 (02) 360 Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
06 (06) 360 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks)
07 (10) WII Just Dance 3 (Ubisoft)
08 (09) 3DS Super Mario 3d Land (Nintendo)
09 (04) PS3 Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
10 (__) 360 Wwe '12 (Thq)
11 (16) 360 Fifa 12 (Electronic Arts)
12 (21) NDS Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo (Mind Candy)
13 (__) PS3 Wwe '12 (Thq)
14 (23) WII Mario & Sonic London 2012 Olympic Games (Sega)
15 (14) PS3 Fifa 12 (Electronic Arts)
16 (12) PS3 Saints Row: The Third (Thq)
17 (15) 360 Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
18 (08) WII The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)
19 (11) PS3 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks)
20 (13) WII Michael Jackson: The Experience (Ubisoft)
21 (18) PS3 Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Sony Computer Ent.)
22 (19) WII Zumba Fitness (505 Games)
23 (07) 360 Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Microsoft)
24 (20) PS3 Need For Speed: The Run (Electronic Arts)
25 (22) 360 Forza Motorsport 4 (Microsoft)
26 (17) PS3 Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
27 (24) 360 Need For Speed: The Run (Electronic Arts)
28 (26) PC Football Manager 2012 (Sega)
29 (32) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
30 (30) WII Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Activision Blizzard)
31 (29) 360 Batman: Arkham City (Warner Bros. Interactive)
32 (39) WII Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft)
33 (28) 360 Kinect Sports: Season Two (Microsoft)
34 (__) 360 Kinect Disneyland Adventures (Microsoft)
35 (35) PS3 Batman: Arkham City (Warner Bros. Interactive)
36 (__) 360 Kinect Sports (Microsoft)
37 (34) 360 Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Activision Blizzard)
38 (__) 3DS Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever (Nintendo)
39 (31) WII Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Warner Bros. Interactive)
40 (37) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)


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Ireland:
Week 47, 2011 - Entertainment Software (All Prices)

01 (01) Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
02 (04) Fifa 12 (Electronic Arts)
03 (02) Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
04 (03) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks)
05 (05) Saints Row: The Third (Thq)
06 (07) Just Dance 3 (Ubisoft)
07 (__) Wwe '12 (Thq)
08 (10) Need For Speed: The Run (Electronic Arts)
09 (06) Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
10 (09) Super Mario 3d Land (Nintendo)
11 (__) Professor Layton And The Spectre's Call (Nintendo)
12 (14) Batman: Arkham City (Warner Bros. Interactive)
13 (08) The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)
14 (__) Mario & Sonic London 2012 Olympic Games (Sega)
15 (20) Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Warner Bros. Interactive)
16 (16) Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo (Mind Candy)
17 (19) Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Activision Blizzard)
18 (__) Football Manager 2012 (Sega)
19 (13) Gears Of War 3 (Microsoft)
20 (11) Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Sony Computer Ent.)


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Denmark:
Week 47, 2011 - Entertainment Software (All Prices)

01 (02) Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
02 (03) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Nordic Game Supply)
03 (06) Fifa 12 (Electronic Arts)
04 (05) Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
05 (07) Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Activision Blizzard)
06 (01) Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
07 (10) Just Dance 3 (Ubisoft)
08 (08) Need For Speed: The Run (Electronic Arts)
09 (09) The Sims 3: Pets (Electronic Arts)
10 (__) Madden Nfl 12 (Electronic Arts)
11 (__) Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Warner Bros. Interactive)
12 (18) Cars 2 (Disney Interactive Studios)
13 (11) The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)
14 (13) Super Mario 3d Land (Nintendo)
15 (04) Saints Row: The Third (Thq)
16 (15) Football Manager 2012 (Pan Vision)
17 (17) The Smurfs (Ubisoft)
18 (__) Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios)
19 (__) New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
20 (14) Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Nordisk Film)


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Netherlands:
Week 47, 2011

01 (01) [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
02 (__) [WII] The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)
03 (__) [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo)
04 (04) [360] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
05 (__) [WII] Mario & Sonic London 2012 Olympic Games (Sega)
06 (02) [PS3] Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
07 (__) [WII] Just Dance 3 (Ubisoft)
08 (08) [PS3] Saints Row: The Third (Thq)
09 (05) [PS3] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks)
10 (03) [360] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks)


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France:
Week 46, 2011

01 (__) [PS3] Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
02 (01) [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
03 (__) [WII] The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword + Remote (Nintendo)
04 (__) [360] Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
05 (02) [360] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)


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dabra

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Spain :



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Italy :
Week 46, 2011

01. (__) [PS3] Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
02. (__) [360] Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
03. (01) [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
04. (__) [PS3] Assassin's Creed: Revelations Collector's Edition (Ubisoft)
05. (__) [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo)
06. (02) [360] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
07. (__) [360] Assassin's Creed: Revelations Collector's Edition (Ubisoft)
08. (06) [PS3] Fifa 12 (Electronic Arts)
09. (__) [360] Halo CE Anniversary Edition (Microsoft)
10. (05) [PS3] Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Sony)


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Norway:
Week 47, 2011

01 (02) [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
02 (09) [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land
03 (06) [PS3] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
04 (01) [PS3] Assassin's Creed: Revelations
05 (04) [WII] The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword
06 (08) [PS3] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
07 (07) [360] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
08 (11) [PS3] Battlefield 3
09 (__) [PS3] Fifa 12
10 (16) [PS3] Uncharted 3 Drake´S Deception
11 (03) [360] Assassin's Creed: Revelations
12 (15) [360] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
13 (__) [PS3] Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7
14 (10) [360] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
15 (__) [WII] Skylanders - Spyro's Adventure - Starter Pack
16 (__) [NDS] Cars 2
17 (__) [PC] The Sims 3: Pets
18 (__) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros
19 (__) [PS3] Skylanders - Spyro's Adventure - Starter Pack
20 (13) [PC] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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Finland:
Week 47, 2011

01 (01) [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
02 (__) [PS3] Dance Star Party (Scee)
03 (17) [PS3] Uncharted 3 Drake´S Deception (Scee)
04 (03) [PS3] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks)
05 (07) [PS3] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
06 (14) [PS3] NHL 12 (Electronic Arts)
07 (04) [360] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks)
08 (06) [360] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
09 (02) [PS3] Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
10 (__) [PS3] Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 (Warner Bros. Games)
11 (__) [PC] World Of Warcraft Pre-Paid Game Card 60 Days (Activision Blizzard)
12 (09) [360] Halo CE Anniversary Edition (Microsoft)
13 (16) [PC] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
14 (__) [PS3] Need For Speed: The Run (Electronic Arts)
15 (20) [360] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
16 (__) [WII] Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 (Warner Bros. Games)
17 (11) [PC] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
18 (__) [PS3] Singstar Suomisuosikit (Scee)
19 (__) [PS3] Fifa 12 (Electronic Arts)
20 (13) [WII] The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)


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Sweden:
Week 47, 2011

01 (05) [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
02 (08) [360] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
03 (01) [WII] The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword
04 (04) [360] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
05 (07) [PS3] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
06 (12) [PC] Battlefield 3
07 (09) [PC] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
08 (02) [PS3] Assassin's Creed: Revelations
09 (06) [PC] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
10 (11) [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land
11 (14) [PS3] Battlefield 3
12 (03) [360] Assassin's Creed: Revelations
13 (20) [PS3] Fifa 12
14 (16) [360] Battlefield 3
15 (15) [PC] The Sims 3: Pets
16 (__) [WII] Skylanders Starter Pack
17 (19) [PS3] Need For Speed: The Run
18 (17) [PS3] Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
19 (__) [WII] Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7
20 (__) [360] Fifa 12


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Germany :
Week 47, 2011

01. (__) [NDS] Professor Layton And The Spectre's Call (Nintendo)
02. (02) [PS3] Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
03. (01) [PS3] Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
04. (06) [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo)
05. (07) [PS3] Need For Speed: The Run (Electronic Arts)
06. (04) [WII] The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)
07. (09) [PS3] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks/ZeniMax)
08. (__) [PS3] FIFA 12 (Electronic Arts)
09. (__) [360] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks/ZeniMax)
10. (10) [360] Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)


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New Zealand :



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Nordic Chart (Denmark + Finland + Norway + Sweden)
Week 47, 2011

01 (03) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
02 (02) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
03 (05) Battlefield 3
04 (01) Assassin's Creed: Revelations
05 (08) Fifa 12
06 (__) Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7
07 (07) Need For Speed: The Run
08 (11) Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
09 (04) The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword
10 (09) Super Mario 3D Land
11 (12) The Sims 3: Pets
12 (06) Saints Row: The Third
13 (13) Uncharted 3 - Drake's Deception
14 (15) New Super Mario Bros
15 (16) Cars 2
16 (14) The Sims 3
17 (18) Mario Kart
18 (17) NHL 12
19 (__) Batman: Arkham City
20 (__) Just Dance 3


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ShellyDeKiller

Member
Seems like Zelda is doing well in Europe... except in the UK.

In the UK the Wii seems to be just a dancing game console.


Well done Professor!
 
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zomgbbqftw

Banned
It is official. The UK is the worst gaming market. All people buy here are stupid dancing games, COD and FIFA. Bunch of fucking monkeys.
 
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Sean

Banned
Pleasantly surprised to see Saints Row 3 selling so well. I thought it'd flop due to the release date, never in a million years would I have guessed that it'd be outselling both Assassin's Creed and Skyrim. Impressive.
 
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SmokyDave

Member
Sean said:
Pleasantly surprised to see Saints Row 3 selling so well. I thought it'd flop due to the release date, never in a million years would I have guessed that it'd be outselling both Assassin's Creed and Skyrim. Impressive.
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Gotta be word-of-mouth, I reckon. I'm yet to meet someone that played the game and didn't come away raving about it, myself included. I talked 3 people into buying a copy and I'm sure they will continue the cycle.
 
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Gowans

Member
SmokyDave said:
Gotta be word-of-mouth, I reckon. I'm yet to meet someone that played the game and didn't come away raving about it, myself included. I talked 3 people into buying a copy and I'm sure they will continue the cycle.
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Yup fantastic game glad its holding on strong.
 
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BKK

Member
90%:

[ALL] Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - ~150,000
[ALL] Assassin's Creed: Revelations - ~93,000
[ALL] FIFA 12 - ~68,000
[ALL] Battlefield 3 - ~41,000
 
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Flayer

Member
BKK said:
90%:
[ALL] Assassin's Creed: Revelations - ~93,000
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That's a strong second week for AC:R. I'm glad to see that actually because while it takes no chances and is a very safe sequel I think it's the best in the series so far taken on its own.
 
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Mpl90

Two copies sold? That's not a bomb guys, stop trolling!!!
[ALL] Saints Row: The Thirs (THQ) - ~61,800
[ALL] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Software) - <50,310
 
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BKK

Member
Yeah, there's a mistake with Saints row's number, consider it unreliable. It's based on SR2 first week, which was based off PES first week, which was based off FIFA first week ... something went wrong somewhere.
 
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Danielsan

Member
It's sad that Rayman bombed this hard. The demo is fantastic, but that release date was just extremely unfortunate. Sucks for Ubisoft and Ancel, but it probably means I'll be picking it up dirt cheap soon.
 
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bigtroyjon

Member
BKK said:
Yeah, there's a mistake with Saints row's number, consider it unreliable. It's based on SR2 first week, which was based off PES first week, which was based off FIFA first week ... something went wrong somewhere.
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If the Skyrim <117K number from last week is close to right and the FIFA number is right, then that means that Saints Row and Skyrim should both be right around 68K-72K
 
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Steroyd

Member
acm2000 said:
the problem for the game is that public perception of such a game, would expect it for xbla, not full price retail
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I'm guilty of this, played the demo with my little sister and cousin and loved the crap out of it, and thought it'd be a nice cheap PSN title to pick up and boy did i wince when i found out it was a full priced retail game.
 
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BKK

Member
bigtroyjon said:
If the Skyrim <117K number from last week is close to right and the FIFA number is right, then that means that Saints Row and Skyrim should both be right around 68K-72K
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The problem is the Skyrim <117k number from last week was based off it's position in relation to the incorrect Saints Row number. I double checked FIFA, AC, and Battlefield and they should be right (within a few percent margin of rounding error at least). I'll just use those for this week.
 
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bigtroyjon

Member
BKK said:
The problem is the Skyrim <117k number from last week was based off it's position in relation to the incorrect Saints Row number. I double checked FIFA, AC, and Battlefield and they should be right (within a few percent margin of rounding error at least). I'll just use those for this week.
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Using FIFA this week, these are last week sales
Saints Row >113K
Skyrim >119K
 
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electroplankton

Banned
Rayman a flop? It's a 2D platform. It would have never opened as Skyrim or Assassin's Creed. And it's not Mario. Wait some months, and see how it will perform on Wii and 3DS.
 
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BKK

Member
I recalibarated FIFA numbers to the latest October numbers to cut down some of the rounding errors that had accumalated since September, but the difference is minor. Don't take these numbers as exact as they're based off of rounded numbers and percentages.

Code: 
WK	WK%	ALL	X360%	X360	PS3%	PS3
40		281701	0.50	140851	0.45	126765
41	0.38	107046	0.49	52453	0.40	42818
42	0.65	69580	0.43	29919	0.41	28528
43	0.86	59839	0.43	25731	0.40	23936
						
OCT		518166		249000		224000
						
44	0.90	53855	0.43	23158	0.39	21003
45	0.97	52239	0.37	19328	0.43	22463
46	1.07	55896	0.36	20123	0.44	24594
47	1.22	68193
 
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Sho_Nuff82

Member
zomgbbqftw said:
It is official. The UK is the worst gaming market. All people buy here are stupid dancing games, COD and FIFA. Bunch of fucking monkeys.
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What a terrible and inappropriate generalization to make, given the variety in the top 20.

Rayman is a dead ip launching in the NSMB window without the equivalent ad campaign, launching against Ubi's own 10 million a year AC franchise. It will probably do better when discounted.
 
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Michan

Member
zomgbbqftw said:
It is official. The UK is the worst gaming market. All people buy here are stupid dancing games, COD and FIFA. Bunch of fucking monkeys.
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I hope you're joking. What you just listed accounts for a tiny fraction of the top 40. The U.K. top 10 is about as diverse as you get. Here is its genre breakdown, compared to the latest NPD (U.K. on the left):

FPS: 1 / 3
Sports: 1 / 3
Action/adventure: 3 / 2
Racing: 0 / 1
Music: 1 / 1
Puzzle: 1 / 0
Platform: 1 / 0
 
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radioheadrule83

Banned
I suspect the Mario games (Olympics / 3D Land) are cannibalising Zelda's sales, especially if people are picking up new 3DS bundles for the coming of 3D Land and Kart -- that's a lot of money to be shelling out for a Nintendo fan.

I think piracy is probably a big problem here in the UK too, but I don't know to what to degree. All I know is that I've met a tonne of people myself who are doing it, and they're not overly tech savvy or members of any scene anything, they're normal people - somehow pilfering all sorts on their soft-modded Wiis. Its like the R4 card situation on DS, its viral - people are probably offering soft-mod services to friends and parents.
 
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bigtroyjon

Member
edit-ACR360 is ~52K, so SR360 and Layton are >52K and Skyrim(360) is <52K

edit2- SR(all)>77K
Last week
SR(all)>128K

edit3-Skyrim(all)<82K
Last week
Skyrim(all)<144K
 
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SmokyDave

Member
radioheadrule83 said:
I think piracy is probably a big problem here in the UK too, but I don't know to what to degree.
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I honestly think apathy is beating piracy on this one. The support for the Wii has been lacklustre for so long that people have just forgotten it existed. The dancing crowd are buying a Kinect and the core crowd are better served elsewhere.

Should've been a Wii-U launch title.

Edit: I'm aware that these charts invalidate my statement about the dancing crowd. I don't care, I'm crazy like that.
 
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Zeouterlimits

Member
SmokyDave said:
I honestly think apathy is beating piracy on this one. The support for the Wii has been lacklustre for so long that people have just forgotten it existed. The dancing crowd are buying a Kinect and the core crowd are better served elsewhere.
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Agreed on thinking it's more likely apathy and not piracy.
 
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Sho_Nuff82

Member
Zeouterlimits said:
Agreed on thinking it's more likely apathy and not piracy.
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Three of the top 5 Wii games are dance games. It's been like that all year long. The kind of people buying Wiis now, in 2011, are not hardcore Zelda fans. It's been 5 years since Twilight Princess, obviously there has been some console drift, nothing else can really explain the soft launch of a game that sold many millions ww.
 
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Katana_Strikes

Member
Rayman has had quite a decent TV marketing push, so it's a really bad start. I actually haven't seen an ad for Zelda yet but that and Halo have dropped a lot.
Fifa creeping back up again.
 
m.i.s.

m.i.s.

Banned
Sho_Nuff82 said:
Three of the top 5 Wii games are dance games. It's been like that all year long. The kind of people buying Wiis now, in 2011, are not hardcore Zelda fans. It's been 5 years since Twilight Princess, obviously there has been some console drift, nothing else can really explain the soft launch of a game that sold many millions ww.
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Just as a matter of interest, when was SS finished? Would it have made a difference if it launched earlier?

Zelda had been advertised quite a few times if not extensively. There was even a mention of Zelda, Robin William's daughter, when he was on the Graham Norton Show on the BBC.
 
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radioheadrule83

Banned
Well obviously, Wii's decline has had a part to play. I don't think it's apathy though, there's still a core Nintendo fanbase that would be buying Zelda, but the climate isn't great. Just Dance 3, Skyrim, Assassin's Creed Rev, Saints Row and MW3 is a crowded enough release window - and that's before you take into account Nintendo having new 3DS HW bundles, SM3D Land, Mario and Sonic at London 2012, and a new Layton game out... Zelda leaked on the Internet like, what, a week before it released in the UK? I'd put money on there being a sizable amount of people who exploited that. Especially as the controller bundle is like £50 or whatever... You think everyone playing it on Dolphin bought it? I doubt it. It doesn't even sound like Nintendo put ANY anti-piracy measures into the game... which they did on games like Spirit Tracks. They didn't even put something in to try and delay it being uploaded. I'm not saying piracy is the reason for its performance below-expectations, but I think it is one of many reasons. So many good games out, so much competing hardware and software, a home console in its twilight months... its a shame, because its an amazing game.
 
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