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Amazon: Pre-order information after Gamescom, Wii U saw greatest pre-order increase
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Can someone explain how this works exactly?
XB1 has 2 exclusives in the Top 5 here, but overall the pre-orders rose the least. Sure, multiplats, but how does that fit with the Wii U being first and only 1 exclusive being up there?
Even if it is because Wii U has less games coming up than the others, I can't see how you'd reach a 8.67% average.
Sure, this statistic doesn't mean much anyway I guess, but I'm curious
Yeah for 10 minutes.
Yeah I edited out the watermarked picture of the games listed in favor of text-based list from MCVUK.
Piston Hyundai
Member
The Call of Duty audience probably doesn't know what Gamescom is.
Not trying to make fun or anything, it's just how it is. Most of the CoD audience follows CoD, not gaming as a whole.
Americanmushroom
Banned
Tomb Raider having an increase is sad
Altered Juice
Member
the situation will remain the same.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Rise of the Tomb Raider exclusivity worked then.
I know lots of people like that to be honest.
Not that it's a bad thing cause this year's Call of Duty looks friggin awesome.
Did Nintendo show much for Gamescom? I didn't even know they were there!
They announced nothing but had most of the E3 demos playable on the showfloor.
I'm not going to lie, I myself never knew what Gamescom was until last month, and the first time I ever heard about the existence of E3 was last year March when I discovered GAF.
Monster Zero
Junior Member
Guess the value was there
Starwolf_UK
Member
So the source is an amazon press release apparently. Guess it is a non-public one.
My thoughts are pre-orders usually increase with proximity to release date, I don't really know dates these days but Hyrule Warriors is pretty close and is out in Japan giving more info, plus it has an attractive price here in the UK as the £40 allows for it to be sold at £30. In others words Gamescom might not be the correlating factor.
The rest of that very abridged list doesn't tell me about the effect felt on any other Wii U games nor the sample size (pre-order increases on what, games at gamescom all games for that system?)
My thoughts are pre-orders usually increase with proximity to release date, I don't really know dates these days but Hyrule Warriors is pretty close and is out in Japan giving more info, plus it has an attractive price here in the UK as the £40 allows for it to be sold at £30. In others words Gamescom might not be the correlating factor.
The rest of that very abridged list doesn't tell me about the effect felt on any other Wii U games nor the sample size (pre-order increases on what, games at gamescom all games for that system?)
FullMetaltech
Member
Most of those games wont be out til next year either way. But suprised at the low preorder percentage for xb1.
Do you really think the game will sell better now?
I'd say they only listed the top 10 most pre-oredered games, but for the whole statistic used all games you can pre-order right now on Amazon, mainly 2015 titles.
Maybe people that wanted COD already preordered it before Gamescom? I would guess most COD fans preorder it as soon as it is announced.
And without knowing how this formula work it's not worth making many conclusions, because if they are calculating increase in regards to total preorders, it can mean that a game like Project Cars has 10 preorders before Gamescom. 4 people preorder during the show. It's a 40% increase in preorders.
COD has 20000 preorders before Gamescom. 1200 people preorder it during gamescom = 6% increase.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Long term probably not, but I'm guessing the "controversy" helped boost pre-orders significantly.
Percentage's can be tricky, that's why politicians and PR people love them. Not trying to take anything away from Nintendo but if they are strictly going by past preorder numbers and Wii U has a smaller userbase it woudn't take as many people to raise a percentage as it would for other games.
I find that Rise of the Tomb Raider number most interesting here. After all the backlash online about it and, well, there you go.
I find that Rise of the Tomb Raider number most interesting here. After all the backlash online about it and, well, there you go.
Shin Johnpv
Member
Because it's not saying Wii U got the most pre-orders, the number of pre-orders for Wii U games saw the largest percentage increase. Meaning the amount of change seen as a percentage was highest. Not that it had the literal most pre-orders. If one system has 500,000 pre-orders and it increases by 25,000 and another system has like 90,000 pre-orders and it increases by 10,000 it has a higher percentage increase compared to the first.
Doesnt seem to help XB1 sales though.
Well, this is about percentages, and it's easy to have better increase in percentages if the basis is smaller.
On the other hand all Wii U games (except Sonic Boom) are demoing extremely well. And there were a lot of people trying them there. It also helps that Hyrule Warriors and Bayonetta 2 are coming in the next 2 months I guess. Whoever buys COD and Assassins Creed and FIFA doesn't do it based on Gamescom anyhow.
On the other hand all Wii U games (except Sonic Boom) are demoing extremely well. And there were a lot of people trying them there. It also helps that Hyrule Warriors and Bayonetta 2 are coming in the next 2 months I guess. Whoever buys COD and Assassins Creed and FIFA doesn't do it based on Gamescom anyhow.
I don't really see that happening at all, well not on its own anyways. It's one of those games that people add to a list that when it reaches enough they will say "ok time to buy a Xbox One"
What I find curious about that though is there was a large enough contingent of Xbox owners that saw/heard the announcement and decided to go and immediately support it with a preorder.
Yeah I got that. Just not sure how an average of +8.67% is possible when the highest game is at +11.77% and the second at +7.56%.
Unless the average come from absolute numbers across all titles and not from the percentages of the single games.
Hyrule Warriors being a big seller confirmed. (7.56 is SSB 4 for 3ds not Wii U)
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