TheDrowningMan
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I don't know if we ever got official, but it was quite obviously lower. I think 35-45k was accepted as cose enough in the end.
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PAL Charts - Week 47, 2012
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I don't know if we ever got official, but it was quite obviously lower. I think 35-45k was accepted as cose enough in the end.
metalslimer
Member
Yeah, I'm sure it not making the top 40 two weeks in a row is because people are broke.....
Nah, I think Beyond Two Souls will do pretty well. Not CoD numbers or anything, but I can see it reaching 1.5-2 million with good marketing.
grimshawish
Banned
Honestly? I think it looks dreadful so am maybe a bit biased.
But I don't see any reason to pick it up.
m.i.s.
Banned
Thank you.
Someone at last mentions the elephant in the room. Wii U is just terrible value for money. Sainsbury's were doing a 160 Gig 360 S for just £160 - and that has a mature library of cheap games and also plays DVD movies. Furthermore, Wii U is currently £50 more expensive in the UK than in Japan and the US - on both models.
With the dire straits the economy is in and so many other entertainment options available, smartphones, tablets, etc etc etc, this thing is just going to get slaughtered in the UK.
shinra-bansho
Member
For comparative purposes, at UK launch from what I can find:
360 - 70K (December 2005)
PS3 - 165K (March 2007)
Wii - 105K (December 2006)
360 - 70K (December 2005)
PS3 - 165K (March 2007)
Wii - 105K (December 2006)
Alcibiades
Member
Why is it more expensive in the UK and how does that compare to the rest of Europe? I know Europe traditionally gets screwed on videogame pricing but being more expensive than 360 seems weird since in the U.S. the Premium is $50 cheaper than the $399 360 launch price.
TheDrowningMan
Member
Of course it could. As I've been saying...
TheBioLover
Member
Ouch.
It's an estimate based on an estimate. I think. Let's see if we can firm up numbers for AC and/or NintendoLand later. The 26K thing seems to be a pure guess based on AC doing 53k?
frankie_baby
Member
Everything costs more in the UK than america as prices include tax, take off the tax and its only about £18 more
grimshawish
Banned
This is secondary information, posted from someone on gaf which is being discussed in this very thread. Work it out for yourself.
Annoyingly they're top for each format has not been updated to include Wii U
actually surprised they even had 70k 360s to sell tbh, launch was a mess due to MS prematurely ejecting its load to beat sony, 6 months of MS/foxconn unable to produce them at a decent rate (due to cpu fabrication issues or something if i remmeber right)
wii sold out due to xmas rush
ps3 is only one of the 3 which didnt have supply issues due to them waiting as long as they could to get the parts more affordable
Yes, UK 360 launch was a shambles. I'd pre-ordered only a few days after E3 and it couldn't be fulfilled for launch. Luckily I knew the manager at my local Game store and managed to get a cancellation unit, but thousands were disappointed.
NFS:MW vita went up to number 2 in the UK vita charts this week, france AC is beating it. Makes sense though.
Well broke and the previous big hitters just coming out. I'm sure most are waiting till christmas..hopefully sony will step up the ads before then. - I've not seen any as AR said - they want it tho
It's full price in stores due to being cross-buy probably.
Well broke and the previous big hitters just coming out. I'm sure most are waiting till christmas..hopefully sony will step up the ads before then. - I've not seen any as AR said - they want it tho
It's full price in stores due to being cross-buy probably.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
The worst part was that it was like that for months. Even accessories were impossible to find.
Too soon? This is week 47 (one week delay for GFK FR results) and the Wii U was released in week 48. Right?
grimshawish
Banned
I don't think you have to worry about Last Guardian bombing. The game would actually have to come out for that to happen.
Yeah, that must be it.
I highly doubt that. Waiting a couple of months won't magically make the BD drive and Cell any cheaper. They just couldn't make enough for a worldwide launch, most of them went to the US, 200k, Japan got 70k. Sony just ripped out some PS2 parts and sold them for €599.
Europeans had to wait even longer for the PSP, Sonyland blah blah, but they don't give a shit about Europe. Always US first.
yeah, was same worldwide tho, was 6 months at least before any stock actually turned up in meaningful numbers
couple of months? it launched a year after 360, they waited as long as they could for the parts to come down in prize and have decent availablility (think blue diodes etc), and even then when they launched, they were losing HUNDREDS on every console
The other consoles are going to face that too, they are going to be double if not more the price of the current systems. Like you say the economy is in the bin and ios has brought a whole other market to the table. I really worry that this next round of consoles are going to have serious issues sales wise in the uk.
Wii launch only had zelda and wii play cracking the top ten.
That's unlikely but they'll be some sort of boost.
Trying to find something to salvage here. :/
Isn't 100K the supposed UK Wii U launch stock ?
In France it's 240K. If these datas are true, what does it tell us about the UK market ?
Another ambassador program! How could it cost anywhere near that much to make?
Nothing that we havent known for sometime its fucked, maybe not even saveable to the level it was prior.
WeylandxYutani
Member
Nope that's not how it works. Week 48 closed on Sunday and the new week starts. With releases normally coming out on Fridays, this means you only get 3 days of sales. Sales from today on fall into week 49 and will almost certainly be lower due to lack of availability and the fact that the big rush of preorder sales have been picked up already
Yes, a couple of months, since I was comparing it to the US launch. It has nothing to do with waiting for components to be cheaper. They couldn't afford to wait longer and couldn't afford to launch earlier, since the diodes weren't ready, that doesn't even take into account the games that had to be launched with the console. The Blu-Ray specs were finalized in early 2006 and the first BD player was released in mid 2006. It was never gonna be 2005 for the PS3.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Regarding the Wii U titles, are downloads counted?
jesusraz
Member
http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/c...ops_2_is_top_as_far_cry_3_charts_at_no_2.html
Does that mean 1617 copies of AC3 on Wii U sold?!
mysteriousmage09
Member
:dead
I doubt Dl sales will be that good IMO
shinra-bansho
Member
I expected higher Wii U Just Dance sales for some reason.
Anyway, Ubisoft isn't likely to see much of a return on investment with those numbers.
Anyway, Ubisoft isn't likely to see much of a return on investment with those numbers.
More worryingly for Nintendo, it's the same for Just Dance 4.
...let's not even talk about CoD. Shocking. Probably got outsold by the Vita spinoff.