Rllmuk's Official Sales Figures Thread

[cantonarv]

Chart position doesn't mean number of copies sold, it only refers to relative numbers of copies sold.

You can't tell from chart position alone whether something has sold 500 or 5,000,000 copies.

Very big selling titles can suck up a large proportion of the sales for the period. I imagine the #2 selling 360 game on Halo release week didn't sell too many, for example.

Ok sure they dont tell the numbers but we can tell a is selling more than b.

I never got the fascination with chart numbers, in any industry the fact that game/song x is 3 or 100 it wont affect my enjoyment of it.

[Boyatsea]

Ok sure they dont tell the numbers but we can tell a is selling more than b.

I never got the fascination with chart numbers, in any industry the fact that game/song x is 3 or 100 it wont affect my enjoyment of it.

Has a rather large impact on whether you'll get to enjoy a sequel, though.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

Has a rather large impact on whether you'll get to enjoy a sequel, though.

If that's the case then MP3 shouldn't exist.

[Boyatsea]

Don't be daft. That's Nintendo!

B)

[womblingfree]

Has a rather large impact on whether you'll get to enjoy a sequel, though.

Then you'll be happy to hear that Jericho is the No.1 game in Asda.

[Super Craig]

Almost missed that. How good a start is that for Prime? How well did the last two titles do in the UK in comparison, bearing in mind they were on the GameCube? I noticed Nintendo had put a lot of ads for it on the TV this week.

The first game got to number one. The second game got to number 33.

[DirkCrisis]

So anyone excited about Nintendo UKs results today? Should be quite interesting.

[IR354Lifeqhybot]

So anyone excited about Nintendo UKs results today? Should be quite interesting.

It was all on breakfast TV this morning. Along with the Finance Bloke playing Wii Fit. That game is going to sell millions!

[M.M.S]

so what are the stats then?

[DirkCrisis]

Don't be daft. That's Nintendo!

Do you have to pay JPickford a small license fee every time you use that phrase?

[Mr. Gerbik]

IIRC - Echoes charted really highly and then plummeted. I'm not sure what it was competing with at the time though.

Halo 2 and San Andreas.

[Boyatsea]

Latest European Estimates

Nintendo DS - 177,772

Wii - 111,300

PlayStation 3 - 73,614

PlayStation 2 - 70,057

PSP - 51,757

Xbox 360 - 38,212

Game Boy Advance - 5,634

PS3 boost continues - probably helped by a last minute rush on 60GB units and Pro Evo. Wii dominant, though VG did just knock 400,000 off its total after adding 800,000 to it last week. Very odd.

Latest UK Estimates

Nintendo DS 42,126 (4,303,449 in total)

Wii - 40,812 (1,317,520)

PlayStation 3 - 12,108 (429,926)

Xbox 360 - 10,912 (1,469,694)

PSP - 10,736 (2,130,201)

PlayStation 2 - 10,179 (9,511,410)

Game Boy Advance - 1,044 (5,042,153)

UK sales seem to be tracking very differently, with the PS3 and 360 much closer together than in the rest of Europe, where the PS3 is making significant gains - especially in Italy and France.

Estimated European/Other Sales to Date (according to VGChartz.com)

Wii - 3,866,326

Xbox 360 - 3,860,039

PlayStation 3 - 1,953,642

RLLMUK's Estimated Worldwide Sales (according to all available official and estimated data on October 30th)

Wii - 12,458,670

Xbox 360 - 11,640,279

PlayStation 3 - 5,145,179

So the Wii's total has actually fallen from last week's - apologies, but that's due to VG Chartz changing their mind on the European battlefield every five minutes.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

Halo 3 has done nothing for hardware sales in Europe, has it?

[Sng]

"No games", too expensive, yet heeeeere comes the sales!

[Majora]

It did for a week or two, but after that not really. I think it has to be a worry for Microsoft right now, the 360 has, from about August to the end of the year, had one of the best periods of software of any console that I can remember and yet it continues to struggle outside the US.

[layten]

"No games", too expensive, yet heeeeere comes the sales!

It has plenty of (PS2)games, which is what most of those sales are probably because of.

[Sng]

At a guess, I'd say around 5%. BC is a little-used feature. I thought everyone agreed on that.

[Xevious]

At a guess, I'd say around 5%. BC is a little-used feature. I thought everyone agreed on that.

No, nobody agreed on that. The constant posts and requests in the Xbox BC thread should be evidence of that.

[scottcr]

probably helped by a last minute rush on 60GB units and Pro Evo

don't think that's anything to do with it. The 40Gb is now at an affordable price and people are picking them up for PS3.

For Christmas, the PS3 is a more desirable console than the 360...

neither will beat the Wii - and failure to get a Wii at a shop will not lead to those people buying 360s/PS3s either.

[Boyatsea]

At a guess, I'd say around 5%. BC is a little-used feature. I thought everyone agreed on that.

The suggestion is that the majority of the sales are of the 60GB version - certainly more than 5%, anyway. It'll be interesting to see if the European sales hold up when the 60GB unit goes out of stock, or whether it'll follow the same pattern as the U.S. when the 60GB unit disappeared over there.

For Christmas, the PS3 is a more desirable console than the 360...

No, no, no.

[Xevious]

For Christmas, the PS3 is a more desirable console than the 360...

Why?

[Uncle Mike]

or whether it'll follow the same pattern as the U.S. when the 60GB unit disappeared over there.

What was the pattern there? Also, has it disappeared in USA-land now? It was on sale in the shop I was in in New York last week.

[Super Craig]

The suggestion is that the majority of the sales are of the 60GB version - certainly more than 5%, anyway.

That doesn't prove anything. For the extra £50 you get two games and a controller. You would be mad not to buy the 60 GB version while it's available.

[Boyatsea]

What was the pattern there? Also, has it disappeared in USA-land now? It was on sale in the shop I was in in New York last week.

Really? That's surprises me.

When Sony launched the 80GB unit and dropped the price of the 60GB unit, most of the sales were of the 60GB. When they'd pretty much run dry, U.S. sales dropped back to their pre-price-cut level - as you can see by looking at the NPDs and estimated figures.

[mushashi]

So the Wii's total has actually fallen from last week's - apologies, but that's due to VG Chartz changing their mind on the European battlefield every five minutes.

I have some doubts about ioi's guestimate for this year's European Wii sales, using the totals for Jan-Sep 2007, VGchartz put it at about 2.4 million, yet the Nintendo graph shows it is pretty much at 2 million over the same time period, so there is a ~20% difference to the plus side.

[Darren]

"No games", too expensive, yet heeeeere comes the sales!

Only in Eurozone countries though, where people can't work out how expensive it is.

[Boyatsea]

That doesn't prove anything. For the extra £50 you get two games and a controller. You would be mad not to buy the 60 GB version while it's available.

Indeed. If I were to get a PS3, that's the one I'd get. I'm not sure what point you think I'm trying to prove, to be honest.

[Super Craig]

Indeed. If I were to get a PS3, that's the one I'd get. I'm not sure what point you think I'm trying to prove, to be honest.

It looked like you were trying to say that the sales of the 60 GB proved that people wanted BC. Sorry if I misread that.

[Boyatsea]

It looked like you were trying to say that the sales of the 60 GB proved that people wanted BC. Sorry if I misread that.

Heh - no, not my words. But I do wonder how the sales will hold up when there's only the 40GB unit on the shelves.

[Headache]

True, where I work people are only coming in for the 60GB model because at £350 with a bundle of extra games it looks a lot more attractive than the plain 40GB version which is only £50 cheaper. I'll be interesting to see whether the 40GB PS3 is able to keep interest high or not once it's left on its own after its older, smarter brother goes away.