Hot off the press, I’ve got a little bit of top secret sales information.
Friday the 14th of November was the UK’s biggest release day for the volume of releases across all platforms.
We saw Call Of Duty: World At War, Mirrors Edge, Shaun White Snowboarding, Guitar Hero World Tour (Complete band set) Football Manager ‘09, Lich King for Warcraft (well Thursday), Wii Music and loads of other Wii & DS games, plus there’s quite a few titles I can’t remember as well.
So who were the winners and losers? How did the PS3 measure up in in the multi-platform stakes?
Well I don’t have all the info, but hopefully just enough to give you a snapshot.
CoD 360 - 94 (+14 Collectors edition)
CoD PS3 - 58
Mirrors Edge 360 - 36
Mirrors Edge PS3 - 23 (despite the advertising being done exclusively on PS3)
Wii Music - 4 !
GHWT Complete Band Wii - 5 (beating Wii music)
GHWT Complete Band 360 - 6
GHWT Complete Band PS3 - 4
WoW WotLK PC - 120 sold out and could have sold more (this was the 2nd day, it sold even more on 1st day)
Football Manager ‘09 PC - 158 !!!
So the consoles have been pissed on by PC with the ever popular Football Manager winning the day overall, but the week belonging to World Of Warcraft’s Lich King expansion.
The PS3 also hasn’t matched the 360 on the multi-platform titles, this is just one stores sales and may or may not be representative of the country as a whole, but as far as I know there are as many PS3’s as 360’s in the UK although I may be wrong on this, so these figures may be disappointing, and may indicate that the stories of the lower important attachment rate on the PS3 than the 360 are true.
If this does turn out to be a snapshot of the UK as a whole though, it’s not great news for Sony because we all know they could do with shifting more PS3’s and this perhaps shows they’re not shifting enough game titles either.
Earlier in the week we saw GoW2 beating LBP in last weeks sales (not sure if the reported figures were sales to stores, or from stores to the public), but I don’t think that paints the whole picture as actual retail sales may not have been as good as expected.
My store was delivered 300 copies of GoW2 for the week. 182 are still left on the shelf, so although day 1 sales were enormous it hasn’t hardly shifted a single copy since then, and there are about 5 already traded in, and I’d expect quite a few more this week, as people realise that there should be more to next gen gaming than just bigger weapons.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I’m pretty sure there’s more 360s than PS3s because, for a start, the 360 has been out a year longer, so if there’s an equal amount of both, that means the PS3 has been selling better than the 360 since its release, which just isn’t true.
cc_star Says:
November 15th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Apart from the late September 360 price drop, the PS3 has passed every sales milestone quicker than the 360 did at the same point in it’s life, and there are weeks and weeks throughout the year where in the UK the PS3 has outsold the 360 2:1
This has also been the same throughout Europe as a whole, with all prjections that the PS3 will have a larger European install base than the 360 at some point late in ‘08
However, since late September Microsoft have been giving away the 360, which has skewed the figures for the whole year
Withnail Says:
November 15th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
September 2008 - UK LTD
PS3 - 1.4m
360 - 2.3m
Wii - 3.6m
(Charttrack)
So basically the PS3 is nowhere near. It may have outsold the 360 for quite a few weeks this year, but you seem to be forgetting the massive headstart the 360 had.
cc_star Says:
November 16th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
If there is 64% more 360s than PS3s, then it doesn’t explain why the game sales were double, unless the reports of the low ‘attachemnt’ rates on the PS3 are true.
The full sales data will be out before to long so there will be more data to go on than this snapshot, but if it is a pattern that is repeated in the full data then things are not that good
November 15th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
On a happier note, I went to Asda, Woolworths, two Tesco stores and Game before I finally found a PS3 version of CoD5. Everywhere had lots of 360 discs but had sold out of the PS3. That might just mean they only got 3 PS3 copies in and 150 XBox copies but it gave me cheer in my heart.
Mirror’s Edge was everywhere though and all the POS merchandising stuff had PS3 and 360 mentioned so it must just be the TV and print advertising that the exclusive deal was done for. At least thats how it was in Woolies, I can’t remember anywhere else.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
PS3 owners were buying LittleBigPlanet. Had no money left, or were saving money.
Some people will have been saving their money to buy Xmas gifts for people. It’s a hazy time of year to release games. People want them, but they have to save for Xmas, and the thought that someone might get the game for them might put them off purchasing it right away.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
My stores about the same, though gears sold alot on day 1 aswell we have tons left and sold sod all since, and we have the bundled