Games sales continue their post-greedmas slump moving into the second week of January. Nintendo, however, manages to laugh it off, as its sales surge.
Thanks to the release of Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, as well as renewed availability of the console itself and Zelda, Wii software sees an 86% increase in units sold.
The other strong performer is the 360, which claims its largest market share since the release of Gears of War and creeps past the PS2 in terms of value with a 4% increase. The market as a whole, however, sees a predictable decrease of 29% in units and 24% in value.
One area that may well see a turn-around this week is PC gaming. The PC market reflects Week 2's trend with a 25% drop-off. The PC's stupidly bright glimmer of hope comes in the form of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Its midnight launch attracted what looked to SPOnG like substantially more people than the Wii launch. Couple this with World of Warcraft crashing into the budget All-Formats chart as rendered by ChartTrack, and it looks like this might be a good week for PC gaming.
Capcom turns things frosty this week for EA, grabbing the Number one slot with Lost Planet: Extreme Condition in its debut week. This is Capcom's first all-formats chart-topper since Dead Rising 19 weeks ago.
The spiffing WarioWare: Smooth Moves from Nintendo also sees a strong debut week, sliding in at number two.
EA's FIFA 07 drops down the tables to number three. It experiences a 59% drop-off, the largest this week. Still, any title that can suffer a sales drop off that large and still stay in the top three looks like it's doing alright to SPOnG.
Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess battles its way back into the top 10 this week. After suffering from weeks of low stocks, renewed supplies (along with an 85% increase in Wii hardware sales) give it a sales kick. It's up from number 36 to eight. There are now 17 platform-exclusive titles in the Top 40.
The only other new title to join Lost Planet and WarioWare in the top 40 is Sega's World Snooker Championship 2007 which comes in at number 17.
There were a couple of Wii re-entries with sales bolstered by the aforementioned renewed hardware stocks. Wii Play skips merrily back in at 19, while Red Steel slashes its way to number 34.
Thanks to the release of Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, as well as renewed availability of the console itself and Zelda, Wii software sees an 86% increase in units sold.
The other strong performer is the 360, which claims its largest market share since the release of Gears of War and creeps past the PS2 in terms of value with a 4% increase. The market as a whole, however, sees a predictable decrease of 29% in units and 24% in value.
One area that may well see a turn-around this week is PC gaming. The PC market reflects Week 2's trend with a 25% drop-off. The PC's stupidly bright glimmer of hope comes in the form of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Its midnight launch attracted what looked to SPOnG like substantially more people than the Wii launch. Couple this with World of Warcraft crashing into the budget All-Formats chart as rendered by ChartTrack, and it looks like this might be a good week for PC gaming.
Capcom turns things frosty this week for EA, grabbing the Number one slot with Lost Planet: Extreme Condition in its debut week. This is Capcom's first all-formats chart-topper since Dead Rising 19 weeks ago.
The spiffing WarioWare: Smooth Moves from Nintendo also sees a strong debut week, sliding in at number two.
EA's FIFA 07 drops down the tables to number three. It experiences a 59% drop-off, the largest this week. Still, any title that can suffer a sales drop off that large and still stay in the top three looks like it's doing alright to SPOnG.
Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess battles its way back into the top 10 this week. After suffering from weeks of low stocks, renewed supplies (along with an 85% increase in Wii hardware sales) give it a sales kick. It's up from number 36 to eight. There are now 17 platform-exclusive titles in the Top 40.
The only other new title to join Lost Planet and WarioWare in the top 40 is Sega's World Snooker Championship 2007 which comes in at number 17.
There were a couple of Wii re-entries with sales bolstered by the aforementioned renewed hardware stocks. Wii Play skips merrily back in at 19, while Red Steel slashes its way to number 34.
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YenRug 16 Jan 2007 16:07
1/7
Hmmm, so a game expansion, which is retailing for about £30, gets a bigger turn out than a new, but known to have a limited quantity for sale, console which is retailing for £180? Anyone kind of surprised by that, at all?
SPInGSPOnG 16 Jan 2007 16:40
2/7
YenRug wrote:
Anyone kind of surprised by that, at all?
Yes.
The Wii had a potential market of 60,000,000 in the UK, WoW has a much (much much) smaller potential market.
Wii represented a revolution in terms of gaming. WoW add on is just nicer Cloaks of Invincibility and more ogrely ogres.
The Wii launch didn't require you to dress like a nutter.
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majin dboy 16 Jan 2007 16:50
3/7
someone post up the picture of the guy dressed up as a wii mote,legend.
OptimusP 16 Jan 2007 17:46
4/7
There's a picture of someone dressed up like a Wiimote!?! Send it into the internets plsss!
warbaby 16 Jan 2007 20:06
5/7
Ditto 16 Jan 2007 22:16
6/7
(along with an 85% increase in Wii hardware sales)
Where are the figures for this?
Since it's still impossible to get a Wii here, I presumed Nintendo had stopped shipping to the UK, redirecting units to the US and Japan.
SPInGSPOnG 17 Jan 2007 08:52
7/7
Adam M wrote:
Since it's still impossible to get a Wii here, I presumed Nintendo had stopped shipping to the UK, redirecting units to the US and Japan.
Europe always gets f***ed in the long run.