GCD: Games Chart Discussion

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-12-uk-top-40-mass-effect-3-outsells-me1-me2-launch-weeks-combined

UK Top 10 is out for the last week:

1 New entry Mass Effect 3 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
2 1 SSX PS3, Xbox 360
3 New entry Street Fighter x Tekken PS3, Xbox 360
4 2 FIFA 12 PS3, Xbox 360
5 3 Mario Party 9 Wii
6 New entry The Sims 3: Showtime 3DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
7 5 Mario & Sonic: London 2012 Olympic Games Wii
8 7 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
9 9 Assassin's Creed: Revelations PC, PS3, Xbox 360
10 14 Zumba Fitness Wii, PS3, Xbox 360

Chart Track said ME3 was comfortably the biggest selling release of the year so far which will be comforting considering the lack of release in GAME group stores. SFxT slotted in just behind SSX which has been proving very popular.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-14-japan-chart-vita-sales-creep-up

Vita Shows Small Sign of Vita

For the first time sales of Vita have increased, although by the tiniest of margins.

1.3DS: 68,951 (Last week: 70,744)
2.PlayStation 3: 34,816 (65,116)
3.PSP: 16,176 (15,715)
4.Vita: 10,041 (10,023)
5.Wii: 8322 (8111)
6.PlayStation 2: 1363 (1248)
7.Xbox 360: 1290 (1377)
8.DSi XL: 850 (810)
9.DSi: 502 (553)

Unit 13 was the only new release, likely aiding the small upturn blip. Elsewhere, it's Ninty's show once again.

1.One Piece Pirate Musou (Namco Bandai, PS3): 90,133 (Life to date: 745,907)
2.Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project Mirai (Sega, 3DS): 86,676 NEW
3.Street Fighter x Tekken (Capcom, PS3): 58,471 NEW
4.Gundam UC (Namco Bandai, PS3): 51,669 NEW
5.Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D (Konami, 3DS): 38,374 NEW
6.Mario & Sonic at London Olympics (Nintendo, 3DS): 23,587 (66,741)
7.Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 3DS): 17,813 (1,564,025)
8.Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 3DS): 17,336 (1,403,654)
9.Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin (Marvelous AQL, 3DS): 16,378 (124,886)
10.Monster Hunter 3G (Capcom, 3DS): 14,286 (1,297,797)

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40979/Global/

Global Top 20

Yup, these are the top selling titles globally in the last week.

1 - 360 - Mass Effect 3 - 1.6m
2 - PS3 - Mass Effect 3 - 498k
3 - PC - Mass Effect 3 - 282k
4 - PS3 - Street Fighter x Tekken - 240k
5 - 360 - Street Fighter x Tekken - 117k
6 - PS3 - One Piece Pirate Musou - 89k
7 - 3DS - Hatune Miku: Project Mirai - 87k
8 - WII - Just Dance 3 - 83k
9 - 360 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 83k
10 - PS3 - SSX - 80k
11 - PS3 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 79k
12 - 360 - SSX - 72k
13 - PS3 - MLB The Show 2012 - 71k
14 - WII - Zumba Fitness - 69k
15 - 3DS - Mario Kart 7 - 55k
16 - 360 - Major League Baseball 2012 - 60k
17 - 3DS - Super Mario 3D Land - 55k
18 - WII - Mario Party 9 - 54k
19 - PS3 - Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception - 51k
20 - PS3 - Kidou Senshi Gundam UC - 51k

[Flabio]

I've never trusted VGChartz to be honest, given how many countries don't actually publish the figures they do a LOT of guesswork.

[Brad]

Agreed. Unless we get proper figures from the manufacturers we will never know will we? Even then there's replacement units to consider ( for all 3, not just ms)

[Neon Ignition]

Even referring to the figures loosely, it shows just how much of a lead platform the 360 is for Mass Effect

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-19-uk-top-40-fifa-street-boots-mass-effect-3-off-top-spot

First info on the new Top 10 for the UK:

1-FIFA Street
2-Mass Effect 3
3-SSX
4-FIFA 12

Rest to follow. A good week for EA.

[elaniel]

I guess people really have gone elsewhere for their titles as the top 2 aren't even stocked by Game/Station

Twisted Metal apparently isn't in the top 10 and that was stocked by them. Yakuza didn't make the top 20 either, such a shame.

Good show for EA having the top 4. I'm sure they're delighted.

[Neon Ignition]

Looking back at the last two years of EA releases, when they're not childishly trolling COD, they're an amazing publisher.

[buster_broon]

Looking back at the last two years of EA releases, when they're not childishly trolling COD, they're an amazing publisher.

and FIFA

They generally churn out the same crap with little tweaks here and there

Loads of FIFA's 3 Mass effects (lol) and SSX might have not been done in a while but there has been plenty of them

[nakamura]

I think EA should be a lot better than they actually are.

[Neon Ignition]

Dunno, as a publisher they've released in the last 12 months or so Mass Effect 2:GOTY, Dead Space 2, Bulletstorm, Fight Night Champion, Dragons Age II, Battlefield Play4Free, Crysis Console, Crysis 2, Shift 2, Tiger Woods PGA 12, Portal 2, Shadows of the Damned, Alice, Burnout Crash, FIFA 12, Battlefield 3, NFS The Run, Star Wars: Old Republic, Syndicate, Shank 2, Kingdoms of Amalur, Warp, Mass Effect 3, SSX and FIFA Street. Varying quality but not too shabby

[Neon Ignition]

Four new charts, the first up is the US PSN Vita Top 10 purchases. Unless there's something I'm missing it's a shock to not see Motorstorm RC on there:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-21-escape-plan-is-the-most-downloaded-vita-game-in-the-us

1.Escape Plan
2.Super Stardust Delta
3.Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
4.Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
5.Plants vs. Zombies
6.Rayman Origins
7.Uncharted: Golden Abyss
8.Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus
9.Hustle Kings
10.Dynasty Warriors Next

Second is the PS3 PSN Chart, same shock:

1.The Simpsons Arcade Game
2.Gotham City Impostors
3.The House of the Dead 3
4.Shank 2
5.NFL Blitz
6.NBA Jam: On Fire Edition
7.Infamous: Festival of Blood
8.Grand Theft Auto IV
9.Jak and Daxter Collection
10.Real Steel
11.Sonic CD
12.Madden NFL 12
13.Resident Evil 4
14.Mass Effect 2
15.Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection
16.Shadow of the Colossus
17.Castle Crashers
18.Worms Ultimate Mayhem
19.Payday: The Heist
20.Dungeon Defenders

Finally comes:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-21-japan-chart-mass-effect-3-sells-8142-copies

This weeks Japanese Charts. The software chart shows Pokemon do well again, Mass Effect 3 popped in at number 20.

1.Pokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition (Pok?mon Co., DS): 172,027 (NEW)
2.Shining Blade (Sega, PSP): 122,257 (NEW)
3.Madoka Magika Portable (Namco Bandai, PSP): 62,408 (NEW)
4.One Piece Pirate Musou (Namco Bandai, PS3): 34,600 (Life to date: 780,508)
5.Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side Premium 3rd Story (Konami, PSP): 27,717 (NEW)
6.Hatsune Miku and Future Stars Project Mirai (Sega, 3DS): 18,341 (105,017)
7.If I Were in a Sealed Room with a Girl I'd Probably XXX (D3, 3DS): 18,291 (NEW)
8.Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 3DS): 17,064 (1,581,089)
9.Monster Hunter 3G (Capcom, 3DS): 16,924 (1,314,720)
10.Mario & Sonic at London Olympics (Nintendo, DS): 16,183 (82,924)

Hardware wise things remained very consistent with last weeks numbers:

1.3DS: 64,017 (Last week: 68,951)
2.PlayStation 3: 27,900 (34,816)
3.PSP: 18,633 (16,176)
4.Vita: 10,021 (10,041)
5.Wii: 8127 (8322)
6.PlayStatoin 2: 1165 (1363)
7.Xbox 360: 1145 (1290)
8.DSi XL: 853 (850)
9.DSi: 617 (502)

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-26-uk-top-40-resident-evil-operation-raccoon-city-debuts-in-second

UK top 10 results start to come in again and the Resi brand name carries Operation Raccoon City despite poor reviews:

1-FIFA Street
2-Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
3-Mass Effect 3
4-FIFA 12
5-SSX
6-Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
7-Kid Icarus: Uprising
8-Battlefield 3
9-F1 2011
10-Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games

[MartyG]

Even referring to the figures loosely, it shows just how much of a lead platform the 360 is for Mass Effect

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-19-uk-top-40-fifa-street-boots-mass-effect-3-off-top-spot

First info on the new Top 10 for the UK:

1-FIFA Street
2-Mass Effect 3
3-SSX
4-FIFA 12

Article on GI.Biz about GAME's demise today and it states in the prose

consider this: the number three game in last week's All Formats chart didn't even break five figures for the seven days

Which if it's that chart means SSX. That's quite a difference from ME3. I'm trying to decide if breaking five figures means 10,000 or 100,000 (I'm erring on the latter).

[Neon Ignition]

Japanese chart appears:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-28-japan-chart-kid-icarus-soars-ninja-gaiden-3-stumbles

Software

Kid Icarus makes Nintendo very happy, as does Yakuza for Sega. Ninja Gaiden 3, not so much.

Kid Icarus: Uprising (Nintendo, 3DS): 132,526 - NEW
Black Panther 2: Yakuza Ashura Chapter (Sega, PSP): 104,937 - NEW
Pokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition (The Pokemon Company, DS): 65,046 (Life to date: 237,073)
Devil May Cry HD Collection (Capcom, PS3): 43,791 - NEW
Ninja Gaiden 3 (Tecmo Koei, PS3): 29,797 - NEW
Mugen Souls (Compile Heart, PS3): 23,004 - NEW
Monster Hunter 3G (Capcom, 3DS): 22,402 (1,337,122)
Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 3DS): 20,890 (1,601,979)
Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 3DS): 20,305 (1,439,760)
Shining Blade (Sega, PSP): 19,032 (141,289)

Hardware

Vita seems to have found its resting point as sales remain steady again, 3DS pulls ahead again thanks to Kid Icarus and some new coloured units

3DS: 94,011 (Last week: 64,017)
PlayStation 3: 25,750 (27,900)
PSP: 19,875 (18,633)
Vita: 10,302 (10,021)
Wii: 9270 (8127)
PlayStation 2: 1333 (1165)
Xbox 360: 1084 (1145)
DSi XL: 1058 (853)
DSi: 778 (617)