GCD: Games Chart Discussion

[Neon Ignition]

1 1 FIFA 12 PS3, Xbox 360
2 4 Just Dance 3 Wii, Xbox 360
3 5 The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim PC, PS3, Xbox 360
4 2 Battlefield 3 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
5 3 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
6 6 Zumba Fitness Wii, PS3, Xbox 360
7 12 Zumba Fitness 2 Wii
8 9 Rage PC, PS3, Xbox 360
9 10 Assassin's Creed: Revelations PC, PS3, Xbox 360
10 7 Need for Speed: The Run PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360

Current top 10 for the UK, full of the usual fitness/dance drivel.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-01-16-uk-top-40-fifa-12-leads-for-a-fourth-week

COD falls behind Battlefield, no doubt due to the big price difference now found

[charlesr]

New Year, new body - everyone will buy fitness games for a few weeks.

[Neon Ignition]

According to VGChartz diagram global sales stand at:

Wii - 94.5 million
Xbox 360 - 64.0 million
Playstation 3 - 60.8 million
3DS - 15.1 million
PS Vita - 0.5 million

360 pulls back into second after the Xmas sales period and with 6 weeks to go till the 3DS's first anniversary, 15 million is pretty damn good

[Flabio]

MS's own figures released at CES peg themselves at 66 million.

[Sixty]

I was about to say it's amazing how Sony have caught up with Microsoft when they launched a year later and had such a rough first couple of years, but I was forgetting Japan.

That graph makes me wonder how much more of a monster Wii could've been if Nintendo had kept momentum going and supported the system better. Could've been truly ridiculous numbers by now.

[nakamura]

That is a staggering amount of machines sold across a generation.

[Neon Ignition]

MS's figures cited 'users' which has been taken to include family estimates and shipments. MS do seem to do very well over Xmas though, it's more during the Easter-Winter period that Sony catches up. Kick in the nuts to claims smartphones/tablets are eroding the market

[Brad]

I am honestly not trolling here but seriously, how many of those 64/66 million 360s are still alive and kicking? i.e. How many actual 360 owners are there out there? Less than half that I reckon. To a slightly lesser extent the PS3 figures have the same issue; that first batch of PS3s failed pretty quick. Almost all my mates with original 60gb units have replaced them due to failure, myself included.

[nakamura]

That's actually a good point FSW, I didn't think of that at the time. I have had two units and I only play one game!

[dataDave]

I've bought three X360 machines in total.

One Wii (then one US pre-owned, thx TTK).

I wonder what the failure rates are for all three consoles, even considering deliberate damage?

[Brad]

I wish there was a proper way to find out. Like the big 3 had to tell of known number of returned units.

@dave - deliberate damage? Is that a big problem do you think!?

[dataDave]

@dave - deliberate damage? Is that a big problem do you think!?

Yep. It determines the requirement of a replacement, affecting those numbers.

My friend smashed his up in a drunken rage. He bought a new one the week after.

[Brad]

But surely cases such as that must be rare? lol!

[rmoxon]

I have had 4 360's and 3 ps3's.

Interestingly for the first few years I didn't need to replace my 360 at all. Yet these days they seem to break every 6 month. You would think they would get better, not worse.

PS3 is the opposite, haven't needed a new one since the disk drive on my second 60gb died. Should maybe get that fixed actually, was nice to have something that played PS2 games on a HDTV in decent fashion.

Never had to replace the wii, though it could be argued that it's never been used enough to actually break so that probably doesn't mean anything.

[Neon Ignition]

I'm on my 4th 360, don't know anyone who hasn't replaced at least once. I'd say if you include replacements Xbox would slip to a comfortable 3rd with ease. On my 2nd PS3 but the Slims seem to hold up fine. Wii is my original but then Nintendo hardware always lasts.