Jokeropia said:
This is actually a pretty good example. You say Uncharted increased 8k from first day to first week, yes? Since the first week sales were 17k, it went from 9k first day to an average of 2.67k the three following days. That's a much less drastic drop than U2's 47k first day to 2.67k the three following. (Sequels are generally expected to be more frontloaded than original games, but that's still pretty extreme.)
(I took this quote from the previous Media Create thread. I am posting in this thread instead of bumping the older thread.)
Yep, i think that Uncharted 1 increased something like 8k from the first day to the first week at least unless i am mistaken. How do you mean that it is a less drastic drop for Uncharted 1? Do you mean that it is a higher percentage increase for Uncharted 1? If yes, that is true indeed, but i was wondering about how many copies western games usually sell from first day to first week in Japan and how 8k compares to how other western games sells.
I checked how some other big titled western titles like Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Little Big Planet and Resistance 2 sold in Japan. These games seems to have an increase of around 12k-17k from first day sales to first week sales. Killzone 2 had a bigger increase with 23k. GTA4 (the PS3 version) had an even bigger increase with 45k. The increase seems to variate a bit depending on which title there is, but from what i can see it doesnt seem to be that uncommon that some western games doesnt see that big of an increase from the first day sales to the first weeks sales.
Regarding Uncharted 2's increase in Japan, it seems to be some lower compared to some other western titles indeed, but it isnt exactly
that much lower compared to how some other western games sells (12k vs 8k for example), at least in my opinion. But i do agree that 8k isnt exactly a very high number and i do admit that i though that the increase would be a bit higher. I am not saying that 8k is a big increase or anything like that, i was just wondering how this 8k increase compared to how other western games in Japan
But if Uncharted 2 only increased 8k, this isnt really that much of bad news in my opinion (i dont know if anyone here says that this is bad news though). A bigger first day to first week sales increase would be nice though, there is no doubt about that, but concidering that Uncharted 2 has far in only 1 week sold about the same as what Uncharted 1 did, Uncharted 2 has already preformed good compared to Uncharted 1, at least in my opinion
And Uncharted 2 sold about 80% of it's first shipment in the first week i think, which also is pretty good in itself, at least in my opinion.
I will be a bit suprised if Uncharted 2 falls out of the Top 30 next week, so hopefully we will get 2nd week numbers as well
I dont expect a big increase though, but i think that it shall be interesting to see the 2nd week numbers (if we get them) anyway.
I also wonder if some people that recently bought the re-release of Uncharted 1 will wait a bit before they buy Uncharted 2 (if they are interested in Uncharted 2). I dont expect a big increase in sales just to underline that, but i think that it shall be interesting to see how Uncharted 2 will sell in the upcoming weeks at least. Uncharted 2 has sold good compared to Uncharted 1 so far, so all extra sales for Uncharted 2 might be concidered as a "bonus" (or what i shall say)?
EDIT: Speaking about first day numbers, does anyone here keep the first day numbers in a database that can be accessed? I think that this might be handy instead of searching through several of older Media Create threads to find the first day numbers. I dont have any problems searching through older Media Create threads though, but i still think that it would nice if there was a website or so (like Garaph.info for example) that has a list of all first day numbers
EDIT 2: I added some text.
