Weekly Sales Analysis, 9 August - PS4 Top Selling Console for Another Week - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 August 2014 / 6,313 ViewsOverview
Overall, hardware sale this week decreased by 12 percent. Week-on-week sales is up for the Wii U and 3DS. Overall year-on-year sales are up by six percent. The Wii U is up year-on-year.
Two games debuted in the top 30 this week: Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 2 (3DS) debuted at number three with sales of 78,188 units. The game launched in Japan.
Software milestones this week in the top 30: Yokai Watch 2 (3DS) passed the two million mark; Minecraft (PS3) passed the one million mark; Minecraft (X360) passed the five million mark.
Worldwide Hardware
Hardware home console sales week-on-week is up for the Wii U. PlayStation 4 sales are down by 58,186 (-33%) to 119,978 units sold. Wii U sales are up by 594 (1%) to 57,501 units sold. The Xbox One sold 50,338 units, a decrease of 1,599 (-3%). PlayStation 3 sales are down 3,308 (-7%) to 45,048 units sold. Xbox 360 sales are down 560 (-2%) to 26,859 units sold. The Wii sold 7,623 units, a decrease of 233 (-3%).
Handheld sales week-on-week is up for the 3DS. The 3DS sold 111,968 units, which is an increase of 466 (0%). The PlayStation Vita sold 32,054 units, which is down 1,055 (-3%) compared to last week. The PSP is down 523 (-10%) to 4,488 units sold. Total week on week sales are sown 64,404 units (-12%) to 455,857 units sold.
The Wii U is up year-on-year. The PlayStation 3 is down 42,082 (-48%), the Wii is down 13,556 (-64%), the Xbox 360 is down 28,408 (-51%), and the Wii U is up 26,006 (83%). The PSP is down 32,825 (-88%), the Vita is down 6,040 (-16%) and the 3DS is down 38,281 (-25%). Year on year sales is up by 25,905 units (6%).
Home console hardware sales have increased for the Wii U for one week. Sales have decreased for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 for one week, three weeks for the Wii, five weeks for the Xbox 360, and seven weeks for the Xbox One.
The PlayStation 3 has a 57 percent market share for the seventh generation; the Xbox 360 has a 34 percent market share; and the Wii has a nine percent market share. The PlayStation 4 has a 53 percent market share for the eighth generation, the Wii U has a 25 percent market share and the Xbox One has a 22 percent market share. Compared with 10 weeks ago the Xbox One is up.
Handheld hardware sales have increased for the 3DS for two weeks. Sales are down for four weeks for the Vita and nine weeks for the PSP. The Vita has outsold the PSP for 44 straight weeks. The gap between the 3DS and Vita has increased this week to 80,000 units, from 78,000 units last week.
The 3DS has a 78 percent market share for the eighth generation of handhelds, while the Vita has a 22 percent market share. Compared with ten weeks the 3DS and Vita are up, while the PSP is down.
Worldwide Software
Two games debuted in the top 30 this week: Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 2 (3DS) debuted at number three with sales of 78,188 units. The game launched in Japan.
Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson (3DS) debuted at number eight with sales of 46,870. The game launched in Japan.
Here are the other games in the top 10 that are not debuts: The Last of Us Remastered (PS4) is at the top of the charts with sales of 195,997. Yokai Watch 2 Honke (3DS) is at number two with sales of 123,003. Mario Kart 8 (WiiU) is at number four with sales of 73,285. Street Fighter IV (PS3) is at number five with sales of 54,272.
Minecraft (PS3) is at number six with sales of 52,804. Tomodachi Life (3DS) is at number seven with sales of 49,998. Minecraft (X360) is at number nine with sales of 46,203. Pokémon X/Y (3DS) is at number 10 with sales of 37,885.
Software home console sales week-on-week is up for the PlayStation 3. The PlayStation 3 sold 809,726 games this week, an increase of 18,102 units (2%). The Xbox 360 sold 595,905 games, a decrease of 55,852 units (-9%). The PlayStation 4 sold 391,197 games, a decrease of 438,754 units (-53%). Wii software sales are down 16,456 units (-7%) to 215,255 games sold. The Wii U sold 182,289 games, a decrease of 10,017 (-5%). The Xbox One sold 101,781 games, a decrease of 11,098 (-10%).
Handheld software sales week-on-week is up for the 3DS. The 3DS sold 613,207 games, which is up 68,986 units (13%). The DS sold 172,409 games, a decrease of 7,676 units (-4%) week-on-week. Vita game sales are down 197 units (0%) to 120,395 games sold. The PSP sold 61,110 games, a decrease of 660 (-1%). Total combined software is down 453,622 units (-15%) week-on-week to 3.26 million.
Year-on-year software totals is up for the 3DS. The PlayStation 3 is down 494,796 units (-38%), the Wii is down 166,107 units (-44%), the Xbox 360 is down 245,880 units (-29%), and the Wii U is down 51,474 units (-22%). The DS is down 91,169 units (-35%), the PSP is down 60,724 units (-50%), the 3DS is up 60,054 units (13%), and the Vita is down 13,181 units (-10%). Total combined software is down 570,299 units (-15%) games sold year-on-year.
Home console software sales have increased for the PlayStation 3 for one week. Sales have decreased for the PlayStation 4 for one week, two weeks for the Wii U, the Xbox 360 and Wii for five weeks, and seven weeks for the Xbox One.
The PlayStation 3 has a 50 percent market share for the seventh generation; the Xbox 360 has a 37 percent market share; and the Wii has a 13 percent market share. The PlayStation 4 has a 58 percent market share for the eighth generation, the Wii U has a 27 percent market share, and the Xbox One has a 15 percent market share.
Handheld software sales have increased for the 3DS for one week and decreased for the PSP for one week, the Vita for three weeks, and five weeks for the DS. The 3DS and DS have remained above their rivals, the Vita and PSP respectively. The 3DS sold more than five times as many games as the Vita. The DS sold nearly three times as many games as the PSP.
The DS has a 74 percent market share for the current generation handhelds and the PSP has a 26 percent market share. The 3DS has an 84 percent market share for the next generation handhelds, while the Vita has a 16 percent market share. Compared with ten weeks ago all four handhelds are down.
The Top 75 can be seen below or click here to view the full chart.
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Instead of quoting the graphs, it might be more informative t mention any big releases/price cuts/events which may affect sales for the current week (each year). This will give us something to read and a better understanding of how well something like the WiiU is doing (was 110% up YoY until now, why?).
Because the Doom train has chugged its way over to the X1 for the past month and busy pumping out doom there, don't worry they'll announce another Mario game soon and train will come chugging back to claim that "people" are sick of playing great platformer games because the protaganist is a plumbler from the 80s.
Well with a weekly average of 180k Ps4 between the announce of 7 millions sales and 10 millions sales I think it's hard to believe these numbers. I believe that 150k-160k~ are more likely for the Ps4.
It is sad like after 180,000 PS4 is back in only one week on 120,000 basis...
most likely ~150k with the usual undertracking
Was a temporary boost for 1 game, and PS4 is not under-tracked in the regions where VGC can estimate sales accurately. Plus the difference from VGC/Sony is only ~10%, so that would put PS4 sales at 132k weekly.