Weekly Analysis - Halo 3: ODST sells 2.2m as PS3 stabilises
by Brett Walton, posted on 01 October 2009 / 8,300 Views
Brett Walton
1st October 2009
One game dominated the charts this week; Halo 3: ODST sold an astonishing 2.2 million units in the first week of release – easily the biggest first week of the year and one of the biggest of all time. Xbox360 hardware increased 14% this week to 160,000 – nearly enough to beat Nintendo’s Wii which saw sales slump 16% in anticipation for next week’s price cut.
PS3 sales saw only an 8% drop this week, hardware seems to be stabilising around the 230,000 mark which is over double the weekly rate that PS3 was selling before the price cut and new model introduction.
The other big release of the week is Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box in Europe, where it managed to sell over 170,000 copies in the first week. The original Professor Layton game has now sold nearly four million copies worldwide – the sequel certainly has a good chance of equalling or even beating that figure.
Need for Speed: Shift saw a very strong second week. Normally, a typical Xbox360 / PS3 game will drop around 20-30% in Europe in week 2 and around 50-65% in America (the difference coming from the fact that games normally release on a Tuesday in America and Friday in Europe) - Shift saw sales stay almost flat in Europe and down only 40% in America. This lower than expected drop is typical of a new game in a series getting much better reviews than previous versions – sales start fairly slow but pick up as word gets around that the latest game is a large improvement over the last one. If this trend continues, Shift should pull comfortably ahead of Need for Speed: Undercover in the coming months and should see a resurgence of the brand.
Looking ahead to next week, Sony launches the PSP Go and Gran Turismo PSP and the Wii price drop comes into effect. With all of the recent attention being on PS3 and Xbox360, Wii and PSP should see significant boosts next week and things are really going to start getting interesting as we enter the holiday build-up with a number of key releases coming in October.
As always, the full data will be posted on VGChartz in the next few hours so be sure to check the charts out:
Worldwide
Americas
Japan
Others
Brett Walton
1st October 2009
Halo 3: ODST has the biggest opening of the year so far as PS3 hardware drops only 8% this in the weekly chart for the 20th - 26th September 2009
One game dominated the charts this week – Halo 3: ODST sold an astonishing 2.2 million units in the first week of release – easily the biggest first week of the year and one of the biggest of all time. Xbox360 hardware increased 14% this week to 160,000 – nearly enough to beat Nintendo’s Wii which saw sales slump 16% in anticipation for next week’s price cut.
PS3 sales saw only an 8% drop this week – hardware seems to be stabilising around the 230,000 mark – over double the weekly rate that PS3 was selling before the price cut and new model introduction.
The other big release of the week is Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box in Europe, where it managed to sell over 170,000 copies in the first week. The original Professor Layton game has now sold nearly four million copies worldwide – the sequel certainly has a good chance of equalling or even beating that figure.
Need for Speed: Shift saw a very strong second week. Normally, a typical Xbox360 / PS3 game will drop around 20-30% in Europe in week 2 and around 50-65% in America (the difference coming from the fact that games normally release on a Tuesday in America and Friday in Europe) - Shift saw sales stay almost flat in Europe and down only 40% in America. This lower than expected drop is typical of a new game in a series getting much better reviews than previous versions – sales start fairly slow but pick up as word gets around that the latest game is a large improvement over the last one. If this trend continues, Shift should pull comfortably ahead of Need for Speed: Undercover in the coming months and should see a resurgence of the brand.
Looking ahead to next week, Sony launches the PSP Go and Gran Turismo PSP and the Wii price drop comes into effect. With all of the recent attention being on PS3 and Xbox360, Wii and PSP should see significant boosts next week and things are really going to start getting interesting as we enter the holiday build-up with a number of key releases coming in October.
As always, the full data will be posted on VGChartz in the next few hours so be sure to check the charts out:
Worldwide
Americas
Japan
Others
