According to the magazine, roughly 55 % of players who bought
the game during launch week did so on the Nintendo eShop (and 45 % at retail).
If you are a PlayStation Plus member, you will receive a 20 % discount on each PS Vita PLAY
game during the launch week of each respective game.
In between, gamers will get a chance to test out six more great titles (and PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive a 10 % discount on
each game during its launch week):
According to the magazine, roughly 55 % of players who bought
the game during launch week did so on the Nintendo eShop (and 45 % at retail).
Not exact matches
Talking of Mario Kart 8, the
game really benefited from the
launch of Splatoon: it sold over 11 000 units
during week 22, mainly thanks to new Wii U owners buying the Premium Pack with the
game bundled.
The third edition of this
game from 2012
game managed to sell over 16 000 units
during its
launch week, which is pretty good.
PS Plus subscribers will be able to pick up each
game at a 20 percent discount
during its
launch week.
Another
game that saw a noticeable increase in sales this
week is Animal Crossing: New Leaf — Welcome amiibo, which saw yet another increase: +21 % (that follows a 204 % increase
during the
launch week of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp)!
In what PlayStation is calling the «PS Vita Summer Select» (even though all the
games are also on PS3), you can grab four different upcoming releases for 20 %
during their respective
launch weeks.
As for Zombie Vikings and Armello, the other two
games in the Vote to Play, PlayStation Plus members can buy them for 30 % off
during the two
weeks after
launch.
During the 3DS's
launch week in Japan, the glasses - free 3D handheld easily topped the hardware sales charts, but found its best - selling title peaking at third place, behind a pair of newly released
games for Sony's systems.
As for The Snack World: Trejarers Gold, it had a pretty good second
week with 15 847 units sold: that's only -56 % compared to
launch week, which is better than most
games during their second
week.
Street Fighter V received a number of announcements
during Sony's Paris Games
Week press conference this morning, and one of the biggest was the reveal of the final classic character being added to the
game's roster of fighters at
launch: Dhalsim.
Earlier this
week, Konami confirmed that gameplay from the upcoming Metal Gear Survive,
launching on a yet to be confirmed date on PC and consoles, was going to be shown
during the Tokyo
Game Show 2016.
On the
game side, the new Donkey Kong
game took the top spot and sold a respectable 88,000 units
during its
launch week.
It sold about 14 885 units
during launch week, which is less than what the previous
game did, last year.
- Nintendo is selling three physical Switch
games for every console sold in the UK and Spain - this matches the performance of Wii - Nintendo says the Switch's global tie - ratio is 3.6 - 78 % of Nintendo Switch
games are sold in boxes, by comparison only 47 % of PS4
games are sold physically - the only blips in Switch sales have occurred
during moments of stock shortages - there was a significant spike in hardware sales around the
launch of Super Mario Odyssey - across Spain and the UK, 469,000 Switch consoles have been sold for the first 36
weeks of its life - this is about 49 % of what the Wii managed to do over the same period (which
launched over Christmas)- this is 300 % of what the Wii U managed to achieve - Switch may grow significantly again if Nintendo continues its trend of updating the hardware with new iterations - there is currently enough stock to satisfy demand at the moment - if demand increases for the holiday season,
GAME says «we don't have a warehouse full of stock ready to go.»
To help celebrate the
launches of 4 new indie titles to the PS Vita's store, Sony have revealed plans to offer each
game at a reduced price, to PS Plus subscribers in the US,
during their
launch week.
Earlier this
week, the publisher of Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider
launched a teaser website for Project Code Z. Today,
during the Tokaigi 2015 event in Japan, Square Enix revealed that their new little exclusive is based around the 1983
game Spelunker.
Here's the graph showing the sell - through for Kirby Star Allies, compared to previous
games in the series
during a similiar time frame (first 5
weeks after
launch):
26th September 2013 - Today Shadow Warrior has released across Steam, GOG, Humble Store, and Get Games where the
game will be 10 percent off
during launch week.
To thank you all for your amazing support, we're celebrating the North American
launch with a limited Arizona Sunshine Launch Edition which includes both the game and an exclusive Arizona Sunshine PS4 theme at 10 % off for everyone who joins the VR zombie apocalypse during our launch
launch with a limited Arizona Sunshine
Launch Edition which includes both the game and an exclusive Arizona Sunshine PS4 theme at 10 % off for everyone who joins the VR zombie apocalypse during our launch
Launch Edition which includes both the
game and an exclusive Arizona Sunshine PS4 theme at 10 % off for everyone who joins the VR zombie apocalypse
during our
launchlaunch week!
During those
weeks, Gamasutra reported that Valkyria, which
launched originally back in November, had suddenly climbed its way back up to the Top 5 selling PS3
games on Amazon — a position it held for two
weeks straight, lost as it fell just slightly, and then retook again the next
week.
Only the Wii's Twilight Princess and GameCube's Wind Waker sold more
during their respective
launch weeks, when it comes to Zelda
games.
At GameStop, you typically have a
week to pick up your
game after
launch, and you can still cancel your pre-order
during this
week.
Overall, the
game turned out to be the second biggest
launch in Ubisoft's history after Tom Clancy's The Division; the publisher registered $ 310 million in consumer spending
during the first
week.
The
game had shipped 2.5 million copies
during its
launch week, with the
game launching on January 24th.
During launch week I only managed a couple of online
games at peak times, and there were periods where I sat patiently waiting for 20 minutes without a single connection.
Over the next two months, we're shining a light on some of the most unique titles coming to PS4 from incredibly talented developers and discounting their
games for PS Plus members
during each
game's
launch week.
During these last few
weeks before
launch, Nichiporchik says the Hello Neighbor development team is focusing on quality assurance, ensuring that the
game is as stable and bug - free as possible when it does finally
launch in December.
Nintendo recently
launched the Champion's Ballad for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
during the
Game Awards 2017 event a few
weeks ago.
Final Fantasy XIII had a very front loaded
launch with more than 1.5 million units sold on PlayStation 3 in Japan
during the
games first
week but sales dropped off very quickly with only around 2 million being sold in total.
Thompson, who forged his impressions of the
game during a brief 10 - minute hands - off demo given by the
game's executive producer on the E3 show floor, noted that with another couple of
weeks until
launch there was plenty of time to give the
game the polish it deserved.
Horizon Zero Dawn, the PlayStation 4 exclusive
game currently in development by Guerrilla, is one of the most impressive
games launching in the first few months of 2017, and the
game will be even more impressive when running on PlayStation 4 Pro, as shown a few
weeks back
during Sony's PlayStation Meeting.
It sold about 14 885 units
during launch week, which is less than what the previous
game did, last year.
Ten
games are closer to
launching on the global market after being awarded USD $ 40,000 each in seed funding
during Melbourne International
Games Week (MIGW).
However,
during the event Nintendo reportedly mentioned that the
game is scheduled to hopefully arrive within the Switch's
launch week.
There were rumors last
week that Sonic Mania might be coming to the Switch at
launch, but there was no mention of the
game during the presentation, so it's not looking very likely it will come to pass.
Users do not have an option to pre-purchase the title, but those who buy the
game during its
launch window will receive a 10 % discount and digital copies of the soundtrack and concept art «Memorial Book»; owners of previous BlazBlue titles on Steam (i.e. Calamity Trigger, Continuum Shift, Chronophantasma) will see an additional 10 % «loyalty discount» for purchasing the title within a
week of its
launch.
I was lucky enough to get some hands - on time with the
game at a private Xbox 101 event held after hours
during the kick off of E3
week, and I must say that it's definitely shaping up to be a great
launch title for the One.
During the
launch week of the
game the sales didn't do so well compared to the second
week even though it hit number 6 on the...
During the E3 2014 gaming conference last
week, Alienware's Marc Diana said that more developers are using OpenGL and creating
games with Linux in mind than before, with the impending
launch of Steam Machines.
In the next couple of
weeks, I plan on getting back to some
games that I passed up
during the original
launch — namely NieR: Automata, Nioh, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hollow Knight, and Horizon Zero Dawn.