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USA Weekly Chart Week Ending 28th Apr 2012

Hardware:

X360 - 64,001 (-5%)
PS3 - 59,818 (+10%)
3DS - 43,556 (-5%)
Wii - 32,034 (-2%)
PSV - 24,945 (-5%)
DS - 16,658 (-7%)
PSP - 5,085 (+8%)

Software:

1: (X360) Prototype 2 - 166,391
2: (PS3) Prototype 2 - 97,225
3: (X360) Mass Effect 3 - 30,521
4: (PS3) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 29,640
5: (X360) The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - 28,148
6: (Wii) Just Dance 3 - 25,822
7: (Wii) Zumba Fitness 2 - 23,128
8: (X360) Kinect Star Wars - 21,376
9: (X360) Kinect Adventures! - 21,184
10: (X360) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 17,234

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SpitFireAce855169d ago (Edited 5169d ago )

Wow MW3 sold almost 30k on the PS3 last week...It makes
me said to see how dumb gamers can be buying that rehashed
crap when there are so many other great games that deserve
the sales way more then the worst CoD game made...:(

PS.On the upside the sales of the PS3 are up 10%

Edward755169d ago

The numbers 1 and 2 spots for software show a lot. I think it shows a little more then hardware sales when you think about it. Why are most multiplatformed games selling disporportionately better on 360 then the ps3? And even though more exclusive games come out for the PS3 the ratio at which they sell compared to the 360s smaller amount is still bad. Why is that? Remember this is true with almost every single multiplat game. The 2 ffxiii games are some of the only exceptions.

CernaML5169d ago

Uhh... probably because there's like a 13million lead for the Xbox 360 in the USA?

Nearly every other region has multiplats selling better on the PS3.

brish5169d ago

Stop trying to confuse this issue by bringing up facts!
/s

suicidalblues5169d ago

Yeah, funny how hardware sales "don't mean much" when they're almost identical.

Edward755169d ago

Umm... I live in the USA this is the only country I care about sales. This is the only country I care about when looking for games to buy. If a game is released in Japan and not going to be brought over here I don't buy it. I don't buy consoles in Japan, Europe, Australia or any other part of the world. As long as the support stays here in the states why care? Would people care about the price of a model make car in china? Or how well it sells in china? No. If you live in the united states the thing that matters is what games and systems are here, and how we support them here. Sony fans bring up world numbers and many of them live in the USA. MS fans bring up US sales and most live here. The latter makes way more sense. Anotherthing I was looking up a few days ago... Does everyone know that the 360 does have more exclusive games ( not counting xbla games either) then the ps3. If you go by the number of exclusive games it does.

My question I would like answered or explained by people is this...

Why if we live in the states , do worldwide sales matter if it doesn't change our service?

Oh, and for a company like Sony why do we get fewer extras in the states when a system is selling on par or better then in Japan? (vita)

^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Is the reason why we should only care about US sales.

Siren305169d ago (Edited 5169d ago )

If nearly every other region has multiplats selling better on the ps3 than why is it when a worldwide chart comes out it still shows 360 games selling better? Also the reason why the ps3 is up so high is because gamestop was offering them at $50 off and a free copy of batman arkum city.

brish5168d ago

@Siren30

"If nearly every other region has multiplats selling better on the ps3 than why is it when a worldwide chart comes out it still shows 360 games selling better?"

Example from VGChartz:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 X360
8.65 US (outsold ps3)
3.84 EU
0.08 JAP
1.34 OTHER
13.91 TOTAL (outsold ps3)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 PS3
5.06 US
4.36 EU (outsold xbox)
0.38 JAP (outsold xbox)
1.87 OTHER (outsold xbox)
11.66 TOTAL

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Edward755168d ago (Edited 5168d ago )

Not a single person ever ever answers my question...

WHY DOES IT MATTER WHAT SELLS IN OTHER COUNTRIES ?

The only thing that brings games and support to your country is sales in your own country!!! I live in the US like I stated before. Please please answer this question.

MS, Nintendo, and Sony aren't going anywhere. Please give me some real reasons why living in your own country with all 3 companies in play, does it matter?

@ neutral gamer ... Overall profit yes, but what you get in your country... No.

All international companies put the better foot forward in the region that sells better.
And where there are better sales comes more support and better prices to keep people.

No I don't care about sales EXCEPT where I am. It is the only thing that I have control over, and honestly all I care about.

Hicken5168d ago

BECAUSE IT'S SOLD IN MORE THAN ONE COUNTRY.

Does that answer your question?

It's not just about what sells here in the US; if the system is selling poorly, it won't see much support at all, regardless of the reason.

For example, if the 360 were doing better in Japan, it might get more Japanese games, which might then make it here to the States. But it's doing horribly there; what developer would put games on a system that's hardly selling?

And your comment about corporations putting the most money into the regions they do best in doesn't explain why Microsoft, for example, spent so much money trying to make the 360 appealing in its poorest performing region.

Saying you only care about sales in your region is an easy way to try and turn a blind eye towards things you don't like.

neoMAXMLC5168d ago

The hell is wrong with you? Your first question should have been answered the moment the 13million lead in the USA fact was brought up.
You must only own a 360 if all you care are the games and services here. PS3 owners get access to the psn store from other regions and even get to play disc games from other regions thanks to the fact that the system isn't region locked. PAL users felt screwed over over Mortal Kombat's censorship. Hey, let's import the US version!
Aww, that PS3 game is exclusive for Japan? No matter I'll import it and play it on my US console!
Tell me how exactly sales affects the services we have in this region in the first place? The US is Sony's weakest territory yet the games and services are pretty awesome regardless. How exactly will that change if Sony comes out on top? I don't think it would really. We don't have Vidzone not because of the sales, it's just how each region works.
It sure seems like you're crying a lot over something that you pretend to not care about.

@Siren, you're not implying that every multiplat sells better on the 360 worldwide are you? Because you'd be dead wrong.
And @brish, horrible HORRIBLE example. It's Call of Duty... The US is the premier region for that game just as the Xbox 360 is the premier console for that game.
Try a game that ISN'T a shooter.

whoyouwit045169d ago

I said it once and I will say it again vgchartz is not a reliable source for numbers, look at theier. Global numbers the 360 was at 65 mmil for the longest now they finally updated their numbers which do look closer to the real numbers. Did it really take that. Long to get there facts simi sttraight.

Game4life5169d ago (Edited 5169d ago )

Looks like the overall ps3 and xbox 360 numbers were ajusted on the site. Wonder if it had anything to do with sony and miucrosoft saying their numbers as of march 31 2012.

Does anyone know if they had released their numbers yet?

Edit: looks like the vitas numbers were adjusted as well. I wonder if andything else was.

neutralgamer195169d ago

Edward wtf are you talking about? Ww sales are more relevant than region sales for many reasons. You think an internationl corporation just uses one regions profits for their game resources or they only count one regions total lol hilarious. At the end of the year companies want to know how good a company is doing in total and if in total they are doing better than their competitor they are doing better point blank. They dont care where the profit is coming from they just want the most profits. The more profits the more resources for games.

If you are one of those ppl tht cares about sales, than youd be a retard to care just about one regions sales and you need to take a business class or something. Either way youd should care about the quality of games, not sales.

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-Foxtrot61d ago

Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

solideagle61d ago

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Relientk7761d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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ActualWhiteMan67d ago (Edited 67d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg67d ago

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Smellsforfree67d ago

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Loktai67d ago

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.