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Street Fighter KOs Wii Fit in U.K.
Wii Fit has met its match in the U.K.
After five consecutive weeks at the top of the all-formats sales chart, research firm Chart Track said Monday that Capcom's Street Fighter IV, released last week for PS3 and Xbox 360, has debuted at number one, dropping the exer-game down to number two.
Chart Track said the latest entry in the seminal fighting game series became the "fastest selling traditional beat ‘em up since the All Formats Chart began back in 1997."
Chart Track said sales of the PS3 version edged out those of Xbox 360, 53 percent versus 47 percent, respectively, in the game's first week.
The news follows Capcom's announcement that it has shipped 2 million copies of the fighter worldwide.
Capcom appears to have a handle on the post-holiday release strategy, as the publisher has had a February number one in the U.K. for the past three years: Lost Planet in 2007, Devil May Cry 4 in 2008 and Street Fighter IV this year.
The March 13 release of Resident Evil 5 is poised to place the publisher on the charts once again next month.
Sales of Wii Fit were up 20 percent, Chart Track said.
Taking the third spot was the new PC release, Dawn of War II from Relic Entertainment. FEAR 2, which debuted at number two a week prior, dropped to number 10.
The rest of the Chart Track results for the past week are below:
- Street Fighter IV
- Wii Fit
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
- Ben 10: Alien Force
- FIFA 09
- Call of Duty: World at War
- Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
- Mario Kart Wii
- Wii Play
- F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin
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Nickgamertag01 is correct.
Elex is wrong.
Let me do my best to quickly summarize the markets:
North America: Xbox 360 has an eight million system sales advantage over the PS3, and that sales lead continues to grow in favor of the Xbox 360.
Europe: Xbox 360 had a sales lead of about 1.5 million units in Europe at the end of 2008, and the sales lead of Xbox 360 continued to grow as a result of the sales drop.
Japan: For the second half of 2008, the Xbox 360 actually outsold the Playstation 3 in Japan. In 2009, the PS3 has outsold the Xbox 360 in Japan, but the first nine months of the year don't come close to the last three months of the year in terms of sales--and those are the months where Xbox 360 really did well against the PS3.
Let me give you an example. PS3 recently outsold the Xbox 360 in Japan by a ratio of 2:1. However, during Christmas time of 2008, the Xbox 360 was only outselling the PS3 by a ratio of 1.5:1. When you compare these two time periods, you see that the Xbox 360 actually outsold the PS3 due to the fact that the amount of sales from the 4th quarter were so much higher than early 2009.
Elex, you need to realize that the markets are not created equally. Japan used to be the market considered "hardcore" that was willing to pay higher prices to have the system launched first. But that was 15 years ago, and it is no longer the case.
Europe, has always been a market where low prices have the largest impact. Europe is a market that is "potentially" larger than North America, but only if the price points of $149 and $129 for hardware are reached. PS3 has absolutely zero chance of reaching those milestones, but Xbox 360 will reach those milestones within the next couple of years. This is the reason why the sales lead of Xbox 360 continues to grow in favor of Xbox 360 as time passes.
Nickgamertag01 is correct with his estimate that Street Fighter 4 sales will probably be twice as many on Xbox 360 in North America, which means that from a worldwide point of view there is an excellent chance Street Fighter 4 will see two-thirds of its worldwide sales on Xbox 360, just ike most high-profile games such as Grand Theft Auto 4.
Yup, KO in one round. Let's wait and see for the second round.
Round 2..................FIGHT!!!
Something to consider, there are just under a million more 360's in the UK than PS3's.
Also, despite how short stock I've thought Wii Fit to have been, we've actually been selling 20, in some cases 30 copies per week going back several months. It's just that it's only in stock one or two days out of seven.
on the subject of controllers having waited for what seemed like forever for my sf4 fight pad to come in the post i must say im really disappointed with it. i was hoping the d-button would be similar to the saturn pad as was rumoured ,but the only thing it has in common is the appearance(it actually looks more like the the megadrive d-button but thats besides the point) the d-button is so loose and flabby feeling,it feels more like your using some kind of analogue d-button..your thumb has to travel so far from one side to the other it just feels so sluggish..it has nothing like the crisp , tactile precision feel of the saturn pad..i never thought i would hear myself say it but the best pad in my opinion for sf4 and h.d remix is the 360 pad and even thats not too great..but as far as im concerned its still alot better than the ps3 pad..i dont know how anyone could use that for s.f games..to me it just does'nt feel right not having any diagonals under your thumb when your trying to pull off a dragon punch or spinning pile driver..i know millions of people would disagree but thats just my opinion.
hadouken! You lose
If I remember correctly, Tomb Raider also debuted with slightly higher UK sales on the PS3.. and then the 360 version beat it every week after that. It will be interesting to see how sales progress in the coming weeks.
That must say something about the UK audience that buys 360s and PS3s. Different market for each, or at least somewhat different.
But then again, does it really matter?
I wonder if they'll "resurrect" more 2D games like this - I'd be interested in a new Samurai Shodown. ;)
It's all down to the D-Pad. That's why I bought it for my Triple over my 360.
Congrats Capcom, you deserve this. Shame Resi 5 will suck a fat one.
I'm thrilled Tekken 6 is coming to the 360, but someone has to release a 3rd party controller that has a decent dpad, any by decent I mean as good as the PS' d-pad. I may just have to invest in a good fighting stick. I bought a PS1 for Tekken 3, and I bought a PS2 for Tekken Tag, I may have to buy a PS3 for Tekken 6 if this controller issue isn't sorted out.
Coincidence maybe but the PS3 outselling the 360 doesn't suprise me on this occasion, but only because this is the first time in many years that I have tried to purchase a game to find it sold out.
On three occasions in three different stores the PS3 version was out of stock whilst 360 versions remained. If the pad was up to it then I would have got the 360 version but imagine the PS3 pad will fare a bit better.
I'm not as excited by SF4 as I was way back when I got SF2 for the Super Nintendo, but certainly more interested than I have been in any other 1 on 1 fighter since the day I got my hands on that gold cardboard box with terrible cover art.....all £65 worth of it....which I thought was going to be smash tv but my mum swapped it at the store without me seeing. Very nostalgic gaming times and better than now handing over my own hard earned..
Oops. My bad, meant as a reply. I'll go away now... ^^
Arronc07,
You did a good job of sarcastically showing that Edge is not biased in any way towards one system or the other. Killzone 2 received a review score of only 7 out of 10 because of honest factors that Edge pointed out.
In the U.K., the PS3 version of Street Fighter 4 slightly outsold the Xbox 360 version. I think the main reason for this is probably because the PS3 doesn't receive as many top notch games as the Xbox 360, which means the PS3 versions of high-profile games end up drawing more attention.
I wonder what will happen with the North American numbers are released. Xbox 360 has over 8 million more owners than the PS3 in North America alone, so I'm sure Xbox 360 will outsell the PS3 worldwide by a very wide margin.
Another negative PS3 article highlighting it's higher software sales, Edge have hit a new low.
Ok, Arron I finally can tell you're being sarcastic. You're laying it pretty thick.
As far as Kim's comment that the US sales will be more. My guess the 360 will near-to-double the PS3 version. Not being fanboyish, the 360 just has a larger installed base (namely in the US). I'm happy to see the PS3 only edged out the 360 version in a territory I thought the PS3 dominates the 360.
well, the math doesn't really support your theory. Capcom has already announced that the game has sold 2 million worldwide. given that the PS3 version doubled the 360's version in sales in Japan, and edged the 360 version in the UK (which is generally one of PS3's weaker territories compared to the 360) chances are both versions will be neck and neck. whatever advantage the 360 may have in the US will be countered by Japan, the UK and majority of Europe for the PS3.
personally, i'm just glad that a game (SFIV) finally dethroned a pretend game (Wii Fit) on the game charts.
On February 23rd NickgamertagO1 said: New
I see where you're comming from and respect your theory but I have to disagree that the difference in sales (once they're released) in the US between the PS3 and 360 version will not be countered by the PS3 sales in Japan even if the PS3 version doubles the 360 version there. Japan is such a smaller market and considering as has been released the 360 version as you said was only edged out in Europe by the PS3 version that the 360 will still sell significantly more units in the US than the PS3. My guess if it's not 2:1 in favor or MS' console, it'll be something like 400k for 360, 250k for PS3. That, as I mentioned before, I would attribute that to the 360s over double installed base lead in the US over the PS3. I just checked to make sure my claims were accurate and they are. US-to-date sales according to NPD for 360/PS3 are as follows (I'm only putting this up for comparison for this specific SF4 discussion, not trying to flame).
360-14,166,400 (14.16 million)
PS3-6,993,200 (6.99 million)
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_Seventh_generation
Before I get bombarded with ("NPD is teh suxxors, worldwide FTW!!!", comments), I'm well aware as some other people may point out that the US isn't the only market, but Elex and I are talking about US sales specifically.