Sales for All But 360 Version Up
This morning, the latest Chart Track figures were released, and they indicated mostly good news in Britain for Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. This was to be expected, the benefit of a full week of sales in Britain.
Going off the multiformat individual units chart, perhaps the most important news of all is that the strongest ASR, performer, the Wii version, beat Mario Kart Wii in overall sales. While Nintendo’s offering dropped two places to 16th, ASR for the Wii moved up 3 places to 12th.
Right behind Mario Kart is the DS edition of ASR, making its debut on the top 40 for the first time at 17th. Its place also makes ASR the top DS seller overall. It too beat its DS counterpart, Mario Kart DS, which placed 31st.
The PS3 edition also bumped up a couple spots to #27 overall.
Interestingly, the ASR version with the most extras, the XBOX360 edition (dubbed Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing with Banjo-Kazooie) moved down in the overall ranks. Chart Track reports the XBOX360 edition dropped 3 places and is now 19th overall.
When looking at these numbers, consider that this was ASR’s first full week on store shelves. On the one hand, sales mostly improved, but on the other hand, they may not have improved quite as well as could be hoped, given the extra five days’ sales. Next week will be the true test of ASR’s sustainability in Britain, but we may have indicators earlier than that when the unofficial estimates come in later in the week for North America. We’ll pass those along here when they come in.
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see, what did i tell ya? a slow start dosen’t mean shit these days!
Yes! Thats what i am talking about ASR has just owned Mario Kart Wii.
Wow a 2 week old game beated a 3 year old game by 4 positions….
Sonic beat Mario at something, holy crap.
Next thing you know, Sonic 4 will be the most downloaded on Wii.
pwned
Sonic used to always better Mario at everything, until 1996 anyways. But yeah SASASR outbeating a Mario Kart game? Really? That’s pretty dang Impressive.
Expecting Sonic 4 to outsell Mario Galaxy 2. Maybe a long stretch, but I’m calling it.
Sonic has finally gotten his revenge.
I like it.
Wow. Now that something that you don’t see everyday. Sonic and Sega ASR surpassed Mario Kart. Excellent. Like Sumo said before. If SOnic and Sega All-Stars Racing becoming a success, then DLC will be available.
How’s that for a Mario Kart comparison.
Awsome, I defenitly need to pick this game up sometime!
Don’t get too excited people, its just the sales of “the week” in “only Britain”. Mario Kart Wii and DS been out for years already..and the sales of one of those titles alone far surpassed the total amount total of every version of SASASR. You people are getting excited over nothing.
@Nearly Everyone:
Don’t get on you’re high horses just yet guys. Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart DS have been out for years and have sold millions. This is just one week. Come next week who’s to say that Mario Kart won’t start beating ASR in sales again. Yes ASR is a good game but personally (and i say this as a Sonic and Mario fan so there is definatly no bias in my words) i can’t see ASR beating Mario Kart in the long run.
And as for the 360 version selling the least out of the lot. It’s proof that you don’t need shitty extras to sell a game.
@SAVE_US.222:
Calling the 360 extras “shit”, was completely unnecessary. Considering the game having a pretty weak roster to begin with, I welcome the use of avatars and Banjo & Kazooie. You have no right calling it shit especially with RARE helping to develop the game to use avatars and lending SEGA their characters. Any title with more content doesn’t make it shit in the least. If anything, it makes it the superior version. Unless its a bad port like RE4 with extras…. which with this game, is not the case.
Yhe
I told everybody SSonic&Sega much supeiror to mk sorry 
@RGX:
Whoa, cool it down a peg bro. I wasn’t necessarily calling the ASR extras shit. I was refering to pretty much any game that tacked on a few “console specific” extras just to boost sales on that particular console. Besides, i love Banjo. I just don’t see where he fits into a Sega kart racing game that’s meant to be focusing on Sega characters.
But Mario Kart’s been out for ages – unless you mean that ASR’s week of sales beat Mario Karts equivalent week, this is totally invalid.
Well if you think about it the UK is mostly all about Sonic than Mario but still its impressive it well be more impressive if the game sales more than Mario Kart Wii in U.S or Canada.
Sonic says, “You’re too slow!!”
@SAVE_US.222
Guess I mistook your comment, I apologize.
@RGX:
You didn’t really need to apologise as you were only stating your opinion but it’s accepted none the less.
I wouldn’t jump to conclusion, in the run lon Mario Kart wii will have sold lots more ASR domestically and worldwide, and this guy is only talking about one week.