In the Case of DS, Way Up
The independent website VGChartz.com estimates that last week, the DS edition of Sonic Colors had its best sales since the release, with with Wii version also picking up steam in the lead-up to the Holidays.
For week 4, VGChartz estimates 51,190 copies of the portable edition were sold. That is a more than 38 percent increase from the last recorded week, the week after Black Friday. On the Wii side, Colors is estimated to have sold 46,285 copies, a nearly four percent jump.
That bucks the trend the past two weeks of decline since launch week for both titles domestically. A similar jump happened in Europe, though the numbers across the Atlantic remain more robust. This momentum should continue the next two weeks as Holiday shopping wraps up-. If it does, there’s a reasonable chance Sonic Colors could sell a million combined copies by the end of the year, at least unofficially.
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Sure hope so. It deserves it. SEGA needs to know that kind of effort is worth their time.
Sells a million COMBINED? Everytime I read one of these sales figures for Colors, my expectations of gamers to look up from blood and sex drops significantly.
It’s amazing to see how in this abysmal economic climate, people are still willing to spend what money they have left on pointless pieces of shit.
Aww come on. I preferred the Wii version over the DS version.
The problem is that the Wii has better games like Donkey Kong Country Returns and Super Mario Galaxy 2. If this was another dull year for the Wii, maybe it would have done better?
I dunno, Sonic Colors is an okay game, but it’s not anything to write home about. It still suffers many of the same problems, and it even lacked the “wow” factor of the 360/PS3 version of Unleashed’s day stages.
I blame this on sega, how could kirby, epic micky and donkey kong be out selling sonic colors so badly, there out selling sonic colors by a huge 5-1, sega has ruined the sonic brand name, the fanbase that they had has moved on, the sonic series can only be released on wii during holiday season, where a few kids can tell there parents to buy it for them
@joe
Don’t blame the bad sales on SEGA ruining the Sonic brand so much as SEGA releasing it in the worst possible time:
1) On the same exact day as Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
2) A short week after Call of Duty: Black Ops
3) A short week before Epic Mickey and Donkey Kong Country Returns
4) Another Sonic in only a month after Sonic 4? And a couple of weeks after Sonic Free Riders?
That’s just a recipe for disaster.
@Kits’Okami
They’re definitely pointless, but NOT pieces of shit (if you think that, why are on a website dedicated to news about it?). And hasn’t the enocnomy been experiencing somewhat of a revival recently? I don’t know, politicans can pull anything from out of their asses, but still. There are lot of people who have nothing better to do than game. Like me.
@soranamineforever can’t agree with you there, there will always be big games released during the holiday months, DKR, epic micky and kirby are all out selling sonic colors by a huge margin, sonic was a much cooler character then all of them back in the 16 bit days, now he’s looked as a lame character with crappy games for furries, thanks to the horrible voice acting, story, lame characters and awful alernate gameplay, sonic was a franshise that would always be in the top 10 in sales when released in the uk and us, now its just pathetic lets look at some numbers from vgchartz,, even though unreliable since sonic colors has failed to make the to 20 in npd this is all we have to go by
DKR 1.7 million this in in 3 weeks in the states, 2 week in the uk and 1 week i japan
epic micky 2 weeks in the states, 3 in the uk 560,000
kirby 8 weeks in the states and japan 640,000 not released in the uk yet
sonic colors 4 weeks in us and japan, 5 weeks in uk 340,000
@XD375
lol, Colors may be graphically inferior, but it is literally MADE of WOW. Unleashed’s wow factor wears off pretty much as soon as you get used to the HD graphics and certain stages are extremely dull and disappointing, even visually (I’m looking at you Holoska, not even the whale can save you).
I really don’t understand all this “good, but not great” bullshit I keep hearing from various sources. Honestly, what the fuck IS or would be an A+ Sonic game to you people? I’m not buying this “It still has a few problems” bullshit, because EVERY GAME HAS PROBLEMS. It’s such a cop out excuse it’s no longer even funny, especially when a great deal of the “issues” and complaints I have seen regarding this game are so incredibly goddamn minor or biased by extremely personal preference that they lose almost all validity. Boo hoo, you have to get used to the jump. I understand the complain, I really do, but a learning curve is not nearly enough to knock an incredible game down to mediocre.
Honestly, it seems that Sonic games are no longer judged by what they are, but by what people think they SHOULD be. Despite the fact that most of these people don’t even have a clue what they would want out of a Sonic game or how on earth they would want it implemented. It’s as if they’re waiting for the next Sonic game to be the Holy Grail of all Video Games and give them an instant orgasm right out of the box, and anything less is some sort of colossal disappointment. I just don’t understand it. What the fuck do you people WANT?
I’ve never been the type of person who blames the “awful fanbase” for things, but I genuinely wonder why it is that certain people even LIKE Sonic when they haven’t seemed to enjoy one of his games in the past 18 years. The classic games are great and all, it seems like childhood nostalgia is virtually the only thing linking certain people to the franchise.
@ ChaoticFox
I concur on that statement. It always seem to me that people just ask too much from the franchise. I have literally seen people who say they want a Sonic game that is EXACTLY like the originals PERFECTLY translated into 3D and feels NEW! Are you kidding me!? Mario has only been able to get an applausable close to that with his games, but the 2D Sonic formula is a LOT more complicated than to just being able to perfectly be translated into 3D, and if you actually expect a perfect Sonic game like that and don’t think you are asking too much of SEGA at the same time, you have impossibly high standards! Sonic Colors does have it’s flaws, but even if you don’t like this game, this time there is pretty apparent that SEGA made a successful game
@ joe
How can anyone expect a Sonic game to sell as good as Nintendo and Disney games. Most just want this Sonic game to sell good. They don’t care about how much it sells compared to Disney, one of the most successful media companies in the world, and Nintendo, another one of the world’s most successful media companies who makes the best selling games on there own console. SEGA has only ONE time surpassed Nintendo in sales and that was when the were making their own consoles, so they don’t expect a Sonic game on a Nintendo system to sell as good Nintendo and Disney games. We just want this game to sell good, perferably pass the one million mark which, with this current sales trend, looks like may happen by the end of the year.
I was just thinking about SMG2 being as high-selling as it is, and I came to the conclusion that 90% of those sales were based on public opinion regarding the original. Nintendo could theoretically make a piece of shit game and I guarantee it’d sell like hotcakes.
Colors’ lackluster sales are due entirely to Sega’s poor track record and not the quality of the game itself. This is why I refuse to get into these number debates with people. The majority of consumers are purchasing brand image, not confirmed or quantifiable quality.
The sales of these other games are almost entirely related to proper marketing and image control, and does not in any way reflect a superior product.
@krush96 sonic was bigger then mario in the uk, infact sonic heroes was the 6th highest selling game of alltime, in the states sonic would always be in the top 10 last gen, now he cant even be make the top 20
@ChaoticFox i hate when people like u try to downplay games, that sell great and keep there fanbase, mario galaxy 2 is one of the highest rated game of alltime, nintendo makes great games unlike sega where sonic has been in mostly horrible games this gen, they dont ruin there character by making lame stories and horrible voice acting, they also dont change there characters design to look like extreme amine that would appeal only to kids
@Joe
I hate it when people like you complete misunderstand what I’m trying to say.
I never once said anything bad about any of those games, I just described another element of marketing and sales that ignorant little twits like you often overlook.
I’m not downplaying those games at all, I’m just saying that your half-baked mentality that believes “sales = quality” is based on some pretty shitty and flawed logic.
i agree with u about the marketing part, that could only work for a new and exciting ip but sales does equal quality most of the time for established franshises, people just don’t keep on buying sequels to big franchises like halo, mario, GT 5, COD, DK etc, its cause they remember they had a blast playing the game, so they keep on buying the sequels, with sonic we been getting so much shitty games thats of course people are not gonna buy it, hell im surprised its even selling ok, even though this is vg chartz so we can never no how much this game really sold or shipped unless sega gives us numbers
As you said: Sales are related to the quality of ESTABLISHED FRANCHISES, but NOT necessarily the quality of any specific title in question. Nintendo has proved that they can make a quality game, so people will buy their games with confidence because that company has cultivated a strong and reliable reputation.
People flocked to SMG2 because they figured they could expect the same quality they were given in the first game. A large portion of its sales were related to brand image (Nintendo and Mario’s reputation) and not the actual quality of SMG2. That game could have been AWFUL, but initial sales (until word got round) would have still been good.
So I bring the discussion back to Colors. It’s poor sales are not because IT is a terrible game, but because, as you said, Sega’s reputation has been flushed down the toilet this generation. Sega and Sonic’s image have both been almost utterly destroyed in the eyes of all but his most die-hard fans… and so his sales suffer. This does not mean Colors is a bad game in ANY way, it just means that many people have simply lost faith in the company to the point of being unwilling to give it a chance.
Thus, sales =/= quality. Sales = brand reputation and consumer trust.
I agree with u sonic colors is a good game but the damage has been done already by sega with the bad games, lame story, horrible voice actings and lame characters, sonic went from one of the coolest game characters, to one have the lamest, most gamers today think the only sonic fans left are furries, i only way sonic might get some great sales is if his next game get mario galaxy like scores
@joe: Kirby and DK should out sale Colors because they got higher better review and they are the best of their series, these games surpass the classic games, but Sonic on the other hand still can’t surpass his classic games. As for epic mickey it is the first mickey mouse game in like forever and it got popular at E3