MW3, Skyrim, Others Shoving Sonic Out of the Market
You could almost see this coming given the unexpected sales drop from official UK tallies. The independent website VGChartz today released North America sales estimates for last week, and the news for Sonic Generations was not good, despite the advantage of a full week of sale.
Last week, VGChartz estimates the combined domestic sales of XBOX 360 and PS3 units came in at just over 40,000 units, a frightening drop of more than 76 percent from launch week. XBOX 360 sales were estimated at at 23,713, and PS3 copies were estimated at 16,778. How poor is that? A newly released game for little children that requires the use of an interactive toy, Activision’s Wappy Dog for Nintendo DS, performed better than either. (Interestingly enough, Sega Toys is credited in the development of Wappy Dog, likely on the hardware side.)
More unsettling: We compared these numbers to that of the last major Sonic release on the two systems, Sonic Unleashed. While Generations dropped in week 2, Unleashed sales went up in 2008. In the case of the PS3 version, Unleashed‘s week 2 estimated sales of more than 25,000 handily beat Generations‘s figures. However, Unleashed had the benefit of Black Friday falling in its second week of release. We’re still about two weeks away from knowing what kind of an impact that shopping day will have on Generations. It may very well not be until then where we see a sales spike up.
But going forward, Generations has several triple-A titles to compete with. As in the UK, titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, and Skyrim were released, and both dominated the charts. We again note the VGChartz numbers are independent and unofficial. If this downward trend continues, we certainly won’t see anything official until Sega Sammy’s earnings report in February.
European estimates for last week should be out later this week. Given how we know the drop was substantial there pared with the estimates across the Atlantic, they could be cringe-worthy.
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This kind of stuff doesn’t surprise me. I don’t feel like there’s a very big market for second week sales. Anyone that REALLY wanted the game got it on launch day. If they didn’t get it then, odds are they’re waiting for a holiday or price drop… assuming they desire to buy it at all.
I guess that’s not true for parents who spoil their kids and buy them video games for no particular reason, since I’m sure they’re not in as much of a rush to GET THE GAME ASAP OMG, but I would assume that’s a minority demographic.
we are just days away from black friday here in the US. watch it sell like hotcakes
Mw3 is a better game anyway. No offence just my opinion.
This is actually quite sad, hopefully the game will get a good amount of new sales during Black Friday and Christmas
It was a bad decision to release Generations during the big name releases, since morons like to eat that shit up like candy.
@kools8ter111
Well, it IS basically MW2 with some extras and MW2 was an ok game. Might as well have been a DLC. (still can’t believe I paid full price for MW3, but got generations so all is ok)
Who the hell at SEGA thinks it’s such a good idea to release Sonic games with hugely hyped games like Assassins Creed: Brotherhood and Skyrim???
@Koolsk8r
Get out.
@ChaoticFox
But he’s such a kool sk8ter
Both Generations and Skyrim are better than MW3 (a pathetic rehash of MW2 with extras).
@koolsk8er111
I’m sorry but that was a stupid opinion.
@krazeeKidd102 actually its revelations not brotherhood. I got revelations yesterday and it kicks ASS
@ koolsk8r: Then what are you even DOING here?
of course all the sonic fanboys get butthurt over my opinion. I played mw2 and it was much shorter then mw3. mw3 was a better story and longer game. I like sonic but not this time. I’ll wait till sonic dimensions comes out.
@BrandonTH I am not a fanboy, I like sonic, but i have to like sonic generations in order to get a license to be here?
@koolsk8ter111
That doesn’t make any sense (MW3 with a story, my ass).
@Koolsk8r:
No, but the random Modern Warfare 3 reference being better was irrelevant as it was unnecessary. And I never said you were a fanboy.
@Kool
I’m not hurt, I just think you’re lame
@koolsk8ter111
Lol, generic FPS game that there is no effort whatsoever put into is better than Generations, a game which was in development for 4 years and has actually good gameplay rather than just shoot people. K.
(EDIT – Inflammatory -T)
MW3 is fun and all, and the controls are pretty solid. Very fun. BUT, it lacks originality and innovation. And the genre is extremely over-saturated. Not sure if any of you noticed, but MW3 has gone significantly down in Metacritic with the fans. They don’t like how it’s always the same shit every year.
You know what that means, right?
It means that the FPS genre will probably end up like the Beat ‘em up, fighting, and platformer genres.
Better get ready for the blow.
@Cervaza no effort? Tell me how much sega put effort into another shitty sonic game that apparently glitched on almost every demo shown at e3, and about sonic’s gameplay being good, i would say poor, I liked colors better, this was just rehashed from sonic unleashed and added unessesary classic gameplay to make more fanboys happy. How can you say mw3 has no effort? Maybe you don’t enjoy the games i like, but that doesn’t make it a bad game.
@BrandonTH I’m not saying you were calling me a fanboy. I was saying I didn’t have to be a sonic fanboy in order to be here on tssz. Should have made it more clear, as i generally don’t when i rush type. I said mw3 better becuase it was a strong opinion i had compared to generations. Is it okay to have an opinion? And yes there is a lot of things unnessesery that can be said in the comments. Sorry if i offended you, but i meant it truly.
@tatsumaki at least you gave some credit to the game. yeah i admit it’s the same shit every year, but if they made it different, it woudn’t be CoD right? They did make it a bit different compared to the older mw games.
@ChaoticFox saying another game is better doesn’t make me lame. I like all sorts of games. and to be honest, i think sonic colors is better then generations just saying.
just wait for crhistmas
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@shadowbane2009 that was actually kinda funny. it made me laugh
Oh. This is really sad, actually. Not terribly unexpected, but sad.
@Kool
Colors is better than Generations. Leagues better, tbh.
But generic FPS isn’t anything to write home about either.
I aint even mad. I mean how could I when myself and others figured it would happen the second Sega thought it would be a wise move to release the game in the same month as many of the heavy hitters games.
What’d you expect, it wasn’t a bright move to release Generations RIGHT when Skyrim, MW3, Rayman: Origins and other big games got released.
Plus it was released the same day as Uncharted 3, it was rather obvious that that crap would outdo this game.
Yes, I called Uncharted 3 “crap”. What are you going to do about it? :V
@Kool I like it how you said Generations was rehashed from Unleashed yet MW3 did the exact same thing with MW2. So it’s a stalemate between both games. But I think Generations was more original
@Renzy well that was my point. People talk about mw3 being rehashed, when sonic is constantly rehashed also. What about sonic 4 and the rehashed levels? You should have read my previous posts a little more.
“You’re a moron if you buy games like Skyrim over Sonic Generations”… you fanboys never cease to amaze me; thinking of any excuse you can as to why sales are bad. You ever stop and think maybe it’s because Sonic Team just sucks and not many people want the game for that reason? Of course you didn’t, because anyone who doesn’t agree with your warped ideas that Sesame Street Sonic is awesome is just wrong, right? Right.
Well hey, I called this in a comment not too long ago. I knew sales were going to be disastrous for this game, both because of Sonic Team’s declining quality and because of the horrendous timing of this game, thinking it can go up against the big boys. Well, news for ya Sonic Team… it’s time to either step your game up and reboot the series, get a new developer, or sell your crap games during the summer. So who’s right now? Me. Thank you.
Dimps and Sonic 4 FTW. *Poof*
I don’t know why I’m bothering to reply to Ceejus of all people, but on the off chance he ends up seeing this:
I think YOU’RE the fanboy. Seems like you’re blaming Generations’ poor sales on Sonic Team because they’re…. not Dimps. You have this warped notion in your head that Sonic would be restored to glory if Sega let Dimps take over and started cranking out more Sonic 4/Rush shovelware, and that’s just crock.
The real issue is obviously that SONIC HIMSELF just isn’t that popular anymore. Certainly not enough to compete directly with these other franchises. These numbers wouldn’t change that much if Generations were replaced with Episode II. Frankly, Sonic’s game sales over the past decade have never been related to the quality of the games. Let us not forget that Sonic 06 is a “platinum hit”. It’s his appeal as a character that drives his game sales
Maybe if you pulled your head out of YOUR fanboy ass, you’d realize that Generations didn’t stand a chance REGARDLESS of who develops it. So maybe it’s time to wake up from your wet dreams and admit the HONEST truth, rather than trying to shove your misguided opinions and poor taste down other people’s throats like it’s fact.
Generations would have bombed just as hard as a post-apocalyptic 2D game developed by a second-rate developer, and that’s the god damn truth.
(EDIT – Inflammatory -T)
Also, is that *poof* thing really necessary? Really? Action emotes? What are you, twelve? This isn’t Gaia online, and everybody who knows you knows about your little troll-n-dash antics. This isn’t Naruto – we don’t need to see your “ninja vanish” trick to know you only come here to cause controversy and not to engage in open-minded discussion.
While it’s unfortunate, I kinda saw it coming.
What is with America and its addiction to killing people? -_-
He does the poof to annoy you, as is what is happening in here.
*headdesk*
What is it with this site not letting me post certain comments? HOW COME IT DOESN’T DO THAT TO CEEJUS?
And before you defend him again, T, let’s look at your policies again:
Still, inflammatory, unintelligible, trolling, or otherwise offensive comments are subject to editing or deletion. Excessive violation of this provision risks a ban from commenting.
You know what to do.
ushroM: At this point, you’re risking a ban much more than he is.
-T