Surprising Results After Backlash
For all the flak Aliens: Colonial Marines has received–from an almost universal drumming in reviews to still evolving questions surrounding Gearbox’s alleged outsourcing of the game’s development–it must have been a relief inside Sega halls to read the GFK Chart Track results from last week.
The official results show A:CM was in first place for sales last week in the UK. The game was first on XBOX 360, Playstation 3, and PC individually, as well as the multiplatform top 40. The true test then becomes whether the game can stay on the top spot week to week–only then will we see if gamers really care about these controversies.
Elsewhere, it appears a full week’s release on the Nintendo 3DS reminded consumers about Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. It moved up a place in the multiplatform top 40 to 9th overall, even as it dropped to 5th on the individual 3DS charts. Ultimately, the benefit came from a huge jump on home consoles. ASR Transformed moved up from 20th to 14th on the XBOX 360 charts, and from 19th to 12th on Playstation 3. It was also the top seller on Wii U in the UK last week.
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:O Holy crap.
For saying that A:CM and S&ASTRT 3DS both didn’t do well, this is suprising.
I’m sure deep down despite the relief in SEGA’s halls that they hate themselves for putting out terrible games.
Wow. And ASR:T being number one on the Wii U for the week actually impresses me the most.
@SSJ,
Then please explain the critical success of other games that have appeared in past Jan-March releases.
@Gnat1
Jan-Mar are typically very dead periods of gaming releases thanks to the idiotic way this industry is ran so it’s easy for just about any new release to chart in this period.
Well at last both games are doing well……
Marines I….blehh..
O.o
Losing faith in humanity everyday.
I guess it just goes to show that you cannot tell the quality of a media product–be it a video game, movie or music track–merely by the quantity of its sales. Case in point: Twilight movie series, Justin Bieber’s “Baby.”
@ItzPrado
It’s just like Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City selling well. It’s sickening that functionally broken games can sell just thousands because they’re buddy shooters/based on a notable franchise and things like Little King’s Story, Muramasa the Demon Blade, and Max Anarchy are left to squander in obscurity.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore….
People saying Bigger numbers = better. This alone proves that theory wrong.
I’m a little confused. I understand ASRT selling well again, but I didn’t see this coming from A:CM.
It was the flash of the game. I remember see so wall paper on the sega forums that looked seriously cool. Then I saw so game that looked really seriously cool. I was kinda interested in buying the game myself, but this little outbrust doesn’t last too long.