Duke Nukem Forever? Woah. I wasn’t expecting that.
Which of the charting software was released in June? L.A. Noire? Duke? Infamous 2? I’m so out of touch with the latest releases, since I haven’t played any of them, I don’t know when they came out.
Ouch for the 3DS, but how amazing is it that the DS can be the second-best-selling gaming platform infinity years after it came out and even after its successor is released?
This is the one I have a tough time wrapping my head around. I can imagine a few stragglers buying Blops for the first time last month, but not so many people that it sells better than so many of the new releases. And yet, it does so month after month. The only scenario that makes sense to me, on an intuitive level, is that all those people that are buying a 360 or PS3 for the first time this month, a good portion of them are also buying Blops as their go-to shooter with the new system.
I wouldn’t say that DNF did big numbers. The #3 title from June 2010 had higher sales than Duke at #2-- and it was the PS3 version of Red Dead Redemption, in its second month of release. Mario Galaxy 2 was last year’s #2 with 548K.
It was a pretty bad month for software. And it’s only going to get worse for Duke this month.
I mean, 2010 had vaguely similar numbers, but that was the month they announced the Slim and discounted the old ones to clear them out, so clearly a special case. But before that, it’s averaged less than half these numbers.
I wonder if that correlates with the drop off in Wii numbers. Just speculation, but I wonder if people have stopped buying the wii (probably because they own one) and started buying the xbox?
The PS3 is only barely down from last year’s 305K, and WAY up from its numbers before that (165K in '09, 98K in '07 – it was actually 400K+ in '08, but that was MGS being released).
