Know Thy Market

[igame3d]

U.K.: Top of the Charts
ELSPA (http://www.elspa.com/) has released the latest U.K. Leisure Software Charts compiled by Chart-Track.

The table shows the top 20 selling entertainment software titles in the U.K., across all formats and totaling sales for every available version, for the week ending August 6, 2005.
Madagascar—Activision
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory—Take 2 Interactive
Brian Lara International Cricket 2005—Codemasters
Fantastic 4—Activision
Destroy All Humans!—THQ
Medal of Honor: European Assault—Electronic Arts
Cricket 2005—Electronic Arts
Lego Star Wars—Eidos
Juiced—THQ
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas—Take 2 Interactive
Worms 4: Mayhem—Codemasters
Battlefield 2—Electronic Arts
Championship Manager 5—Eidos
God of War—SCEE
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith—LucasArts
Need for Speed: Underground 2—Electronic Arts
Tekken 5—Namco
The Sims 2—Electronic Arts
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory—Ubisoft
Gran Turismo 4—SCEE

Thats whats been hot this summer. Don't you wish Mac game developers had an association that listed the Top mac selling games, quarterly, yearly, etc.
I guess one can go through the 1800+ games at macupdate checking downloadsd, reviews, and trying to geuss-timate how many copies were sold. Ugh.

[PowerMacX]

U.K.: Top of the Charts
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(3rd) Brian Lara International Cricket 2005—Codemasters
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(7th) Cricket 2005—Electronic Arts


"Know Thy Market". Indeed! :p

[Fenris]

Actually, those cricket games make sense. The games that sell well are seldom the ones you think.

[AnotherJake]

Check out the Entertainment Software Association's fact page (http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.php) and download this year's pdf. It's packed full of interesting facts about the video game market. I got last year's too, and comparing them it's interesting to see how trends have changed a bit in just one year. The average age of the video game player went up from 29 last year to 30 this year. My favorite info is on page six. They break it down by console video games and computer video games. What surprised me was that the first person shooter isn't anywhere near the top of the sales chart like I imagined, and RPG's are only about 10% on both! Strategy and family take up more than 50% of sales on the computer, whereas action and sports take up over 50% on the console. I thought that was an interesting stat. It implies to me that people tend to be a little more egg-headed about their computer use.

[Andrew]

Thanks for the link Jake! That was very informative :)

[igame3d]

Do you know what the number software sales are? Tax software. How vile.
I guess if you can make a game that also does your taxes for you and gets you a big fat refund, you can make a killing.

[codemattic]

well there was the Pacman knockoff Taxman on tha Apple ][

http://www.virtualapple.com/taxmandisk.html

but that probably wasnt what you were talking about!

[igame3d]

Friday, August 12, 2005
Japanese Game Sales
Media Create passed along its weekly list of the top 10 selling console software titles in Japan.

Here is the company's full report, covering the week of July 25 - July 31, 2005, 2005:


Ranking—Title—Platform—Publisher
World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 —PS2—Konami
Grandia III—PS2—Square Enix
Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (incl. version with GC)—GC—Nintendo
Summon Night EX Thesis: Yoake no Tsubasa—PS2—Banpresto
Super Robot Wars Alpha 3—PS2—Banpresto
Armored Core: Last Raven—PS2—From Software
Bleach: Erabareshi Tamashii—PS2—SCEJ
Gentle Brain Exercises—DS—Nintendo
The King of Beetle Mushiking: Greatest Champion—GBA—Sega
Power Pocket Koushien—DS—Konami

They sure like to poor on the number of words in their titles.

[Zwilnik]

"Gentle Brain Exercises—DS—Nintendo"

That's a great title :)

[Dan Potter]

I like "Pokemon XD". I assume the "XD" is an emoticon showing the facial expressions of the Nintendo Pokemon financial people. ;)

I like to look at "Windows XP" the same way. That's how we feel about each other :)

[Najdorf]

My next game will be called "x-men vs the incredibles", guess how many downloads I'll get ;)

[Dan Potter]

My next game will be called "x-men vs the incredibles", guess how many downloads I'll get ;)

You mean how many before the C&D arrives? :)