The New Nintendo 3DS, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate all had strong début sales in the UK when they launched on 13th February. That launch buzz makes way for day-to-day sales, of course, and while both retail titles have seen numbers inevitably drop in their second weeks, the modest drop in chart positions nevertheless shows that both titles have the potential to deliver some consistent sales.
To start with Majora's Mask 3D, it's been pushed back by PS4-exclusive The Order: 1886 and a host of half-term discounts and promotions that saw some older titles boost sales. It's dropped from 2nd to 8th in the all-format results, but is still an impressive 4th in the single-format results, only behind the new PS4 entry and Evolve on PS4 and Xbox One.
As for Capcom's Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, it's fallen out of the top 10 - it's still a respectable 12th in both the all-format and single-format charts, however.
A special mention should also go to Super Smash Bros., with both the Wii U and 3DS entries counted together in the UK charts - it's still up in 25th place in the all-format charts.
Both Majora's Mask 3D and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate dropped around 70% in sales from the launch weekend, which is fairly typical. It'll be interesting to see, however, how well both hold their chart positions in the coming weeks; Nintendo's no doubt hoping that they'll both be ever-green hits on the 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS.
[source chart-track.co.uk]
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LOL The Order: 1886
@outburst lol.
@outburst
That's an amazing gif!
im still wating for my MH New 3DS to tern up......... -_- ........
@outburst Awesome. I just didn't want to be THAT guy that doesn't reply to you...XD
Woo! Special mention!
they will both continue to sell well in soon we will be hearing about how nintendos has a few more titles with over million sales.
@outburst BEst gif i seen in a while
do the UK charts ever give numbers? I'm a visual person, so the long--winded descriptions seem like overkill.
@RoomB31 Chart-Track post loads of full charts every Monday. Top 40 all formats, top 40 for individual formats and also top 10/20 charts for all consoles.
It saddens me that loads of people actually bought The Order.
@Peach64
I mean sales numbers weekly, like japan gives, concrete sales.
The Order's not a terrible game but suffers from many detrimental flaws that prevent it from being worth the full retail price:
A. Way too short—only 5-7 hours to beat it, and it's a SINGLE player game, no online multiplayer (and unlike a game like Arkham Asylum per se, which was actually 10-12 hours at least, this isn't anything revolutionary)
B. It's an FPS that isn't 60fps (it's only 30fps) AND it isn't 1080p either (some weird 'cinematic' cop-out excuse).
As a result, I don't see how this game did well at all.
@RoomB31 Ah, nope. It's only Japan that does that. The rest of the world just gets chart positions released to the public.
PS4 games are going to sell more than they should due to the lackluster library it has. A powerful system with very few titles to hold you over. The system actually deserves to be called the "Battlefield 4 station" This will be the last Sony console I get at launch
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