How many units has Worst Witch sold?
Jill Murphy
The "Worst Witch" stories have become some of the most successful titles on the Young Puffin paperback list and have sold more than three million copies. They were also made into a successful 1986 film and an ITV series, airing on CITV between 1998 and 2001.
Monster Hunter
As of January 2018, the series has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide, principally in Japan and other Asian countries, where it has flourished due to the popularity of the series' ad hoc multiplayer features on portable consoles. "Monster Hunter" has been critically well received in Western markets, but has generally languished in sales, in part due to the game's high difficult learning curve. However, with "" (2018), Capcom aimed to attract a global audience using the power of advanced home gaming consoles and computers, and released the title simultaneously worldwide; "World" became the best-selling "Monster Hunter" game within 3 days of its release and within a few months, became Capcom's best-selling game with more than 10 million units shipped by August 2018 with more than 70% of those sold outside of Japan. The series has shipped over 50 million units across all games.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
In November 2018, Nintendo announced "Ultimate" was the most preordered game for the Switch and in the series. The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment reported that "Ultimate" was the fastest-selling Switch and "Super Smash Bros." game in the United Kingdom, with physical launch sales 302% higher than those for "Super Smash Bros. for Wii U", 233% higher than those for "3DS", and 62.5% higher than those for "Brawl". In its first three days on sale in Japan, the game sold 1.2 million copies, outselling "" and "" in the region. Within 11 days of retail, "Ultimate" had sold more than 3 million units within the United States, making it the fastest selling Switch game in the country. It was similarly the fastest-selling Switch game as well as the fastest-selling game for any Nintendo console in Europe based on the first 11-day sales. It was estimated that the game sold and shipped over five million copies within its first three days of release. Within three weeks, "Ultimate" became the fifth bestselling Switch game in the United Kingdom, surpassing the sales of "Splatoon 2". In January 2019, Amazon reported that "Ultimate" was their highest selling video game product of 2018.
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Upon its release, "Soul Hackers" sold 160,850 units in its first week. As of 2007, the game had sold 258,679, becoming the 27th best-selling Saturn title in Japan. The PlayStation port sold 137,458 units by the end of 1999, becoming the 114th best-selling game of that year. In its debut week, the 3DS port sold 69,365 units and debuted at #2 behind "" for the PlayStation Vita. This was noted as being a good performance for a port of such an old game, and outdid the opening sales of "" for the Nintendo DS. In the following two weeks in Media Create's top fifteen games chart, the game moved down to #9 and then #17, selling 12,589 and 5,910 units respectively, creating total sales of 87,865. By October of that year, Atlus reported that the game had sold over 90,000 units: this put it ahead of that year's PSP port of "", but behind "". According to a report by the NPD Group in January 2014, "Soul Hackers" had sold 36,000 units during 2013.
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The Worst Witch Strikes Again
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo has its best quarter ever for Switch sales in 2018, selling 9.41 million consoles from October 2018 to December 2018. Nintendo also revised its sales forecast for the Switch's second full fiscal quarter from 20 million to only 17 million.
Based on its first year sales, the Switch was considered to be the fastest-selling game console in history in many regions. With 2017 year end Japanese sales data from Media Create, the Switch became the fastest-selling home console in Japan in first year sales, with its total sales of 3.2 million units exceeding the 3.0 million units of the PlayStation 2 during its first year of release, while "Famitsu" reported that these sales had eclipsed the lifetime sales of the Wii U in the country, and helped to support the first growth in sales within Japan's console market in eleven years. Nintendo of America also reported that with 4.8 million units sold in the United States by the end of 2017, 1.5 million units in December 2017 alone, the Switch was the fastest-selling console in the United States in its first 10 months, outpacing the Wii's performance of 4 million units in the same time period. Similarly, the Switch was the fastest-selling console in France, having sold 911,000 units through the end of 2017, according to Nintendo France. The Switch was also the fastest-selling console in Canada, having shipped 400,000 units in its first 10 months, narrowly outpacing the Wii's performance of 392,000 units in the same time period, according to TechVibes. According to analysis firm GBH Insights, the Nintendo Switch was the 5th best-selling technology product in 2017. As of January 2018, the Switch has sold more than 300,000 units in Spain, surpassing the total lifetime sales of one of its competitors, the Xbox One, in the region. The Switch sold 8.7 million units in the United States in its first 21 months of availability, surpassing the sales of Xbox One and PlayStation 4 during their first 21 months in the same region.
Witch (band)
Witch was formed in 2005 by Dinosaur Jr guitarist J Mascis and long time friend Dave Sweetapple. However, Mascis does not play guitar for the band; he plays his first instrument, the drums. To complete the band's line-up, Mascis and Sweetapple recruited the guitarist and vocalist, Kyle Thomas, from King Tuff and avant-folk group Feathers. Their eponymous debut album was released on March 7, 2006. They also contributed an alternate version of the song "Rip Van Winkle" to the "Invaders" compilation, which was released by Kemado Records later that year. Their latest album "Paralyzed" was released on March 18, 2008.
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
During its first week of release in Japan, "Nocturne" sold 185,000 units which were equal to 75.7% of its shipment, topping sales charts. By the second week, the game had dropped to seventh place in the charts, selling a further 37,328 units. This brought total sales to just over 190,000. By the end of 2003, it had sold 245,520 units becoming Japan's 49th bestselling game of the year. Its sales by the end of Atlus' 2002-2003 fiscal year had reached 270,000, falling short of their planned sales of 350,000. The "Maniax" edition was also popular, reaching 5th place in Japanese sales charts in its first week, and remaining in the top ten for a second week. In an interview with Kaneko, 1UP.com noted that the game had not met with sales equivalent to its high review scores, although no exact figures were given. In contrast, as part of a press release concerning the game's European release, an Atlus staff member noted that it had met with commercial success in North America along with Japan. Speaking in 2013, a Ghostlight representative that "Nocturne" had, alongside the "" duology, "met with great success". Later reprints in 2008 and 2009 caused the game to enter the top five PlayStation 2 games on Amazon.com in North America.
Super Smash Bros.
"Super Smash Bros" sold 1.4 million copies in Japan, and 2.3 million in the U.S., with a total of 5.55 million units worldwide. "Melee" sold over 7 million units worldwide, becoming the best-selling GameCube game.
"Brawl" sold 1.524 million units in Japan , and sold 1.4 million units in its first week in the United States, becoming Nintendo of America's fastest selling game. The 3DS version sold over a million copies in its first weekend on sale in Japan, and has sold more than 9.35 million copies worldwide . "Super Smash Bros. for Wii U" became the fastest-selling Wii U game to date, selling 3.39 million units worldwide within just two months of availability, beating the record previously held by "Mario Kart 8". As of September 2018, it has sold 5.35 million copies worldwide. "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate" on Nintendo Switch has set new record highs for the series and for the system. It sold an estimate of 5.6 million copies in global sales during its first week of launch, beating out records previously held by games such as "", "Super Mario Odyssey", and "". In Japan, "Ultimate" outsold the records held by "Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS" with 2.6 million copies sold in five weeks. It is also one of the best-selling games for the Nintendo Switch, with 12.08 million copies sold worldwide by the end of 2018.
Monster Hunter
In the three days after release, "Monster Hunter: World" shipped over five million units (including digital sales), according to Capcom, and bringing the total series' sales to over 45 million by the end of January 2018. By early March 2018, "World" had reached a combined retail and digital 7.5 million units shipped, making it Capcom's best-selling game in its history. By mid-August 2018, following "World"s release to personal computers, the title had shipped more than 10 million units, and bringing total sales in the series to over 50 million units. More than 70% of "World"s sales were outside of Japan, a major milestone for Capcom and helping to lead its profitability during the 2018 fiscal year.
The Worst Witch (disambiguation)
The Worst Witch may also refer to:
Winnie the Witch
Winnie The Witch is a series of fifteen picture books, written by Valerie Thomas and illustrated by Korky Paul. According to Oxford University Press more than five million books have been sold of this series.
Blair Witch (film)
In the United States and Canada, the film was released on September 16, 2016, and was initially projected to gross at least $20 million with a chance to get as high as $26 million in its opening weekend, from 3,121 theaters. Lionsgate's expectations were more conservative, however, with a projected $15–18 million opening, although rival studios were predicting significantly higher numbers, noting how horror films saw solid performances throughout 2016, including "Lights Out", "The Conjuring 2", "", "The Shallows" and "Don't Breathe". However, after grossing $765,000 from its Thursday previews and $4.1 million on its first day, opening projections were lowered to $10 million. It ended up grossing $9.7 million in its opening weekend, below expectations and the lowest opening weekend of the series. The film was considered a box office disappointment by analysts.
The Worst Witch
Each book covers one term at the school. There are two terms each year: the Winter term, from September to January, and the Summer term, from March to July. In "First Prize for the Worst Witch", the most recent book, Mildred is in the Summer term of her fourth year.
The author Jill Murphy began writing "The Worst Witch" at the age of 15, while still at school, and based many points of the stories on her own school experiences at Ursuline Convent in Wimbledon, England, with Singing becoming Chanting, Chemistry becoming Potions and so on. Recalling how she got the idea for the story, she said: "My two friends and I used to come home in our dark uniforms, looking very scruffy at the end of the day – my dark plaits sprouting tufts, with lost hair ribbons. My Mum used to say 'Look at you all. You look like the three witches!' and it gave me the idea for a witch's school – so that it was exactly like my school, but with a subtle touch of magic. All the characters are based on my school friends (and enemies) and teachers." Murphy concluded the first book at the age of 18, but failed to achieve a publishing deal, causing her to "put it in a drawer" and decide to "concentrate on other things instead." After working as a nanny and in a children’s home, Murphy had a phone call from a small publisher interested in the book. "The Worst Witch" was finally published in 1974, when Murphy was 24.
Mario Party 8
After its North American release on May 29, 2007, the game sold 314,000 units in the United States in three days, making it the best-selling home console game in the country of May and the second-best selling game overall. In late June the game sold 426,000 units making it the best-selling game of the month, and on July 2 Nintendo of America announced that the game had sold over 550,000 copies since its release, making it the fastest-selling entry in the series. According to the NPD Group, the game was the tenth best-selling game of 2007 in the US, with 1.82 million units sold. In January 2008, Famitsu reported that "Mario Party 8" had sold 1,153,648 copies, making it one of 4 Wii games that had surpassed sales of one million units and the third best-selling Wii game behind Wii Sports (2,663,938 units) and Wii Play (2,139,084 units). According to GameDaily, the game was the tenth most-rented video game of 2008. It received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. The game went on to sell 7.6 million copies worldwide, making it the tenth best-selling Wii game of all-time.
Seawitch
The book was a best seller.
Lord Worth, ruthless and fabulously wealthy, has made a lot of enemies in the oil business. His new offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, named "Seawitch", is one of the biggest in the world, and will put his competitors out of business. To destroy it and therefore be able to inflate the price of oil at will, the competitors get together and send one man to deal with Lord Worth. The villain has a personal score to settle with Worth and kidnaps him and his daughters. But Lord Worth's daughters are betrothed to the protagonists, Mitchell and Roomer, two former police detectives, now private investigators. They set trying to save Worth and his daughters from certain death, as the villain intends to leave them on "Seawitch" when he destroys it with a stolen nuclear weapon.
The Witcher
The video games have been very successful, and as of March 2018, they have sold over 33 million copies worldwide.
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In the 2017 CBBC version of The Worst Witch, Megan Hughes plays Maud in Series 2
Nintendo Switch
The Switch continued to show strong sales throughout its first year of release. In its financial report released in October 2017 for the quarter ending September 30, 2017, Nintendo reported worldwide sales of the Switch at 7.63 million, with the expectation to sell more than 14 million by the end of its current financial year, exceeding the Wii U's lifetime 13.56 million sales. Five software titles have achieved at least one million in sales by this point: "Breath of the Wild" (4.7M), "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" (4.42M), "Splatoon 2" (3.61M), "1-2 Switch" (1.37M), and "Arms" (1.35M). Shortly after this financial report, Nintendo reported that "Super Mario Odyssey" for the Switch sold more than 2 million copies within three days of its release on October 27, 2017. Following this financial report, the "Wall Street Journal" asserted that Nintendo anticipates to continue ramping production of the Switch in its 2018 fiscal year, with plans to produce between 25 and 30 million units that year or more depending on the 2017 holiday sales. During the November 2017 Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday sales that kicked off the holiday shopping season in North America, Adobe Digital Insights' analysis shows the Switch was one of the top five selling items, outpacing the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. NPD Group adjusted their future performance of the Switch to follow more closely with the Wii's lifetime sales rather than the Wii U's.
Fate/stay night
When released on January 30, 2004, "Fate/stay night" rapidly became one of the most popular visual novels in history, securing the title of "highest selling visual novel" in 2004 of the adult game retailer Getchu.com. Readers of "Dengeki G's Magazine" ranked the game second in a list of "most interesting bishōjo games" in August 2007. The original PC version of the visual novel sold 400,000 copies. On the PlayStation 2, the 2007 release sold 184,558 and the 2009 re-release sold 21,937. On the PlayStation Vita, the game sold 58,157 in 2013, and 86,836 as of 2014. This adds up to total visual novel sales of 751,488 copies. The DVD and Blu-ray releases of the 2006 anime series sold units in Japan.
Resident Evil 4
The GameCube version sold over 320,000 copies in North America during the first twenty days. The European release sold its entire 200,000 copies during the first month. By January 2006, over 3,000,000 copies of the GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions had been shipped worldwide. According to January 17, 2007 sales figures provided by Capcom, the GameCube version of "Resident Evil 4" has sold a total of 1.6 million copies worldwide, while the PS2 version has sold over 2 million copies. As of September 30, 2011, the PS2 version has sold 2.2 million copies and the "Wii Edition" has sold 1.9 million copies. According to Capcom's Platinum Titles list, "Resident Evil 4" has sold 5.9 million copies across all formats, making it the fourth-bestselling "Resident Evil" game; it holds the record for "Best-Selling Survival Horror Game" in the 2012" Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition". The PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One sold an additional 1.3 million copies, then all versions of the game sold 7.2 million copies.
The Blair Witch Project
"The Blair Witch Project" premiered on January 25, 1999 at the Sundance Film Festival, and had a limited release on July 14 before going wide on July 30 after months of publicity, including a campaign by the studio to use the Internet and suggest that the film was "a record of real events". The distribution strategy for the film was created and implemented by Artisan studio executive Steven Rothenberg. The film earned $1,512,054 in its limited release opening weekend. The film went on to gross $29,207,381 from 1,101 locations and placed at number two in the United States box office third opening weekend, surpassing the science fiction horror film "Deep Blue Sea" which cleared $19,107,643 weekend gross. The film secured its second place in its fourth weekend, behind another horror film "The Sixth Sense", which cleared $26,681,262. The film descended at number three in its fifth weekend, at number five in its sixth weekend, and number eight in its seventh and eighth weekend during Labor Day. The film dropped out of the top-ten list in its tenth weekend until its last screening in 107 theaters in its seventeenth weekend, grossing $28,866 and placing in number sixty-three. By the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed $140,539,099 in the US and Canada in its total screening and produced $108,100,000 in other territories, having an overall gross of $248,639,099 (over 4,000 times its original budget). "The Blair Witch Project" was the tenth highest-grossing film in the US in 1999, and has since earned the reputation of becoming a sleeper hit.
The Worst Witch (1998 TV series)
The Worst Witch is a British-Canadian ITV television series about a group of young witches at a school for magic. The series stars Georgina Sherrington and Felicity Jones, and is based on "The Worst Witch" books by Jill Murphy (published from 1974 onwards). It aired for a total of 40 episodes spread over three series between 1998 and 2001, before being followed by "Weirdsister College." Most episodes revolved around the school, following the adventures of Mildred and her friends. The series was later followed by "The New Worst Witch", which ran for two series and chronicled the experiences of Mildred's younger cousin Hettie as she attended the school.
List of best-selling PlayStation video games
A total of 113 PlayStation games have sold one million units or more. Of those, 41 titles were published in one or more territory by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI). Other publishers with multiple million-selling games include Electronic Arts (13 games), Namco (ten games), Capcom (nine games), and Eidos Interactive (seven games). The developer with the most games to sell a million copies or more is Square, with ten titles in the list of 113. The most popular franchise on PlayStation is "Tomb Raider" (25.9 million combined units), followed by "Final Fantasy" (24.15 million units), "Crash Bandicoot" (21.79 million units) and "Gran Turismo" (20.22 million units).
Wii
919.94 million Wii games have been sold worldwide , and 104 titles had surpassed the million-unit mark by March 2011. The most successful game ("Wii Sports", which comes bundled with the console in most regions) sold 82.86 million copies worldwide by September 30, 2018, surpassing "Super Mario Bros." as the best-selling video game of all time in 2009. However, as of July 2018, Tetris is the best selling video game of all time, having sold 170 million copies both physical and digital as of July 2010. The best-selling unbundled game, "Mario Kart Wii", had sold 37.14 million units worldwide by September 30, 2018.
Wii
In Japan the Wii surpassed the number of GameCube units sold by January 2008; it sold 7,526,821 units by December 2008, according to Enterbrain. According to the NPD Group the Wii surpassed the Xbox 360 to become the best-selling "next-generation" home video-game console in Canada (with 813,000 units sold by April 1, 2008), and was the best-selling home console for 13 of the previous 17 months. According to the NPD Group the Wii had sold a total of 1,060,000 units in Canada by August 2008, making it the first seventh generation home console to surpass the million-unit mark in that country. In the United Kingdom the Wii lead in seventh generation home-console sales with 4.9 million units sold , according to GfK Chart-Track. On March 25, 2009 at the Game Developers Conference, Satoru Iwata said that worldwide shipments of Wii had reached 50 million. According to GfK Australia, the Wii had sold over 500,000 units in Australia within 84 weeks of its release, beating the PlayStation 2 and the DS as the fastest system to accumulate 500,000 sales in that country.
The Grinch (film)
"The Grinch" was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on November 9, 2018, in RealD 3D and select IMAX theaters. It has grossed over $508 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing holiday film of all-time, as well as the highest grossing Dr. Seuss film adaptation. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the animation but said the film added little to nothing new to the source material. It is the final adaptation released during the life of Seuss's widow Audrey Geisel, who served as executive producer of the film and died on December 19, 2018.
Maria the Virgin Witch
By February 14, 2010, volume 1 of the manga had sold 81,643 copies. By October 16, 2011, volume 2 had sold 94,578 copies. As of October 13, 2013, volume 3 has sold 57,516 copies.
Bad Witch
Bad Witch is the ninth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It was released on June 22, 2018, by The Null Corporation and Capitol Records. "Bad Witch" announcement came simultaneously with that of the Cold and Black and Infinite North America 2018 Tour, for which Nine Inch Nails will be touring with The Jesus and Mary Chain.
List of minor The Worst Witch characters
Griselda Blackwood makes her first (and only) appearance in the third book of the series where she is kidnapped by Mildred Hubble so Mildred can take her place at the Halloween celebrations.
Tales of Zestiria
According to Media Create, "Zestiria" topped the Japanese sales charts upon release, selling 340,891 units, beating "The Legend of Legacy" for the Nintendo 3DS and "Kirby and the Rainbow Curse" for Wii U. A week after release, Bandai Namco announced that the game had shipped over 400,000 units. It was the fifth best-selling game during the period between its release and August 2015. Upon release in the United Kingdom, "Zestiria" reached #8 in the top twenty game titles in its week of release, becoming the highest-ranking new release. The Steam version has sold over 450,000 copies as of April 2018.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops
Within 24 hours of its release, "Black Ops" had sold a combined total of 5.6 million units in the U.S. and UK market, surpassing that of "Modern Warfare 2" and establishing a new record for largest entertainment launch. Compared to the much anticipated opening of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1", the game earned more than twice as much as the film, earning $360 million. Only five days after its release, sales from the game worldwide reached US$650 million, surpassing the previous record achieved by "Modern Warfare 2" which earned $550 million in five days. By November 22, the game remained the bestselling title in the United Kingdom, despite sales dropping by 85%. Some estimates had placed sales of the game as reaching 18 million units sold, earning a revenue of $818 million. This would fall about 2 million copies and $182 million short of "Modern Warfare 2". By December 22, worldwide revenue of "Black Ops" exceeded $1 billion. Sales remained strong months after the game's release, remaining at the top-seller list in February 2011. On March 3, 2011 the news magazine The Hollywood Reporter also reported on the best selling video games ever. It announced that "Call of Duty: Black Ops" was the best-selling game ever in the United States of America. "Black Ops" was the best-selling game of all time in the UK until "Grand Theft Auto V" overtook it in November 2014. By November 2013, the game had sold 26.2 million copies.
Wii Remote
The Wii Remote and Nunchuk combined to sell over 8.5 million units in the United States, and took the top two spots in video game accessories sales in 2006. In the U.S., the Nunchuk was the best-selling video game hardware for January 2008, with 375,000 units sold, in a month where the Wii was the best-selling console with 274,000 units sold.
List of The Worst Witch characters
This is a list of characters in "The Worst Witch", a series of children's books written and illustrated by Jill Murphy.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
During its first week in Japan, "Devil Survivor" sold a total of 55,466 units ranking as the third bestselling game. Another 18,260 units were sold in the last week of January 2009. In 2009, it shipped a total of 106,997 units, becoming the 112th best selling game from Japan. On the other hand, sales in the west were lower with IGN reporting the game sold 40,000 copies as of September 2009. "Overclock" sold 21,809 copies in its first week of release in Japan. By the end of the year it reached a total of 39,801 units sold.
GOG.com
In an article dated 11 November 2011, PC Gamer reported statistics for online sales of "The Witcher 2". According to PC Gamer, Direct2Drive, Impulse and Gamersgate's combined sales were a total of 10,000 (4%), GOG.com sold 40,000 copies (16%), while Steam sold in the same time period 200,000 copies (80%).
Fire Emblem Fates
Prior to its western release, pre-orders for the Special Edition holding all three versions were high, resulting in it selling out by December 2015. After this, a glitch in GameStop's ordering system meant that copies of the Special Edition were reserved after stocks were empty, and they gave orders the option of cancelling or transferring their order to a different Special Edition offer. On release in North America, the game became the fastest-selling game in the series' history, selling over 300,000 units during its opening weekend: this was estimated as being five times the debut sales of "Awakening" during a similar period. "Birthright" was the better-selling of the two versions, with "Conquest" said to be "close behind". According to the February NPD Group report, "Fates" sold nearly 400,000 copies across physical and digital versions, with both versions reaching places in the top ten gaming chart. In addition, combined sales of all versions including the Special Edition placed the game third overall in software sales, tripling the equivalent first-month sales of "Awakening". When the physical versions released in the UK, "Birthright" was the better-selling edition, coming in at No. 5 in the all-format charts behind multi-platform releases "Doom", "" and "". "Conquest" came in at No. 11 in the all-format charts. In platform-specific charts, "Birthright" and "Conquest" reached No. 6 and No. 8 respectively. In a financial briefing at the end of the 2015–2016 fiscal year, the physical versions were said to have sold a combined total of 1.84 million copies. The title's DLC sales were also strong, coming in fifth in the top-five best-selling DLC content for Nintendo products. As of March 2017, the game's total physical and download sales across all regions have come to 1.6 million copies: sales of 500,000 units were recorded for Japan, while the remaining 1.1 million were recorded overseas.
Fire Emblem Fates
Shortly after pre-orders for the special edition were announced, it sold out within a day. Following complaints from fans, Nintendo created a second run for the edition. In its week of release, "Fates" topped sales charts, with initial sales of both versions totaling 260,675 copies. The game's special edition sold a further 42,991 copies, bringing total sales to 303,666 copies. "Birthright" was the better-selling of the physical versions, with "Conquest" coming in second place. It remained at the top of the charts the following week, selling a further 54,896 copies. "Birthright" remained at the top, while "Conquest" dropped to fourth place. By the third week, both versions of "Fates" had dropped to fourth place, selling a further 29,682 copies and bringing total sales to 345,253 copies. "Famitsu"s sales estimates were slightly higher, with their sales figures for the game totaling 353,201 copies, and going on to sell 71,550 and 41,400 copies over the next two weeks, bringing total recorded sales to 456,274 copies. In July, Kibayashi reported via Twitter that "Fates" was the current best-selling video game on Amazon Japan. By the end of 2015, according to "Famitsu", both physical versions had sold a combined total of 538,669 units, coming in at No. 10 of the year's top-selling video games.
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
In the United States, "Jedi Outcast"s computer version sold 390,000 copies and earned $17 million by August 2006. At the time, this led "Edge" to declare it the country's 39th-best-selling computer game, and best-selling "Jedi Knight" computer title, released since January 2000. Combined sales of all "Jedi Knight" computer games released during the 2000s, including "Jedi Outcast", reached 920,000 units in the United States by August 2006. "Jedi Outcast"s computer version also received a "Silver" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom; and a "Gold" certification from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD), for sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The PC version holds an aggregate score of 89 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on thirty-five reviews.
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The Worst Witch
"The Worst Witch" () was first published in 1974 by Allison & Busby, who took the book on after it had been turned down by three other publishers.
Darkest Dungeon
Red Hook Studios reported that a week after the game's 2016 release, over 650,000 copies of "Darkest Dungeon" had been sold, including those from Kickstarter backers and Early Access purchases. In November 2016, about a month after the release of the PlayStation versions, Red Hook announced the game had sold more than one million copies across all platforms. By December 2017, all versions combined had worldwide sales of 2 million copies.
Nintendo Switch
The Switch had modest growth in the following quarter, with 19.67 million units sold by June 30, 2018. The Switch reportedly outsold the PS4 and Xbox One in hardware and software sales in Japan during July 2018. On September 3, 2018, sales figures revealed that the Switch had been best selling console for six consecutive months in Japan and that Switch sales in Japan totalled just under 5 million units sold. By the next quarter, ending September 30, 2018, the Switch had cumulative sales of 22.86 million, surpassing the lifetime sales of the GameCube.
The Worst Witch
"The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star" (Scholastic UK, ; another(?), ) was released by Scholastic UK on 3 October 2013.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012 video game)
According to NPD Group, "Most Wanted" was the seventh-best selling game in the U.S. in November 2012, at 509,000 copies. However, these figures do not take into account the number of PC units sold, nor sales through digital distribution. "Most Wanted" was the fifth-best selling game in the United Kingdom in the week of its release, the week's fourth highest new entry. On 31 January 2013, on EA's financial result report of Q3 2013, while sales figures weren't released, it was mentioned "Most Wanted" outperformed 2011's "". Because of the low sales of "Most Wanted" on the Wii U and PlayStation Vita, "Need for Speed Rivals" was not developed for those platforms.
The Worst Witch
"The Worst Witch", a TV series based on the books, starring Georgina Sherrington and Felicity Jones as Mildred Hubble and Ethel Hallow respectively, was broadcast from 1998 to 2001. It was shot in Montreal, London and Cardiff. The series is mostly shot in studio in London, with some episodes filmed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The exteriors of Cackle's Academy used Castell Coch, a castle located near Cardiff. The courtyard was filmed at Loseley Park, near Guildford. Inside the school (Great Hall, classrooms etc.) was filmed at Twickenham Studios.
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Ivalice
"Final Fantasy Tactics" sold 824,671 copies in Japan in the first half of 1997. Since then, the total number of copies sold in Japan has reached approximately 1,350,000. In the United States it reached an estimated sale of 750,000 units as of year 2004. As of March 31, 2003, the game had shipped 2.27 million copies worldwide, with 1.36 million of those copies being shipped in Japan and 910,000 abroad. "Final Fantasy Tactics Advance" sold over 440,000 copies during its year of release in Japan, with nearly 225,000 units being sold in its first week alone. By August 6, 2004, more than 1 million units of the game were sold in North America and Europe together. "The War of the Lions" reached the top of Japanese gaming charts, and sold 100,000 copies in the first month of release in the United States. The game was the 53rd best-selling game of 2007 in Japan at 301,796 copies according to "Famitsu" magazine. The Ultimate Hits edition sold an additional 19,488 copies in Japan. Square Enix reports that as of May 31, 2009, "Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift" has sold 670,000 copies worldwide, with 310,000 copies sold in Japan, 240,000 copies in North America, and 120,000 copies in Europe.
The Last Witch Hunter
The Last Witch Hunter is a 2015 American dark fantasy action film directed by Breck Eisner and written by Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama, and Burk Sharpless. The film stars Vin Diesel as an immortal witch hunter who must stop a plague from ravaging New York City. The film was released on October 23, 2015, grossing $147 million while receiving generally unfavorable reviews from critics.
Evil Queen (Disney)
One hand-made figure costing $2,000 was the most expensive out of 200,000 items being sold at the Disney World shopping village in 1985. During an auction in 1988, an animation cel from the iconic scene of the Queen holding her heart box sold for a record-setting price of $30,000. In 1997, another cel from the same scene sold for $21,275 and a cel of the Witch offering an apple to Snow White realized $13,800. Another cel showing the Queen reading her spellbook sold for $8,050 in an earlier in auction in 1995. In 2015, a Hag cell was sold on an auction for $48,000.
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List of The Worst Witch characters
In the 1998 ITV series, Ethel is played by Felicity Jones in the first series and Katie Allen in the second and third series. Jones later reprised her role in "Weirdsister College". The excuse for the change of actress, as explained in the first episode of the second series "Old Hats and New Brooms", was Ethel having a makeover (or a "witch-over" in their case) during the holidays.
The New Worst Witch
The New Worst Witch is a British CITV television series about a group of young witches at a Witch Academy. It ran for 2 series from 2004–2007. The series was a spinoff from "The Worst Witch" which ran from 1998 to 2001.
Bleach (manga)
"Bleach" has sold over 90million tankobon copies in Japan, and over 120 million tankobon copies worldwide, making it the 6th best-selling series of all time from "Weekly Shōnen Jump". In 2005, "Bleach" was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award in the "shōnen" category. During 2008, volume 34 of the manga sold 874,153 copies in Japan, becoming the 12th best-seller comics from the year. Volumes 33 and 35 have also ranked 17 and 18, respectively. In total the manga has sold 3,161,825 copies in Japan during 2008, becoming the year's 5th best selling series. In the first half from 2009, "Bleach" ranked as the 2nd best-selling manga in Japan, having sold 3.5 million copies. Having sold 927,610 copies, Volume 36 ranked 7th. Volume 37 was 8th with 907,714 sold copies, and volume 38 at 10th with 822,238 copies.
The Blair Witch Project
After becoming a surprise hit at Sundance, during its midnight premiere on January 25, 1999, Artisan Entertainment bought the distribution rights for $1.1 million. Prior to that, Artisan had wanted to change the film's original ending, as the test audience were puzzled, although scared. (Donahue screams in terror and finds Michael C. Williams facing a corner in the basement before she is knocked to the ground.) The directors and Williams traveled back to Maryland and shot four alternate endings, one of which employed gory elements. Ultimately, they decided to keep the original. Myrick said, "What makes us fearful is something that's out of the ordinary, unexplained. The first ending kept the audience off balance; it challenged our real world conventions and that's what really made it scary."
Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn
Within three days of release, "Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn" sold over 170,000 units, charting second for the week behind "Monster Hunter Portable 3rd". Within one month, it had sold over 330,000 units, making it the 33rd best-selling game in Japan for 2010. By March 2011, over 500,000 units had been sold. By the end of 2011, sales figures had reached over 560,000 units; the additional 230,000 sold units sold in 2011 made it the 45th best-selling game of the year.
Bella Ramsey
Ramsey also stars in 2017 TV adaptation of "The Worst Witch" books as the title character, Mildred Hubble.
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo issued the Switch's first month's performance in their 2016 fiscal year results (which ended March 31, 2017), reporting that more than 2.74 million units had been sold worldwide, exceeding their target of 2 million. Retailer GameStop reported that initial sales of the Switch were "phenomenal" and on track to surpass the Wii U based on their historical sales data, with merchandising director Eric Bright saying the Switch has had "one of the highest attach rates of software and accessories to a device that we've seen in a long time".
Retailer GameStop reported significant growth in hardware sales in its first quarter of 2017 due primarily to the Switch, while Best Buy saw an unexpected increase in their hardware sales in its first quarter of 2017 buoyed by the popularity of the Switch. Console sales in Japan, which had been languishing due to the strength of the mobile game market, saw its first annual growth of 14.8% in 2017 due to the release of the Switch. Physical sales for Switch games were at 5.46 million worldwide in its first month, with 2.76 million copies of "Breath of the Wild" for the Switch making up nearly half of those sales. On "Breath of the Wild"s nearly 1-to-1 sales with the Switch console, Nintendo's Kimishima said, "This high of an attach rate is more or less unprecedented".
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Nintendo DS
Blair Witch Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock
"Blair Witch Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock" received "mixed or average" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In the United States, it sold 16,000 copies by October 2001.
The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2
"The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2" received a 33/40 score in issue 1472 of Famitsu upon its Japanese release. Commercially, the game was not as successful in Japan as its predecessor. According to Media Create, only 13,421 physical copies of the game were sold during the week of release, compared to 49,209 copies in the week of launch of the first game for PlayStation 3 in 2013.
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Following its announcement, "Ni no Kuni" was widely anticipated. It was acclaimed by many reviewers, with praise particularly directed at its story, graphic design and gameplay. "Wrath of the White Witch" became one of the best-selling PlayStation 3 games, selling over 170,000 units within a week of its Japanese release, and over one million units within fourteen months of its Western release. The game won year-end accolades, including Best RPG awards from several gaming publications. A sequel, "", was released in March 2018.
Monster Hunter: World
"Monster Hunter: World" shipped over five million copies three days after release, including digital sales, which exceeded all other previous games in the series. According to "Famitsu", over a million copies were sold at retail in Japan during these three days, alongside an estimated million in digital sales; these were accompanied by a boost in PlayStation 4 console sales in the same week, with over 140,000 consoles sold. Two weeks after release, Capcom announced that its overall shipment numbers had risen to 6million, making "World" the fastest-selling "Monster Hunter" game and the fastest-selling game of any of their properties. With this, "World" became Capcom's fourth highest-selling game. NPD Group reported that "World" was the top-selling game in the United States within both January and February 2018.
Jill Murphy
Murphy started to write "The Worst Witch" while still at school, but put the book on hold while she attended Chelsea and Croydon Art Schools. She continued to write it during a year living in a village in Togo, West Africa, and later while working as a nanny back in the UK. After receiving rejection letters from publishers to whom she offered the book (as she recalls, "They said children would be frightened about a school for witches..."), in 1970 when she was 21 she decided to try the new young company Allison and Busby. "They accepted it immediately, and printed 5,000 copies, and I remember wondering how many aunts and uncles I had, and what we would do with the rest," she said in an interview with "The Telegraph". However, the book proved an instant success, selling out within two months of publication. Murphy continued working as a nanny until the publication in 1980 of "The Worst Witch Strikes Again" prompted her to devote herself to writing full-time.
She gave birth to her son Charlie in spring 1990. Her marriage to potter Roger Michell ended in divorce.
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List of The Worst Witch episodes
"The Worst Witch" is a British ITV television series about a group of young witches at a Magic Academy. The series stars Georgina Sherrington and Felicity Jones, and is based on "The Worst Witch" books by Jill Murphy. It aired for a total of three series between 1998 and 2001 before being followed by "Weirdsister College". Most episodes revolved around the school, following the adventures of Mildred and her friends. The series was later followed by "The New Worst Witch", which ran for two series and chronicled the experiences of Mildred's younger cousin Hettie as she attended the school. The series was rebooted in 2017 as "The Worst Witch", a co-production between CBBC, ZDF and Netflix.
Final Fantasy
Overall, the "Final Fantasy" series has been critically acclaimed and commercially successful, though each installment has seen different levels of success. The series has seen a steady increase in total sales; it sold over 10 million units worldwide by early 1996, 45 million by August 2003, 63 million by December 2005, and 85 million by July 2008. In June 2011, Square Enix announced that the series had sold over units, and by March 2014, it had sold over 110 million units. Its high sales numbers have ranked it as one of the best-selling video game franchises in the industry; in January 2007, the series was listed as number three, and later in July as number four. As of 2018, the series has sold over 142 million units worldwide.
Blair Witch Volume III: The Elly Kedward Tale
"Blair Witch Volume III: The Elly Kedward Tale" received "mixed or average" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In the United States, it sold 8,500 copies by October 2001.
The Worst Witch
"The Worst Witch to the Rescue" () was published in 2007 and features Ethel Hallow's only friend, Drusilla Paddock, in a largely increased role since her brief cameo in "The Worst Witch All at Sea".
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Nintendo Switch
By March 29, 2018, Switch sales in Japan totalled around 4 million units sold. Sales of the Switch by March 31, 2018 (the end of Nintendo's fiscal year) totalled 17.79 million units, alongside over 68 million total game sales. The system's highest selling games included "Super Mario Odyssey" (10.4 million units sold), "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" (9.2 million) and "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" (8.4 million). Nintendo updated its forecast to sell another 20 million Switch units and over 100 million games over its next fiscal year, which is expected to include entries in both the "Super Smash Bros." and "Pokémon" series. However, Japanese analyst, Hideki Yasuda, from the Ace Economic Research Institute in Osaka, said that the Switch will sell 25 million units and 140 million games over the console's second fiscal year, which is higher than Nintendo's projections for the same fiscal year.
Magic Knight Rayearth
"Magic Knight Rayearth" has been well received by English-language readers. According to Dark Horse Comics, almost 200,000 copies of the series have been sold in the United States. The first volume of Tokyopop's re-release of "Magic Knight Rayearth II" placed 44th on the list of the top 100 bestselling graphic novels for February 2004, with an estimated 1,446 copies sold. The first volume of Dark Horse's omnibus edition appeared at the 83rd place of the list of the top 300 bestselling graphic novels for July 2011, with an estimated 1,069 copies sold. The second volume placed 109th on the list for April 2012, with an estimated 942 copies sold.
The Dark Prophecy
"The Dark Prophecy" sold 62,987 copies in the U.S. and 6,419 in the UK during the first week. It was the most-purchased novel in the United States during the first week of May, outperforming second place (Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry") by almost 15,000 units. Upon release, the book ranked No. 1 on "The New York Times bestseller list" and "Publishers Weekly"'s bestseller list. It remained on the latter for 23 weeks. The novel also placed on "USA Today" 's bestseller list. It opened at No. 11 on the iBooks bestseller list, but dropped to 18th place a week later and further to 20th after another week.
Neverwinter Nights
Greg Zeschuk remarked in June 2003 that "Neverwinter Nights" had sold above 1 million copies, before the release of its first expansion pack. In the United States alone, the game sold 510,000 copies and earned $23.2 million by August 2006. At that time, "Edge" declared it the country's 26th-best-selling computer game released since January 2000. It also received a "Silver" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, which indicates sales of at least 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Combined global sales of "Neverwinter Nights" and its expansion packs surpassed 2.6 million units by early 2005; by August 2006, the games totaled 1.3 million sales in the United States alone. Discounting its expansions, the original "Neverwinter Nights" ultimately sold 2.2 million copies, as of 2007.
Mega Man Battle Network 3
"Mega Man Battle Network 3" performed well commercially in Japan. The original version, released on December 6, 2002, was the second best-selling video game in the region during its release week at 91,351 units according to "Famitsu". The game appeared within the "Famitsu" top 30 best-sellers list for twelve weeks following its release with 461,426 units sold by March 16, 2003. The game's updated "Black" version, released in Japan on March 28, 2003, was the 11th best-selling video game in the region during its release week at 28,708 units sold. It also appeared the "Famitsu" top 30 best-sellers list for the four following weeks with sales of 73,964 units by April 27, 2003. By the end of 2003, the original version had sold 500,001 units and the "Black" version had sold 168,946 units in Japan alone.
Witch Doctor (comics)
"Witch Doctor" #1 was number 163 on Diamond Comics Distributors' top 300 chart for June, 2011, selling an estimated 12,592 copies. It was the fifth highest-selling title from Image Comics for that month, behind "The Walking Dead" #86, "Invincible" #80, "Spawn" #208 and "Haunt" #16. "Witch Doctor" #1 received a rating of 4 out of 5 from Comic Book Resources, a rating of 7.0 out of 10 from IGN, and a rating of 5 out of 5 from Comics Bulletin.
Hollow Knight
As of July 2018, "Hollow Knight" has sold over 1,250,000 copies.
The game had sold over 500,000 copies by November 2017 and surpassed 1,000,000 in sales on PC platforms on 11 June 2018, one day before releasing on Nintendo Switch, where it has sold over 250,000 copies only two weeks after its launch.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
The last time I was here, [Polish Prime Minister] Donald [Tusk] gave me a gift, the video game developed here in Poland that’s won fans the world over, "The Witcher". I confess, I’m not very good at video games, but I’ve been told that it is a great example of Poland’s place in the new global economy. And it’s a tribute to the talents and work ethic of the Polish people as well as the wise stewardship of Polish leaders like Prime Minister Tusk.
"The Witcher 2" had reportedly sold more than 940,000 copies by August 2011, a sales rate that CD Projekt Red had projected. Of the 940,000 copies sold, 200,000 were online sales (digital sales).
Resident Evil – Code: Veronica
"Code: Veronica" outsold "Shenmue" (1999) within its first week on shelves in February 2000. In total, the Dreamcast version sold almost 450,000 units in the United States and 1.14 million copies worldwide. The sales were weak compared to series predecessors, but strong compared to other Dreamcast games. The PlayStation 2 version of "Code: Veronica X" had sold 900,000 copies and earned $27 million in the United States by July 2006, outselling "Resident Evil 4". It went on to sell 1.4 million copies worldwide. "Next Generation" ranked it as the 63rd highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox or GameCube between January 2000 and July 2006 in the United States. Combined console sales of "Resident Evil" games released in the 2000s reached 3 million units in the United States by July 2006.
Dark Cloud
The game initially sold quite poorly. During its debut week in Japan, it entered the charts at number 15, selling only 19,615 units. By the end of 2000, it had sold 35,783 units, making it to the 286th highest selling game of the year, across all systems. In 2001, it sold a further 34,688 units, for a total of 70,471 units. However, it proved to have much stronger sales internationally, and ultimately sold over 800,000 units worldwide. By July 2006, "Dark Cloud" had sold 670,000 copies and earned $22 million in the United States. "Next Generation" ranked it as the 95th highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox or GameCube between January 2000 and July 2006 in that country. Combined sales of the "Dark Cloud" series reached 1 million units in the United States by July 2006.
CD Projekt
Despite suspicions that it was a "doomed project", according to managing director Guillaume Rambourg, it has expanded since its introduction. Indeed, , GOG.com had seen 690,000 units of CD Projekt Red's game "" redeemed through the service, more than the second largest digital seller Steam (approx. 580,000 units) and all other PC digital distribution services combined. Income from GOG.com (known internally as CD Projekt Blue) accrues to CD Projekt Red.
CD Projekt Red developed three "Witcher" titles before deciding that "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" would be the final game in the series with Geralt. Regarding the future of the "Witcher" series, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, game director of "The Witcher 3", stated in May 2016 that he hoped to continue working with the series sometime in the future, but had nothing planned at the time. , the series had sold over 33 million.
Philip Martin Brown
He appeared in the CBBC series The Worst Witch in 2017, playing the role of Rowan Webb.
The Worst Witch (1998 TV series)
The series stars Georgina Sherrington and Felicity Jones (as Mildred Hubble and Ethel Hallow respectively), and was broadcast from 1998 to 2001 on ITV, and later on HBO. The series also stars veteran British actress Una Stubbs as the eccentric chanting teacher, Miss Bat. Felicity Jones was replaced by Katy Allen after the first series, it was explained away as a magical makeover (a "witch-over"). New characters were also added, such as Frank Blossom (the school's caretaker), Miss Crotchet, the music teacher in the third series who replaced Miss Bat and two students from ethnic minorities – Ruby Cherrytree and Jadu Wali. New recurring characters included Merlin Langstaff, a wizard apprentice who befriended Mildred, his two mean-spirited acquaintances – Barry "Baz" Dragonsbane and Gary "Gaz" Grailquest, Charlie, Frank Blossom's nephew who really wanted to be a wizard, Mrs. Cosie, the nervous owner of the nearby tearoom and Mistress Hecketty Broomhead, the evil school inspector who later became a brief headmistress. Also as a character who appears more than once is Egbert Hellibore, chief wizard and headmaster of Camelot Castle, where Merlin, Charlie, Baz and Gaz live. The first series dramatised "The Worst Witch" and "The Worst Witch Strikes Again", and the second series dramatised "A Bad Spell For The Worst Witch" and "The Worst Witch All At Sea". Both of these two series also contained original stories. The third and final series continued with purely original material.
List of minor The Worst Witch characters
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List of The Worst Witch characters
Mildred Hubble is the titular character of "The Worst Witch" series. Unlike the other girls at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, she doesn't come from a regular witch family, but was given a scholarship which greatly impressed Miss Cackle. She is best friends with Maud Spellbody and Enid Nightshade. In "The Worst Witch", although inadvertently ruining a broomstick formation flying display when she was given a sabotaged broomstick, she saves the whole academy from Miss Cackle's jealous and rebel-ish identical twin sister Agatha Cackle, who was seeking to turn all the teachers and pupils into frogs. In the nick of time, Mildred turns Agatha and the rest of her fiendish coven into snails.
Guitar Hero World Tour
"World Tour" sold more than 534,000 units during its first week of release, less than half of the sales of "Guitar Hero III" during the same period, with the Wii version selling the most with 183,000 units. During the month of November 2008, 978,000 units were sold, with 475,000 being for the Wii platform. The Wii version was the fifth best-selling game of December 2008 in the United States, selling in excess of 850,000 copies. The PlayStation 2 version was the 17th best-selling game and best-selling PlayStation 2 game of the same month in that region. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions did not rank, but ranked the sixth and fifth best-selling games respectively for their respective systems. "World Tour" sold 3.4 million copies across all platforms in North America during 2008. Full band bundles represented 41% of all unit sales of "World Tour" through January 2009, equating to 61% of the game's revenue, while 35% of unit sales and 27% of total revenues came from the guitar and game bundle. In a March 2011 list, the NPG Group placed "World Tour" as the 7th highest-grossing game in the United States since 1995.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Additional statistics for online sales were reported in November 2011. Direct2Drive, Impulse and Gamersgate's combined sales were a total of 10,000 units. GOG sold 40,000 copies. Within the same time period, 200,000 copies of "The Witcher 2" were sold on Steam.
21st Young Artist Awards
★ Georgina Sherrington - "The Worst Witch" - HBO
Da Baddest Bitch
The album debuted at number 33 on the US "Billboard" 200 and number 11 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. In November 2000, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling 700,000 copies in the United States. "Da Baddest Bitch" stayed on the "Billboard" 200 chart for 29 weeks and on the Top Hip-Hop/R&B chart for 49 consecutive weeks in the United States.
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
In the United States, "The Beast Within" was the fourth-best-selling computer game of January 1996, and the 17th-best-selling of the first six months of 1996. The game and its predecessor, "", sold a combined total of 300,000 copies by December 1998. Leslie Gornstein of the "Orange County Register" wrote that these numbers were "considered a success in the world of adventures, according to Jensen." Elsewhere, Jensen expressed frustration with "The Beast Within"s commercial performance. She wrote that she had expected it to appeal to a large, mainstream audience, and remarked in retrospect, "I thought it would be top ten. And it was - for about a week." Jensen further commented that the game's Christmas Eve launch was a contributing factor to its underperformance.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Before its release, over 1.5 million people pre-ordered the game. "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" debuted atop the UK software sales chart in its first week, when it earned 600 percent more than predecessor "The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings". It was the best-selling video game of the year in the UK, breaking the record held by "Battlefield Hardline". It debuted atop the Japanese video-game sales charts, selling 67,385 copies in its first week. Four million copies of the game were sold in its first two weeks of release. By June 2015, over 690,000 players had activated the game through GOG Galaxy. The game sold over six million copies in the next six weeks, and the studio made a profit of $63.3 million in the first half of 2015. In March 2016, CD Projekt Red reported that the game had shipped nearly 10 million copies worldwide. By the end of 2017, the series as a whole had sold over 33 million.
Resident Evil (2002 video game)
At the GameSpot's Best and Worst of 2002 awards, "Resident Evil" was nominated for Best Story on GameCube, Best Graphics (Technical) on GameCube, and Best Action Adventure Game on GameCube. As of January 2004, 445,176 copies of the game had been sold in the United States. In May 2008, Capcom revealed that a total of 1.35 million copies of the game were sold.
The Worst Witch
When it was no longer realistic that Mildred would still be at school, the series relocated her to a magical university in Cambridge and was retitled "Weirdsister College: The Further Adventures of the Worst Witch," and saw the return of Felicity Jones as a reinvented Ethel Hallow.
Monster Hunter Tri
"Monster Hunter Tri" shipped over one million units prior to its Japanese release date. It was the top-selling game in Japan for the week ending August 2, 2009, at 520,000 copies sold. As of December 12, 2009, "Monster Hunter Tri" is the best-selling third-party video game for the Wii in Japan, at 960,000 copies sold. As of June 30, 2012, over 1.9 million copies have been sold on the Wii. As of December 31, 2015, 2.6 million copies have been sold on the 3DS.
Mortal Kombat (2011 video game)
According to Ed Boon, during its release month, "Mortal Kombat" sold two million copies between both PlayStation 3 and Xbox versions. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, publisher of NetherRealm Studios' "Mortal Kombat", reported that "Mortal Kombat" had sold close to three million units as of August 2011. According to Warner Bros., this covered the cost of the entire Midway asset acquisition. One year after the game's release, GameZone's Sanchez stated that "Mortal Kombat" has still remained "the best fighter currently on the market," calling it "today's greatest modern fighter" and "one of the most compelling fighters to come along in years."
Virtua Fighter 4
In Japan, the PlayStation 2 version sold 356,897 during its first week on sale in early 2002. The PlayStation 2 version went on to sell 541,973 units overall in Japan by the end of 2002. Worldwide sales of the PS2 port exceeded 1.5 million by June 2002. By July 2006, "Virtua Fighter 4" had sold 630,000 copies and earned $23 million in the United States. "Next Generation" ranked it as the 97th highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox or GameCube between January 2000 and July 2006 in that country. Combined sales of the "Virtua Fighter 4" line reached 1 million units in the United States by July 2006.
Call of Duty: World at War
"Call of Duty: World at War" was the second best-selling game for November 2008 in the United States, selling over 1.41 million units. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions were the second and ninth best-selling game of December 2008 in the United States, selling in excess of 1.33 million and 533,000 copies respectively. The Xbox 360 version was the sixth best-selling game of 2008, selling in excess of 2.75 million copies. The Wii version ranked as the 19th best-selling game and the seventh best-selling Wii game of December 2008 in the United States. It received particular interest in the United Kingdom, where it doubled the amount of first-week sales compared to "Modern Warfare" on the PS3 and Xbox 360. It also became the third fastest-selling video game in the UK behind "Grand Theft Auto IV" and "". The Xbox 360 version of "World at War" received a "Double Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 600,000 copies in the United Kingdom. ELSPA gave the PlayStation 3 release a "Platinum" certification, for sales of at least 300,000 copies in the region. As of November 2013, the game has sold 15.7 million copies.
List of The Worst Witch characters
In the 1986 film Miss Hardbroom is portrayed by Diana Rigg. In the 1998 TV series she is portrayed by Kate Duchêne, and in "The New Worst Witch" by Caroline O'Neill. In the 2017 CBBC series she is called Miss Hecate Hardbroom and played by Raquel Cassidy.
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Midway Games announced that as of January 26, 2009, "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe" had shipped 1.8 million copies since its release in mid November 2008, not including the sales of the "Kollector's Edition". The chief operating officer of GameStop stated that the "Kollector's Edition" of "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe" made up 55% of the game's total sales at GameStop locations in its first week. In their 10-K filing, Midway Games revealed the title had sold over 1.9 million units, making it one of the company's most successful titles since 2002. According to Wired.com, "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe" also "holds the distinction of being the most pre-ordered "MK" game of all time." In a ranking by Rentrak, the Xbox 360 version of "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe" was the sixth most rented game of 2009.
Tomb Raider
Upon release, "Tomb Raider" became an unexpected success with gamers, reaching the top of sales charts and remaining for a considerable time. It went on to sell over 7 million units worldwide. "Tomb Raider II" was an even greater commercial success, with debut sales higher than the first game and total worldwide sales of 8 million units. Despite varying critical receptions, series sales continued to be strong until the release of "Chronicles", which sold just 1.5 million units. While "The Angel of Darkness" met with initial strong sales, it failed to meet expectations. Since the release of "Legend", the series has picked up in sales and popularity. The 2013 reboot eventually sold 11 million units, becoming the most commercially successful "Tomb Raider" title to date. As of 2018, the series has sold over 67 million units worldwide. In addition to the games' success, the grossed $275 million, making it the highest-grossing video game adaptation until being overtaken in 2010 by "".