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France: Top 20 sales for the year 2018 (combined + individual charts!)
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I've heard football is quite popular in France, and that they are pretty good at it.
top 20 is physical only, and if you read the report, 54% of the console software sold is now digital only (that's much more than I thought, +67% vs 2017). I don't think this could completely change the top 20, but would certainly impact Nintendo positions in top sellers.
Did some quick research (because I'm curious) and he got the medal in 2006, along with Michel Ancel (Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil) and Frédérick Raynal (Alone in the Dark).
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Does that 54% consist of only full game downloads or total revenue?
According to Ancel during their meeting there, Miyamoto complained about camera controls in Beyond Good and Evil and said they should have looked at... Mario Sunshine for reference.Did some quick research (because I'm curious) and he got the medal in 2006, along with Michel Ancel (Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil)...
FIFA is even bigger in the UK, football even more popular, but I wouldn't say we are pretty good at it.
It's always been this way, even during the 360 days, no matter how strong MS are, France isn't a market for them.
If they are not strong in france, they are not strong in any other country in europe(besides the uk).
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Additional numbers for physical sales (including LTD numbers)
GTA 5 sold more than 4 million units LTD (physical only fyi) in France.
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It's the biggest seller of all time too.
This list is featuring standard version only btw.
the report isn't clear about that. It's only "console software digital". So my guess is that it's everything mixed from full games to DLC and other paid cosmetics. Even all included I wouldn't bet on digital being the majority as we certainly have the highest prices in EU for anything downloaded on console. PSN and Xbox live FR are often the most expensive marketplaces in the world and 20 to 30% more expensive than the same game found in retail or AMZ (and I know a lot of xbox gamers using exotic stores to by digitaly at a cheaper price...).
Super Mario Party outselling Spider-Man is so funny.
Electronic Arts beating Ubisoft in their own country is kind of a big deal i guess? I don't know if that's normal.
The "We bought Japan" meme needs a France version, methinks.
Electronic Arts beating Ubisoft in their own country is kind of a big deal i guess? I don't know if that's normal.
I don't have the numbers in mind but I remember being surprised by the 360's performance in France back then. They were behind, obviously, but not by as much as I would have thought. They were nowhere near as irrelevant as they are now.
So Microsoft could still be a solid third pillar in France and other similar markets. Their margin of error is just much smaller than it is for Nintendo and Sony, they can't afford any blunders like the Xbox One launch.
I also don't think that there is something inherently "french" about Ubisoft games, I always think of them as a global player. EA has FIFA which is just bigger as ACreed and FarCry combined in France (Europe?).
On a related note: Where is Battlefield V?
I am french and I know many people buying 360 because PS3 was 599 euros.
If Sony sold a console at a reasonable price 399 euros it is the first choice before Xbox. MS need to do better than Sony to be a choice out the Xbox dans if Halo or Gears of War.
Edit: Out of US and UK Playstation is a much better brand than Xbox. There brand and price are more important than power.
More than 10% of FIFA sales were on Switch—a pretty good performance. Also, incredible increase YOY.
DK also did really well.
DK also did really well.
Yeah, I'm one of those people!
Didn't buy a PS3 until like 2011 or something.
And yeah, I agree. Microsoft CAN be a contender but they need to be firing on all cylinders, the other manufacturers have much more leeway for eventual fuck-ups.
I'm from Estonia, but I'm sure it was pretty much the same all over Europe. I remember cheapest Xbox 360 models (Core/Arcade) being available in summer 2006 for half the price of the cheapest PS3 was at launch, more than 8 months later.
I love how France is a mix of Japan (Nintendomination and "what is a Xbox?") and USA (AAA western IP selling gangbusters)
Only Xbox 360 sold well here. I'm french and I remember all my friends having a 360 back then because they could play pirated games on it but that's it.
Only Xbox 360 sold well here. I'm french and I remember all my friends having a 360 back then because they could play pirated games on it but that's it.
EU outside of UK has never been MS land. It was the same for 360.
Monster Hunter World and Dragon Quest XI are games that i could have seen charting....at least with DQ, the Switch version might be the reason why it didnt chart higher.
Really? i mean of course they are a global company at this point with studios everywhere, but at its core Ubisoft is still a french company and i've always thought things like the long relationship with Nintendo was because they are both big players in France.
While BF V obviously bombed I think with digital it would chart. it still has big audience on PC too (digital only platform) which makes total digital share probably way beyond 50%.
I would think that MH probably had pretty high digital share. Especially as it was popular on PC too.
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Hmm, is there a reason why MHW would be more digital-heavy than the average?
PC is a fair reason, but the game sold over 7M before PC released, so it's still surprising to me.
Edit: googled the exact number, and it was 8.3M just before the PC version released.
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Yeah, the 7M+ is the number they sold before the Pc version released in August.
Ah ok, the game was huge sucess, such a shame i couldn't get the controls rigth for me.
I wouldn't say Xbox is a damaged brand in Europe, but more that it never really took off. All the good things Xbox is apparently doing has never even been on peoples radar.
To clarify: I meant the games they develop/publish and not the company itself. I agree with your post here.
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Well I guess you could say it never really took off but their messaging at the start of this gen made them a laughing stock for many people. Promoting all that US TV stuff made me feel embarassed for them.
Maybe In was thinking because how high digital sales it had in Japan (might have been because of shortages though) that it would be the case elsewhere too. Well at least after PC release I would say that the average digital ratio for it is higher than for most games on that list.
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Japan had an elevated digital share because it was sold out during its first week. I don't think the same happened in France (but I don't know for sure).
