Germany April charts: God of War debuts at No.1, Nintendo Labo at No.12

hibikase

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I apologize for my previous posts, I’m getting really tired of the Labo bashing on ERA and I jumped the gun a bit too fast.
 

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Labo was a nice try. Hope that wasn’t one of the pillars to 20 million switches shipped this year.
 

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I don't know what people were expecting from LABO tbh.

It'll sell but it'll likely be a slow burner, word of mouth plus Christmas should boost it over time.

God of War was always going to outsell it in the first months / Year, that was obvious but LABO legs might surprise many.
 

Buddy

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GoW deserves every sold copy and more...such an amazing game.

Labo I can't say anything... never played it...maybe someday with my nephew if he is interested in it...
 

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It's interesting to see how Labo is suddenly 'performing better than expected' for some people.

Like this is Nintendo's only big original release of the switch with Kirby for the entire first half of 2018, so how is debuting outside the top10 good?

Talking about Kirby, where are them legs?
 

Imitatio

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Talking about Kirby, where are them legs?
Kirby was never going to do too well in mainland Europe. I'm surprised that it did that well in the UK. Don't know about France.

Over here in Germany I personally know noone who gives a shit about Kirby. It will depend on its US and JP legs.
 

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Kirby was never going to do too well in mainland Europe. I'm surprised that it did that well in the UK. Don't know about France.

Over here in Germany I personally know noone who gives a shit about Kirby. It will depend on its US and JP legs.

We only got the top 3 for the French charts and Kirby didn't chart.
Mario Kart was first, followed by Odyssée then BOTW.
No legs in Europe it seems.
 

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Wait, Rocket League is new over there?



I'm more suprised to not see Forza or something. The game is always on the UK charts.
Yeah but Germany is not in UK . It's separate country and where no one likes MS or Xbox. Even 360 did poorly there.

My friend who is living there since 2010, he always say Xbox presence is very poor here. Shopkeepers laugh when you say you want to buy Xbox over PS .
 
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noyram23

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Don't worry there's still digital for Labo which isn't tracked. This is probably one of those games with high digital/physical ratio
 

Brink

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Splatoon 2 seems to be rising in most of the western charts we get.

Next quarter will be huge for it with the DLC
and 10m is a lock imo. The question is if it can do 15m.


Labo is combined in Germany then?
Uh, it's nowhere near 10m currently is it? It's not going to sell like 7m just off the back of the DLC.
 

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I think Nintendo should have waited a year or so on Labo. It primarily is targeted towards kids of course, but games like Pokemon have yet to arrive on the system. In a year or two, more parents will be buying the system for their kids, and Labo will have a bigger market to work with .
 

Denman

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I thought Labo was going to sell more than it did in all territories. The price was probably just too high, and maybe selling the variety kit in separate smaller pieces would sell more (I'd grab the fishing rod).

With the way it's been tracking in Europe and Japan, I think it will struggle to hit a million units.
 

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Guys. Labo ist not your typical video game with your typical hype campaign. Pretty sure 6-year-olds weren't counting the days before Labo got released.

Whether Labo is successful or not will be determined in the months (and years) to come.

Damn, Xbox is so dead in Germany. No Sea of Thieves and not even PUBG is in the top 20. Shame.

Congrats on God of War though, can't wait to try it out this year!
I think I've seen the Xbox One X with a second controller plus a bunch of games for under 400 Euros at some point.

Heck, retailers had to lower the price mere weeks after its release to move units.
 
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DecoReturns

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Uh, it's nowhere near 10m currently is it? It's not going to sell like 7m just off the back of the DLC.
It's not gonna stop selling anytime soon. Especially in Japan where it could hit another 2 million. Maybe even more. But 10 million is a lock. 15 million, could actually happen, but I personally don't think it will get there.
 

Mory Dunz

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Uh, it's nowhere near 10m currently is it? It's not going to sell like 7m just off the back of the DLC.
15m is my upper bound.

but 10m it will definitely cross without question.

It was 6.02m as of 3/31/18, so it hasn't been a year yet. And in that quarter it moved 1m iirc.
And across multiple countries, its legs are actually improving the past few months. Seems to have become the go-to multiplayer game that people pickup after Mario Kart.
 

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Damn, Xbox is so dead in Germany. No Sea of Thieves and not even PUBG is in the top 20. Shame.

Congrats on God of War though, can't wait to try it out this year!
Xbox is dead in continental Europe,more or less.
I hope Jim Ryan in some interview gives us GOW sales numbers in Europe,considering it didn’t sell very good here in the past.
 

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Oh man I thought my joke will sell well, unlike Labo.

Dude chill, nobody will take your cardboard away from you. It's probably selling ok
I don't care how Labo does, it's not aimed at me. Seeing the same dumb joke posted time and time again is poor though. You could at least be a bit more original if you wanted to troll.
 

noyram23

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I don't care how Labo does, it's not aimed at me. Seeing the same dumb joke posted time and time again is poor though. You could at least be a bit more original if you wanted to troll.
Oh man, sorry to disappoint you :( To be fair I can't think of any good cardboard + bomba pun, can you help me on that?
 

sfortunato

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Uh, it's nowhere near 10m currently is it? It's not going to sell like 7m just off the back of the DLC.
Splatoon 2 will add 2m easily in Japan as it's still the best selling Switch game on a weekly basis. Given that it sold 6m worldwide and that RotW still has the biggest share, 10m is not unlikely at all.
 

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Amazon.de has raised the price of God of War on release day or shortly before it to 74,90 + 5€. So 80€ which is almost $100 USD.
 

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Well, that's even worse. But I guess Media Markt or Saturn have it. Haven't checked though.
Yeah. Amazon should be clearer with that.

As far as I know Saturn Media Markt get the biggest shipments in Germany. Amazon isn't the best indicator for a game's performance. But it's fun to look at the Amazon charts.
 
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noyram23

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I don't even understand why that joke is being made... Is it to mock someone in particular? I swear at least 10 different people made it since yesterday, it's starting to look like a cult.
Because people at Era makes fun of bomba, every single time. That joke is a low hanging fruit which people with no comedic skills, like me, easily uses.

Labo is probably within expectation anyways so you peeps need to chill