The sales weren't that high to begin with, but the hold is respectable. (When considering reviews, Gamepass and overall reception)
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PAL Charts - Week 14, 2018
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The sales weren't that high to begin with, but the hold is respectable. (When considering reviews, Gamepass and overall reception)
It is a slow time of year. Battleground is bundle but GTS and Forza 7 high charting position is due to price cut.
Under 5k gets you in the UK top 10. SoT for example is at 40k after 3 weeks.....tracking behind Quantum Break. It's also why anything bundled or on sale charts.
To put things in perspective GoW's debut will likely be over 150k. That alone should ensure April as a whole is up on last year. Although I'm not 100% sure what of note released last April.
In one sense weekly UK charts are interesting, but many just look at positioning, without understanding the vast difference in unit sales from week to week, depending on the title, or time of year.
No worries, soon they will fight against each other in Smash.
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SoT continues to hold well, unit sell slowly getting to a more respectable number.
Yeah I just noticed, with just 7000 still in third place, then it makes sense why it's so price sensitive, not necessarily because people in the UK are very price sensitive, but just because small promotions can easily upset the chart. Are lulls like these normal for the UK? Tracking below QB sounds worrying, but I reckon everyone is getting this through GamePass.
The lulls like this for every country. It just that we get weekly figures for the UK whereas other trackers don't give out numbers or are tracked monthly inflating the unit sells.
but it raises a good question. can game pass pose a threat to MS first party game sales?i m guessing yes and they know it but after revenue analysis and pattern of titles sold ,they decided game pass will bring in more money.
so 70K with zero digital was the height of the series in UK. now with digital getting close to half of sales it will be difficult to break 100 K on physical charts i guess
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Only physical maybe, including digital no way. The digital market have grown since QB, and of course digitally W10 store have surely a respectable portion of the sales.
There also isn't much coming out after it launches too. Detroit: Become Human is the next big release and that doesn't come out until May 25th.
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i have no source but i do think people seems really hyped about the new GoW. If the reviews are really great, it could really trumps GoW3's number.
It's only the month of March. March 2017 saw 4 major AAA releases with HZD, Zelda, Wildlands and Mass Effect, which is very unusual.
I wasn't even referring to worldwide just UK but given the nature of the game and what Microsoft have said it's definitely tracking better than QB.
Jup would be smart.
New ride probably starting in september or october haha.
QB sold 28k first week, then stuck around for a few weeks. They'll both be very similar.
SoT has now taken over from FH3 as the UK bundle (hence why that's now dropped from top 40), so will continue to tick around (3k-5k) until a new bundle launches.
Wasn't 2 weeks ago numbers for Sea Of Thieves 11k? If so, then last week numbers are 3,5k.
What does this mean? General reception is positive and reviews are decent on average. Nothing amazing though.
It's -32%, not -68%.. ;)
- Reviews were mediocre for a AAA-first party game. A 69 metacritic (or something) isn't that great. But let's not discuss this again.
- General reception is semi-positive. It's a really divisive game, so there are also a lot of people that are negative about it.
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where you been the past 15 years then?
but it's 3ds in uk, so we don't even know.
looking at the history of franchise in UK and digital download popularity at the moment , it would be lucky to break 100K in physical charts
I was also refering to UK only. I don't remember how was doing QB in UK, but I remember globally the game had absolutely no legs at all. The first week did nice and then sink.
Jup easily. Digital grew even more in the 2 years after QB release. SoT is more digital intresting to buy then a 10 hour SP game. And Play Anywhere didnt exist really yet when Quantum Break released.
I think it'll top HZD, but U4's launch was ridiculous. I noticed a TV ad last week, so they've started early. They usually have some tie in with a show/channel closer to launch. HZD was an extended TV ad between Gogglebox on Channel 4.
Great to hear, thanks.
Digital sales were probably less prominent three years ago, and Gamepass didn't exist. The tides may indeed have turned.
My guess is it will debut around 120K. Similar to Horizon Zero Dawn.
You did get a free Windows 10 code for pre-ordering QB but yeah, SoT should be comfortably ahead of QB digitally.
