This is something I can't understand as well. While there may be a good game underneath all that jank, I don't think any dev/publisher should be rewarded for releasing a game in such a crappy state. The hunger for Xbox exclusives must be so big that Xbox fans just don't care anymore...
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PAL Charts - Week 21, 2018
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This is something I can't understand as well. While there may be a good game underneath all that jank, I don't think any dev/publisher should be rewarded for releasing a game in such a crappy state. The hunger for Xbox exclusives must be so big that Xbox fans just don't care anymore...
10 exclusive reached no1 this year?
What are they?
Not all games on game pass, like State of Decay 2 not on gamepass.
Detroit at 22K is pretty miserable. Guess it'll be number one on the PS store for the month, likely end up profitable as these games do.
Heavy Rain was a big surprise hit, I knew Detroit wasn't coming anywhere close, but I'm expecting like 2 millions LTD worldwide.
Guys it's spelled with all caps: RAGE
Get it right come on
Tuesday or Friday depending on the edition
Around the same as Detroit.
The difference in install base is irrelevant though - so I guess the criteria to not be a mediocre opening week in the UK is to sell more than Heavy Rain.
Selling 4 times less than HR on a bigger install base is mediocre and yes, it's only UK and we are in PAL charts.
I thought some people were smoking something to think DS remastered was going to beat Detroit to number one.
So performance as expected, which is fine for me; I'm glad these types of SP games are still being released and want them to continue to make more. Well done Sony for continuing to fund SP games.
So performance as expected, which is fine for me; I'm glad these types of SP games are still being released and want them to continue to make more. Well done Sony for continuing to fund SP games.
I guess some people want to have them in their physical collections or don't lose access to them after the Game Pass trial/sub runs out. Plus with SoD price is an additional factor, it's not a 60 dollar game like Sea of Thieves (not even a 30 dollar game in my country, closer to 27 dollars).
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I posted a thread about French video game retail market in 2017.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fr...-video-game-sales-in-2017.45487/#post-8461487
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fr...-video-game-sales-in-2017.45487/#post-8461487
Remember when God of War flopped? No, well that was the narrative on PAL threads after first week sales where revealed.
Like God of War, Detroit: Become Human was released on Friday in the UK. It was also a Bank Holiday with great weather. I'd expect Detroit: Become Human to have a strong second week and continue performing decently through summer. It's easy to jump into PAL threads that reflect only a few days sales and jump to conclusions.
BTW, also great to see GT Sport move upto #26 in the UK and #13 in Germany. With various updates and promotions I would now expect it to stick around the top 40 for the remainder of the gen.
Like God of War, Detroit: Become Human was released on Friday in the UK. It was also a Bank Holiday with great weather. I'd expect Detroit: Become Human to have a strong second week and continue performing decently through summer. It's easy to jump into PAL threads that reflect only a few days sales and jump to conclusions.
BTW, also great to see GT Sport move upto #26 in the UK and #13 in Germany. With various updates and promotions I would now expect it to stick around the top 40 for the remainder of the gen.
Remember when God of War sold 1/4th the previous mainline entry?
Neither does anyone else.
Cause it didn't happen.
=D As expected. Heavy Rain was something new and special back then. It will sell well between Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls. And it will be profitable, as it looks like.
So all is good in my gaming world. Let's hope the next QD game will push the PS5 to its limits. Can't wait.
You're going to love it. As I've already mentioned, it's Quantic Dream's best game yet. And man, it looks so damn good =)
Not surprised that Detroit topped the charts, but the unit sales for this title are fairly underwhelming.
God of War with the 5% uptick in sales is a really good indicator of the great word of mouth and hopefully future sustained sales. Very impressive.
Labo tumbling down the charts, soon it'll be like it never even existed.
God of War with the 5% uptick in sales is a really good indicator of the great word of mouth and hopefully future sustained sales. Very impressive.
Labo tumbling down the charts, soon it'll be like it never even existed.
Isn't that around the usual split for basically any Japanese game?
Disappointed that its no where near HR..... but with digital at say 30-40% I think its going to be doing ok.
One big difference will be legs, I think people who are playing it generally like the game, and that always provides a good basis going forward (in terms of positive buying power), didnt see much of that with Beyond. So I expect the 2nd week drop to be less significant and it should I think go on to sell 3m+ LT. Guess GOW is the game sucking out the air in the market a bit, perhaps they should have waiting a little bit longer to release but then we would have been even further in the dead months for games.
I think the downside for QD is that the budget for this game went up, so they will need to sell more copies.
Anyway loving my play through, two of my kids who've played it love it, so its a liked game in my family :D
One big difference will be legs, I think people who are playing it generally like the game, and that always provides a good basis going forward (in terms of positive buying power), didnt see much of that with Beyond. So I expect the 2nd week drop to be less significant and it should I think go on to sell 3m+ LT. Guess GOW is the game sucking out the air in the market a bit, perhaps they should have waiting a little bit longer to release but then we would have been even further in the dead months for games.
I think the downside for QD is that the budget for this game went up, so they will need to sell more copies.
Anyway loving my play through, two of my kids who've played it love it, so its a liked game in my family :D
I hope Detroit sold better in other countries. The game is really good and deserves more sales.
God of War going up is impressive. I think there were some sales for it in the UK.
God of War going up is impressive. I think there were some sales for it in the UK.
I have no idea, but if that is the case that's disappointing. British Xbox One owners need to diversify their tastes a bit. Or Microsoft needs to release more Japanese games to entice those sorts of gamers over to the platform, who knows.
Eh. While Detroit certainly could had had better first week in terms of boxed sales it was never going to match heavy rains first week. God of War with all that hype and critical acclaim had barely higher first week in retail than Heavy Rain (96k vs 86k). Heavy Rain had huge debut back in a day.
With digital sales and Game Pass numbers, it definitely had a lot more people playing than Detroit did over the weekend. I imagine we'll get some MS PR soon about 'highest MAU for the month' or something.
Wow when you see it like that, HR did amazing.
Do we know the number of disk copies on Detroit, and what was Beyond?
I mean, same developer and same genre so makes sense that people would compare the two. This is only one market, over a few days, so let's not get ahead of ourselves in terms of sales overall.
They needed that HR MC to get those sales again, a much harder mission today than it was in 2010.