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PAL Charts - Week 3, 2018
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I would gather that trading in old titles is a big plus when it comes to digital titles selling in a retail store.
That confirms there is no way GTS sold less than U:LL in 2017.
In November GTS was ahead it already.
That 2017 chart probably has some mistakes.
That confirms nothing unless you have access to all numbers and data.
Hum? The BIU is public lol
GTS > 200k in November
U:LL > 200k in December
GTS > U:LL in December
Tell me how U:LL > GTS for 2017?
That TOP20 basically confirms the suspicion in last thread.
All other platforms are continuing their post holiday drop, while Switch already had it during Week 52/Week 1 and now has settled into it's baseline. Basically the sales of Switch games is linked with how much hardware is being sold, much like how GTAV sales are linked with the amount of new PS4/X1 owners.
I have reached out to BIU to clarify if that's mistake, we will see.
Maybe they count both individual sales and season pass for U:LL in the 2017 charts.
...which is perfectly reasonable being GT a much bigger IP and LL a de facto spin-off of Uncharted.
First look I guessed the chart was revenue but GTS had > 100k at full price ($60) while U:LL was $40... even if the rest of GTS sales was discounted it is near impossible to sell less at $40 and have more revenue.
Yeap but that is not my point... the 2017 German chart shows U:LL > GTS.
With GTS being ahead in December I can't find a reasonable excuse to U:LL be ahead in 2017 chart.
I have to admit that it's a bit confusing but like I said I have sent them a mail to clarify if that's a mistake but I am not sure if they will answer.
3 in the top 10 and 9 in the top 40 is in no way domination
There's always so much chatter over the UK charts, but at this time of year, there's little between anything outside the top 5 and place #40.
Take Forza 7, last week it was #9 in the All Formats chart after a sale, this week it's #32. I bet the difference in retail sales is only a few thousand.
Take Forza 7, last week it was #9 in the All Formats chart after a sale, this week it's #32. I bet the difference in retail sales is only a few thousand.
Either they made a mistake in one of their monthly press releases, in the yearly chart or there is no mistake and we are overseeing something trivial here.
That's indeed strange. One of three things could explain this:
- The best seller list for 2017 is wrong;
- One or more of the BIU awards was given too early or too late (or wrongly) to one of the games;
- BIU has received a digital sales update which gave TLL a boost (being free for UC4 season pass owners.
Hopefully BIU will come out and correct whatever went wrong if something went wrong, or otherwise clarify that the 2017 list includes digital.
Switch has been doing really well in the UK since its launch, it was sold out everywhere for a good few months.
I don't know where this narrative has come from about Switch not doing well in the UK - it's just not been the 'fastest selling console ever' etc, but I think PS2 and Wii were so phenomenally huge in the UK right out of the gate, that it was a mammoth task for that to happen anyway.
I don't know where this narrative has come from about Switch not doing well in the UK - it's just not been the 'fastest selling console ever' etc, but I think PS2 and Wii were so phenomenally huge in the UK right out of the gate, that it was a mammoth task for that to happen anyway.
Go for it, the more merrier :)
E-mail address should be under the chart: https://www.biu-online.de/marktdate...ichsten-pc-und-konsolenspiele-in-deutschland/
Great to see Zelda still selling, its expensive too - for some reason its like 6 UKP more than mario on amazon UK
Also surprised to see PUBG lower than GTA V, perhaps the success of Fortnite is dampening sales...
Also surprised to see PUBG lower than GTA V, perhaps the success of Fortnite is dampening sales...
It's physical only. I'd think PUBG is mostly digital sales.
It would seem that the switch is enjoying good weekly sales post Christmas with all of the high charting sales.
At least next week we have new interesting releases (MH:W and DBFZ) after these rather boring post holiday weeks.
Wow, I live in an era that I will tell my kids that game digital code in the box does really well in move units every week.
Nice start for Digi-mon, if Namco tries hard enough the franchise could become their Pokémon.
Nice start for Digi-mon, if Namco tries hard enough the franchise could become their Pokémon.
Why not? You get the code in the box delivered to your home.
You get the benefits of both digital and physical (competitive retail pricing in the UK).
Digital split will be high, but every game that sells well is doing it across all channels.
BIU sales awards include digital sales (and bundle copies, too) if the publisher does report them to the BIU to reach that threshold.
The 2017 full year chart does neither include digital sales, or bundle copies.
There is no mistake.
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Are you sayint the 2017 chart didn't give you the full picture of the sales while the BIU Award give you the full picture? Where I can find this info? Thanks.
I just find it stranger to have a metric for the awards and other metric to the year chart... that generates a lot of confusion.
I mean that would be the only logical explanation. Where did you find the information about the yearly chart though?
Yes, the 2017 chart does not give the full picture.
It's the same as the UK where they also don't include digital sales.
And for Germany, even hard bundle copies are not included (the UK is the exception here to include them).
BIU awards are a guesswork. Those could be retail only or total sales, if the publisher reports the total number of copies sold across all channels.
I don't think there is a good source for this, but if you follow the charts it's pretty obvious.
Heavily bundles games do not chart as high in Germany all year long unlike the UK.
Digital games like Rocket League are not constantly in the top 5.
To be fair i just assume here that the full year chart consists of the same data as the monthly charts and that is the only way it makes sense.
The NPD yearly chart is also revenue based physical retail sales (without hard bundles) and digital sales from participant publishers just like the monthly charts.
The UK yearly chart is also physical units based including hard bundle copies just like the weekly charts.
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Yeah there's not really anything to be more than neutral about for any game that's under GTA V considering how much it tanked and still grabbed #3.
But the yearly and monthly charts shows different data... GTS is ahead in monthly but below in yearly... It is ahead in Awards too.
Pretty much. At least in the US, PUBG has been #1 most purchased digital game since launch
Yeah I don't get it every January we talk about how low sales are and how it doesn't take much to chart but this January is different how?
It's just a code in a box. People trading in games or buying it as a gift are probably pretty high on the list for buying this version.
Thanks, but why not post the full quote?
So it's either including digital extrapolation OR publisher reporting actual digital sales for a specific game.
My bad i didn't get it 100% correct in the first place. But he main point still stands. The GFK charts and BIU awards are different.
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Extrapolation for a 100k+ or 200k+ award is also less problematic and easier to make compared to a specific chart where X is ahead of below Y by just a few thousand units.
For the awards the margin of error is not that important. If they estimate 210k and the actual sales are 235k, that is no problem.
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