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PAL Charts - Week 7, 2019
- Thread starter Bruno MB
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They had 6 years of development for this. 6. This is not on EA, at least not more than Bioware.
I don't get what they're going for with the Access stuff. I probably would have bought the game but instead I had a free trial of Origin Access. 10 hour free trial of Anthem. Got to 7 hours before giving up due to bugged missions. A 10 hour trial is pretty much the whole game without a penny spent.
I thought this game is gonna sell well given it's a looter shooter + EA Marketing machine but it's BOMBA, lower than ME: A
Yea this doesn't bode well for their targets for the game by end of FY... at all. That's a really poor showing for the launch of the game. The fact that it's selling less than Andromeda at retail is, frankly, shocking.
Destiny debuted with 417k sales, so that puts Anthem at around 42k. For comparison, Resident Evil 2 just launched with 70k, KH3 with 67k, Far Cry and Metro about 25k last week.
God damn, I was thinking any launch that wasn't the best so far this year would be a disaster, but this is miles below even that mark. Well hey, at least it did 10x better than Crackdown 3.
God damn, I was thinking any launch that wasn't the best so far this year would be a disaster, but this is miles below even that mark. Well hey, at least it did 10x better than Crackdown 3.
for a game like anthem it probably really is a huge chunk though. 70%? 80%? higher?
How high would you guys say week one needs to be, globally, to be considered a success? Like the minimum amount since obviously the more the better.
UK is a pretty small slice of the total pie... I think with digital+retail, globally, it will probably do ~2-2.5M units give or take.
I actually think their problem isn't going to be week one - I think that will land pretty high. But I think it could see a sharp week two drop and very poor player retention due to endgame shortcomings.
UK is a pretty small slice of the total pie... I think with digital+retail, globally, it will probably do ~2-2.5M units give or take.
I actually think their problem isn't going to be week one - I think that will land pretty high. But I think it could see a sharp week two drop and very poor player retention due to endgame shortcomings.
I actually think Days Gone will end up outselling Anthem and Crackdown combined by the end of their respective launch months. That's not a result nearly anyone would've expected even a few months ago. Just goes to show you how fickle and unpredictable the video game market can be. At this point with so many shifting forces in the market and upcoming changes sales forecasting is more luck than it is foresight.
Well considering it needs minimum 5M by the end of March to be considered a success, I'd say first week needs to be 2.5M minimum as legs are going to be poor. It's useless trying to extrapolate UK to the rest of the world though, there's too many variables.
UK-wise though I think even being extremely generous digitally (let's say 70% digital sales) it's still less than a third of Destiny's debut, even if Destiny only had a 10% digital share.
Another comparison we can make is to BFV, which launched with 95k in its first week, more than double Anthem. In a very similar timeframe to which Anthem needs 5-6M, BFV sold 7.3M worldwide, except that had December sales instead of March to help it with legs.
Doesn't seem like 5M is likely to be achieved considering this, but it's pretty much impossible to tell at this point.
Metro is doing much better than ok
Its performing at a franchise best level
I'm glad to hear that, i only got into the series this year with the redux collection and it is one of the best SP FPS games i ever played.
I have no stats to back the following specifically but the UK market is price sensitive. With our digital prices I can say with a ton of confidence that we're nowhere near 70%
You wish lol.
Anthem had nothing going for it and a million warning signs.
That's not a commentary on GaaS, it was just a completely poorly handled game in every way.
And you know what? Days Gone will ultimately maximize its sales (whatever those might be) BECAUSE Sony was willing to delay it a few times.
If Anthem fails, it may be because it had to be pushed out two months too early. Yes, many of the core problems would still be there, but the "Holy shit this game is broken!" stuff could be significantly remedied.
I think they meant sell in. I'm talking sell through. It's a stretch but I'm starting to think they can hit their forecast.
I don't really think this is true. Fortnite just had its single day highest concurrent play count aside from the Marshmallow concert.
That would requiere intense levels of channel stuffing and retailers won't like it one bit
Anthem and Crackdown 3 each got a 60 Metascore which is in the bottom 5% of AAA releases.
Destiny 2 had the highest digital split in 2017 with 45%. Considering the game was cheaper in stores, even if you had the 10% off on XB1 EA Access, I doubt it'll be much higher.
I don't think so. Sony knows quality and polish are hugely important parts of their first-party success. Horizon and UC4 were delayed too among others. Days Gone will do well.
Not before the division comes out. And if at the very least the drop in drop out multi works and there are no 5 minute loading screens, it's pretty much a wrap for anthem.
If Days Gone reviews and sells well, every prediction thread we had last year that covered the first half of 2019 becomes null and invalid.
It'll probably get 6-12 months (there's already a 90 day roadmap) to turn itself around. The problem is this game is going to drop in price so hard really fast, so I have even less interest in buying it until it's like around ÂŁ10.
When did Destiny 2 come to PS+ ?
I think Anthem will probably follow even faster.
We don't get any EA games in PS+. The last one was Plants vs Zombies if I remember correctly. But they did mention putting EA Access on another platform this year, so who knows.
Pretty much a year later, but that had a upcoming expansion that cost as much as a full priced game too. So that was Activision using PS+ for marketing it more than anything else I think.
I think Anthem will be in the ÂŁ10-ÂŁ15 range in a PSN sale before next year though. That seems to be EA's thing instead of putting stuff on PS+.
"Rootin' Pootin' Cowboy Fruitin' 2"
I'm ashamed to admit that I've googled it.
There was such negativity and bad buzz around the game, I'm not surprised. But the game doesn't sound as bad as it's reported outhere. I've seen a discussion about the game on Gamekult, trust those guys. So I'll give the game a chance.
