Pokémon and Spyro top hyper competitive week at UK games retail

DarkLordMalik · Nov 18, 2018

Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee for Nintendo Switch were the most successful video games at UK physical retail last week.

Technically, anyway. Let's Go Pikachu debuted at No.4 and Let's Go Eevee came in at No.6, but if sales of the two had been combined, then the games would have debuted at No.1.

It was a hyper competitive week at retail, and there are six new games in the Top Ten.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/artic...top-hyper-competitive-week-at-uk-games-retail

Deleted member 249 · Nov 18, 2018

Fantastic. The first of many weeks and charts Pokemon will top.
Let the salt commence.

N.Domixis · Nov 18, 2018

"75 per cent of Spyro's sales came on Sony's platform"
not surprised.

DarkLordMalik · Nov 18, 2018

I am happy for Spyro. I just hope they can patch in subtitles.

IzzyRX · Nov 18, 2018

However, Pokémon Let's Go's launch sales are down compared with previous major Pokémon titles. Opening week sales of Let's Go are down more than 60 per cent compared with 2016's Sun and Moon and are down five per cent compared with 2013's Pokémon X and Y.

Let's see if it has legs. It's what matters.
But I'm betting it will.

Lotus · Nov 18, 2018

Phantom Thief said:
Fantastic. The first of many weeks and charts Pokemon will top.
Let the salt commence.

But it's Pokemon.

Pokémon · Nov 18, 2018

Oh wow so Pokémon is at #1. Personally I did expect Spyro being #1 because it's the UK lol.

SuperFakerBros · Nov 18, 2018

IzzyRX said:
Let's see if it has legs. It's what matters.
But I'm betting it will.

Well it'll likely have legs till Gen 8 cuts it off :P

pld said:
Oh wow so Pokémon is at #1. Personally I did expect Spyro being #1 because it's the UK lol.

Honestly, I was expecting that too. Still, it did pretty damn good though

Deleted member 31817 · Nov 18, 2018

DarkLordMalik said:
I am happy for Spyro. I just hope they can patch in subtitles.

Wait

There's no subtitles?

Anyway this thread title is like a blast from the past

Jonnykong · Nov 18, 2018

Dat 465% increase for Just Dance tho

Braaier · Nov 18, 2018

Pokemon beat spyro. Didn't expect that. Noice. Game gonna sell a ton

Deleted member 59 · Nov 18, 2018

Awesome opening for LGP/LGE. Much better than i expected, and with digital it's probably much more than X/Y.

This coming from a market which so far this year hasn't really delivered stellar week 1 sales for any Switch title, is pretty impressive. I imagine WW will be massive.

NeonZ · Nov 18, 2018

Phantom Thief said:
Fantastic. The first of many weeks and charts Pokemon will top.
Let the salt commence.

Nah. These numbers seem low enough for it. Anyone expecting them to do even worse just didn't have realistic expectations.

Nanashrew · Nov 18, 2018

However, Pokémon Let's Go's launch sales are down compared with previous major Pokémon titles. Opening week sales of Let's Go are down more than 60 per cent compared with 2016's Sun and Moon and are down five per cent compared with 2013's Pokémon X and Y.

However, there are a few caveats. Stock issues persisted in the UK with fewer than expected units coming in from Nintendo's European warehouse, which meant some pre-orders were not fulfilled (and many stores were sold out). Furthermore, both X and Y and Sun and Moon launched when 3DS had a slightly larger install base compared with the Switch currently. Download sales are also not included in this data.

Deleted member 2791 · Nov 18, 2018

Let's Go sold around 116k. X/Y should have sold 122k. Sun/Moon sold 290k.

DarkLordMalik · Nov 18, 2018

Psychoward said:
Wait

There's no subtitles?

Anyway this thread title is like a blast from the past

Yes. No subtitles in this day and age.

ethomaz · Nov 18, 2018

Braaier said:
Pokemon beat spyro. Didn't expect that. Noice. Game gonna sell a ton

Are you kidding? Pokemon is a juggernaut compared with Spyro.

Deleted member 249 · Nov 18, 2018

NeonZ said:
Nah. These numbers seem low enough for it. Anyone expecting them to do even worse just didn't have realistic expectations.

They're "low" because of install base differences.

Charamiwa · Nov 18, 2018

Hitman 2 down 90% from Absolution (2012)
Fallout 76 down 82% from Fallout 4

Nuclear Muffin · Nov 18, 2018

Not a bad start for Let's Go. It was never going to match the proper mainline games, even when accounting for the userbase difference, so that's a good result!

What I'm really interested in though is the demographics that are buying that game... Are they mainly people who previously played X.Y and S/M? Or are they mainly people who have only played Pokemon Go...

Braaier · Nov 18, 2018

ethomaz said:
Are you kidding?

Umm no. Crash did crazy good. Didn't think let's go which had a ton of negative press would beat spyro.

This is pretty surprising. Lots of ppl were saying spyro would sell best. That didn't happen. Pokemon is still a beast I suppose

ILikeFeet · Nov 18, 2018

everything's down in comparison in the UK. anyhoo revenue should be way the fuck up.

I'm expecting this game to be on par with XY in NA and down in JP. legs will be interesting globally

Mbolibombo · Nov 18, 2018

LordKano said:
Let's Go sold 116k. X/Y should have sold 121k. Sun/Moon sold 290k.

Including digital I'd say it's likely it topped X/Y.

But man, those Sun/Moon numbers are crazy..

SinCityAssassin · Nov 18, 2018

IzzyRX said:
Let's see if it has legs. It's what matters.
But I'm betting it will.

Let's Go is also not billed as a full 'next generation' Pokémon game but rather an entry-level take on the series designed to pull in fans of Pokémon Go. Let's Go is actually a remake (of sorts) of 1999's Pokémon Yellow, and Nintendo will hope it attracts families and younger gamers. This audience typically isn't a 'week one' shopper so, if Nintendo succeeds, we should expect these games to hang around for some time.

~Fake · Nov 18, 2018

Phantom Thief said:
Fantastic. The first of many weeks and charts Pokemon will top.
Let the salt commence.

However, Pokémon Let's Go's launch sales are down compared with previous major Pokémon titles.

Lelouch0612 · Nov 18, 2018

Amazing start for both franchises !

I predicted that Spyro would be first but the last few days really pushed Pokemon to another level.

That's about 40% more than Super Mario Odyssey FW.

DarkLordMalik · Nov 18, 2018

Charamiwa said:
Hitman 2 down 90% from Absolution (2012)
Fallout 76 down 82% from Fallout 4

Ooffff. That one stings since it is a genuinely good game.

Deleted member 2791 · Nov 18, 2018

Mbolibombo said:
Including digital I'd say it's likely it topped X/Y.

But man, those Sun/Moon numbers are crazy..

Digital included it's definitely above X/Y, especially if Let's Go had shortages.

but yeah, sun/moon's launch was on a whole other planet

Philly Cheesesteak · Nov 18, 2018

Lol The other thread states Let's Go is down 60% from Sun/Moon though. Selective reporting or what?

Deleted member 249 · Nov 18, 2018

~Fake said:
.

Once more, install base differences mean that was always going to happen

Philly Cheesesteak said:
Lol The other thread states Let's Go is down 60% from Sun/Moon though. Selective reporting or what?

It's both. Sun and Moon was Nintendo's biggest opening ever.

Braaier · Nov 18, 2018

See above posts. It's not surprising. It would be surprising if sales were up. Let's go dun good, don't worry

ZhugeEX · Nov 18, 2018

I'll redirect this one to the other thread.

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