UK Charts: Crash Team Racing puts the bandicoot back at No.1
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Sounds like strong sales, what with it being 8x over the next sku, and 4x over Sonic Team Racing. Does anyone have numbers to get a range of units sold for this?
People don't even know what fps is. They just prefer the better game.
No surprises, a Crash remake was always gonna sell gangbusters over there. Still, deserved success, game's really fun and well made all around. Forza Horizon 4 being this high up after so long and despite being in Game Pass is quite the success story too, Playground really outdid themselves this time.
Clearly the lesson learnt here is that Activision should have put some zombies in the game to secure that top spot.
Hang in there Days Gone. With everyone expecting you to sell 10-15 million copies worldwide, you've got work to do. 🤡
Very nice - congrats to Activision for another successful classic remake.
Crash, Spyro and Crash Team Racing.
They are 3/3 right now.
Why not ? PS4 has the by far biggest install base, Sony had the exclusive marketing-deal, Crash is THE PS mascot and there is a lack of quality fun racers of that plattform.
So week 1 being much higher on PS4 isnt suprising - how the plattform split evolves over time will be more interesting, but for week 1 PS4 was always going to have a large lead.
Crash, Spyro and Crash Team Racing.
They are 3/3 right now.
Why not ? PS4 has the by far biggest install base, Sony had the exclusive marketing-deal, Crash is THE PS mascot and there is a lack of quality fun racers of that plattform.
So week 1 being much higher on PS4 isnt suprising - how the plattform split evolves over time will be more interesting, but for week 1 PS4 was always going to have a large lead.
I guess, and the exclusive content did probably help but 66% is still quite impressive.
Don't most multiplatform games have that kind of split? Honestly I'm surprised for a Crash game it isn't 80%+.
After the "surprise" success of N-Sane Trilogy and now this, I really don't see how Activision decides not to make new Crash games, but I'm sure they'll find a way to disappoint.
If they were smart they would have put a game called Crash 4 into immediate production in 2017 for a summer 2020 release. That's the exact sort of all-ages franchise we should be seeing now, as the current consoles get cheaper and start to target a younger/wider audience.
If they were smart they would have put a game called Crash 4 into immediate production in 2017 for a summer 2020 release. That's the exact sort of all-ages franchise we should be seeing now, as the current consoles get cheaper and start to target a younger/wider audience.
Well most multiplatform launches have only XBO and PS4 versions so huge split for PS4 makes then sense. Crash had also Switch version day one.
Crash PlayStation brand association skrong af. Wonder what Activision will do next with Crash and Spyro.
What do you assume VV has been working on these past few years?
Crash is a strange IP. The XB1 sku has now outsold the Switch sku in the first week for both a 2D platformer and a Kart racer lol (UK only, until we learn more, of course)
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The XB1/PS4 split is roughly that at ~79%. This just seems lower than usual because the Switch, with a smaller install base, sells a good amount of boxed software.
Partly this, but remember the Crash trilogy was exclusive to PS4 for a year and sold like hot-cakes at that time. So PS4 will already have established itself as the destination for Crash fans, and created many new Crash fans there too.
Similar reason to why Mass Effect 2 sold poorly on PS3.
Knowing Activision, being a Destiny/Call of Duty support studio.
I really hope you're right, though.
Pretty sure in the resolution thread we were told that there was absolutely no chance people would buy a kart game at 30fps.
Now I don't know who to believe...
Now I don't know who to believe...
The one where the online wasn't completely dead on day one.
They have always been that but they have also released their own games at the same time. Plus Destiny is no longer under Acti so they probably have even more free hands.
That's a good point, too. Several reasons why PS4 dominated CTR sales (in no particular order):
- PS4 had the exclusive marketing;
- Crash is a brand intimately connected to PS4;
- Crash N Sane Trilogy was a year long exclusive on PS4, establishing it even further as the platform for Crash;
- PS4 is by far the most successful platform in the UK.
That's a lot going for the PS4, and a 66% share of total sales for this title nicely matches up with that I think.
Your general consumer won't even know the game is 30fps until they put the disc in and start playing. Once they realise that something's wrong, they'll return the product and get a refund.
Didnt the Switchversion of Bandicoot have better legs than the Xbox one? or do I confuse it with something else
TSR is very average game mostly full of rubbish characters that nobody has ever heard of. Crash seems like the better choice.
Well, partly because they already played MK8D to death (I know I was pining for a new, awesome Kart racer). But besides that, Crash as an IP is very enjoyable, and the game looks really good regardless of the resolution. Frame rate is not typically something non-hardcore gamers care a lot about. And it's a pretty good game, too.
That's very well possible, at least in the first few weeks after launch. I will clarify in my original post that I was thinking first week specifically.
Well, it did drop 64%, but that's not too surprising imo considering it was featured in the Days of Play sales which ended the week before the one that's been reported here.
Except Crash had massive issues with online on day one lmao
Depends on what you want. Both are pretty fun.
TSR is 60fps and has good team mechanics
But CTR has better Tracks,content.
Out of all the reasons you pick the strangest one. Its not like Crash is filled with iconic characters or something lol. If anything more people would recognize more characters in TSR.
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Crash Bandicoot 4 was already in pre-production before N. Sane even went on sale.
