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UK Charts - Far Cry New Dawn and Crackdown 3 Significantly Down, Metro ~50% Up Over Last Light (physical), Jump Force Opens Strong
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OK , my mistake. I don't really know other game sub services, so assumed he was talking about MS
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You're fine. It was just mentioned afterward so I know it was probably missed.
Oh, so it's an upfront payment. I was wondering this early in the thread.
Oh what's considered a non-active member? Just anyone who's not currently subbbing? I had like a 9 month subscription really early on from the free Tmobile Tuesday subs stacked together.
I wish there wasn't, but I've seen some of the anime games people buy and that I had gotten when I was a kid where you open it, play it for a bit, and then just get sad.
Jump Ultimate Stars not getting localized is still a crime. One of the best games on DS.
That's not really how games sell. A 50% increase from the first tracked week to the second is incredibly rare (in fact, I can't recall a single instance of that happening). Also considering the terrible word of mouth, it's more likely to drop 50%or more in its second week, meaning 2k or fewer units sold in the period from last Sunday to next saturday.
XGP numbers are not included in digital split and nor should they be given the humongous revenue difference and the possibility that GP revenue could also theoretically be split among so many other titles, for first party anyway, which might work different to how third party publishers or independent studios GP fees were arranged. Take GP out of that equation and there's no way the digital split is 70%. From everything we've read and data we have, UK digital split is on average 25%, so even if it were much higher than that, 70% seems completely unlikely.
Your figure for second week of tracked sales also seems overly generous and highly unlikely. I'm not sure I can ever even recall an example of 50% second week growth.
Then we have the fact that the game was developed by hundreds of devs, multiple studios, had lots of R&D and a troublesome development process over 5 years, and you're looking at an expensive AAA title, notably for an exclusive, that would need to likely sell well over a million just to break even. Based on the metrics we know thus far (UK sales, Twitch numbers, reviews or reception, social media reaction etc), it definitely seems like it'll end up being a fairly sizeable flop.
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I really do wonder how expensive CD3's development was, it went through what? 4 or 5 studios? Probably 6+ years of active development, which seemed to hit development hell early.
Oh someone did that already? Haha well beaten in that case. Gotta be quick around here :)
With these numbers in the UK, The games first week should be less than 20k in Europe at retail.
Ha that's funny :). Who is that by the way?
Edit: nvm just looked him up. Might give his podcast a listen. Cheers.
I think I remember the stats were something like:
30% of lifetime sales Day One.
30% of lifetime sales Week One (excluding Day One).
30% of lifetime sales Month One (excluding Day One and Week One).
10% rest of life.
Well, why would you buy Crackdown 3? It is so short and slight, that it makes much more sense as a gamepass game.
No way to spin Crackdown that's a massive flop. Good for Metro and I expected better for Far Cry too.
Well there's GP at least and at least they finally release the game
Goddamn this is good
It means, why buy Crackdown 3 for 60 dollars, when it can be beaten in 1 or 2 sittings and has little replay value, when you can just play it on gamepass for a much cheaper price? What is so hard to understand about that?
Yeah, your take is not a good outlook for subcription services really. God knows how much this game cost to make as well.
You want to go and listen to the podcast of a rabid console warrior? Really?
Puertorock is one hilarious dude. People should check out his podcasts!
Or Portugal. Nobody came to pick it up at launch day in one of the biggest retail stores.
It's not really surprising... I mean they giving the game away on Game Pass and the game itself really isn't very good.
Well sure, but that it took this long to make something so slight, shows that something has clearly gone wrong during development. Ideally, games that take 5 years or so to make, should be substantial enough to be worth buying at full price.
FarCry 5 was the first one since FC3 that i didn't platinum; hell, i didn't even finish it. I did 100% FC3, FC4, FC Blood Dragon and FC Primal.
FarCry - New Dawn is likely going to be the first one i won't even buy :/
And i don't think it's Ubisoft fatigue. I just really didn't like anything they added / removed when making FarCry 5.
Also, the setting was shit.
FarCry - New Dawn is likely going to be the first one i won't even buy :/
And i don't think it's Ubisoft fatigue. I just really didn't like anything they added / removed when making FarCry 5.
Also, the setting was shit.
Pretty much like a Netflix movie, it feels okay to watch mediocre movies when you are already subscribed to a service with a large catalogue of content that you might be interested in. To be fair CD3 had a long development so it might be disappointing that we got Bright instead of Roma.
Get it? because Bright was still fun.
(I did not play CD3)
(I did not play CD3)
This whole Netflix thing is BS. Even MS said it won't happen, as every one will have their own service
Terry deserved better. The professionality he's shown on social media when he approached the gaming world is something absolutely praiseworthy. Most celebrities would have handwaved their role in a videogame and pretended it never happened, while he engaged with fans and kept beating the drums on social medias. Major props to him.
It's hilarious how no one knows how much money games make on Game Pass but the narrative for any MS game that doesn't sell well will be that Game Pass prevents it from being a bomba.
They really did quite the PR spinnage with that service.
They really did quite the PR spinnage with that service.
Why sell copies when you can max out the MAUs?
