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UK - Physical Call of Duty BO4 Launch Sales Lowest in 11 Years
- Thread starter DriftingSpirit
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Definitely a correlation lol but hard to know if it's making up for lower physical.
BO4 is the kind of online only, always in your system game
It makes no sense to go physical for it
I'd expect them to mention the game selling better than the recent entries if so so probably not (talking WW not just the UK).
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I don't get it.
Why are Fifa, Ass Creed and now BOF4 seeing a significant dip in physical sales whereas Forza 4 Horizon WHICH IS ON GAMESPASS saw sales go up compared to the previous iteration.
That said I'd love to know if BOF4 made up the shortfall but all we have is Best. Digital. Ever. Which makes sense because a disc for a multiplayer only game has shit re-sell value and pointless.
Why are Fifa, Ass Creed and now BOF4 seeing a significant dip in physical sales whereas Forza 4 Horizon WHICH IS ON GAMESPASS saw sales go up compared to the previous iteration.
That said I'd love to know if BOF4 made up the shortfall but all we have is Best. Digital. Ever. Which makes sense because a disc for a multiplayer only game has shit re-sell value and pointless.
Yikes... I remember back in the glory days of MW it was pulling a million at physical.
All things that go up must come down I guess
these count pre-orders right? iirc there was pre-order bonus for psn that let you play blops4 maps in blops3. perhaps that contributed some.
It makes sense to go physical when it costs £59.99 digitally! I'm an always digital person and I bought a disc in a store because I got it for £44.99. Digital price of BO4 was shocking.
I might be going crazy here, but this might just be a sign of how people are migrating to buy digital instead of physical copies.
Because gamepass increases the sales, more people playing the game - more people buying it. It's all about players, not sales anymore
Especially for a game which is now multiplayer only. Unfortunately without digital, UK numbers only tell us half the story. Won't be a problem soon though.
It's £49.99 on Battle.net, so I imagine a lot of digital PC sales.
Digital here. Personally, I've been moving pretty much all of my game purchases to digital as of late. amazon.ca, Best Buy, etc... have been significantly more unreliable than in past for shipping games on time.
For launch weekend in the UK? I'd be surprised given MW1 was given so different from the prior games and the only real sample any one would have had of it was the beta where you had to go begging for codes from FZT/CoD forum. Word of mouth absolutely catapuled MW1.
Call of Duty Series UK Retail
[Week 45, 2007] CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE (ACTIVISION) < 215,000 / NEW
[Week 46, 2008] CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 430,000 / NEW
[Week 46, 2009] CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 1,600,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2010] CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 1,800,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2011] CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 1,773,000 / NEW
[Week 46, 2012] CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS II (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 1,386,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2013] CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 690,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2014] CALL OF DUTY: ADVANCED WARFARE (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 730,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2015] CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS III (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 635,000 / NEW
[Week 44, 2016] CALL OF DUTY: INFINITE WARFARE (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 328,000 / NEW
[Week 44, 2017] CALL OF DUTY: WWII (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 515,000 / NEW
[Week 41, 2018] CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 4 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 260,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2007] CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE (ACTIVISION) < 215,000 / NEW
[Week 46, 2008] CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 430,000 / NEW
[Week 46, 2009] CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 1,600,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2010] CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 1,800,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2011] CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 1,773,000 / NEW
[Week 46, 2012] CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS II (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 1,386,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2013] CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 690,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2014] CALL OF DUTY: ADVANCED WARFARE (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 730,000 / NEW
[Week 45, 2015] CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS III (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 635,000 / NEW
[Week 44, 2016] CALL OF DUTY: INFINITE WARFARE (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 328,000 / NEW
[Week 44, 2017] CALL OF DUTY: WWII (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 515,000 / NEW
[Week 41, 2018] CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 4 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 260,000 / NEW
because FH4 had a massive amount of hype behind it, enough to offset the shift to digital. The other games apparently didn't.
The week number does help give some context on this too. Closer to the holidays = more sales.
Any chart that doesn't include digital these days is irrelevant, and even in those that do (e.g. NPD) their inability to track the whole market due to publishers/platform holders not sharing data also leaves huge gaps in market information.
I mean it's been like this since PC sales went majority digital, but physical-only trackers are now active sources of misinformation about markets outside of saying 'physical sales are down'.
I mean it's been like this since PC sales went majority digital, but physical-only trackers are now active sources of misinformation about markets outside of saying 'physical sales are down'.
EXACTLY! After playing for a bit on Gamepass, I plan on buying it once my month is up. I won't keep Gamepass forever, but I'll totally buy Froza because when I'm bored with it, I can sell it.
Those UK numbers are NOT a good indicator anymore. We already saw that with AC Odyssey and Shadow of the Tomb Raider ; those games were doing great despite there slower start in UK.
Not only that, I assume a lot of people (like me) want it but I plan on waiting for Red Dead Redemption 2 later this month. Plus, most workers in UK get paid monthly and by the end of the month, which again is why I'm getting RDR2 rather than this. Still totally buying it though.
Odyssey earned more money in first week compared to all current-gen AC titles but they never said numbers so there is chance that it did sell less.
Damn Black Ops really was an event huh. Wonder if we'll ever see that again any time soon.
Did we? I don't remember that. Japan numbers were decent, but besides that I don't think we've anything about those?
That's kind of a strange thing to be perplexed by. Games are individual entities. So an outcome for a few games does not mean it should be expected for all.
Forza Horizon releases less frequently than the rest of those games you mentioned, and has been consistently growing as a series. I'm surprised anyone thought it would sell less than #3. The third game really took the series to the next level, and #4 is the first game after that. So the momentum would logically continue. Not to mention that its reviews are super high too. And it's set in the UK which helps with sales out that way. Game Pass has also been aiding sales for first party games.