‘Assassin’s Creed Origins’ begins life at No1 just like its predecessor ‘Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’ two years ago.

Launch sales units are almost level with Syndicate, but surpass it in terms of revenue, boosted by the more expensive ‘Gold’ and ‘Gods’ editions. At No2 ‘Super Mario Odyssey’ becomes the biggest ever launch for a Switch title, comfortably beating ‘Zelda: Breath of the Wild’. Not only that, it is also considerably bigger than any Wii U title’s debut, recording Nintendo’s 6th biggest launch ever. ‘FIFA 18’ (-11%) is relegated to No3, but maintains a healthy lead over the only other new title to enter the All Formats Top 10 this week; ‘Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus’ debuting at No4. Last week’s No1 ‘Gran Turismo: Sport’ (-61%) shifts down to No5 in front of a retailer promoted ‘Gran Theft Auto V’ (+129%) at No6 and ‘Destiny 2’ at No7, sales up 117% with help from the new PC version released on Tuesday. The only other new title to make it in to the Top 40 this week is Ubisoft’s ‘Just Dance 2018’ at No23, with the old Nintendo Wii still its lead format despite it also making an appearance on Nintendo Switch.

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pixelbox said:

What happened to him?

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Boy Wander said:

Apparently 45% of UK sales are now digital so its getting harder and harder to rely on charts such as these to get an accurate picture of sales.

Edit: sorry for double post - in Mexico and internet is a bit crap.

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Boy Wander said:

UK phys charts don't really show the full picture as apparently 45% of UK sales are now digital.

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Chris1 said:

Where are you getting that 45% figure from?

Edit oh I see 30-45%. Holy shit.

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Chris1 said:

Where are you getting that 45% figure from?

Edit oh I see 30-45%. Holy shit.

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Boy Wander said:

Apparently 45% of UK sales are now digital so its getting harder and harder to rely on charts such as these to get an accurate picture of sales.

Edit: sorry for double post - in Mexico and internet is a bit crap.

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Wiped89 said:

But why would that stop a chart being accurate in terms of positions?

If we assume that 45% is spread evenly across the chart, then the digital sales don't change the chart positions. AC would still be number 1, Fifa still number 3 etc. It's not like we have raw numbers anyway.

The charts were always based on a sample of sales and extrapolated outwards. They never counted every sale. Not even close.

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Boy Wander said:

Because numbers paint a better picture and if you can only get half of the picture from these charts, their usefulness decreases.

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Wiped89 said:

But we never even had half the picture to begin with

The way the charts work is a bit like election polling. You get data from a few shops and extrapolate that to represent the whole industry. For example 1,000 sales of a game in a sample of 10,000 would represent 10% of the population, or 7 million sales (very rough example)

As long as people are buying the same games digital as they are physical, the chart should still be representative of the UK as a whole.

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Boy Wander said:

I understand that, but when you're getting misleading statements like "Wolfenstein launched with 70% of the first games sales" because 45% of sales are digital, it makes the numbers accompanying the charts less meaningful than was previously the case.

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Wiped89 said:

But we never even had half the picture to begin with

The way the charts work is a bit like election polling. You get data from a few shops and extrapolate that to represent the whole industry. For example 1,000 sales of a game in a sample of 10,000 would represent 10% of the population, or 7 million sales (very rough example)

As long as people are buying the same games digital as they are physical, the chart should still be representative of the UK as a whole.

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Boy Wander said:

I'm also not totally convinced that the charts work as you say. Chart track get their numbers directly from retailers and apparently 90+% of physical sales through those channels are accurately reflected.

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Wiped89 said:

It's all based on representative sampling. Retailers like GAME, Tesco and Argos do not count up every copy sold at every one of hundreds of stores nationwide within a few days and send it all to Chart Track.

They have a select few stores which they collect data from and extrapolate that for a representative sample.

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