You should realise 2 things. First, there is a digital percentage that will increase this number. Secondly, FFXIII had enormous hype behind it (yes, really), which may have cause it to sell sp much in its first week (it is renowned for its awful legs as well). This result is not at all bad imo, actually pretty good.
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Final Fantasy XV is second fastest selling FF game in the UK [Up: Week 2 down 75%]
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You should realise 2 things. First, there is a digital percentage that will increase this number. Secondly, FFXIII had enormous hype behind it (yes, really), which may have cause it to sell sp much in its first week (it is renowned for its awful legs as well). This result is not at all bad imo, actually pretty good.
Very different market today vs back then. Based on the numbers and what we know, some of those 360 folks have migrated to PS4. Also, the X1 player base is pretty different than it use to be. Case in point, Halo and Gears.
Dangansona
Member
But the previous UK numbers told be that AAA gaming is dead!
It's particularly annoying to me as someone who likes both XV and XIII.
It's particularly annoying to me as someone who likes both XV and XIII.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
I know people who buy directly on Steam despite their prices being £10 odd more because of convenience. (Though it really isn't that much more effort to buy it cheaper....)
Mind you, I do wonder if that's just for titles like FIFA, CoD, Battlefield where it probably is beneficial to have a digital copy if you play it a lot so you don't have to shove in a disk every single time.
But then again, I guess in general people aren't really buying many games outside those 3 in the UK, heh.
Makes me sad though, means the digital prices will never be fixed if people are alrewady caving on them. Sigh.
AHA-Lambda
Member
And? It's said every single week that digital has little impact on these sales. Even with digital it's very likely under 13
Cos isn't the PS4/xb1 install base bigger than the 360/PS3 base was when 13 released?
Exactly.
Well if I was SE I'd be asking myself why hype was lower for a game that took 10 years to make and is the first mainline FF game in 6 years and for a new generation of consoles.
To me not outdoing a game from 6 years ago on a bigger(?) install base ain't praiseworthy
80%
This. XV has good word of mouth, has depth, mass appeal, stream appeal, and DLC support for up to a year so I think the legs in this will be much better than XIII which fell flat two weeks after release.
That would mean a significant uptick in sales in the west given the current Japanese console market.
Jawmuncher
Member
I figured it wouldn't pass 13 launch. This had hype, but that launch was even bigger. Especially with the whole first time going multiplat for mainline.
Actually, it would put it in the range of the known figures we have of XIII. If that range is 70% of the sales, you divide the number by 0.70. So in the middle, taking 125000, it would make sales overall 178,571.
Like I said, probably didn't do 30%, but if it did, it would put it in line with XIII.
I can't really say the word of mouth I've witnessed these last days is that good...
It's better than XIII's lol.
People were on the war path for XIII. I've not seen anything quite that bad, it's mostly just disappointed comments. A good amount of people, like myself, are still enjoying it despite the issues.
ethomaz
Banned
That will be good but Japan holds a strong part of FFXIII sales which FFXV won't have.
Or non-existent games.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Asia's growth could make up for that.
PumpkinPie
Banned
What have we done?
Jawbreaker
Member
Good numbers, especially if you take digital into account.
Gods work
As if anyone needs further explaining as to why square enix dont seem to bother porting the kingdom Hearts games to xbox... or the lack of other japanese games an 80/20 split is insane
ethomaz
Banned
DAT 1% China.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Square and Nintendo can go and fornicate themselves, I still haven't forgiven them for how they treated Europe in the 90's.
AHA-Lambda
Member
It's not going to be enough to make up for the decline.
I swear we do this same dance every week.
It is still down regardless of digital which was expected.
The game is selling well, be happy.
Better prepare for this Wednesday, even with a 200% digital ratio it won't be enough to cover the japanese gap.
Bits N Pieces
Member
Im amazed nearly 30k people bought it on Xbox, I don't know anyone that did either at retail or through digital.
That's actually better than I thought it would do, lol
That's actually better than I thought it would do, lol
Those bastards didn't even release Chrono Trigger or FFT here either. Fans of JRPG's in PAL territories had it tough in those days.
It sucked being in Australia because you were basically waiting for translation into European languages for no reason.
There was like a 6 month delay between the US version of FFX and the PAL release. It was brutal and when it finally came out, it wasn't even properly localised.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Sorry, what's happening on Wednesday?
Media Create sales, aka the first week results of FFXV in Japan.
ethomaz
Banned
People are putting too much weight in digital this time... this game was not released same day retail/digital.
The street date broke 2 weeks before the plan and a lot of gamers get it a week before... it is FF after all and probably some digital buyers choose retail to play the game.
I guess retail early release affect digital sales but of course I can be wrong... I'm just using common sense.
A decline from XIII is sad, but releasing in the December period will give the game relatively stronger legs (XIII had absolutely atrocious legs, after all). The difference in first week sales isn't that significant, FFXV could still come out on top in the UK but we'll have to wait and see.
Wow.
Ravage_Hydra
Member
wow
looking on the us amazon hourly list the ps4 version has been in the top 5 since launch while the xb1 version as been down in the 40 range
KillerMan91
Member
But it makes it a lot closer and considering how big the opening for XIII was by Final Fantasy standards it's decent result.
You think it will be less than 500k in Japan first week?
Fair point.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Oh I see! Yeah... =/
ethomaz
Banned
FFXIII was the first game to have big launch numbes outside Japan... so it is normal the new game sells better than the previous FFs that did really low numbers in US and a bit better in EU.
If you account Japan only FFXIII already did below what you expect from FF franchise.
My bet is on 650k.
autumnleaf
Member
The hype for XIII was much higher and I think there was some disappointment with that game so a drop should be expected. I don't think XV will see exceptional legs though.