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[Ashtar]

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle < 7,000 (-69%)

Dang smh my sells projection was waaaay off m+r = flop city
Kind of strange that D2 a much softer launch, anyone remember how much lower wd2 was? I feel like it was around 60%
This gen in general sequels such as tf2, wd2, dishonored 2, de: md have all underperformed. I wonder if shadow of war will continue the trend

 

[Zedark]

Dang smh my sells projection was waaaay off m+r = flop city
Kind of strange that D2 a much softer launch, anyone remember how much lower wd2 was? I feel like it was around 60%
This gen in general sequels such as tf2, wd2, dishonored 2, de: md have all underperformed. I wonder if shadow of war will continue the trend

What were your predictions? It between 20k and 30k in UK right now.

 

[stryke]

Expected sales for a game with an original title that bombed critically, and a woefully unappealing aesthetic. It's a shame because underneath all of that, Knack 2 is a good, polished game.

The character design of Knack came from all the wrong reasons. i.e a tech demo

 

[Kill3r7]

Why are people buying Ark.. for gods sakes people :/ have some standards

You do know that Ark already has sold a few million copies on consoles both on X1 and PS4 and for months on end made the Top20 digital charts.

While true, digital won't completely recover those sales, you do have to factor in that the PC release was delayed as well.

Weaker retail sales with stronger digital and delayed release on a major digital platform will make this launch look weak.

Also something different, I wonder if we get anything on hardware sales for the week. Was fun seeing somewhat weekly updates for hardware increases last year.

Yep but I do wonder where those 360 and PS3 folks went?

 

[Kazuhira]

Surprised to see Dishonored 2 and Doom still in UK's top ten.
And Prey being #4 in Germany,keep fighting the good fight german bros.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Surprised to see Dishonored 2 and Doom still in UK's top ten.
And Prey being #4 in Germany,keep fighting the good fight german bros.

Bundles, not "voluntary" purchases.

But yeah, the more people play these games the better. I wouldn't want Prey or Dishonored IP's to be abandoned for good.

 

[OléGunner]

Nice to see UC: TLL holding onto the second spot.

Hopefully the game overall has turned a nice little profit for ND, I'd like to see more story expansions to their games in general.

 

[PhantomThief]

You do know that Ark already has sold a few million copies on consoles both on X1 and PS4 and for months on end made the Top20 digital charts.



Yep but I do wonder where those 360 and PS3 folks went?

Yup I do, its sad as hell.

Why do people buy garbage?

 

[Lagspike_exe]

Destiny 2 launch is a disaster.

 

[Everlya_Apocryha]

I still don't get why Sony thought it was a good idea to greenlight that.

Mark Cerny gave an offer that sony can't refused.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

Oops!

[Week 36, 2017] 01 (NE) DESTINY 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 175,000 / NEW

PS4 DESTINY 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 101,500
XBO DESTINY 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 73,500

[Week 37, 2014] 01 (NE) DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 417,000 / NEW

PS4 DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 192,000
XBO DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 150,000
360 DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 58,000
PS3 DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 17,000

MS spin, we only lost 70k to Sony's 90k from Destiny 1 to 2

 

[ViciousDS]

If you looked at any Amazon chart for example you see that Destiny 2 wasn't doing as good as Destiny 1, never understood how Activision was saying pre-orders were better than the first game...

................PC still exists


Now launch earlier due to lower sales lol!!!

 

[Sammy Samusu]

France <3

 

[noobie]

Oops!

[Week 36, 2017] 01 (NE) DESTINY 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 175,000 / NEW

PS4 DESTINY 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 101,500
XBO DESTINY 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 73,500

[Week 37, 2014] 01 (NE) DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 417,000 / NEW

PS4 DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 192,000
XBO DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 150,000
360 DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 58,000
PS3 DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 17,000

So Bruno UC:LL has done 40K in second week?
and Knack 2 has done 6K first week?

Just verifying

 

[Bits N Pieces]

Forza Horizon 3 just keeps selling, consistently.

Amazing success story for Playground and T10.

 

[Good Guy Gone Bad]

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle < 7,000 (-69%)

Very underwhelming sales.

 

[black070]

So Bruno UC:LL has done 40K in second week?
and Knack 2 has done 6K first week?

Just verifying

It's Lost Legacy's third week of release.

 

[BanjoLayleeYookaKazooie]

Very underwhelming sales.

In what way? Bearing in mind there's only just north of 100,000 of the systems sold.

'Very' underwhelming seems a bit too much.

 

[NSESN]

Very underwhelming sales.

What were your expectations?

 

[jonno394]

Very underwhelming sales.

30K sales on a device with around ~200k units sold is decent. If this were a mainline Mario title then I think Underwhelming would be a fair description, but it's not. This is a tactical rpg spinoff, it's rather niche.

 

[Ashtar]

What were your predictions? It between 20k and 30k in UK right now.

I thought it'd sell around 2 million units worldwide, and that it'd oursell arms by year end

 

[Zedark]

I thought it'd sell around 2 million units worldwide, and that it'd oursell arms by year end

Neither of those are out of the question, though. It depends on other launches as well, but I feel the game has a good shot at reaching 2 million LTD.

 

[NSESN]

I thought it'd sell around 2 million units worldwide, and that it'd oursell arms by year end

It didn't launch in Japan tho, where arms sold 200k at retail alone.

 

[jonno394]

I thought it'd sell around 2 million units worldwide, and that it'd oursell arms by year end

It has likely outsold Arms in the UK already, if not very close to doing so. Arms opened ~13k and disappeared from the charts very quickly.

 

[black070]

I thought it'd sell around 2 million units worldwide, and that it'd oursell arms by year end

This is just UK though in all fairness.

 

[Kill3r7]

Forza Horizon 3 just keeps selling, consistently.

Amazing success story for Playground and T10.

It is one of the best X1 games this gen. I want to see how it performs agains FM7. I would not be surprised if it continued to chart well into next year.

 

[OfficerRaichu15]

It didn't launch in Japan tho, where arms sold 200k at retail alone.

Edit: I'm dumb but your right

 

[KingSnake]

I thought it'd sell around 2 million units worldwide, and that it'd oursell arms by year end

Well, good news then, it already outsold ARMS in UK. Seems to have sold well in France too.

 

[Hasney]

It is one of the best X1 games this gen. I want to see how it performs agains FM7. I would not be surprised if it continued to chart well into next year.

A lot of that will depend on if there's a lot of FM7 bundling happening. FH3 has benefitted hugely by being an almost default pack-in for the XB1S.

 

[Kill3r7]

A lot of that will depend on if there's a lot of FM7 bundling happening. FH3 has benefitted hugely by being an almost default pack-in for the XB1S.

I would assume FM7 will be bundled with XBX.

 

[Gotdatmoney]

I thought it'd sell around 2 million units worldwide, and that it'd oursell arms by year end

Oh lol. Well it'll do that with ease.

 

[Hasney]

I would assume FM7 will be bundled with XBX.

Maybe eventually. Dunno, kind of see the XBX doing PS4P thing of not having bundles until later and just keep it as the premium option that comes barebones.

Think the Destiny 2 Pro is the first official bundle?

 

[jonno394]

Bit of Digging through old threads for M&R performance comparisons (if we classify it as an RPG akin to the M&L series):

Mario and Rabbids Wk 1: #~22k
Mario and Luigi: Dream Team Bros wk 1: Over 5.400 (Under 8.865)
Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam: Did not chart, was 5th in 3DS chart during launch week

After 2 weeks, M&R looks like being in a strong position in comparison to the last two Mario RPGs with the same time on market.

 

[ExtinctionEvent]

Lost in the destiny news is the low drop for lost legacy. 49 percent drop is great no?

 

[Zedark]

Lost in the destiny news is the low drop for lost legacy. 49 percent drop is great no?

Pretty typical for a third week drop tbh.

 

[black070]

Lost in the destiny news is the low drop for lost legacy. 49 percent drop is great no?

The games done really well. I wouldn't mind seeing another Uncharted spin-off of the scale, its Sully's turn in the spotlight.

 

[theprodigy]

lol every Switch game has a better performance in the other major European countries than in UK this should be familiar by now

 

[cw_sasuke]

Bit of Digging through old threads for M&R performance comparisons (if we classify it as an RPG akin to the M&L series):

Mario and Rabbids Wk 1: #~22k
Mario and Luigi: Dream Team Bros wk 1: Over 5.400 (Under 8.865)
Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam: Did not chart, was 5th in 3DS chart during launch week

After 2 weeks, M&R looks like being in a strong position in comparison to the last two Mario RPGs with the same time on market.

Thanks for some context - some people expect a strategy game to put up mainstream AAA numbers just because Mario is involved. Sales are pretty solid for what it is...only the big first party releases performed better.

 

[black070]

Thanks for some context - some people expect a strategy game to put up mainstream AAA numbers just because Mario is involved. Sales are pretty solid for what it is...only the big first party releases performed better.

It should be compared to XCOM 2 on PS4/XBO if anything - I'm sure it's outsold them both combined.

 

[Linkura]

Oops!

[Week 36, 2017] 01 (NE) DESTINY 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 175,000 / NEW

PS4 DESTINY 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 101,500
XBO DESTINY 2 (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 73,500

[Week 37, 2014] 01 (NE) DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 417,000 / NEW

PS4 DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 192,000
XBO DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 150,000
360 DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 58,000
PS3 DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 17,000

 

[Mory Dunz]

lol every Switch game has a better performance in the other major European countries than in UK this should be familiar by now

UK gets the most attention.

I assume because it comes out first and the press release is detailed and has the most information.
But yea in terms of Switch SW sales, it's a drop in the pan. Definitely can't extrapolate WW sales well.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Launched across Xbox One and PS4, 58% of sales go to Sony's format and 42% to Microsoft's. The original, which was also released on PS3 and Xbox 360, saw Sony's formats account for 51% and Microsoft's formats 49%.

Do we know the split on Destiny 1 just between PS4 & Xbone? To be honest I would have probably expected PS4 to have a larger proportion, but I guess the split between the consoles isn't all that large.

EDIT - never mind, I see the numbers above. Crazy that it sold around half of the previous game (42% including last gen). No way did digital sales make up for that.

EDIT 2 - so it was a 56% PS4/44% Xbone split on Destiny 1 based on current-gen only, and 58% PS4/42% Xbone for Destiny 2.

 

[hanspampel]

Expected sales for a game with an original title that bombed critically, and a woefully unappealing aesthetic. It's a shame because underneath all of that, Knack 2 is a good, polished game.

haha nice. totally slipped my notice this post
great. you nearly got me and i thought it's about destiny

 

[black070]

haha nice. totally slipped my notice this post
great. you nearly got me and i thought it's about destiny

I think he was being serious.

 

[RedAssedApe]

haha nice. totally slipped my notice this post
great. you nearly got me and i thought it's about destiny

pretty sure it wasn't a joke post. knack 2 is a GOOD game. unfortunately knack meme is back firing and people think that anything positive people have to say about the game are jokes and immediately discount them. heh

 

[blakep267]

I would assume FM7 will be bundled with XBX.

True but also I'm assuming that during Black Friday Horizon 3 will be super cheap, like maybe $19.99. So it'll move even more copies then

 

[Stefarno]

Do we know the split on Destiny 1 just between PS4 & Xbone? To be honest I would have probably expected PS4 to have a larger proportion, but I guess the split between the consoles isn't all that large.

EDIT - never mind, I see the numbers above. Crazy that it sold around half of the previous game (42% including last gen). No way did digital sales make up for that.

EDIT 2 - so it was a 56% PS4/44% Xbone split on Destiny 1 based on current-gen only, and 58% PS4/42% Xbone for Destiny 2.

The split would typically be larger but Bungie made Halo so I imagine there would be more fans on Xbox (the userbase might also lean slightly more towards shooters?) and there were some fantastic Xbox bundles last week - you could get a console, Destiny 2 and 4 other games for under £200. There was the white PS4 Pro Destiny console too, but that was £350.

 

[hanspampel]

I think he was being serious.

pretty sure it wasn't a joke post. knack 2 is a GOOD game. unfortunately knack meme is back firing and people think that anything positive people have to say about the game are jokes and immediately discount them. heh

I know. That's what makes it a good funny post.
Same is true for Destiny. Just with way bigger sales numbers to begin with

 

[test_account]

Knack 2 also charting higher than Super Mario 3D World this week, not bad.

 

[Bruno MB]

Christopher Dring&#8207; @Chris_Dring

UK sales of Switch are slower compared with other markets. But doing ok. Currently ahead of Xbox One for the year (but well behind PS4)

https://twitter.com/Chris_Dring/status/907547744994295808