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[Kysen]

Damn what happened to halo, 4 games in one and still that far down.

 

[SmokyDave]

100. LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

So Bayonetta 2 was outsold by a 3 year old LEGO game?

Hang your heads in shame Wii U owners.

 

[Mr Git]

Why is Colonial Marines in there. Who is still buying it?!

 

[Kill3r7]

2 ot of the top 5 are new IPs so that's a positive.

 

[AntiFacebook]

I'm surprised how far down that list Dragon Age and Pokemon games were...maybe because they were released later in the year?

Smash and call of duty were also released late and they are pretty high on that list

I'm surprised Smash outsold MK8.
.

Well,,smash has a 3ds version,unlike mk8. I'm surprised MK8 is even on the list.

 

[Chocolate & Vanilla]

100. LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

So Bayonetta 2 was outsold by a 3 year old LEGO game?

Hang your heads in shame Wii U owners.

I bought Bayo2. High fives to the other 4 Brits who did too

 

[Daemul]

Its also on PC.

And besides I don't know what you guys are talking about, the top exclusive game on that list is Minecraft: Xbox edition, and we all know the Xbox edition is exclusive to Xbox

PC sales would have negligible impact on the games ranking in the physical charts though. We really need both physical and digital sales for a more precise chart, we ain't gonna get them though lol

 

[llehuty]

It's the UK. What did you expect?

Having two COD games in the top 10 is just too much.

 

[Scipio]

Prove that NeoGAF is a worse representation of gaming than any random 17 year old Brit.

FIFA was shite this year too.

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

It came out in 2013.

I know but didn't it only do around 100k in December, its launch month?

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Bundling a new IP normally plays out one of two ways:

If game is good and liked the bundling garners it a bigger install base that it might otherwise have gotten and generally subsequent entries will sell very well without bundling

If the game is weak or simply doesn't "click" with majority then it was never going to succed and the IP will wither whatever happens.

Bundling rarely results in a market that then waits for future bundles but it can artificially inflate how popular a game seems.

At this point it feels like word of mouth on Driveclub has been very good since they switched on challenges and released weather patch so unless the Plus edition aides lots of issues I think the IP will have benefitted from bundling.

I also think DC would have struggled without bundles due to the technical issues plaguing it at launch.

Very good points, some I hadn't really given much thought to.

Let's hope it did click for the majority, but I'd he lying if I said it wasn't somewhat depressing to pop into a GAME and see almost an entire shelf of just DC pre-owned copies...

100. LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

So Bayonetta 2 was outsold by a 3 year old LEGO game?

Hang your heads in shame Wii U owners.

Oh man, I did my part, but it was always going to be a hard sell with how bad everything U related is in the UK.

Why is Colonial Marines in there. Who is still buying it?!

It plagued the charts for some months due to some retailers selling it for as little as £2.99.

 

[higgsboson1997]

100. LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

So Bayonetta 2 was outsold by a 3 year old LEGO game?

Hang your heads in shame Wii U owners.

There are none in the UK though.

Spoiler

jk

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Two COD titles in the top 10
The Crew above Smash Bros or Mario Kart

Gamers, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER.

It's the UK. What did you expect?

Jog the fuck on. As if the US chart would look much different.

 

[offshore]

It came out in 2013.

But even then its sales were only estimated around 50,000 in the first week, then dropped 37% in the second week, so its UK sales have been poor. Like Wax says, it probably barely did 100k in December '13.

 

[faridmon]

Trials Fusion, wat?

 

[Kill3r7]

Having two COD games in the top 10 is just too much.

It's COD. It's one of a handful of games everyone plays.

 

[Daemul]

Colonial Marines sold more than Bayo 2?! GTFO

 

[Sjefen]

i didn't expect FIFA 15 as nr 1

Spoiler

Obviously a joke

 

[NavNucST3]

It came out in 2013.

It looks like there are more than a handful of games that came out in 2013 (and earlier) that made the list.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

The Crew outsold Halo: MCC, Alien Isolation and Dragon Age: Inquisition? Fuck's sake.

 

[mclem]

100. LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

So Bayonetta 2 was outsold by a 3 year old LEGO game?

Hang your heads in shame Wii U owners.

In my defense, I was purchase-neutral here. I bought both last year

 

[theprodigy]

UK top 10

1. FIFA 15
2. CALL OF DUTY: ADVANCED WARFARE
3. GRAND THEFT AUTO V
4. DESTINY
5. WATCH DOGS
6. MINECRAFT: XBOX EDITION
7. FIFA 14
8. FAR CRY 4
9. CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS
10. ASSASSIN'S CREED UNITY

Germany top 10

01 FIFA 2015 (ELECTRONIC ARTS) >1m
02 GRAND THEFT AUTO V (TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE)
03 CALL OF DUTY: ADVANCED WARFARE (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) >500k
04 FIFA 2014 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
05 WATCH DOGS (UBISOFT)
06 DIABLO III: REAPER OF SOULS (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
07 FAR CRY 4 (UBISOFT)
08 MINECRAFT (MICROSOFT)
09 MINECRAFT (SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT)
10 CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)

lol at the guys complaining about 2 FIFA/CoDs in top 10, or the FIFA/CoD/GTA top 3

 

[Mr Git]

It plagued the charts for some months due to some retailers selling it for as little as £2.99.

Fucking hell. I'd rather buy a pint. Or cigarettes. Money is better spent on toxic paraphernalia than that game.

 

[oti]

Jog the fuck on. As if the US chart would look much different.

That would be a surprise to nobody.

 

[OverturePT]

Bayo 2 nowhere to be seen and that's why we can't have nice things.

 

[FDC1]

i didn't expect FIFA 14 as nr 1

Spoiler

Obviously a joke

Well, it isn't

 

[CANLI]

what bad tastes lollll look at this top 3!! I like Fifa but it doesn't deserve at all to sell millions. This game is an update of last years and not a full game
In uk, there will never be place to little developers.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Wow, Driveclub did much better than I expected.

Does this include bundles?

 

[weekev]

Apologies rest of the world. We really have shite taste in games here in the UK.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

SONIC OUTSELLS MARIO! SONIC OUTSELLS MARIO! FUCK YEAH!

 

[FDC1]

Wow, Driveclub did much better than I expected.

Does this include bundles?

Yes

 

[bombshell]

53. SUNSET OVERDRIVE

This has to be performing below expectations even though Phil Spencer said it was selling great.

 

[Memory]

Im ashamed of the country i live in...

 

[Messofanego]

Edit: Top 100.

Physical only.

22. WOLFENSTEIN: THE NEW ORDER

Source: MVC

It was me, I bought that game twice.

 

[javac]

100. LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

So Bayonetta 2 was outsold by a 3 year old LEGO game?

Hang your heads in shame Wii U owners.

They probably sold like a billion digital copies, trust me I'm a professional.

 

[Retro Biscuits]

Teenage males pretty much own the UK gaming market.

dunno about that, i think those are just the games that have the widest appeal to all ages. im pretty sure the same amount of people my age bought those games (20's/30's), hell i bought gta 5 and fifa 15 and pretty sure my taste is otherwise not in line with the 'average casual gamer'.

 

[Bruno MB]

Did anybody really expect to see a title like Bayonetta 2 inside an all formats chart where all versions are combined?

Even Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is nowhere to be seen.

 

[CassSept]

Didn't Driveclub sell that much because it was bundled with PS4 everywhere? When I was to UK around Black Friday PS4+Driveclub advertisements were everywhere.

 

[Kysen]

This has to be performing below expectations even though Phil Spencer said it was selling great.

Yep if it's at 50ish in the uk then it is fucked in the rest of Europe.

 

[theprodigy]

Does anybody really expected to see a title like Bayonetta 2 inside an all formats chart where all versions are combined?

more likely to appear in an all formats top 100 then an individual top 100, where CoD/FIFA/etc. take up multiple spots

 

[Merkunt]

73. PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2015

Not like this man ;(

 

[barneystuta83]

12. TITANFALL - Best selling 'not on my competitors console' exclusive

19. DRIVECLUB Best selling full exclusive and best selling PS4 exclusive

24. THE LAST OF US REMASTERED Best Selling Remaster

27. HALO: THE MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION Best selling Xbox One exclusive

28. SUPER SMASH BROS Best Selling "Nintendo" exclusive

30. MARIO KART 8 Best selling Wii U exclusive

Some interesting arbitrary rewards there, just for fun.

What I find most interesting is the number of cross platform/gen titles that are dominating the list. It goes to show that the exclusives, at least this year, haven't been huge console shifters.

EDIT: If MCC doesn't count as an Xbox One exclusive, then that award would go to:

53. SUNSET OVERDRIVE

 

[bombshell]

Does anybody really expected to see a title like Bayonetta 2 inside an all formats chart where all versions are combined?

Top 10? Of course not. Top 100? Absolutely.

 

[Flappy]

Didn't Driveclub sell that much because it was bundled with PS4 everywhere? When I was to UK around Black Friday PS4+Driveclub advertisements were everywhere.

Yeah, but so were most of the top 10 games.

 

[Kill3r7]

This has to be performing below expectations even though Phil Spencer said it was selling great.

No doubt about it unless expectations were really low to begin with. Damn shame as it is one of the better games to come out this year.

 

[Totobeni]

22. WOLFENSTEIN: THE NEW ORDER
23. THE EVIL WITHIN

Bethesda must by happy about this.

14. THE LEGO MOVIE VIDEO GAME
16. LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES
18. LEGO BATMAN 3: BEYOND GOTHAM
39. LEGO THE HOBBIT
64. LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES
75. LEGO STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGA
86. LEGO THE LORD OF THE RINGS
100. LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

People sure love lego, good for WB.

 

[Caboose]

I feel like Dragon Age bombed everywhere.

 

[Retro Biscuits]

Apologies rest of the world. We really have shite taste in games here in the UK.

funny that, since every chart elsewhere in the western world will look identical to this one, bar a smidgen more nintendo..

 

[LiK]

Man, soccer sure is popular

 

[offshore]

73. PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2015

Not like this man ;(

Yeah, it's sad. But Konami really only have themselves to blame.