Callibretto
Member
man, No Man's Sky must make a huge profit right? made by smaller team, so I assume it must have modest budget compared to the usual AAA title.
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PAL Charts - Week 32, 2016
- Thread starter Bruno MB
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Not up yet, I think steamspy is only accurate from two weeks after the launch.
According to the creator, 3 full days is what's needed. So from 6pm UK time here.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
15 team members listed at hellogames.org/about-us
Putting aside current situation around aspects of the game and HG conduct seems Sony picked a winner when they spotted the hype building around a niche title with a team small enough it feels indie to me.
HG need to sort out the bugs asap though and clear the air on the issues around MP, etc. The title remains interesting and quite clever in scope considering their size and I'd like to see it flourish and improve as an interesting variation on one of my favorite types of game.
HG need to sort out the bugs asap though and clear the air on the issues around MP, etc. The title remains interesting and quite clever in scope considering their size and I'd like to see it flourish and improve as an interesting variation on one of my favorite types of game.
xrnzaaas
Member
Bloodborne and No Man's Sky are both designed for a very specific group of players. The guys behind NMS (and Sony) simply did a better job advertising this game as something for pretty much everyone (it probably helped a lot that the game isn't 18+ and that you can throw insane numbers at people like the maximum number of planets).
DriftingSpirit
Member
Damn, NMS did good and UC4 still kicking.
Triggerhappytel
Member
I think Uncharted 4 has been consistently at the top, and at worst in the top 2-3 in the single-format chart since its release.
Acquiescence
Member
That depressing realisation that Sony have put ten times more effort into the marketing of an indie game made by 15 people than they will into a (relatively) big-budget game made by one of their own studios. And guess which will end up being the better title too.
But not to sound salty - congratulations to Hello Games. This will lift their spirits after a week of unrelenting grief no doubt.
still selling the original version is NOT milking the cow. Minecraft doesnt have any dlc
DriftingSpirit
Member
Outside of some internet ads, I haven't seen much marketing for NMS. I think they spent little on it. NMS had more sales potential regardless of marketing.
This is silly anyway, imo.
Bruno MB
Member
(Fastest-selling new video game IP on Sony systems)
01. [Week 37, 2014] PS4 DESTINY (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 192,000 / NEW
02. [Week 22, 2014] PS4 WATCH DOGS (UBISOFT) - 190,000 / NEW
03. [Week 50, 2002] PS2 THE GETAWAY (SONY COMPUTER ENT.) > 125,000 / NEW
04. [Week 24, 2013] PS3 THE LAST OF US (SONY COMPUTER ENT.) < 116,000 / NEW
05. [Week 32, 2016] PS4 NO MAN'S SKY (SONY COMPUTER ENT.) > 103,000 / NEW
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XX. [Week 20, 2011] PS3 L.A. NOIRE (TAKE 2) - 103,000 / NEW
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[Week 21, 2016] 01 (NE) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 60,000 / NEW
[Week 22, 2016] 01 (01) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 27,600 / 87,600 (-54%)
[Week 23, 2016] 01 (01) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 15,500 / 103,100 (-44%)
[Week 24, 2016] 02 (01) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 11,800 / 114,900 (-24%)
[Week 25, 2016] 04 (02) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 8,400 / 123,300 (-29%)
[Week 26, 2016] 03 (04) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 9,200 / 132,500 (+9%)
[Week 27, 2016] 02 (03) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 9,000 / 141,500 (-2%)
[Week 28, 2016] 04 (02) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 8,300 / 149,800 (-8%)
[Week 29, 2016] 03 (04) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 5,800 / 155,600 (-30%)
[Week 30, 2016] 05 (03) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 6,600 / 162,200 (+14%)
[Week 31, 2016] 04 (05) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 7,500 / 169,700 (+13%)
[Week 32, 2016] 03 (04) OVERWATCH (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD) - 7,800 / 177,500 (+4%)No sales and the article is more about the german games industry failling globally - but there some interesttung graphs about market sizes and revenue.
https://global.handelsblatt.com/edition/495/ressort/companies-markets/article/sluggish-gaming-industry-calls-for-funding?ref=MTA5NDQz
And now the interesting part (HARDWARE SALES!):
Germany (probably 01.08.2016)
PS4:~ 3.2 Mio (69%)
XBO:~ 0.71 Mio (15,1%)
WIU:~ 0.75 Mio (15,9%) ->calculated from XBO (only percentage given in the article)
Sales 2016 (01-07)
PS4: 0.46 Mio
XBO:0.105 Mio
via boerse-online.de
Note: They do quote chartz for international numbers - but german sales are from GFK and boerse-online is reliable.
https://global.handelsblatt.com/edition/495/ressort/companies-markets/article/sluggish-gaming-industry-calls-for-funding?ref=MTA5NDQz
And now the interesting part (HARDWARE SALES!):
Germany (probably 01.08.2016)
PS4:~ 3.2 Mio (69%)
XBO:~ 0.71 Mio (15,1%)
WIU:~ 0.75 Mio (15,9%) ->calculated from XBO (only percentage given in the article)
Sales 2016 (01-07)
PS4: 0.46 Mio
XBO:0.105 Mio
via boerse-online.de
Note: They do quote chartz for international numbers - but german sales are from GFK and boerse-online is reliable.
theprodigy
Member
assuming these are correct, YTD sales (using this for LTD through 2015):
PS4-400k
XBO-110k
WIU-60k
edit: damn Bruno MB beat me to it
oh lol
silly rounding errors
Bruno MB
Member
I should have checked the article haha.
PlayStation 4 is comfortably outpacing Nintendo Wii.
PlayStation 4 - 3,200,000 as of July 2016 (2 years, 7 months)
Nintendo Wii - 2,500,000 as of November 2009 (2 years, 11 months)
Done.
Tha graph has to be fair:
PS4: 68,99%
WIU: 15,94%
XBO: 15,07%
If we use 710K for Xbox one, PS4 is around 3.25 million, not 3.2 million. The article most likely rounded that numbers, but 3.25m is also more correct for the YTD:
The article said 460,000 PS4 in 2016, if the LTD is 3.25m, we have 2.79m by end of 2015, which is almost spot on with the 2.8 million the article said in January (and even then it was most likely rounded)
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Holy shit. It's crazy but being the 5th highest performing new IP ever on Sony's platforms *including 3rd party releases* (!!) is even more impressive.
I foresee CEX being literally swamped by thousands of used copies in less than a couple weeks.
If you're interested in the game and want it cheap, wait for that; if you got the game and want to get rid of it, act fast, last I checked CEX was giving £35 cash
It's over 1,000 stock now, but CEX are being really stupid with the game. It's £50... Second hand. It looks to have had as much as The Order and Driveclub traded in, but they're obviously not selling any at the same price as a brand new copy (and the new copy being cheaper in a lot of places).
Not sure why, they reacted quickly with Driveclub and The Order and dropped Uncharted 4 to £25 when it went above 10,000 copies.