"Hundreds of thousands are playing Titanfall."
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Titanfall boosts Xbox One UK sales by 96%, Tea and Crumpets for all!
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"Hundreds of thousands are playing Titanfall."
Nightengale
Member
That's an excellent point. Given the bundle, I can't imagine anyone would have bought an XBO the week before.
Nnnooo that includes previous sales and PC Damn you!!!
Or the critical thinking begins?
Impeccable
Member
Percentage increases have always been mocked and rightfully so.
GoofsterStud
Member
Free packin and price reduction... Looks like titanfall wasn't the game changer Microsoft was hoping.
Whaaaaaat no chance it was getting beat badly here and ps4 have been hard to find for a long period only coming back into stocks the past week or so.
Pound_lb003
Member
It's downplaying because phrasing it 'a whopping 96%', instantly makes it sound an awful lot. It's called critical thinking, and people are questioning whether it is actually an impactful number or not. And we don't know.
No need to suggest otherwise.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Seems like a low jump which makes me think. Did any retailers do price drop and tasty bundles beforehand which people may have bought instead?
Wonder if the 360 version will outsell it in a few weeks time?
Wonder if the 360 version will outsell it in a few weeks time?
But like Zelda Wind Waker HD increased hardware sales by over 600% man. In this context Titalfall seems like Titansmall...
percentages are draft
There was still a boost from the price cut. Saw many X1 titles rise up last week.
It's the week.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
So when a game actually comes out sales rise? That is a FUCKING SHOCK
DistortionOfReality
Member
I agree, doesn't seem too massive. Especially considering this is the game MS seemed to be banking on to kick start the console, and launch week sales are always going to be higher than what follows. Does anyone have a comparison of XB1 vs PS4 sales for last week? Would be interesting to see the comparison.
Haha, true. But Eurogamer didnt make it so clear if its based on weekley sales. If so, then its a pretty small impact. 94% of 10k sold is still not much, when the competition sells around 30-50k.
double not very much = a bit more for a week or so but still not very much and no-where near enough
Claude Kenni
Member
Oh no doubt there is actual critical thinking going on. But there's a large element of those who want to interpret the increase as subpar. Those saying it's definitively not very good with not even close to enough information to say that. That's the problem, and it's a rather large-spread one.
justsomeguy
Member
Wellll there's a bajillion page thread about 20% (or something) of people "deserting Xbox for PlayStation", no reason to think this one should be any different ;-)
Correct to say that we need hard numbers to get a feel for how good this is, but the OP's phrasing is also worthy of comment IMO.
jimbobsmells
Member
There's no downplaying here, just reasonable thought considering a percentage value without context in this instance is meaningless.
Was it more than double of the YTD sales, or just the week 1 units? If it is more than double the YTD of FIFA then jesus christ.
Either way, we know that the X1 version of the game is by far the highest selling game week-by-week of 2014 so far, so that's quite something.
In the UK the split was 3:2 from the last known numbers, unless the Xbox One tanked spectacularly in January, it's very possible it maintained that.
Rest of Europe however... yeah...
Chart track always comments on weely variations. It's a weekly news release.
So last week, TF sold more than double what Fifa14 sold that week. Not the whole year.
Otherwise the HW bump would have been 500% or something.
In the past year or so we've had percent sale bumps of upwards of 1000% we know xbox one hasn't been doing to well here hence ms official price cut and retailers slashing it to £349.99 . So given the hype and media blitz I expected it to push sales way above double the previous weeks.
Duxxy3
Member
Double week to week sales, that's what they track.
larrybird33
Banned
well (just under) doubled sales. That's a pretty good bump for a single game?
Exactly. We don't know, so saying it's not a large bump is nonsense.
You can judge after the 1st week? Wow.
That makes far more sense than the running total that guy was talking about, thanks.
justsomeguy
Member
You should update that with the OP, it sounds like a far more reasoned argument
I'm with you btw, we need hard numbers. 96% sounds good though (it impressed me - perhaps wrongly in the context you've added).
Well its not really "just" a average single game.. Microsoft hyped the game up to be the "saviour" of the xbox one and the future "cod".
No, whether it is a good jump or not is entirely dependent on the absolute numbers of Xbones sold the week before. The PS4 is very likely still outselling the Xbone.
That's fine, but the lack of context is disconcerting.
Are we talking about selling 1000 the day before Titanfall's release, to 1960 the day after? 100 to 196 is a particular store? Total sales? Are we talking about the day before Titanfall's release? The week before? I don't know what to make of this.