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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...er&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialoomph

Watch Dogs has stormed to the top of the UK all-format charts and earned itself the biggest launch week of any new IP in the UK ever, beating previous record holder LA Noire's haul by more than double.

The open-world hackathon is Ubisoft's biggest ever game launch in the UK. Watch Dogs beat the publisher's previous peak for launch week sales - set in 2012 by Assassin's Creed 3 - by more than 17 per cent.

Overall, Watch Dogs is the 17th biggest game launch in the UK of all time. Only games from four established franchises - GTA, FIFA, Call of Duty and Battlefield - have ever sold more.

PlayStation 4 counted for the vast majority of physical copies and helped the PS4 itself to a 94 per cent increase in hardware sales over last week.

 

[madmackem]

Watch Dogs has stormed to the top of the UK all-format charts and earned itself the biggest launch week of any new IP in the UK ever, beating previous record holder LA Noire's haul by more than double.

PlayStation 4 counted for the vast majority of physical copies and helped the PS4 itself to a 94 per cent increase in hardware sales over last week.

Mario Kart 8, meanwhile, turned up comfortably in second place. Nintendo's racer earned the company its biggest Wii U game launch in the UK to date, and the second best launch for a Mario Kart title ever in the UK.

Wii U console sales skyrocketed by a devilish 666 per cent this week, of which 82 per cent were the Wii U Mario Kart 8 bundle.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...er&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialoomph

 

[Ark]

I'm honestly really surprised. The game doesn't appeal to me at all.

 

[dc89]

Colour me genuinely surprised.

 

[SuicidalSteve]

Not surprising

 

[Hanmik]

so a game launching on 5 different platforms did this.. not that hard.

but good for them.

 

[LicenceToK1ll]

LA Noire was previous record holder?

 

[Jibbed]

94% increase in PS4 sales? On top of how well they're already doing?

Damn.

 

[Lakitu]

Good. I want more new IPs.

 

[boinx]

I'm honestly really surprised. The game doesn't appeal to me at all.

This. And every comment I've heard from friends playing the game and streamers tells me that the game is kinda mediocre.

 

[michaelius]

Do we have any information on what was top 5 launches in UK before that ? Or La Noire first week ?

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

the real story here is that LA Noire held the record

 

[plasmawave]

The power of Christy Mack.

 

[madmackem]

so a game launching on 5 different platforms did this.. not that hard.

but good for them.

Which ever way you look at it its an amazing feat, 17th best launch ever too wow.

 

[Roxas]

The power of advertising. I've seen a ridiculous amount of TV ads in the past few weeks for this.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Wii U resurrection begins now.

A 600+% bump? Goodness.

 

[Kayant]

Well shit....

PlayStation 4 counted for the vast majority of physical copies and helped the PS4 itself to a 94 per cent increase in hardware sales over last week.

That cross marketing partnership doing it's work.

The power of Christy Mack.

Looool

 

[Biggzy]

Something tells me that record will go come September.

 

[wapplew]

the real story here is that LA Noire held the record

I thought TLOU broke it?

 

[dc89]

LA Noire was previous record holder?

And according to Dave Scammell of videogamer.com Watch Dogs week 1 sales were 58% higher.

 

[GHG]

Its a great game so I'm not surprised. Minus a few technical issues which I hope will be sorted I'm having fun with the PC version.

 

[AusRoachman]

Congrats ubisoft, thought i was burnt out from your openworld style but watchdogs mixed it up really well.

Glad to see a new IP doing well.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Jesus Christ, all this fuss over a gta clone :/

 

[maquiladora]

I thought TLOU broke it?

All format chart?

 

[Starwolf_UK]

Well I guess I know that Mario Kart 8 isn't on top of the charts this week (but then again it was highly unlikely to be).

Wait, I'm confused by the statement they said did that mean the 16 biggest launches are all GTA, FIFA, Call of Duty and Battlefield or are only 4 of the 16 those?

Seriously, It would a lot easier if they just said what they were rather than saying 17th biggest which is a meaningless comparison point.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Do we have any information on what was top 5 launches in UK before that ? Or La Noire first week ?

246k for LAN.

 

[Mpl90]

The open-world hackathon is Ubisoft's biggest ever game launch in the UK. Watch Dogs beat the publisher's previous peak for launch week sales - set in 2012 by Assassin's Creed 3 - by more than 17 per cent.

I have AC Revelations estimated at around 216k.

ACIII = 216k + 117k = around 333k.

Watch_Dogs (PS4, One, PS3, 360, PC) - 389,610+ units sold.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

I'm honestly really surprised. The game doesn't appeal to me at all.

Curiosity got the better of me I admit, I wasn't impressed with it.

 

[Mpl90]

Well I guess I know that Mario Kart 8 isn't on top of the charts this week (but then again it was highly unlikely to be).

Wait, I'm confused by the statement they said did that mean the 16 biggest launches are all GTA, FIFA, Call of Duty and Battlefield or are only 4 of the 16 those?

Seriously, It would a lot easier if they just said what they were rather than saying 17th biggest which is a meaningless comparison point.

MK8 did very well too

Mario Kart 8, meanwhile, turned up comfortably in second place. Nintendo's racer earned the company its biggest Wii U game launch in the UK to date, and the second best launch for a Mario Kart title ever in the UK.

Wii U console sales skyrocketed by a devilish 666 per cent this week, of which 82 per cent were the Wii U Mario Kart 8 bundle.

Yep, better debut than MK7 too.

 

[RedAssedApe]

well deserved. not surprising at all considering pre-order numbers

 

[Hanmik]

threads have merged... sorry..

 

[hagege_s]

The power of Christy Mack.

Ahahah unfortunately I see what you did there.

 

[2San]

I am surprised. I always have a hard time predicting games that do well, if they don't appeal to me personally.

 

[GHG]

Jesus Christ, all this fuss over a gta clone :/

Apart from its not a GTA clone... :/

 

[leadbelly]

We need draconian DRM and a persistent online connection otherwise the game industry will die!

 

[zomgbbqftw]

Well I guess I know that Mario Kart 8 isn't on top of the charts this week (but then again it was highly unlikely to be).

Wait, I'm confused by the statement they said did that mean the 16 biggest launches are all GTA, FIFA, Call of Duty and Battlefield or are only 4 of the 16 those?

Seriously, It would a lot easier if they just said what they were rather than saying 17th biggest which is a meaningless comparison point.

Franchises, not individual titles. The top 16 are made up of titles from those franchises.

 

[Steroyd]

Over to you Destiny.

 

[Hanmik]

Watch Dogs' week 1 sales were 58% higher than LA Noire, not more than double.

https://twitter.com/VG_Dave/status/473384835621588993

math people..

 

[akaoni]

The article doesn't even give the Wii U numbers, a percentage by itself is useless.

 

[michaelius]

And according to Dave Scammell of videogamer.com Watch Dogs week 1 sales were 58% higher.

Hmm does he have access to numbers ? Because this PR says by more than double of La Noire

 

[king picollo]

One of the first big cross new gen games to come out where there's been a drought.

Not overly surprising.

 

[Pooya]

actual press release, no need to link to erroneous paraphrased articles..
http://www.chart-track.co.uk/?i=1881&s=1111

It eclipses the new IP record set by ‘L.A Noire’ three years ago with an increase of 58%. In terms of units, ‘Watch Dogs’ breaks into the Top 20 for best ever launch weeks taking 17th spot on the list. The new release finds itself in good company with only titles from mega-brands GTA, Call of Duty, FIFA & Battlefield ahead of it. For Ubisoft it’s also a personal best with ‘Watch Dogs’ beating ‘Assassin’s Creed III’ as their biggest launch in the UK by 17%. By format PS4 dominates software sales, boosted by exclusive content and the release of a new Watch Dogs hardware bundle. This accounts for just over 53% of PS4 hardware sales while claiming the credit for a near 94% increase in total sales for the PS4 hardware format this week.

While there is no contest for top spot Wii U exclusive ‘Mario Kart 8’ races comfortably into second place. The much loved series makes an impressive debut becoming the bestselling week 1 for any Wii U title since launch and the second best in the Mario Kart series ever. ‘Mario Kart 8’ like ‘Watch Dogs’ also launches an official hardware bundle this week boosting the sales of Wii U hardware by a whopping 666%, of which 82% are the Mario Kart 8 Bundle. Last week’s No1 ‘Wolfenstein: The New Order’ (-65%) makes way for the newcomers, dropping down to round off the Top 3. With half term in full swing many titles benefit from increased sales. ‘FIFA 14’ (+46%) is at No4 while ‘Minecraft: PS3 Edition’ (+20%) continues to sell strongly despite dropping to No5. Outside the Top 10 there’s a re-entry for ‘Borderlands 2’ which is propelled back into the chart at No18 thanks to the release of the new PS Vita version.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

More proof that E3 2012 demo was genius. Downgrade or not, that demo made WD the highest selling new IP of the generation so far.

 

[Ashadian]

I'm really enjoying the game. A lot of people give the game unwarranted negativity! It's not surprising at all its gonna sell well! It deserves to!

 

[Watto]

Not that much of a surprise really, lots of hype and it actually is a really good game.

 

[DieH@rd]

PlayStation 4 counted for the vast majority of physical copies and helped the PS4 itself to a 94 per cent increase in hardware sales over last week.

Now I'm very interested in the breakdown of WD sales for each console.

 

[madmackem]

The article doesn't even give the Wii U numbers, a percentage by itself is useless.

We never get numbers always stupid percentages, wii u will have sold ok nothing massive the week before but better than normal due to the amount of offers, so a bump 600% will still have seen a fair few consoles shifted in mk8 launch week.

 

[maquiladora]

Good to see a new IP doing well.

 

[StayDead]

Apart from its not a GTA clone... :/

and it's not even a good game. :/

 

[Dysun]

Pretty good new ip launched outside of the fall window. Glad to see it do well, pump out more of these pubs