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PAL Charts - Week 14, 2016

Happy to see Quantum Break at the top of the charts, hope word of mouth gives the game some legs.

I think this would be an automatic pick up for anyone buying a new Xbox.
 

ArmGunar

Member
Id like that to be the case. As those are the game i enjoy most atm. But doesn't' really seem like a big selling week that dirt rally even got up so high. Next weeks drop off will be very interesting for quantum break

Already saw tons of pre-owned copies at the weekend.

Wait for Ratchet and especially Uncharted 4 to see the trend
 

Bruno MB

Member
It is a pity that this week's The Division drop was a bit higher than in these past weeks.

DiRT 3 sold 54,000 units in its launch week and DiRT 2 sold less although I can't give an approximate figure.

Dirt Showdown was one spot above Fifa 12 which sold around 7,000 units that week.

Week 21, 2012 Individual Formats

08 (NE) 360 DIRT SHOWDOWN (CODEMASTERS) < 5,600
09 (NE) 3DS MARIO TENNIS OPEN (NINTENDO)
10 (09) 360 [PROTOTYPE 2] (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
11 (06) 360 SNIPER ELITE V2 (505 GAMES)
12 (07) 360 FIFA 12 (ELECTRONIC ARTS) ~ 3,600
13 (NE) PS3 DIRT SHOWDOWN (CODEMASTERS) < 3,600

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2012/may/28/top-20-video-games

DIRT SHOWDOWN < 9,200

DIRT RALLY < 27,300

Evidently these are approximations, very accurate but approximations, so the actual figures can be slightly off.
 
QB beat the combined sales of Dirt Rally by 139 sales. So when rounding to thousands, they're going to be the same.

Yes I read that QB beat the combined sales of Dirt Rally by 139 hence how I've already added both Dirt Rally's sales and put QB along side. Not sure what you're getting but maybe you've misread or got the wrong gist of my post.

Not sure how I can re-word it. I'm just rough guessing, so like again say for example DR is 18k each then QB is about 36K. Like wise for ~20k which means roughly 20k each so QB is around 40K.
 

Hasney

Member
Yes I read that QB beat the combined sales of Dirt Rally by 139. Not sure what you're getting but maybe you've misread or got the wrong impetration of my post.

Not sure how I can re-word it. I'm just rough guessing, so like again say for example DR is 18k each then QB is about 36K. Like wise for ~20k which means roughly 20k each so QB is around 40K.

Ah, you gave a flatish number for Dirt then a range for QB, so it threw me. However, based on this:

It is a pity that this week's The Division drop was a bit higher than in these past weeks.

DiRT 3 sold 54,000 units in its launch week and DiRT 2 sold less although I can't give an approximate figure.

Dirt Showdown was one spot above Fifa 12 which sold around 7,000 units that week.

Sure, we don't know how much Dirt beat FIFA by, but I think it's safe to say the gap wouldn't be huge since Dragons Dogma debuted just above it which unfortunately we know didn't do so hot. I think that would put them both in the 20k's somewhere. Maybe the 21-25k range?
 

Bruno MB

Member
Ah, you gave a flatish number for Dirt then a range for QB, so it threw me. However, based on this:



Sure, we don't know how much Dirt beat FIFA by, but I think it's safe to say the gap wouldn't be huge since Dragons Dogma debuted just above it which unfortunately we know didn't do so hot. I think that would put them both in the 20k's somewhere. Maybe the 21-25k range?

I edited, check my previous post.
 

Bruno MB

Member
Oh sweet, nice work. So QB is <27,439.

Well it could technically be above 27,580, 27,752 or 28,010 because we can't be that accurate when working with rounded percentages, but yes in that ballpark.

My calculations are based on monthly charts with actual sales figures, Chart Track weekly percentage changes and The Guardian platform splits.
 

Raylan

Banned
Its the wording, it specifically says Microsoft Studios IP, if it had said " best selling Microsoft Studios published game" then it'd have beaten Tomb Raider, SO and Ryse, as all three of them are Microsoft published games with IP owned by the developer, the wording used in PR releases is no accident.
Aaaah, I see. Makes sense now. lol amazing.... dat PR.
 
Under 30k for QB isn't that great assuming it was made on a large budget.

Sounds about right though Bruno from what we know about the Dirt series titles. Quite good news for Dirt Rally. I really dislike the whole Dirt Showdown slant the series went.

Was The Order 1886 39k?
 

Bruno MB

Member
In the end Quantum Break (Xbox One) fell short of Alan Wake first week opening.

My initial low expectations were spot on.
 
Well done QB for being No.1,unfortunately like others have said/noticed is that it seems to have sold not that many in the grand scheme of things.
 

IvanJ

Banned
This is retail only right? Think it sold really good digital wise. With the W10 code.

I kinda doubt that is true. Microsoft even had to come out with a statement that QB is "the best selling boxed game", which would strongly imply that DIRT Rally outsold it on PC.
 

Hasney

Member

chadskin

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JonCha

Member
GTA's consistency is incredible. I wonder if there were a lot of people that simply didn't play it on the last gen and have recently upgraded? For how many weeks has it been in the top ten?
 

Hasney

Member
I mean, it's to be expected since it's not a huge difference in sales and the PS4 is outselling XB1, but still, it's a depressing read.
 
To quote myself from last weeks PAL charts

I'll go with 30-32k with QB. Hope it does a lot more of course.

I've not seen an ad on youtube yet, website traffic seems very low and it's a new ip but if there's lots of ads on the telly (don't watch it myself) and people dig the quantum TV style which is quite familiar if you like watching television then I can see it doing a bit more 48-60k

So pretty close.

With Alan Wake and ROTTR it would seem NPD will do 140-190k but who knows. Perhaps the optimism in last weeks PAL thread for it being like a US TV show will help sales in the US at least. I didn't think it would help in the UK and think marketing is pretty difficult with what feels like TV viewing is very spread out and people like myself just don't bother with it or just stream the odd show.
 
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