CyberPanda
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Japan loves Zombie games.
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Days Gone becomes the best-selling game for April in the UK, in only five days time
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Gediminas
Banned
really, and how it went for state of decay 2? how many times they took 1st place ?
CyberPanda
Banned
That game is garbage compared to Days Gone. lol.
Fake
Member
State of Decay is a terrible game...
Shakka43
Member
Dying Light for sure is AAA. SOD2 was a budget game though.
CyberPanda
Banned
State of Decay 1 has a higher metacritic than Days Gone but State of Decay 2 is worse than both, critically speaking. Yikes.
Gamernyc78
Banned
Of course Dying Light was AAA the production was great in tht game and I'm sure the budget was way more than State of Decay.
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EDMIX
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I see what you mean, so you really mean GOOD zombie games do good in Japan? Right?
EDMIX
Member
Dying Light absolutely yes. State Of Decay 1 and 2? No. I think its even unfair to compare it. Its just a series that has no right to charge full price and they clearly know that.
Gamernyc78
Banned
I didnt go in expecting much but I loved it! One of the best zombie games in my opinion.
bitbydeath
Gold Member
I enjoyed the first city but it got very repetitive, didn’t like how they handled night time either. Had to keep sleeping through it each time. I stopped playing after reaching the second city as I was well and truly done by that point.
thelastword
Banned
Or Dead rising 3 and 4, Outlast series, Evil Within series, Alien Isolation etc.....
thesaunderschild
Banned
Deek is starting to feel like a hired gun. 
I really get the run around in this game. No sooner have I killed 10 assholes, someone wants me to eliminate 10 more somewhere else.
I really get the run around in this game. No sooner have I killed 10 assholes, someone wants me to eliminate 10 more somewhere else.
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Deek is starting to feel like a hired gun.
I really get the run around in this game. No sooner have I killed 10 assholes, someone wants me to eliminate 10 more somewhere else.
The voice acting of Deacon is the aces to me, imo. Killing is his business, and his business is good.
Wow, I didn't know we were talking lifetime sales, that's crazy sauce. Maybe Sony will release a two week global number this week. Amazon US the sales are slipping heading into week 3, now around high20s-low 40s on the sales list as far as video game products, MK11 (PS4 version only) is now doing better on a daily basis but Days Gone probably has quite a bit more sales at this point. I would have thought God of War and The Last Guardian would have sold better there.
Days Gone > MK11 (PS4)
MK11 (all versions) > Days Gone (at least my guess)
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I haven't finished quite yet, probably tomorrow but if I were to stop today, kind of feel like this and Bloodborne are my game of the cycle...by quite a large margin, opinions I guess.
I don't see anything wrong with the thread title btw, what do you mean by the title being nonsense?
FairXchange
Member
Yes, it's good.
thesaunderschild
Banned
I'm stuck at the horde, hanging around at the junkyard. It's torture!
Fake
Member
You can find more help at the OT.I'm stuck at the horde, hanging around at the junkyard. It's torture!
Thread title and topic have nothing to do with what you are talking about, and it is not misleading based on the topic.
Either discuss the topic, which is about sales, or move along.
thesaunderschild
Banned
Yeah, guys. Maybe we should go to the proper thread and post in there.
#1 in the UK in its third week as well, slow week though. Apparently, Days Gone has further outsold all of MK11, meaning all SKUs combined in the UK. In the US, based on Amazon, I would say Days Gone is slipping some in its 3rd week, way ahead of MK11 (PS4) in total sales but losing now on a weekly basis. Furthermore, the theory that zombie games just sell, well, World War Z sold a fairly good amount its first week but on most charts I have seen they aren't in it and its $39.88 on Amazon. World War Z (PS4) is #405 and World War Z (Xbone) #308 physical editions which actually makes sense as the PS4 owners are buying Days Gone.
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UK Sales Charts: Days Gone Is Number One for Third Week Running
Escaping the horde
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thelastword
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This is what I meant in my prior post....If Zombie just sold like crazy.........Evil Within 1+2, Alien Isolation, SOD2, Dead Rising 3+4 and Outlast 1+2 would have made a killing and slayed the charts......But we all know that's not what it is, it takes more than just being a Zombie game equalling an automatic sales juggernaut..........
mckmas8808
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Coulomb_Barrier
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The continued commercial success of this game is remarkable. The prestige of being a Sony exclusive overrides good to middling reviews. Or maybe it's peoplejust love zombie survival.
Or maybe its just a good game. (maybe) Some Sony games don't really sell great or even good - The Order, Knack, Gravity Rush, Tearaway, Infamous, etc., solid but not good. Zombie games sell well, if they are made well, but the failure rate of zombie games really isn't any much different than any other genre that I can see. The cream rises to the top, generally speaking.
Lots of developers are going to try (and most will probably fail) and copy parts of this game and its not just the zombies portion, imo. I would be very surprised if any developer thought this game was easy to pull off. It does look like its running out of steam or starting to on Amazon US though.
List of zombie video games - Wikipedia
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bitbydeath
Gold Member
The game is on FIRE, just like this guy.
Evilms
Banned
Same in italy for 2nd week :
https://www.ilvideogioco.com/2019/05/13/classifiche-italiane-nel-segno-di-days-gone/
- Days Gone (PS4)
- FIFA 19 (PS4)
- Grand Theft Auto V (PS4)
- Mortal Kombat 11 (PS4)
- Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition (PS4)
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS)
- Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (NS)
- Spider-Man (PS4)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III (PS4)
- Super Mario Party (NS)
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (NS)
- Just Dance 2019 (NS)
- Yoshi's Crafted World (NS)
- FIFA 19 (NS)
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (PS4)
- Super Mario Odyssey (NS)
- Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy (PS4)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (NS)
- Rocket League (PS4)
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey (PS4)
https://www.ilvideogioco.com/2019/05/13/classifiche-italiane-nel-segno-di-days-gone/
Kagero
Member
I'm genuinely surprised. I'm happy the game is doing well, but I'm also concerned about the precedence this is going to set. I'm also going to be a little miffed if this game does better than GOW or Horizon. I believe better games should sell better. Days Gone is a good game, but it's clear Sony Bend is a little clueless about certain aspects of game design.
Not clueless, crazy mad scientists throwing a big potion of every ingredient into the pot and sitting back and observing the test subjects, sure. This has to be biggest collection of game mechanics I have played by a mile i.e. throwing mud on the wall....most the mud sticks, Imo.
Fake
Member
To be fair I dunno if Sony gave the same money for Bend as they give in the production of HZD or GoW.
And lets be honest, you can't 100% hit a new IP. They can learn new tricks and what they went wrong in th sequel as same as Horizon Zero Dawn. HZD is one if my favorite games, but that combat human AI is terrible, but again the game focus are the machine.
The bulk of Days Gone was done with about 45 - 75 people, that number started to increase during the tail to about 100. Bend has continue to increase this year to 130. Horizon was 250+ employees at GG plus lots of outsourcing to a Chinese company, that number was given as 300 additional contractors but who knows for how long. Something like Red Dead Redemption is way over a thousand people, the credits are over 3000. Days Gone did have a extra 6 months of full production over Horizon but probably only about a 1/4th of the workers.
This game would have never been possible at a big studio...they wouldn't be crazy enough. I have no freaking idea how Bend did all this... good or bad, it's massive on all fronts.
Supreme Allah
Banned
So I'm close to the ending
And now no new missions are coming. Only the hordes missions are open on the map. Do I have to clear them to progress?
Boozer drove the truck to a place where I had cleared a horde outside.
And now no new missions are coming. Only the hordes missions are open on the map. Do I have to clear them to progress?
Days Gone continues to slip a little in 3rd week on Amazon US on PS4 only charts. But what is surprising is how bad Rage 2 is doing, today is launch day but its only #8 its best sellers list. A Plague's Tale is doing better at #6 with Days Gone at #7, A Plague's Tale is a smaller title selling at around $40. If Rage 2 doesn't pickup in a few hours as this is launch day I expect it to be on sale fairly fast.
1.) Kingdom Hearts III (PS4)
2.) MK11 (PS4)
3.) Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4)
4.) Spider-man (PS4)
5.) NBA 2k19 (PS4)
6.) A Plague's Tale (PS4)
7.) Days Gone (PS4)
8.) Rage 2 (PS4) *
9.) God of War (PS4)
10.) Grand Thief Auto V (PS4)
* Deluxe edition at #12.
Days Gone has done well in the US but definitely slipping in week 3.
If Days Gone was a exclusive Xbox, it would be the #1 selling Xbox title even on launch day for 2019 on Amazon US.
1.) Kingdom Hearts III (PS4)
2.) MK11 (PS4)
3.) Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4)
4.) Spider-man (PS4)
5.) NBA 2k19 (PS4)
6.) A Plague's Tale (PS4)
7.) Days Gone (PS4)
8.) Rage 2 (PS4) *
9.) God of War (PS4)
10.) Grand Thief Auto V (PS4)
* Deluxe edition at #12.
Days Gone has done well in the US but definitely slipping in week 3.
If Days Gone was a exclusive Xbox, it would be the #1 selling Xbox title even on launch day for 2019 on Amazon US.
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Shakka43
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Nah, you will get a call eventually. Perhaps go and sleep to advance the day, maybe that helps getting the call Sooner.
FranXico
Member
If Days Gone had bombed, it could have been the end of Sony Bend. I'm just glad that they are going to stick around.
#bringsyphonfilterback
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Angry_Ostrich
Neo Member
Sekiro is too low imho
Humdinger
Gold Member
I agree. I was worried for them when the reviews came out, but I'm reassured by the sales data. I'm sure they are, too.
Also, I assume you've seen the article indicating that Days Gone is a sort of distant sequel to Syphon Filter.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I agree.
thelastword
Banned
What a good or enjoyable game is, is all subjective. Many people did not enjoy RDR2, the reviewers never told them about the awful controls and input lag...... I say let people decide what they want to purchase and enjoy with their money, it's their money and their entertainment..... There is no precedent that should direct them but their choice.
thesaunderschild
Banned
It is very similar to another game we know too well. Not that this is a bad thing.
Mortal Kombat 11 outsold Days Gone in this last week, which is kind of what Amazon US is tracking, although I believe its across SKUs for MK11. Days Gone appears to be still selling better than MK11 in New Zealand.
Looking at the Amazon US stats, I would say a steady decline for both Days Gone and MK11 heading into week 4. Days Gone is #2 for PS4 new releases behind Kingdom Hearts III. I think Days Gone will sell an easy 4m units its first full year, if not significantly higher. Hopefully, we get an update from Sony on Days Gone within the next 2 weeks. Unless there is something I don't know about coming down the pike, Days Gone should easily be the best new IP this year and probably by a mile.
On a quick side note, Rage 2 appears to be bombing, probably significantly under Rage 1 numbers, if I were to wager... the game has already moved out of the top ten games on Amazon US during its release week. I really liked Rage 1, so
- Mortal Kombat 11
- Days Gone
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Fallout 76
- Super Smash Bros. Utlimate
- The Division 2
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Hasbro Game Night
- Yoshi's Crafted World
Looking at the Amazon US stats, I would say a steady decline for both Days Gone and MK11 heading into week 4. Days Gone is #2 for PS4 new releases behind Kingdom Hearts III. I think Days Gone will sell an easy 4m units its first full year, if not significantly higher. Hopefully, we get an update from Sony on Days Gone within the next 2 weeks. Unless there is something I don't know about coming down the pike, Days Gone should easily be the best new IP this year and probably by a mile.
On a quick side note, Rage 2 appears to be bombing, probably significantly under Rage 1 numbers, if I were to wager... the game has already moved out of the top ten games on Amazon US during its release week. I really liked Rage 1, so
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