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UK's top 50 best selling games of 2014 [Update: Now Top 100]
- Thread starter Slowdive
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Ok...apologies rest of the Universe, this planet really does have shite taste in games (especially UK)
EA didn't support it at all. Just sent it out to die.
Yeah, FIFA / COD / AC / GTA are big, if not massive everywhere, it's not just a UK-exclusive. What I'd define as a UK exclusive is that whatever goes out of those franchises and relative genres sell probably far worse (relative to the market size) compared to other European markets (I'd say US as well). So, Nintendo games and Japanese-style games usually sell far better (again, relative to the markets) in other countries than UK.
There's also to consider the fact that UK market is seriously price-driven, with prices going down usually pretty quickly even for pretty good sellers, except for Nintendo / Japanese-style games (most of the times), though. But it's a con-cause, not the only cause for this difference.
Acquiescence
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Someone needs to tell the folks over at Nintendo that there's no shame in giving your game a price cut. Or they could just remain steadfast in their refusal to "devalue" a product and continue to become increasingly irrelevant in the UK.
Wouldn't even be that much of a problem, but hey wouldn't you know it, all their hardware is region locked these days.
Wouldn't even be that much of a problem, but hey wouldn't you know it, all their hardware is region locked these days.
1st Course
Member
Holyshit 8 Lego games in top 100. One almost 4 years old even.
lower expections?
so sad, will we have another DA game?
Welfare
Member
Bundurus helped a lot.
dead monkey uk
Member
2013 game
Lego Star Wars was released in November 2007, think about it
Acquiescence
Member
Knack's work in the UK is done. Blessed be thy Knack.
A quick cheap and cheerful breakdown of exclusives on that list.
'Exclusives' are exclusive to one device only: Driveclub, The Sims 4 etc.
'Company Exclusives' are exclusive to Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo on consoles: Titanfall, Smash Bros., both Minecraft editions etc.
'Multi-Platform' for the rest.
'Exclusives' are exclusive to one device only: Driveclub, The Sims 4 etc.
'Company Exclusives' are exclusive to Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo on consoles: Titanfall, Smash Bros., both Minecraft editions etc.
'Multi-Platform' for the rest.
dead monkey uk
Member
Hope so, I have put 40 hours into DA. Hopefully there have been alot of digital copies sold.
Everyone bought 2 of them in 2013. It's sold out. All Hail Knack!
I think Konami need to bring back ISS (arcadey football). PES decline is huge and even their "omg fox engine all new seabass-less PES 2015" failed to get the old fans back (also PES2015 online was broken for weeks after the release). going head to head with FIFA is pointless but trying something that new will be new and fresh like arcadey football game like ISS64/ISS98 might get the interest of many people.
have you played the crew ? it's real fun.
shinra-bansho
Member
Thought it would be interesting to look at the top software from the days of yore.
Top Ten from 2006.
FIFA 07
Pro Evolution Soccer 6
Need For Speed: Carbon
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
The Sims 2 Pets
Cars
Tomb Raider: Legend
The Sims 2
WWE Smackdown! Vs Raw 2007
PES, PC physical retail, two THQ games.
No Activision or Ubisoft...
Top Ten from 2006.
FIFA 07
Pro Evolution Soccer 6
Need For Speed: Carbon
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
The Sims 2 Pets
Cars
Tomb Raider: Legend
The Sims 2
WWE Smackdown! Vs Raw 2007
PES, PC physical retail, two THQ games.
No Activision or Ubisoft...
Nearly all PS4 bundles here in the U.K, contain physical copies of Driveclub hence the good chart number.
AmaterasuOni
Banned
Watch Dogs, AC:U and The Crew. Goddamn, why?
Visualante2
Member
Tough year for Nintendo. I wonder how Sega feels about Alien Isolation, I think it's a decent performance but then I see it was outsold by Thief... Ground Zeroes probably performed quite well digitally right?
Glad to see people's love affair with the Sims waning. Doesn't seem like Ubisoft shows much sign of slowing down despite their troubled launches.
Glad to see people's love affair with the Sims waning. Doesn't seem like Ubisoft shows much sign of slowing down despite their troubled launches.
Heavily bundled game, too.
well,it's an improvement
last year it was at 89 with four months of sales
this year it is at 73 with just six week of sales (it was released November 13rd)
Miles Quaritch
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That ship has sailed when it comes to the U, my friend.
Why is nobody using this excuse for the other games?
For a whole month you couldn't even buy a console without GTAV.
AntiFacebook
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We don't have data about digital purchases and bundles,though
Aren't the top 3 games on this list still being sold for full price? I don't think price cuts are gonna save the system
Well we've got the weeklies. Did GTA V drop in the charts in a big way before being bundled and getting a resurgence then?
This includes bundles though if it's a physical disc. IIRC, SO was a disc.
As much as I try to avoid the idea of "cultural divides" these days, it really does seem that despite the gameplay, the humour of Sunset Overdrive was a key turning-off point in the U.K. going by some of the reviews and completely anecdotal points raised by people on various sites.
Because DC is not selling that well anywhere else. It's also not doing that well in digital sales if we are to go by the NA and EU PSN top downloads list. Ergo it must be the bundles.
Alien might have gone down better with the PC download crowd not included in this chart. It probably fits that market more.
Not a great chart but I'm happy to see my GOTY Evil Within as high as it is.
Ah okay that makes more sense then. Wish the best for Insomniac
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Watch Dogs is awesome. I'm glad it sold so well. It deserved to. I'm just sad Destiny outsold it.
Let's not forget it was bundled as well, couldn't do too well.
Bundles are included in that list.
dead monkey uk
Member
I would not say nearly all, plenty of bundles to choose from. LBP3, FIFA + Minecraft, Destiny ad FarCry4 are all bundles I have seen recently.
Most Game bundles do not include Driveclub http://www.game.co.uk/en/hardware/p...&sortBy=&merchname=topnav-_-PS4-_-newconsoles
But Driveclubs position in the chart will be down to bundles as well as being available at around £20
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
Does the Lego company get any royalties from the games?
I nicked LEGO Marvel Heroes from my nephew. It was surprisingly....engaging.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Bundles are over. In the run up to Christmas however, DC was very heavily bundled.
That's not to say every single bundle had a copy, but if you were looking at the most competitive and best value bundles, every single one included DC.
Top 100 now! *ctrl+F "Bayonetta"*... No results... Fuck you UK.
Also looks like XB1 exclusives really bombed this year. Owie... Better luck next year I guess...
GTAV wasn't an exclusive title, that's why.
Also looks like XB1 exclusives really bombed this year. Owie... Better luck next year I guess...
GTAV wasn't an exclusive title, that's why.
lolosgolos
Banned
Is it irrelevant to consider that some games have had more time to sell in the year than others?
Retro Biscuits
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i really don't know that they can get that back. i mean nowadays, just playing a regular game isn't enough. i haven't played pes in a while but i remember not too long ago their netcode wasn't the best so if that hasn't improved it needs to, plus game modes like UT and clubs in fifa are hugely important to me and many others, so unless they have a similar alternative in pes i think they're always gonna struggle. shame as i was a big fan during the 00's but can't see where they go from here to regain their old reputation.
Rogue_element
Banned
No Grid Autosport ? - i knew it didnt sell well but holy crap...............
Retro Biscuits
Member
well until footy stops being our favourite sport, it will continue to do so, beyond the cods, assassins creeds etc