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http://www.videogamer.com/xboxone/titanfall/news/titanfall_was_marchs_top-selling_game_in_the_uk.html

Titanfall was the UK's best-selling game in March, MCV reports, outselling big-hitters Infamous: Second Son and South Park: The Stick of Truth.

Perhaps surprisingly, Thief finished as the month's second top-seller, ahead of South Park: The Stick of Truth at no.3 and InFamous: Second Son at no.4. The LEGO Movie Videogame was the fifth highest-selling, with FIFA 14, Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare coming in at no.6, 7 and 8.

Dark Souls 2 was reportedly the ninth best-selling and Call of Duty: Ghosts the tenth.

Release timings will, of course, have made an impact on each game's position, with InFamous: Second Son releasing a week after Titanfall. Thief, Call of Duty: Ghosts and FIFA 14 were available throughout the month.

Total sales numbers for Titanfall have yet to be confirmed, although global sales for InFamous: Second Son reached 1 million within nine days.

The shooter's success will likely continue into April, too, having shot back to the top of the charts this week with the Xbox 360 release.

Overall, however, March's sales figures fell 20 per cent year-on-year, failing to match up to the sales brought on by last March's Tomb Raider and BioShock Infinite.



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Go Xbox One! Its your birthday party time



toastboy44562 said:
Go Xbox One! Its your birthday party time


You mean "Go Titanfall!", as 360 and PC version also helped!



Wright said:
toastboy44562 said:
Go Xbox One! Its your birthday party time


You mean "Go Titanfall!", as 360 and PC version also helped!


Fixed.



Wright said:
toastboy44562 said:
Go Xbox One! Its your birthday party time


You mean "Go Titanfall!", as 360 and PC version also helped!


360 version was not released. PC version only accounts for less than 10% I bet!!! Go Xbox ONE!



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Yup, great start to TitanFall; but being 20% down despite 3 major games is quite concerning overall.

Suppose it is up against Bioshock and Tomb Raider; though...



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Conegamer said:
Yup, great start to TitanFall; but being 20% down despite 3 major games is quite concerning overall.

Suppose it is up against Bioshock and Tomb Raider; though...


Bioshock as never really a sales beast, though.  Critically acclaimed, but not a runaway commercial success.

Last year also had God & Gears of War, but still, it's not like this year was dry apart from TitanFall & InFAMOUS.  I'm kinda susprised by the 20% down thing.



Blood_Tears said:
Wright said:
toastboy44562 said:
Go Xbox One! Its your birthday party time


You mean "Go Titanfall!", as 360 and PC version also helped!


Fixed.


Yikes!



Kresnik said:
Conegamer said:
Yup, great start to TitanFall; but being 20% down despite 3 major games is quite concerning overall.

Suppose it is up against Bioshock and Tomb Raider; though...


Bioshock as never really a sales beast, though.  Critically acclaimed, but not a runaway commercial success.

Last year also had God & Gears of War, but still, it's not like this year was dry apart from TitanFall & InFAMOUS.  I'm kinda susprised by the 20% down thing.

I suppose; still there's been a lot of games this March (perhaps better than last March), yet we're still well down. Probably because Nintendo is well down I'd imagine, and also the console transition splitting the sales base. 

If it's a trend which continues next year, though, then we can panic.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Conegamer said:
Yup, great start to TitanFall; but being 20% down despite 3 major games is quite concerning overall.

Suppose it is up against Bioshock and Tomb Raider; though...


Not really.  As the gen goes on sales goes up.  2nd year is usually better than the first and third is better than the 2nd.  Its just the way things are after the initial early adopters rushes out to buy a new console.  A lot of people are waiting for the libraries to get bigger and prices to drop. And f course last gen products are going to decline majorly at the same time of a new release.