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Forums - Sales Discussion - UK Charts Week Ending 25 October 2014

Hey, not bad for Bayonetta. I've seen it advertised a lot in dedicated gaming stores, so quite interesting that that seems to have worked. Wonder what legs will be like (I'm guessing not too strong).

Driveclub and Forza Horizon seem to be holding pretty well too. Guess Europe do still love racing games.

And lol at Just Dance & Singstar. I'm guessing they'll have some legs over the holidays at least, but still, pretty poor.



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So much for Destiny dropping quickly...



So Bayo 2 starts at about 11-15K. If we're going to look at a roughly comparable (i.e. action melee based combat) recent game that would be Shadow of Mordor. It looks like Bayo 2 will get about as much first week as SoM did week 3 on PS4. But considering Wii U is almost 1/4 of the install base the attach rate for Bayo 2 on Wii U week 1 is almost the same as the PS4 attach rate for SoM on its week 1.

Based on the SoM comparison for the UK, I'm going to estimate that Bayo 2 will do about the same numbers as SoM did on its week 2. that's on the basis that in the USA it looks like bayo 2 will do about doube what SoM did in it's week 2, but in Europe (if UK is anything to go by) it will do about 1/2 of what SoM did on its week 2. So about 175K perhaps a wee bit more.

So absolute numbers-wise Bayo 2 is not looking all that good, but attach rate-wise it's actually done OK. It could get to 50K lifetime in the UK, which would be not too bad all things considered.

Drive Club holding up remarkably well. When will the server issues be completely sorted? No sign of the free PSN+ version anywhere, and that's the only version I'm likely to get.

A substantial drop for The Evil Within, given it started pretty low. A lower start than SoM and a bigger drop.

Both Xb one and PS4 benefited from something with Fifa 15. So expect hardware for both systems to be up quite a bit this week.



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Re. Singstar this is a quintissentially casual game, and early gen console buyers are not a bunch of casuals. A bit surprising they bought Singstar out this early actually I would have thought it would have come out end of next year after the first price cut. that's when the semi-casuals will start buying.

I've downloaded the Singstar App off PSN, but the Singstar store is empty right now. So there's nothing to do. Do we know if PS2 and PS3 Singstar discs are compatible?



“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

 

Bayonetta is doing quite better than I expected for the UK!

Minecraft boost looking good. Fifa holding well and not a bad drop for TEW :)



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kowenicki said:
Bail said:
So much for Destiny dropping quickly...


Dont confuse chart positions with absolute sales numbers.

PS3 version has vanished too.

 

 


Maybe he is not confused, but applying his reading skills to see the drop of only 9%.

If you bothered to do the same instead of raining hate all over that game, you might come to the same conclusion. 



binary solo said:
Re. Singstar this is a quintissentially casual game, and early gen console buyers are not a bunch of casuals. A bit surprising they bought Singstar out this early actually I would have thought it would have come out end of next year after the first price cut. that's when the semi-casuals will start buying.

I've downloaded the Singstar App off PSN, but the Singstar store is empty right now. So there's nothing to do. Do we know if PS2 and PS3 Singstar discs are compatible?

They've got to leave room for the TLG bundle ...



 

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Burek said:
kowenicki said:
Bail said:
So much for Destiny dropping quickly...


Dont confuse chart positions with absolute sales numbers.

PS3 version has vanished too.

 

 


Maybe he is not confused, but applying his reading skills to see the drop of only 9%.

If you bothered to do the same instead of raining hate all over that game, you might come to the same conclusion. 


its week 7 for destiny

some games got % wow bumps in that time of theire life

 

some other ofc got bigger drops.

destiny is selling medicore right now. not very well, but also no totally bad



man-bear-pig said:
Wow the Minecraft/FIFA PS4 bundle must be doing really well..seen a few ads for it on tv in the past week. Must be a sickener for M$ that their game is helping sell the competitions console. I wonder if they could legally stop Sony from including Minecraft in that bundle


@bold: Sure Mircrosoft must be both happy/sad with these results. In one hand, it helps giving them money from the franchise they now own. On another hand, it's helping boost the PS4 gap even further with the fact that Minecrafts still are system sellers! Decisions, decisions...every one wins in the end BUT I think Sony wins more in this case.



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GribbleGrunger said:

They've got to leave room for the TLG bundle ...


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