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Forums - Sales Discussion - UK Charts Week Ending 08 November 2014 (COD AW%= PS4 35% XB1 32% 360 21% PS3 11%)

jlmurph2 said:
binary solo said:
If AW clocked in at ~800K, that's 50% down on Blops 2 (>1.6 million in the UK PS360 only). So even outselling Ghosts it still represents a significant (and rapid) fall from the CoD peak, which of course was MW3 in 2011.

According to VGC the Ghosts 7th +8th gen launch weeks were ~800K. Even if AW managed to squeak past 1 million for the week that's still a massive drop off from Blops 2 for 2 games running. But at least is represents stabilisation and not a further erosion in the player base. I doubt we'll ever see it back to it's record-breaking level.


I thought it just meant Ghost was the low point and COD was gaining its sales back.

I guess we'll have to see how AW legs it out before we can conclude anything definitive about regaining much of the audience. Ghosts LTD on PS3604bone is ~23 million on VGC to date, so it's still a shit tonne of games that CoD is selling. No doubt on PS4bone the LTD for AW will be much bigger than Ghosts. But the counterbalance is that the LTD on PS360 will be much lower. AW should still crack 20 million across the 4 consoles, but whether it will leg it out to pass Ghosts will be interesting to watch.

By all accounts globally in the USA AW pre-ordered below Ghosts (though perhaps not as low as the VGC pre-order charts susggest). So the main driving market for CoD might be what makes it pull up short, while the lesser CoD markets might see a bit of growth over Ghosts it will probably not be enough to compensate for the shrink in the USA.

Also 32% of sales on last gen consoles means there's quite a sizeable chunk of the CoD fanbase yet to switch generations. Has Activision definitely decided the 2015 CoD will be new gen (and PC) only?

Also PS3 being slightly over 50% of 360 sales is somewhat in line with the proportions on opening week of Ghosts for PS360 in the UK, though it's a much lower proportion compred to BLOPS 2 which was well over 2/3rds. So if this is any indication of generational conversion rates it would suggest similar proportions of 360 and PS3 gamers are moving to the new gen. 

Given the tweet suggesting "nothing surprising" about hardware sales I actually think that's a bit surprising. Given the PS4 and Xb one CoD numbers are so close, much much closer than the install base, I would have guessed that the CoD bundle would make Xb one more likely to outsell PS4 for the week. So if indeed PS4 is the top console for the week that normally unsurprising result is surprising. So perhaps the nothing surprising tweet actually means Xb one sold more for the week, which is not surprising given the closeness of the SW sales.



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binary solo said:
If AW clocked in at ~800K, that's 50% down on Blops 2 (>1.6 million in the UK PS360 only). So even outselling Ghosts it still represents a significant (and rapid) fall from the CoD peak, which of course was MW3 in 2011.

According to VGC the Ghosts 7th +8th gen launch weeks were ~800K. Even if AW managed to squeak past 1 million for the week that's still a massive drop off from Blops 2 for 2 games running. But at least is represents stabilisation and not a further erosion in the player base. I doubt we'll ever see it back to it's record-breaking level.

Ghots first week is 775k...

AW did 14% better than Destiny + TF + WNO.

AW did a bit better than 775k.



ethomaz said:

There is something wrong here AW > Ghost.

It is the 5th best selling CoD in UK.

It is because Ghost original launch was only ps3/360 so AW technically had a bigger launch since Ghost's first week excluded ps4/xb1 sales.



enrageorange said:

It is because Ghost original launch was only ps3/360 so AW technically had a bigger launch since Ghost's first week excluded ps4/xb1 sales.

But it is exactly this number there are talking in the OP.



jlmurph2 said:

Eh...only because they released one yearly. GTAV sold significantly better than any CoD.

Would you say AC is a bigger seller on PS than GTA?

No, it only sold around 27m


don't forget the ps3 sold all the older GT's as well. 

EDIT: SO now HW numbers? 



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jlmurph2 said:
Barenziah said:
amazing PS4>XOne in CODis that right,,is it the first time playstation wrestled COD the biggest franchise of them all back from Xbox,good stuff,impressive

not surprised XOne COD>360 COD,i guess people are just not as satisfied any more with the 360,isn't that how it is said,have to move on sometime

its funny how people always say its funny how people always say,guess i never remember people saying destiny would be a COD killer,how stupid would that be,good to see COD moving to playstation though can only help PS4 sales more in the UK to take back the UK from Xbox


http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=187078&page=1

That's easy to find.

On your COD remark. COD was always the best selling Playstation game.

 

If this was aimed at me, then I did ask if Destiny would outsell Cod, not that it would do it. And I also based it on VGC pre-orders, which I've learnt are complete bollocks.



Teeqoz said:
jlmurph2 said:
Barenziah said:
amazing PS4>XOne in CODis that right,,is it the first time playstation wrestled COD the biggest franchise of them all back from Xbox,good stuff,impressive

not surprised XOne COD>360 COD,i guess people are just not as satisfied any more with the 360,isn't that how it is said,have to move on sometime

its funny how people always say its funny how people always say,guess i never remember people saying destiny would be a COD killer,how stupid would that be,good to see COD moving to playstation though can only help PS4 sales more in the UK to take back the UK from Xbox


http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=187078&page=1

That's easy to find.

On your COD remark. COD was always the best selling Playstation game.

 

If this was aimed at me, then I did ask if Destiny would outsell Cod, not that it would do it. And I also based it on VGC pre-orders, which I've learnt are complete bollocks.


It was aimed at the posts inside the thread, not you.