F1 2015 TAKES POLE POSITION

13/Jul/2015

‘F1 2015’ knocks ‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ off its perch to claim the first All Formats No1 for the Codemasters F1 series since ‘F1 2010’ in week 38 2010.

Distributed by Namco Bandai, who recently had chart topping success with another driving game, ‘Project Cars’, launch week sales of ‘F1 2015’ are up by 367% compared to last year’s F1 title, with it launching on PS4 and Xbox One for the first time (and not Xbox 360 and PS3). Sales of ‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ are down by 54% in its third week since launch, but it still manages second in the chart ahead of ‘Lego Jurassic World’ (-28%) which also drops one place, down to No3.

There is not much movement amongst the rest of the Top 10 with ‘The Elder Scrolls Online’ (-33%) down one place to No4 and ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ (+5%) stuck at No5. At No6, ‘The Witcher III: Wild Hunt’ (-18%) stays ahead of the Minecrafts with both Xbox (+6%) and Playstation (+12%) versions looking solid at No’s 7 and 8 respectively. Activision round off the Top 10 with ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’ (+5%) at No9 and ‘Destiny’ (+7%), up one place to No10. Retailer summer sales give a selection of titles a small boost with ‘Disney Infinity 2.0’ (+59%) benefiting in particular, up from No26 to No13.

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If you're around DerNebel, I'd love you to do these charts for me as well!

Great to see plenty of Xbox games in the charts, as ever! :) 360 still doing quite well too for a last-gen system!

PS4: 13
XB1: 12
X360: 7
WiiU: 4
PS3: 2
3DS: 1
PC: 1

Look at lego jurassic park go! Easily one of my fav lego games

Ka-pi96 said: 367% increase over last year for F1? That's pretty impressive! And yay for Lego Jurassic still holding well

Last year was a stop-gap year for F1, while they were working on this title I believe (not very well either, judging by reviews).

It's impressive, but still, early gen is when games like this always do better.  As the market gets more saturated when time goes on, they'll sell less and less.  I hope this is enough to sustain them, because Codemasters desperately need some hits with the amount of bombs they've had lately.

Yay so that's 19 Xbox vs 15 PS :D

Wii U doing better lately too!

So about 58K, if VGC is somewhat correct for F1 2014? I'm really pleased for F1. Codemasters have had a rough time of it. Seems like it's a bit hard being a developer that doesn't do FPS or action. Racers that aren't 1st party or Need for Speed struggled all last gen, and this gen seems like a lot of first parties are having a struggle too, unless you're Mario Kart.

It is interesting to see what types of games are still selling better on last gen, tends to be the family friendly games, which kind of makes sense. Maybe people will be waiting until there's a price cut below $300 (UK equivalent?) before they decide where to go for their kids. If Xb one gets their first, then it might benefit from that, parents will buy the cheaper console, and of course if they had Xbox last time they will be happy with Xbox this time.

It's interesting that a lot of PS3 owners seemed to have moved to next gen but 360 owns seem more reluctant. Will be interesting to see what Halo 5 does for this and then to see how many make the change to X1/PS4 for the holiday period.