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Forums - Sales Discussion - Recore only sold 56,733 units in its first week.

DialgaMarine on 11 October 2016

The reviews weren't great, and M$ didn't market it at all.



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Raviel on 11 October 2016

Too bad, looks decent enough. I haven't bought it. I will, but right now, it doesn't seem worth it



DonFerrari on 11 October 2016
axumblade said:
DonFerrari said:

If i'm not wrong we have had several discussions about this on VGC and the consensus is that the scores must be given at the time of release and not changed. So if they were able to correct most issues so fast they should've instead delayed the game a little and delivered a better game.

Eh. I see where you are coming from but at the same time my point still stands then in regards to bethesda and a few other major developers.

Well, sure they get a lot of free pass (and I don't even buy their games), but when scopes of this magnitude of difference is compared is hard to complain why bethesda get free pass and these guys don't (besides being a "new" studio)

LudicrousSpeed said:
Whatever it sells I hope it's enough to recoup the investment and warrant a sequel, there's lots of potential there with more time to flesh things out. People laughed when IGN called it the best platforming since PS2 days, buy it really is.

I'm just chalking it up to one of those times reviewers got it wrong. Like Battleborn.

Is it a better platformer than Mario Galaxy 1,2 and Mario Land or NSMB? I liked Puppeteer a lot and found LBP to be boring, but to call they above Mario would be crazy.

RJ_Sizzle said:
Even though the numbers are off, I'm sure the sales are still dismal. Really wish MS would stop calling every game of theirs a "success" when they know it's not. Because saying that is going to start having an opposite connotation..

These and some other of these games were so sucessful to MS that they got turned into instant classic and to preserv the memory of it they won't get a sequel.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

busbfran on 11 October 2016

I think it would be closer to 100K week one, which is decent for xbox one exclusive....none mainstream title



Swordmasterman on 11 October 2016
DonFerrari said:
axumblade said:

Most of the issues with this game seem to have been resolved. Ive only ran into 1 bug thus far and I'm halfway through the game. 

If i'm not wrong we have had several discussions about this on VGC and the consensus is that the scores must be given at the time of release and not changed. So if they were able to correct most issues so fast they should've instead delayed the game a little and delivered a better game.

shikamaru317 said:

Get the feeling this was a case of poor VGC tracking. 53k doesn't seem to match with what I saw on the various Amazon charts. For instance ReCore made it up to #3 on Amazon France before release and VGC claims it only sold 2.8k there...

You do know that Amazon is very poor predictor of sales of sw right?

derpysquirtle64 said:

It's his job to say that everything goes well even when it is defininitely not. If this game had great sales I doubt they would have released 30 min demo for it.

Yes, it's... but there are people that pretend that he is very honest and etc.

1-2 days before Quantum Break's launch, Greenberg said "Strong Pre orders. Could be a mega hit". In the end, it sold over 250k after 1 month at retail in the USA.



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Swordmasterman on 11 October 2016
Kai_Mao said:
Nuvendil said:

Splatton, Watch Dogs, Destiny, Bravely Default, Overwatch, Titanfall have all done well.  There are successful and unsuccessful new IPs every gen.

While I agree, I think some were hoping of something similar to previous gen. We had new IPs like Uncharted, Mass Effect, Wii series, Professor Layton, Bioshock, Skate, Xenoblade, Portal, Gears of War, The Last of Us, Nintendogs, Assassin's Creed, Batman Arkham, etc.

To be fair, The Last of Us launched 3 years ago, the same year that this gen launched.  Watch Dogs, Destiny and Overwatch are games that sold 10+ millions each, while only Portal Assassin's Creedy,The Last of US(with the remaster) and Batman were able to surpass.

The Witcher wasn't created this generation, but the sales of the 3 game surpassed by far the sales of the other 2. Fallout also became much more popular.



DonFerrari on 11 October 2016
Swordmasterman said:
DonFerrari said:

If i'm not wrong we have had several discussions about this on VGC and the consensus is that the scores must be given at the time of release and not changed. So if they were able to correct most issues so fast they should've instead delayed the game a little and delivered a better game.

You do know that Amazon is very poor predictor of sales of sw right?

Yes, it's... but there are people that pretend that he is very honest and etc.

1-2 days before Quantum Break's launch, Greenberg said "Strong Pre orders. Could be a mega hit". In the end, it sold over 250k after 1 month at retail in the USA.

Well I imagine that MS uses a different vocabulary than us mortals.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."