By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Sales Discussion - Gears of War versus Uncharted 4 - Remix

AsGryffynn on 28 November 2016
Areym said:

I'm surprised that GoW4 performed so low compared to the past GoW games. It was better than judgement and got fairly great reviews. The userbase is smaller (at least compared to GoW3) but it's a well known franchise and staple exclusive. I think it will have great legs and should be heavily bundled this holiday season but still. I guess GoW has room for growth in this gen since it seems like they are gonna churn out a sequel where as uncharted got its conclusion.

But kudos to uncharted for its impressive growth over the years, earned every single sale.

This either highlights how most people are moving to downloads and digital media seems to be ousting boxed crap. TBH it's sort of encouraged since it takes an eternity to run X even with a copy and day one prices are the same most of the time. The whole preload thing also entails you are able to download it while you sleep and play it in the morning, whereas doing this with copies seems difficult... 

In other words, convenience. 



Around the Network
TheGreatOther on 29 November 2016

Gears is not in the same league as Uncharted anymore, Heck, even Halo isn't in the same league as Uncharted anymore.
Even Bloodborne sold more in the first week than Gears 4. The Order 1886 was with striking distance of Gears 4 first week.

Comparing Gears to uncharted at this point is an insult to uncharted.



Dark_Lord_2008 on 29 November 2016

Uncharted 4 has a shot at reaching 10 million sales. Uncharted 4 has maintained the quality of the Uncharted series.
PS4 near unlimited consumer demand is propelling its sales new heights.



Lawlight on 29 November 2016
DialgaMarine said:
Did Uncharted 1 really sell only 30K units in it's first week? That's not a typo? Talk about some serious legs. I guess it being the first game to feature a platinum trophy after the famous PS3 FW update 2.40, it's not too surprising.

The game had great games anyway - it was above 1.2M 20 weeks after released, well before FW 2.4 was announced and sold 2.6M after 2008.



DonFerrari on 29 November 2016
OnyxPhoenix said:
DonFerrari said:
No love for Gears vs Uncharted discussion?

there's no discussion, Uncharted 4 beat Halo 5, Gears 4 is small game now, i suggest comparing Gears 4 with Ratchet & Clank or somehting like that

Uhnnnn it seems interesting comparing UC to RC... But the idea here were to compare the second position exclusive of Sony versus MS. Have MS exclusives dropped so much bellow Sony this gen?

DialgaMarine said:
Did Uncharted 1 really sell only 30K units in it's first week? That's not a typo? Talk about some serious legs. I guess it being the first game to feature a platinum trophy after the famous PS3 FW update 2.40, it's not too surprising.

Not a typo on my part, copied from the database. The game is fantastic, but the moment of PS3 at that time and being a new IP and no marketing could justify it.

AsGryffynn said:
Areym said:

I'm surprised that GoW4 performed so low compared to the past GoW games. It was better than judgement and got fairly great reviews. The userbase is smaller (at least compared to GoW3) but it's a well known franchise and staple exclusive. I think it will have great legs and should be heavily bundled this holiday season but still. I guess GoW has room for growth in this gen since it seems like they are gonna churn out a sequel where as uncharted got its conclusion.

But kudos to uncharted for its impressive growth over the years, earned every single sale.

This either highlights how most people are moving to downloads and digital media seems to be ousting boxed crap. TBH it's sort of encouraged since it takes an eternity to run X even with a copy and day one prices are the same most of the time. The whole preload thing also entails you are able to download it while you sleep and play it in the morning, whereas doing this with copies seems difficult... 

In other words, convenience. 

So you really think that digital sales only affected Gears and Halo but for some reason Sony customer don't buy digital so any enhancement of the numbers shall only be done to MS games?



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."

Around the Network
KiigelHeart on 29 November 2016
DonFerrari said:
                                           
AsGryffynn said:

This either highlights how most people are moving to downloads and digital media seems to be ousting boxed crap. TBH it's sort of encouraged since it takes an eternity to run X even with a copy and day one prices are the same most of the time. The whole preload thing also entails you are able to download it while you sleep and play it in the morning, whereas doing this with copies seems difficult... 

In other words, convenience. 

So you really think that digital sales only affected Gears and Halo but for some reason Sony customer don't buy digital so any enhancement of the numbers shall only be done to MS games?

How did you come to that conclusion when both those posts you quoted were talking about sales of Gears of War 4 compared to other GoW titles?



DonFerrari on 29 November 2016
KiigelHeart said:
DonFerrari said:
                                           

So you really think that digital sales only affected Gears and Halo but for some reason Sony customer don't buy digital so any enhancement of the numbers shall only be done to MS games?

How did you come to that conclusion when both those posts you quoted were talking about sales of Gears of War 4 compared to other GoW titles?

Because I can snuff from over a dozen km distance when people intend to use "over 50% digital sales" (without any data to back it up) to say the game didn't really sold only that.

This is a thread comparing UC to GoW, so when addressing that GoW sales are smaller because of digital sales is basically putting that only one of the two were impacted by it.



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."

KiigelHeart on 29 November 2016
DonFerrari said:
KiigelHeart said:

How did you come to that conclusion when both those posts you quoted were talking about sales of Gears of War 4 compared to other GoW titles?

Because I can snuff from over a dozen km distance when people intend to use "over 50% digital sales" (without any data to back it up) to say the game didn't really sold only that.

This is a thread comparing UC to GoW, so when addressing that GoW sales are smaller because of digital sales is basically putting that only one of the two were impacted by it.

Well it didn't really sell only that, digital sales are more significant now than they were before :) Obviously it goes for both Sony and MS games. No-one said that only one of the two were impacted by it, or even suggested something like that. GoW4 I'm sure is more affected by digital sales than GoW3 though, especially with its digital pricing and early access. It still sold much less than GoW3 which is disappointing, but it's another studio making the game now and I'm hopeful they can make the franchise bigger again.



KiigelHeart on 29 November 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
                                       

@2 Digital copies don`t break street date, physical can. Plus if you preorder from the right places you can be 90% sure that you`ll be getting the game early. They have to ship out early to ensure day 1 delivery but some shops do it early enough that you should get it the game at least 1 day early (I even got Halo MCC 4 days early) and I`d much rather receive and be playing a game a whole day early than have to wait until a download finishes to be able to play

If you pre-order digital you can download it days, sometimes even weeks before release and play it 00.01 on release day. I've done this with Fifa17, QB and Gears4 already and it's so convenient.



xl-klaudkil on 29 November 2016

Lets see how awesome digital copies of games are on your console in 20 years :).

Didn't a study suggest 30% of console software is digital, that's still too small for a digital only era.

Ontopic, uncharted 4 quality is second to none.

Halo is just another halo.
Gears another gears.



 

My youtube gaming page.

http://www.youtube.com/user/klaudkil