Watch Dogs bombed.

Overloading the holidays with games does not equal success! Take notes devs.

Dishonored down,
WD2 down,
CoD down, (May or may not have been affected)
Skyrim pretty weak,
Gears down,
WoFF weak,

Next we will see TLG and/or FFXV weak sales. The only games to benefit so far is BF1, and sports games.

Dishonored, Skyrim, and Gears had digital sales so we can't get the full story of its sales.

They all had digital like almost every game. Point is devs will be disappointed with Dishonored, WD2, Gears, Titanfall 2, and WoFF and not make sequels to them. And partial blame goes straight to the devs for releasing these games so close to each other.

i don't buy into the doom and gloom.
yes several titel underperformed at retail on launch week, but digital and backlog sales are more important these days.
cs:go, rainbow six siege. halo 5

I don't think release date is the major reason for most of these games. Releasing so many games in the last quarter of the year is not new to the industry. It hasn't affected the games last generation so why now?

To be honest with you, I think the video game industry exploded last gen. Now it is gradually shrinking and getting back to normal levels.

At the beginning of this website we were counting the number of million sellers and we're happy for the games that reach this mark. Now we're calling Rise of the Tomb Rider, a middle class game that will end up selling more than 5 million copies, a failure. That is because people are used to last gen numbers.

Of course we can't forget the ever increasing digital ratio.

So good to see Forza hanging in there.

Why all of a sudden though to people create UK chart threads. What happened to the US threads?

Yeah. Forza Horizon 3 is a great game.

Bold: The UK threads have been a thing for years because of the official numbers. Have we ever had other US threads than the ones based on VGC data and of course the NPD threads? Just asking.

Since VGC numbers started to arrive 1-2 months late people lost interest in threads/numbers based on VGC estimates. I'd love to see interest coming back though as the VGC US threads were awesome. But for that to happen, I think VGC estimates have to catch up and cover sales from the latest week. Users want data to be as fresh as possible.

They are since several years and come from a reliable source every week.

US threads are the NPD threads, if you are not talking about threads that rely on VGC because, well, where is the sense in that?