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Forums - Sales Discussion - UK software sales - November 26th - December 2nd, 2017

Lawlight on 04 December 2017
ryuzaki57 said:
Looks decent for Xeno2. I guess portability & the new design has helped.

Skyrim, LA Noire and Doom however drowned beneath the top 40 this week, confirming Switch audience's lack of appetite for 3rd party games. Gear Club Unlimited is some atomic bomba : #32 in the Switch chart below "Ben 10" or whatever it is. I saw Nintendo France pushing this title as an alternative to GT or Forza, in which they seem to have failed in epic proportions. Taking all that into account, the risk of Western 3rd parties ignoring the Switch in the future is rising alarmingly.

Looks like GT Sport can still end up PS4 best-selling exclusive in the UK

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-12-04-uk-charts-call-of-duty-wwii-scores-fifth-consecutive-no-1

It's up in France too. Amazing how Sony managed to save it from certain disaster. Playlink is getting impressive results too.

Xenoblade Chronicles X sales were up 75% from Xenoblade Chronicles. I don’t think it’s portability so much as a natural increase in popularity in the franchise. Still poor numbers though.



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tbone51 on 04 December 2017
Lawlight said:
ryuzaki57 said:
Looks decent for Xeno2. I guess portability & the new design has helped.

Skyrim, LA Noire and Doom however drowned beneath the top 40 this week, confirming Switch audience's lack of appetite for 3rd party games. Gear Club Unlimited is some atomic bomba : #32 in the Switch chart below "Ben 10" or whatever it is. I saw Nintendo France pushing this title as an alternative to GT or Forza, in which they seem to have failed in epic proportions. Taking all that into account, the risk of Western 3rd parties ignoring the Switch in the future is rising alarmingly.

Looks like GT Sport can still end up PS4 best-selling exclusive in the UK

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-12-04-uk-charts-call-of-duty-wwii-scores-fifth-consecutive-no-1

It's up in France too. Amazing how Sony managed to save it from certain disaster. Playlink is getting impressive results too.

Xenoblade Chronicles X sales were up 75% from Xenoblade Chronicles. I don’t think it’s portability so much as a natural increase in popularity in the franchise. Still poor numbers though.

Poor numbers for a jrpg in UK? Other than FF/Pokemon what jrpg does good numbers?



flashfire926 on 04 December 2017
ryuzaki57 said:
Looks decent for Xeno2. I guess portability & the new design has helped.

Skyrim, LA Noire and Doom however drowned beneath the top 40 this week, confirming Switch audience's lack of appetite for 3rd party games. Gear Club Unlimited is some atomic bomba : #32 in the Switch chart below "Ben 10" or whatever it is. I saw Nintendo France pushing this title as an alternative to GT or Forza, in which they seem to have failed in epic proportions. Taking all that into account, the risk of Western 3rd parties ignoring the Switch in the future is rising alarmingly.

Looks like GT Sport can still end up PS4 best-selling exclusive in the UK

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-12-04-uk-charts-call-of-duty-wwii-scores-fifth-consecutive-no-1

It's up in France too. Amazing how Sony managed to save it from certain disaster. Playlink is getting impressive results too.

Gear club unlimited is a straight port of a mobile game.  I doubt those sales are a "failure", seeing as how little resources it took to port it. 



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

Farsala on 04 December 2017
tbone51 said:
Lawlight said:

Xenoblade Chronicles X sales were up 75% from Xenoblade Chronicles. I don’t think it’s portability so much as a natural increase in popularity in the franchise. Still poor numbers though.

Poor numbers for a jrpg in UK? Other than FF/Pokemon what jrpg does good numbers?

It did great by going up 3500 sales and being the best selling entry in the series. But it is still pitiful even for JRPG imo. Especially with the Switch hype boosting most of its exclusive games.



Skeeuk on 04 December 2017

wheres gt sport launch week WW numbers gone?



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Lawlight on 04 December 2017
tbone51 said:
Lawlight said:

Xenoblade Chronicles X sales were up 75% from Xenoblade Chronicles. I don’t think it’s portability so much as a natural increase in popularity in the franchise. Still poor numbers though.

Poor numbers for a jrpg in UK? Other than FF/Pokemon what jrpg does good numbers?

Ni No Kuni and Persona 5 both launched at # 1. Tales of Zestria at # 8.



tbone51 on 04 December 2017
Lawlight said:
tbone51 said:

Poor numbers for a jrpg in UK? Other than FF/Pokemon what jrpg does good numbers?

Ni No Kuni and Persona 5 both launched at # 1. Tales of Zestria at # 8.

Anything else? Pokemon/FF top franchises

 

Tales of

Ni no kuni

Persona (just became big with 4G and 5)

And.........? Calling it poor numbers and if tales/Persona/Ni no kuni are the only ones as jrpgs that sell well then Xeno isnt bad. That said its also growing as a franchise, but poor numbers i suppose?



Vas-y on 05 December 2017
Lawlight said:
tbone51 said:

Poor numbers for a jrpg in UK? Other than FF/Pokemon what jrpg does good numbers?

Ni No Kuni and Persona 5 both launched at # 1. Tales of Zestria at # 8.

Do you know how many copies these games sold at release? Xenoblade Chronicles entered the UK charts at 3# and sold less than Xenoblade Chronicles 2 at  #16.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 05 December 2017
Lawlight said:
tbone51 said:

Poor numbers for a jrpg in UK? Other than FF/Pokemon what jrpg does good numbers?

Ni No Kuni and Persona 5 both launched at # 1. Tales of Zestria at # 8.

Ni No Kuni and Persona 5 did beat Xenoblade 2, but Tales of Zesteria didn't on two separate platforms. 

You're right though, pretty week considering how much advertising it had. It would have done even better if the advertising wasn't questionable.



Lawlight on 05 December 2017
Vas-y said:
Lawlight said:

Ni No Kuni and Persona 5 both launched at # 1. Tales of Zestria at # 8.

Do you know how many copies these games sold at release? Xenoblade Chronicles entered the UK charts at 3# and sold less than Xenoblade Chronicles 2 at  #16.

XCX entered the charts at #28, not #3 - that’s for the WiiU games only.