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JRPGfan on 21 May 2018
danno_omen said:
Pretty good numbers for sea of thieves. I'd be curious to know how many sales were lost due to game pass.
Also glad to see a way out getting some decent sales. Hopefully both games have some good legs

Supposedly it had about 2m players in the first month?
And we heard that "more" than half of that, was from Free Trail's of Gamepass.
Throw in the non free trail Gamepass users as well and.... yeah that number is probably gonna be alot less.

Just a "guess" by me, but say 35%? of those 2m players within the first month, are actual game buy's.

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LethalP on 21 May 2018
Barkley said:
I'm surprised people think 200k FW sales is decent or good for Sea of Thieves. It's not exactly a small title, it's one of Microsoft's big games for the year.

Even Quantum Break sold 207k FW and only went on to sell 0.75m to date, 200k is not a decent open, especially considering the negativity post-release that may suppress further sales.

It's gotten past the point of hoping for better and sympathizing. Microsoft have had a monumental fuck up that I don't think any major console has ever had. Think the Sega Saturn. It sold 9 million units total yet it had killer exclusives every year of it's release, same with Dreamcast, Wii U etc. MS are literally about to have 2 years without a notable exclusive outside an annual franchise. People don't even mention MLB in lists anymore even though the game is far and away best in class, yet Forza continues to be the only decent thing on Xbox. 

What's worse though is that we all know MS's answer to 2017 and 2018 is going to be Halo 6 and Gears 5. Maybe a Fable 4 made by yet another coverband developer that doesn't even have a passion for the franchise. It's hard to even pretend to be nice about this console.



danno_omen on 21 May 2018
JRPGfan said:
danno_omen said:
Pretty good numbers for sea of thieves. I'd be curious to know how many sales were lost due to game pass.
Also glad to see a way out getting some decent sales. Hopefully both games have some good legs

Supposedly it had about 2m players in the first month?
And we heard that "more" than half of that, was from Free Trail's of Gamepass.
Throw in the non free trail Gamepass users as well and.... yeah that number is probably gonna be alot less.

Just a "guess" by me, but say 35%? of those 2m players within the first month, are actual game buy's.

I feel that is a pretty good guess. Most companies now a days are saying digital takes up 50% of sales roughly, so depending on how accurate vgchartz is for retail copies we will say this game sold about 400-450k FW. That's still fairly solid numbers, though not amazing by any means. I'd be curious to know if exclusives sell more digitally than third party though since PlayStation/Xbox would obviously promote there first party titles more on the actual systems