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bluthunder on 24 November 2009
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Per capita UK destroys most other countries including US for video games, but Australia competes fairly well also, 1/3 population and roughly 1/3 - 1/4 of sales.

As for Uncharted, it's a success, not every game needs to sell Halo or COD level of sales. Uncharted 1 sold about 250k in UK including budget release, I think Uncharted 2 should sell 300k+ fairly easily in UK.

It's not all that great, but it's acceptable for UK at least.

I see in the UK chart thread that Assassin's Creed 2 sold onl 12% more than the original! Why no threads on this? This is the real bomba! New IPs are always far less frontloaded than their sequels, but despite having a massive userbase advantage and a previous fanbase this game sold only 12% more!

I think that's a pretty bad opening for Ubisoft in the UK at least, but I think there are 2 explanations why this game may have decent sales after the first week:

*1 - The original game was extremely hyped, but critically flawed, despite being a new IP it had massive week 1 sales (I believe the highest ever for a new IP). The second game is actually critically acclaimed and is said to have fixed the flaws from the first game, but people may be put off from the first game. Word of mouth may give this game better legs than your typical massive holiday sequel release.

*2 - It released a week after COD6! After seeing unprecedented sales in the UK the week before surely COD6 stole a hell of a lot of potential video game disposable income from every other game including AC2 the following week. Whilst this may be an immediate disadvantage, it also meant most other big games were delayed to Q1 2010. AC2 could actually benefit from only competing with games in other genres this holiday season.

COD6 dropped 86% from it's crazy first week sales in the UK, if AC2 can manage a 50% drop I think it will be doing fine into the holiday season, 60% is ok, but not so good, 70% and I think Ubisot could have big problems in the UK at least.

I'm really interested to see AC2 drop off in UK next week, I think it will tell us a lot about how realistic Ubisoft's revenue forecasts are for this fiscal yaar.