UK chart: God of War: Ascension launch sales half that of GOW 3, Tomb Raider retains top spot

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kowenicki said:

tontus said:
@Nsanity: Eurogamer updated the article and corrected the release date error for God of War: Ascension, correct the OP.

Also don't see how people are so happy for Tomb Raider, it sold more in the UK in 7 full days than God of War: Ascension did in 3 full days. If it were a full week God of War: Ascension would have easily made it to top spot. GoW:A is still going to be huge so I'm not worried, almost 1m week 1 and 4m+ lifetime easily.

Arent you missing something here...?

TR sold more in 7 days in its second week.... thats the point.  Meaning in its first week it would have obliterated GOW.  TR sold 104k in the UK on the 360 alone and the 360 version is still above GOW in its second week.  No telling how much TR will have dropped week 1 to 2 but it will have been significant and probably over 60% meaning TR sold about 40k second week..  So GOW has opened with a pretty disappointing number.

I expect Gears to follow suit.  Hope I am wrong.

I gotta agree with you, neither game has much hype and has got fairly average review

These sales are not very impressive at all