walsufnir said:
Ka-pi96 said:
walsufnir said:
It outsold a multiplatform soccer game in UK which released one day earlier and was outsold by Destiny, which launched on 15th.
Your point is? Already two games in 1%. Probably measurement failure, right?
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Except it didn't. PES released on Friday as well, as do the vast majority of games in the UK. Activision are one of the exceptions that tend to go for simultaneous world wide releases hence often release on Tuesdays. But for the most part Friday releases are the norm in the UK which makes the 'only 2 days' excuse pathetic at best. It's no different from any other game, if it failed to sell well in that period then it simply failed to sell. Plenty of other games in the UK can sell well in their first week despite releasing on a Friday.
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I used the data provided by Wikipedia for EU release. I don't have any data for games in UK but I am sure, although my attempt was oh-so pathetic (which is surprising to me as I didn't want to make the discussion personal but there goes the preference in discussion style) that you can provide explicit data on games released this year, when they released and how much they sold in their first week (or better, for the majority of these games: there 2 days they released).
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Friday is the usual release day for the UK. This hails back to the early days when games literally shipped as and when they were produced. One of the biggest game retailers in the 80s (Dixon's) decided they wanted confirmed dates for games so they could include them in their weekend brochures. As these were distributed in the weekend papers the games needed to be in stock and so Friday became the new game drop day for the UK.
You often gamesheld back from the UK digitalstores until Friday too becauseof this even if already released in mainland Europe.
