pokoko on 20 April 2016
| IDOLxISxDEAD said: Does anyone else realize how pointless it is to only consider retail sales when so much of game sales is done digitally now? Especially with a game like Quantum Break, which has already been reported by many different outlets as being by and large the best selling digital game in both the US and Europe since it launched, and it had a free copy of the PC as extra incentive as well. Retail is a dying sales platform for games, despite how much GameStop tries to keep it afloat. |
Dying? Sure. Dead? Not even close. With AAA console releases, retail still makes up the bulk of sales by a wide margin. The opposite is true for PC releases, of course, but I doubt this game did especially well on that platform. It's a console-centric release and many PC gamers likely passed given all the negative news surrounding the PC version. We might not know the digital sales total but knowing retail gives us some idea of the cumulative sales ceiling.
It beat Dirt Rally during launch week? Okay. It's the best selling new IP for Microsoft this generation? It would be terrible news if it wasn't. Really, the game simply didn't sell especially well relative to its budget, regardless of PR spin.
