UK software sales (Week ending 7/22/2017)

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AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Ka-pi96 said:

It actually makes a lot more sense. Games releasing on a friday mean people have the whole weekend to play them. I wouldn't be at all surprised if sick days from work/school were much more common around game releases in the US since it's in the beginning of the week, while us Brits don't need to skip work/school since we know that when we get home friday we'll have a full weekend to enjoy our new game.

no no no, I'm not saying it doesn't make sense to release on a friday, i'm saying why aren't the common release dates the same. I'd prefer Friday release dates here in the U.S. too

US changed to Tuesday due to distribution often being too late for the weekend if the release was on Friday, so they preferred to have the games as a certainty for the weekends. UK doesn't have the same problem due to the size of the country and the size of the warehouses.