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Forums - Sales - UK charts: Max Payne 3 (PS3+X360) pips Diablo III to number one

Michelasso on 21 May 2012
Xenostar said:

 

Every month charts for retail are showing us less and less of the real picture. Just look at the UK Music industry where 90% of sales are now from download, its obviosuly not that high for games, but i bet its higher than anyone realises. 


Sure... Let's compare music downloads, which are only few MB with the option to buy only a single song and not the whole CD with videogames downloads, that in case of Diablo III are 8-9GB of data. Not to mention that the CD will be ripped anyway to store the songs in the computer music library to be exchanged with other devices. They are two totally different worlds. 

Also i am not sure how it works, I know that Steam doesn't give away the sales numbers. What about Blizzard? Are they public? Are they included in the VGCharz numbers? Still it doesn't make any difference. Diablo III has been hyped for 12 years. I learned that Max Paine 3 was coming out last week just a couple of weeks in advance. Not that I'm buying it anyway. I have many more games that I need to finish than time available.. :(



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Chevinator123 on 21 May 2012
zgamer5 said:
Chevinator123 said:
zgamer5 said:
d3 has a lot of digital sales especially counting that wow players got it for free if they bought one year of wow.


But does this count as a "Digital sale" ?

 

OT: I'm seriously surprised buy this, did not expect it at all...well then again it is Rockstar, so i should have


Considering it was part of a bundle then yes.

Also every diablo 3 player i know that also plays wow got the game digitally and i live in lebanon. so its safe to say that it got a lot of digital sales(including me)

Fair enough, also why did you reply twice? lol



--OkeyDokey-- on 21 May 2012
zarx said:

so in other words including digital Diablo III outsold Max Payne 3 on PS3/360 combined. Add in the no console cert costs and Diablo 3 likely made a lot more money, especially as digital copies are only brought direct from Blizzard so they get 100% of the price.


Nice spin there.



zgamer5 on 21 May 2012
Chevinator123 said:
zgamer5 said:
Chevinator123 said:
zgamer5 said:
d3 has a lot of digital sales especially counting that wow players got it for free if they bought one year of wow.


But does this count as a "Digital sale" ?

 

OT: I'm seriously surprised buy this, did not expect it at all...well then again it is Rockstar, so i should have


Considering it was part of a bundle then yes.

Also every diablo 3 player i know that also plays wow got the game digitally and i live in lebanon. so its safe to say that it got a lot of digital sales(including me)

Fair enough, also why did you reply twice? lol


two diffrent people lol :P



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Kantor on 21 May 2012

This has probably been mentioned already, but Chart-Track can't track digital sales very well, and Diablo III certainly sold much more on battle.net than Max Payne 3 did if it was even sold on PSN and XBL.



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VGKing on 21 May 2012

Max Payne 3 beat ME3 week 1? Wow..



VGKing on 21 May 2012
Kantor said:
This has probably been mentioned already, but Chart-Track can't track digital sales very well, and Diablo III certainly sold much more on battle.net than Max Payne 3 did if it was even sold on PSN and XBL.


Do they even track them at all?
I know digital sales aren't account for at all in these weekly charts.



Kantor on 21 May 2012
VGKing said:
Kantor said:
This has probably been mentioned already, but Chart-Track can't track digital sales very well, and Diablo III certainly sold much more on battle.net than Max Payne 3 did if it was even sold on PSN and XBL.


Do they even track them at all?
I know digital sales aren't account for at all in these weekly charts.

They try, but most services don't release the information. Steam and Battle.net certainly don't.



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mitlar37 on 21 May 2012

THIS GAME IS NOT AVAILABLE THROUGH STEAM. I wish people would quit talking about Steam sales of this game. That said ALL my pc gamer friends and I bought online, the majority preordered like me so we were able to play at midnight. I personally haven't bought a retail copy of a pc game in 5 years, the last being LOTRO in '07. (oops - I forgot I bought that horrible Conan game in '08)



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enrageorange on 21 May 2012

Yes diablo 3 outsold Max Payne 3 with digital sales, but it is still pretty amazing that max payne 3 outsold diablo 3 in retail. Yes, yes, plenty of people bought the digital copy, but plenty bought the physical copy as well. Blizzard allowed you to predownload the game even if you bought the physical copy, and you just had to type your cd key once you got the actual game and plenty of people enjoy attending midnight releases for very hyped games. Regardless of what we may predict digital sales are, it is unarguably very impressive how well max payne did week 1, at least in the UK. Heck it even beat Mass Effect 3, but I suspect thats mostly because of how bad mass effect 3 sales were on the ps3.