Video Game Sales Thread

[Xevross]

Still no 2M X1 milestone in the UK? I thought it'd happen this past week. Been over 5 months since PS4 did it

Its weird, XB1 seems to have been performing very well recently too, perhaps even better than PS4. Its either ridiculously close or they're not going to say it for some reason

[Legend]

Well, it's that + the fact that it's exclusive to the smallest tr fantasy possible besides Nintendo
No, 12m shipped including digital. So digital overall is probably around 25% of the total sales so far, but that includes pc of course, where digital is the majority

1.87m digital out of 12m total is only 16%, and that's including PC.

Or am I misunderstanding the data?




LOL at the thread title.

[Xevross]

1.87m digital out of 12m total is only 16%, and that's including PC.

Or am I misunderstanding the data?




LOL at the thread title.

12m is shipped!

Thanks! Took me all of 5 seconds to think of that!

[ethomaz]

Polygon strikes again with the defensive shield.
Now we need to find all these "more sales" copies in the world lol

Polygon: "Tomb Raider's Xbox exclusivity likely means more sales, higher profits" - NeoGAF

Article from Ben Kuchera on all this Tomb Raider exclusive news.
 A little bit from the article:

Microsoft may supply engineers or development talent of its own to make sure the game looks and plays as well as possible, while also offering anything from QA to localization support.
 Platform holders have a lot to offer when it comes to development, and every bit of help frees up the time of the developers and, more importantly, decreases the budget of the game.
 Microsoft may also offer a reduced royalty rate, which costs the company nothing out of pocket, but which will increase the profits Square Enix sees from every sale.

 

I found it interesting that he almost exclusively talked about Xbox and PlayStation with no mention of the PC ecosystem and sales. Didn't the most recent Tomb Raider do well on PC?
 

[Xevross]

Actually on UK sales, I think (shock horror) that VGChartz might be pretty spot on with PS4 and XB1 hardware sales

[Dr. Pezus]

1.87m digital out of 12m total is only 16%, and that's including PC.

Or am I misunderstanding the data?




LOL at the thread title.

12m is shipped, likely for the holidays. 1.87m is sold digitally. Overall the game probably sold around 6-8m first week, of which 1.87m were digital.

[ethomaz]

Actually on UK sales, I think (shock horror) that VGChartz might be pretty spot on with PS4 and XB1 hardware sales

Let's me check.

2,348,776
1,920,292

I guess PS4 is a bit low but Xbox One seems ok... I was expecting it to cross 2m in Halo launch but that didn't happened.
Xbox One is close to cross 2m in UK.

[ethomaz]

About Polygon article... I don't know how this guy write something.

[Xevross]

Let's me check.

2,348,776
1,920,292

I guess PS4 is a bit low but Xbox One seems ok... I was expecting it to cross 2m in Halo launch but that didn't happened.
Xbox One is close to cross 2m in UK.

Worth pointing out that those are the numbers as of October 24th (week before Halo) so fast forward and its on the brink of 2m. I don't think they're too far off with PS4 either, XB1 has been doing very well against it recently

[Dr. Pezus]

how the fudge is it a strong move for sales? The hype will be gone come the PS4 release. It will still sell more on PS4 than XB1, but way less than it would've done if it had just released this holiday on all platforms

[ethomaz]

Worth pointing out that those are the numbers as of October 24th (week before Halo) so fast forward and its on the brink of 2m. I don't think they're too far off with PS4 either, XB1 has been doing very well against it recently

I'm waiting GFK to announce 2m before December... let's see.

[Rorono]

I doubt chertz is right, they had the X1 ahead of PS4 for a few weeks before Halo and then on the week of Halo 5 LE bundle release the ps4 gets back to #1? Right.. Their numbers are all fudged up since the updates came back.

[DerNebel]

12m is shipped, likely for the holidays. 1.87m is sold digitally. Overall the game probably sold around 6-8m first week, of which 1.87m were digital.

12m was the day-1 shipment actually, I think they'll ship more before the year ends.

[Max King of the Wild]

"Nobody cares about sales (the thing that provides profits). They only care about profits, but this is a good move for sales..."

contradiction at its best

"don't pretend there is any evidence its the wrong move...."

Okay, i wont pretend it exists. I'll just point to it existing. /points to The UK sales numbers

[Rorono]

Just for fun
If it had released on PS4 with the same ratio as TRDE
Ps4 version ~107k
Ps4 + x1 ~ 155k

This is just UK of course. If you take the markets where x1 can't even compete, the gap piles and piles on.