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[fortunato]

1. Why are people surprised?
2. The percentage doesn't mean much per se.

Nobody is buying a Switch for FIFA. And FIFA audience is already on PS4 and Xbox One. The real test will be to see whether the game can sell respectable numbers over time; that is, if Switch is bought by people that might also be interested in FIFA. FIFA for Switch will never sell as well as Sony and Microsoft counterpart, which are already selling a huge amount of copies, that is why the low share on Switch. EA doesn't expect FIFA for Switch to sell millions, especially with the first entry.

 

[toythatkills]

My local Tesco, Morrisons, Game and Sainsburys all had lots of copies of the Switch version.

The only way this is true is if all your local supermarkets happen to be gigantic out-of-town stores.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Talking about 10,000 copies, roughly.

It sold a million copies on launch in the UK?! Holy shit that's incredible.

 

[Carl2291]

10k to 12k isnt too bad.

 

[Savantcore]

It sold a million copies on launch in the UK?! Holy shit that's incredible.

Usually it does, but it turns out that 18 has sold 25% fewer copies than 17 (due to launching on a Friday instead of a Tuesday, digital sales etc.) so it's more like 7,500 for Switch.

 

[Zedark]

Hate to be that "but digital" guy, but:

Switch's digital store has also proved to be popular, so its sales of FIFA may be higher than the physical charts indicate.

Doesn't make it go from low to high, or even to ok per se, but it seems that digital was good. Maybe also a sign that availability wasn't quite as good?

 

[Plum]

From the other sales thread:

Switch's digital store has also proved to be popular, so its sales of FIFA may be higher than the physical charts indicate.

So it won't be as bad as 1%. Maybe 1.5% or even 2%!

EDIT: And beaten!

 

[Stygr]

It sold a million copies on launch in the UK?! Holy shit that's incredible.

Yup, only FIFA can do COD's number at day one and GTA aswell

 

[get2sammyb]

Hate to be that "but digital" guy, but:

Which will be true of all systems.

 

[Lonely1]

10k to 12k isnt too bad.

Depends on what EA threshold is to give this series development resources for future iterations.

 

[oti]

Lego Worlds has sold best on Switch? It's been out for just a couple of weeks.

The game's not out on Switch yet in Germany. There was some delay - release is this Friday now. Let's see how much stock will be shipped.

How odd.

 

[Zedark]

Which will be true of all systems.

Sure, but the article makes a point of saying it improved the outlook of the charts, so that could suggest it is a notable higher number.

 

[Yui's Empire]

Which will be true of all systems.

A detail often conveniently forgotten when the "but digital!" takes arrive. All games and platforms sell digitally too.

 

[Zedark]

Lego Worlds has sold best on Switch? It's been out for just a couple of weeks.




How odd.

Those splits are on a week-by-week basis.

 

[degoose]

I have a copy coming in the post but when i went into GAME i couldn't find a copy anywhere. Loads of ps4 and xbox copies but no switch ones. Also looking online not that many online stores had it in stock or even listed. Not sure if this is EA's fault or stores thinking it won't sell but portable FIFA and FUT was a big pull for me.

 

[Lonely1]

How odd.

Switch's FIFA cards were seized by German customs.

 

[-shadow-]

Curious how the sales move going forward is what I'm most interested in. If it ends up being evergreen, that'd be terrific.

Hate to be that "but digital" guy,

Trade in deals for FIFA are always garbage, might aswell never trade it in. Those three €/£3 that you'd get back ain't worth the effort.

 

[Loris146]

Sure, but the article makes a point of saying it improved the outlook of the charts, so that could suggest it is a notable higher number.

We are talking about low numbers though , something like 10k at retail.

 

[Toadthemushroom]

For what it's worth, FIFA 18 is top of the individual Switch formats charts:

https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110048

(Though the second best selling is Mario Kart DX, ahead of Pokken and Breath of the Wild).

 

[JetSetRadio]

Portable fifa was going to be huge they said.

 

[18-Volt]

What's weird is all those people who bought Pokkén and Rabbids in UK didn't buy Fifa. I know some Switch owners myself and every one of them was planning to get Fifa. Including me. This is the portable soccer game everyones been waiting for.

Who are those people who bought Pokkén but not Fifa? What kind of audience is that?

 

[Zedark]

We are talking about low numbers though , something like 10k at retail.

Of course. As I said in my og post, this doesn't mean that it is suddenly a good number per se. We will have to wait and see what EA thinks.

 

[fortunato]

Portable fifa was going to be huge they said.

It might still be. Switch is a new platform.

 

[Kyoufu]

What's weird is all those people who bought Pokkén and Rabbids in UK didn't buy Fifa. I know some Switch owners myself and every one of them was planning to get Fifa. Including me. This is the portable soccer game everyones been waiting for.

Who are those people who bought Pokkén but not Fifa? What kind of audience is that?

One game is a Pokemon fighting game.

The other is a sports game.

?????

 

[DJwest]

How big is the UK's population compared to China though? Because if it's anything similar then 1% is actually pretty good.

Hahahhahaaa

 

[Hamster Plugin]

Trade in deals for FIFA are always garbage, might aswell never trade it in. Those three €/£3 that you'd get back ain't worth the effort.

It's not about trade-in. Digital is overpriced as hell because you can get physical console games for €55-60 at launch, digital is €70.

 

[SlipperyFishes]

Stores here don’t advertise it on anything but Xbox and PlayStation on in store posters.

 

[Kareha]

To be fair the UK has never been huge for Nintendo, even back when I was a kid at school it was all Sega Master Systems and Megadrives, plus Commodore Amigas. The only person I knew who had a Nintendo console at the time was my younger cousin who had a NES. I had a Megadrive at the time and the only way I got to play on a SNES was when my brother came home from London.

 

[bombshell]

Where i Work in Denmark (a PS4 country) we got 350 PS4 copies
6 X1 copies
3 switch copies
10 PS3

Only the PS4 games is at display.
Er sold 1 PS3 copy and 1 X1 i think.
And some 100s PS4
Dont think anyone bought it for switch

Xbox One X will turn things around in Denmark for sure.

 

[Audioboxer]

FIFA is a game for playing with friends and if your friends aren't buying it on Switch, then no one is buying it on Switch.

 

[18-Volt]

One game is a Pokemon fighting game.

The other is a sports game.

?????

Switch doesn't have many games atm. People have limited choices. Pokkén one of them and Fifa is another. A lot of people chose Pokkén over Fifa. In a country like UK. That baffles me.

 

[Bishop89]

EA: "Well we tried"

 

[SlickShoes]

I paid the horrific digital price because nowhere local to me even had any copies nor did amazon.

 

[-shadow-]

It's not about trade-in. Digital is overpriced as hell because you can get physical console games for €55-60 at launch, digital is €70.

Oh, for some reason I read it as 3 out of 5 sales were digital. Hence why I posted it. Never mind me! 😅

 

[Bazry]

https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110032

Its 7th overall on the individual chart, just behind of the likes of Destiny 2 on XB1

Seems to have done fine considering how stock was awful leading up to it, I got my copy on Saturday from Amazon

 

[Principate]

One game is a Pokemon fighting game.

The other is a sports game.

?????

I don't that's entirely true in the first place. 10-20k is the usual first week sales for most major switch games in UK. If they did outsell it it'd only be by a few thousand.

 

[DieH@rd]

Not all copies sold generally, just 1% sold of all Fifa18 SKUs.

IMO, very poor sales.

 

[Kyoufu]

Switch doesn't have many games atm. People have limited choices. Pokkén one of them and Fifa is another. A lots of people chose Pokkén over Fifa. In a country like UK. That baffles me.

I don't know why that baffles you. Pokken won because it's a game based on Pokemon, which is what the Nintendo demographic likes and has liked for decades. FIFA's demographic is on the PS4 and Xbox systems.

 

[samar11]

Its a third party game on a nintendo console, go figure. If your surprised then you have been living under a rock lol

 

[OrbitalBeard]

Switch owners are too busy playing the most realistic sports game of all time, Golf Story.

 

[ZeroX03]

https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110032

Its 7th overall on the individual chart, just behind of the likes of Destiny 2 on XB1

Seems to have done fine considering how stock was awful leading up to it, I got my copy on Saturday from Amazon

Yeah, 1% of a game that sells that much is still a respectable number. With this context it seems fine.

 

[Kresnik258]

Incoming Legacy Edition.

But hey, that's better than WiiU got right?

 

[E-phonk]

FIFA is a game for playing with friends and if your friends aren't buying it on Switch, then no one is buying it on Switch.

Also, you can't play against your friends (online).. which is a problem for a (big) part of the fifa audience for sure.

 

[KillerMan91]

Wonder how this compares to PSP version sales back in a day.

 

[JoeInky]

What's weird is all those people who bought Pokkén and Rabbids in UK didn't buy Fifa. I know some Switch owners myself and every one of them was planning to get Fifa. Including me. This is the portable soccer game everyones been waiting for.

Who are those people who bought Pokkén but not Fifa? What kind of audience is that?

Is it really that hard to comprehend?

I have no interest in Fifa but bought pokken and mario + rabbids.

The last fifa game I owned was for the SNES, and I don't think I even played it, sports games are generally pretty boring to me.


Game probably would have done worse if they'd announced that you can't play with friends before it was released, they played that one close to the chest.

 

[toythatkills]

Hate to be that "but digital" guy, but:

Doesn't make it go from low to high, or even to ok per se, but it seems that digital was good. Maybe also a sign that availability wasn't quite as good?

From the other sales thread:



So it won't be as bad as 1%. Maybe 1.5% or even 2%!

EDIT: And beaten!

Well, both of these posts overlook the digital sales on PS4/One, surely? It could be worse than 1%.

 

[bombshell]

Sure, but the article makes a point of saying it improved the outlook of the charts, so that could suggest it is a notable higher number.

It says "may be higher", they don't have any eShop numbers.

 

[Carl]

Thanks for the heads-up! Anyone else see Switch copies of the game at their high street retailers?

I work at Tesco, we definitely have Switch copies. Only PS4 an Xbox in the promo stand at the front of store though

 

[Lonely1]

Well, both of these posts overlook the digital sales on PS4/One, surely? It could be worse than 1%.

Eh, total number sold is a way more important metric than % share.

I work at Tesco, we definitely have Switch copies. Only PS4 an Xbox in the promo stand at the front of store though

I wonder why is that.

 

[Hot Coldman]

You can't buy the Switch version in supermarkets so... Not too surprised.