360 should have sold well, didnt they have 99GBP bundles with games? That was crazy price, lower than PS2 low prices at the end.
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UK Video game charts for Black Friday Week
- Thread starter PranooY
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360 should have sold well, didnt they have 99GBP bundles with games? That was crazy price, lower than PS2 low prices at the end.
Brutalitops
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LittleBombaPlanet 3
Visualante2
Member
Can't help but feel that Pokemon is a little disappointing. Most of these games are weeks old...
Might be a bomba but it's putting PS4s in younger hands. There is a LBP3 Minecraft bundle that will surely be evergreen for kids. Only thing missing is a Lego game really.
The only thing that can save Halo 5 is probably a Crackdown beta...
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
Yep new content makes it even better for first time buyers.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Well, we don't really care about Nintendo home console games here in the UK at the best of times, and just take a look at the competition it was up against, also accounting for the heavy discounting for various highly-marketed games. It's really not that surprising.
This is the UK. Folks here are too cool and edgy to play WiiU. We are in the land of Fifa, where updated rosters are worth £40 a year plus £200 to get the best ultimate team. Fun is secondary to bragging rights.
Hot Coldman
Banned
The split sales (combined, it takes #3) plus it being a full price game amongst a bunch of games in bundles/deals/etc makes it make more sense.
Plus it was never going to beat FIFA and CoD on the busiest shopping week of the year.
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
He's right though. UK has a particularly poor taste. COD and FIFA hang around the top of the charts well into next year. AssCreed to a lesser extent.
Exterminieren
Banned
It's literally Pokèmon's biggest ever UK launch.
Coming behind FIFA and COD on Black Friday is nothing to be sniffed at.
Quixz
Member
Maybe... just maybe.. people have fun with FIFA too?
I mean, those sales surely reflect all of European countries too. FIFA, COD.... is what dominate sales over here.
But it did better than all the other Pokemon launches including the main series X / Y last year. Unless the previous games are not launch near BF date, I think they did well.
iamvin22
Industry Verified
Brutalitops
Banned
Not nearly as edgy as implying people are wrong for having fun with a game they clearly like.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I'm also disappointed that a mere remake of the worst games of the franchise managed to set a new record for the best first week for a Pokémon game
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what does this even mean?
There are no Wii U games on the list.
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
Doesn't mean it is right. FIFA doesn't deserve to sell like a phenomenon each year when l EA do is tweak the engine and rosters.
Also, I believe this year Pes is better.
Starwolf_UK
Member
When you consider the Amazon and Shopto problems of not getting enough copies...plus it is a busy time of year, your typical 10k opening, drop like a brick that most first party Wii U games do won't cut it...
The text says otherwise. I think that is over 150k combined...I can still remember the weeks when 10k gave you number 1 spot on the charts...
Fifa Legacy crap edition has been combined with Fifa for years so it is only fair...
should have done it for Pokemon
Brutalitops
Banned
And Smash deserves to sell for those same reasons, right?
Robin64
Member
It means that this is pretty much how charts here always are. I didn't say it was a good or bad thing, though. People here adore FIFA and CoD and they'll be up there in the charts until the next iterations.
And that's fine, I don't mind more people gaming even if they play games that aren't my taste.
Nintendo sealed their own fate, blame them.
Don't blame others for playing games that they enjoy.
iamvin22
Industry Verified
so because there are no wii u games on the list UK gamers cant have fun with the choice they made?
ok thats fair.
edit: quote add
wapplew
Member
That EPL liecence thou.
geordiemp
Member
What a load of rubbish.
UK market likes multiplatform games that perform well - many are well informed on how games run even if they are not technical.
Last gen 360 was king as it ran most multiplats better. This time its Ps4.
Social online games seem to do well - be it FIFA or COD or Destiny or GTA 5, especially Teens who have not heard of WiiU (my son is 11, he never heard or mentions WiiU nor do his friends).
I live in UK and have not even seen a WiiU in a shop.
WiiU seems to be niche and I only see its popularity (or mentioned at all) when I log into GAF.............
Visualante2
Member
Diamond & Pearl - July 27th
Heart Gold & Soul Silver - March 26th
Black & White - March 4th
Black & White 2 - October 12th
X & Y - October 12th
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - November 28th
Everyone here is wrong regarding which console won. Can't we all just be happy that it was an amazing week for gaming?
I have no problem with people having fun with it, I just think folks might have more fun if they broadened their horizons a bit. I enjoy the odd game of Fifa and I get why people like it. What bugs me is the way EA have monetized every aspect of the fun so the really hardcore Fifa addicts are dropping £250 a year on the franchise. I know that folks will pay that to enjoy building their best Ultimate Team but its pretty much what I hate about modern gaming summed up in one franchise that I used to love.
Shame LBP3 did so bad, it's actually pretty good. Launching something like it at full retail at the time they did was a massive fuck up on Sony's part though. Sub-£30 for the PS4 version and launching it early December would have been much smarter. Ah well... I could see it having decent legs when the price drops (Which shouldn't take long).
Smash's low debut is a poor reflection on all of us too, but you could see that coming a mile off unfortunately.
lmao
Smash's low debut is a poor reflection on all of us too, but you could see that coming a mile off unfortunately.
lmao
I agree that EA should put more work on FIFA but that doesnt mean that people who buys FIFA and COD are buying those games for braggin and not for fun.
Must be Wii U or Vita then.
So it's not the PS4, not the XBO, not the 360, and obviously not Vita.
Doesn't leave a lot of options
It's PS TV
My mind's telling it's PS3So it's not the PS4, not the XBO, not the 360, and obviously not Vita.
Doesn't leave a lot of options
It's PS TV
but my heart's telling me it's Vita.
geordiemp
Member
Dont agree, you will see the same sales trend as USA, only difference is football is most popular..
I bet if you lumped together American football and baseball = football in UK.
So USA and UK charts dominated by GTA , COD , destiny etc is same, only difference is FIFA popularity.
It's 3DS, obviously.
I thought I already said PS4 didn't win and Xbox didn't win
It's fine. We get it. It's Amazon Fire TV isn't it?
360 won looking at COD sales, PS4 and XB1 should be close.