Do these numbers include digital?
I was looking and what's up with PS4 Pro on Amazon UK? Isn't in stock since launch day.
Code:Week Title Weekly Sales Cumulative Sales Title Weekly Sales Cumulative Sales Difference 1 Battlefield 1 259,000 259,000 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfa 328,000 328,000 -69,000 2 Battlefield 1 158,000 417,000 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfa 147,600 475,600 -58,600 3 Battlefield 1 86,900 503,900 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfa 79,700 555,300 -51,400 4 Battlefield 1 53,000 556,900 5 Battlefield 1 50,400 607,300 LTD Battlefield 1 607,300 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare 555,300 52,000
Makes it hard to draw too many conclusions then really as we all know that digital sales are growing.
[B]November, 2016[/B]
Week 44, 2016 - 844,523 units ([B]+17.83%[/B]) / £39m ([B]+48.85%[/B]) [Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare]
Week 45, 2016 - 651,196 units (-46.46%) / £25m (-49.29%) [Dishonored 2]
Week 46, 2016 - 688,244 units (-51.87%) / £24m (-56.04%) [Watch Dogs 2]
Week 47, 2016 - [Black Friday and Pokémon Sun / Moon]
Total - 2,183,963 units (-35.06%) / £88m (-32.36%)
[B]November, 2015[/B]
Week 44, 2015 - 716,741 units / £26.2m [Halo 5: Guardians]
Week 45, 2015 - 1,216,280 units / £49.3m [Call of Duty: Black Ops III]
Week 46, 2015 - 1,430,108 units / £54.6m [Fallout 4]
Week 47, 2015 - 1,111,438 units / £42.4m [Star Wars Battlefront]
MCV said:'Black Friday is the worst thing to happen to retail'
The Black Friday sales event has had a deeply negative effect on games retail.
That’s according to sources speaking to MCV, who say that the period is ‘the worst thing’ to happen to shops.
Retailers say that Black Friday is a major factor in the UK software market being down, with the sales event being detrimental to sales of new releases. This is due to consumers holding off spending until Black Friday. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Watch Dogs 2 and Titanfall 2 have been among the games that have underperformed in their first weeks on shelves.
One source goes as far as to say that publishers may think again about launching new games during this period. But apparently even the massive discounts at retail seen during Black Friday won’t help the market.
“The market cannot turn around now. Pre-orders and the first couple of weeks sales are enormously important to both publishers and retailers but there has been some appalling results this year due to Black Friday, and customers waiting to see if the games are broken or if the scores are decent,” said one retail source.
“It’s hard to see why publishers would release games in November going forward. Black Friday is the worst thing to happen to UK retail.”
Another retail source added: “Judging by the drop off we have seen in trade in the run up to Black Friday, I suspect customers have held off on key purchases. This should make the event itself larger than 2015, but I’m not convinced that the month as a whole will benefit. The following weeks were slightly subdued as consumers had no doubt spent much of their disposable income.“
Though they admit a lot depends on the sales event, one retail source says that the market needs strong releases at the start of 2017.
“There is a lot riding on Black Friday – we are about to see how much pent up console demand there is,” they told MCV.
“More fundamentally we need some exciting games early in 2017 for Xbox One and PS4. Especially something new and fresh. There is a bit of franchise fatigue at the moment outside of FIFA.”
GfK director Paul Simpson said:The VR units of the former are more expensive (£550-plus vs c. £350) and require a relatively high performance PC. PlayStation VR also benefits from a large installed base of PS4 owners – more than 3.5m in the UK
Code:Week Title Weekly Sales Cumulative Sales Title Weekly Sales Cumulative Sales Difference 1 Battlefield 1 259,000 259,000 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfa 328,000 328,000 -69,000 2 Battlefield 1 158,000 417,000 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfa 147,600 475,600 -58,600 3 Battlefield 1 86,900 503,900 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfa 79,700 555,300 -51,400 4 Battlefield 1 53,000 556,900 5 Battlefield 1 50,400 607,300 LTD Battlefield 1 607,300 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare 555,300 52,000
UK: Thanks, America'Black Friday is the worst thing to happen to retail'
Makes it hard to draw too many conclusions then really as we all know that digital sales are growing.
MCV said:'Black Friday is the worst thing to happen to retail'
Have people seen any good deals, even just gaming deals during Black Friday in the UK? Any time I have a look everything looks to be normal price or very close to it.
Do we really need to talk about digital sales in UK, again? Until digital prices in the UK get even close to parity with retail prices, "digital sales" is a bad excuse for an under performing game, especially one that under performs by 80%
We can draw plenty of conclusions from a game which drops 75% in retail sales 2.5 years after its predecessor. There is no way that digital sales would make up that deficit, plus digital sales while obviously nowhere near as big were still a factor in 2014 so we don't get a complete picture from either side.
Have people seen any good deals, even just gaming deals during Black Friday in the UK? Any time I have a look everything looks to be normal price or very close to it.
The only genuinely good deals I've seen are Titanfall 2 for £20 in HMV (sadly I already bought the game), Tearaway Unfolded for under £5 and God of War 3 Remastered for £6.50, both on PSN.
One source goes as far as to say that publishers may think again about launching new games during this period.
Its hard to see why publishers would release games in November going forward. Black Friday is the worst thing to happen to UK retail.
Sony Vindicated
Sony Vindicated
Yup the only Fall games count rhetoric should die a horrible death imo. I'd rather publisher space out their games than have my wallet take a massive hit during the holidays.The only people who complain about Sony having nothing for the pre-Christmas period seem to be people who've bought into the 'rest of the year is pre-Season' bullshit mindset peddled by the Xbox executives.
As a consumer why in the fuck would I want 2/3 of the year's biggest releases in a 2-3 month window?! It makes no sense at all.
Titanfall 2 could've done better in March.
Battlefield took a while to be the sales juggernaut it is today. Titanfall after one game wasn't ready to go up against COD BF. Seems they relied on the crazy hype of the run up to the first game where it was Density and Titanfall with TF being talked about the most, it was unique series of events before the PS4/XBO launched. TF2 was a stealth release along side going up against COD BF, just a massacre really.
Titanfall 2 would have done better at any other time of the year when it wasn't sandwiched between the two biggest FPS franchises on the market. How they thought this was a good release window is still fucking baffling.
If you have to bring up the "digital sales" argument, especially for a game that is a sequel to a new IP that was successful, you've already lost.
For a large majority of games, the inability to build on the foundation of your first game to make it more successful with a larger install base and grow BOTH retail and digital simultaneously means the game is already pretty much underperforming.
Hasn't it been slow like this over the last few years?+3.5m PS4's at this point kind of shows that this year had been slow for console sales. They hit 3m in late January so <=600k have been sold this entire year.
Also it looks like Black Friday was a terrible decision in a very price sensitive region, but I think that only means something if these game suddenly sell massive amounts of units to make up any shortcomings.
Hasn't it been slow like this over the last few years?
Thanks.2015 was probably close to the same performance but I think this would mean the PS4 is down YoY. This could change in Black Friday + December but this summer was really slow for sales.
For both Ubisoft & EA, I think they both assumed that the success of their first game were entirely on their own merits ( both quality and marketing ) and that there were no "overhype" factor involved in their respective success.
2015 was probably close to the same performance but I think this would mean the PS4 is down YoY. This could change in Black Friday + December but this summer was really slow for sales.
Spain (14-20):
1- Watch Dogs 2 PS4 12,500
2- FIFA 17 PS4 11,000 (316,000)
3- COD IW PS4 6,000 (81,000)
4- Battlefield 1 +3,500 (70,000)
5- Assassin's Creed Ezio Collection ~3,000
[Week 48, 2014] POKÉMON OMEGA RUBY / ALPHA SAPPHIRE (NINTENDO) - 145,000 / NEW
[Week 41, 2013] POKÉMON X / Y (NINTENDO) - 124,000 / NEW
Pokemon Sighted Near Summit
28/Nov/2016
The record breaking launch of Pokemon Sun & Moon cannot deny the Black Friday boosted ‘FIFA 17’ a return to No1 as it shoots up 2 places from No3.
‘Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’ at No2 also spoils Nintendo’s party by making the most of a Black Friday windfall and ensuring ‘Pokemon Sun’ debuts at No3 and ‘Pokemon Moon’ at No4. However, it is a spectacular launch for Nintendo, combined they would have debuted in top spot. The Black Friday promotions have a huge effect on nearly every Top 40 title with big gains for PS4 games bundled with hardware, in particular ‘Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End’ which re-enters the Top 40 at No8, ‘Driveclub’, a re-entry at No20 and ‘Ratchet & Clank’ a re-entry at No25. In fact, it is the biggest week for PS4 console hardware since launch, beating last year’s Black Friday.
http://www.chart-track.co.uk/?i=2566&s=1111
PS4 second biggest week, up from last years Black Friday. Sounds like PS4 won since there is no mention of Xbox One. Also no % increases for software.
http://www.chart-track.co.uk/?i=2566&s=1111
PS4 second biggest week, up from last years Black Friday. Sounds like PS4 won since there is no mention of Xbox One. Also no % increases for software.
http://www.chart-track.co.uk/?i=2566&s=1111
PS4 second biggest week, up from last years Black Friday. Sounds like PS4 won since there is no mention of Xbox One. Also no % increases for software.
PS4 had great deals on Amazon : U4 bundle for 199 £, Cod bundle for 199£ and mega pack bundle ( U4 DC R&C ) for 239 /249£.No % increases fucking sucks, though.
What were PS4 numbers last BF? Also, what kind of deals both consoles got for this BF? In order to have a better context.