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Hogwarts Legacy is the biggest Harry Potter game launch of all time | UK Boxed Charts
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yazenov
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These sales are proof that the vocal minority on Twitter and Ree does not represent the general population. Consumers do not give a fuck about their woke Idiology and just wants to have a great time playing video games.
ExcitableBoy
Member
That's a pretty big difference between the two. I know Sony had the marketing deal but it can't be just that.
Remember a lot of Xbox consoles out there are series s with no disk drive so that is going to impact physical sales dramatically
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
That's a pretty big difference between the two. I know Sony had the marketing deal but it can't be just that.
Elden Ring's Xbox sales were 85% digital of the total sales on that platform.
Xbox games tend to sell a lot more digitally than physically.
We al know this already, yet every time one of these threads comes up we all feign ignorance.
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yazenov
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EU sales split:
44% PC
40% PS
16% Xbox
these include both digital and physical. The game sold around 2.5 x more units on PlayStation than Xbox.
Elden Ring is the biggest new IP since The Division | European Monthly Charts
Elden Ring is Europe's biggest new games IP since The Division in 2016, and the biggest game launch since Call of Duty:…
www.gamesindustry.biz
Now that the PS5 has a huge lead over the Xbox last year, the splits will be much higher in favor of the PlayStation, especially given the marketing deal with Sony for this game.
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ChorizoPicozo
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are you saying that PS players dont buy digital games at all?
Digital bought Games make almost 80% on PlayStation.
El Pistolero
Banned
...Which makes the fact that companies and businesses cater to the insignificant and bitter minority (a sure way to enable their behaviour) all the more baffling.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
No, I'm saying for Xbox, a big majority of most game sales in the UK is done digitally. Proportionally more so than the same game would sell digitally on PS, using games like Elden Ring and Lego Star Wars as known big examples.
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Yep they are a very combative vocal minority! I think the reason why they appear the majority is that most normal people don't have the time or energy to argue with them all day and night.
Chozoldman
Banned
DEI departments and quota hiring. The ones doing the catering, are part of the vocal minority, and they are more and more regularly being put into positions of power in an attempt by companies to appear as "allies".
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On twittter or any platform 10% make 80% of the posts. So if you gage the world based off only social media without taking that into account you would think they were the majority.
Deerock71
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Wired gave the game 1/10 as a political protest score, not how good the actual game was.Either I'm completely out of the loop or there's a conversation that's going on that I have no idea about
James Sawyer Ford
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Don’t say I didn’t tell you so in this thread. WOW
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/micr...n-of-buy-to-play-sales.1651895/post-267548485
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
That's debatable one might suggest that it did have an effect but not the desired one. The outrage/boycott just increased sales when they were trying to decrease sales. It blew up in their face.
belmarduk
Member
Oh well. When a publication refuses to cover a game of this magnitude, they only hurt themselves not the game.
MasterCornholio
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Well you keep ignoring digital sales on PlayStation. Pretty sure the ratio for PlayStation is still quite high if nothings changed.
SlicedBread3
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I am noticing a lot of suspicious downplaying going on elsewhere, that I'm guessing might be coming from them.
Apparently Elden Ring's launch sales were never all that impressive now. So beating it isn't a big deal.
FalsettoVibe
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82% on PS5? Dat marketing deal....
Tsaki
Member
Shit is fucked up. In the review they called it middle-of-the-road game, which in absolute terms would make it a 5/10 or in game review terms a 7/10. Nope, it turns out mid is synonymous with 1/10.
The thing is the review has to get through more people up the chain, meaning they all thought "Yep, everything here seems legit. This is a review to be proud of for us at WIRED".
drganon
Member
True, but having visited universal studios last year, people still really love potter in general. I imagine most have never even heard of the "controversy" or don't care.
MasterCornholio
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Well I was commenting on this article which is about boxed sales. Difference is still quite big and its curious to see. I'm not sure if there will be a big change if you include digital in the equation.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Think you've got it backwards. No one's ignoring digital sales on PS, but multiple users, including yourself, are certainly doing it the other way around.
The article itself says it expects the gap to lessen with digital sales in the very next line.
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MasterCornholio
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Not really. Its not like I'm pulling the persecution complex here. I know digital sales are very important for both platforms.
Umbasaborne
Banned
Its very important to me that the version on my favorite box sold more than the version on your favorite box. I cant sleep otherwise
Elden Ring most definitely hit main stream with those sales.
ChorizoPicozo
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is not for muggles
Grildon Tundy
Gold Member
And something like 10% of Americans even have a Twitter account. 10% of 10% = 1%. So people see a self-selecting, very vocal, very small minority (1-2%%) and somehow assume that represents the people in general
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
In regards to Harry Potter many fans don't care and they shouldn't. Harry Potter is about Wizards and Magic. JKR has really created a magic world with lots of lore in a similar vein to what Tolkien did for Lord of the Rings and Middle Earth. Even though I think I think in a way stuff like Star Wars and Harry Potter are just more byproducts of Tolkien with other people either taking derivatives or being inspired by what he created.
Legacy is quite great. Being a HP fan on top of that makes it quite amazing. And the game is quite good being the last HP game I thought was good although linear was Chamber of Secrets.
Game is selling off of name brand, coming out at the right time and a being a great adventure.
The "controversy" has nothing to do with Harry Potter as a franchise so it literally doesn't matter. And from what I've seen ingame with the limited character creation as well as NPCs I'm seeing a lot of inclusion of a myriad amount of racial/cultural differences but also being subtle that these differences are just a smaller piece of a larger whole and doesn't completely define that character.
And the "controversy" HATES that.
RayHell
Member
As an investor I would be mad that sales money is left on the table because you're stubborn to target the spectrum crowd.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Crazy how much this game is selling. I didn't think this franchise was still so big.
rickybooby87
Member
I unfortunately bought digital for PS5. If Walmart is any indicator:
James Sawyer Ford
Member
So does PlayStation
Punished Miku
Gold Member
All he's saying is that it's common sense that Xbox has a higher proportion of digital sales. No one is saying PS has no digital sales, and that it's not a large percentage. But the best selling Xbox is a digital only console, meaning the best version of Xbox is 100% digital sales. I'm sure it's still way behind PS, but it doesn't hurt anyone to acknowledge a common sense point.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Sure, but when the digital sales data comes out it’s still going to show a big difference between PS and Xbox that’s larger than the install base would suggest
Shakka43
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DenchDeckard
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wait for the digital splits, it will blow your mind.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
I don't think anyone is denying that PS is massively dominating right now.
... except Jim Ryan when talking to the CMA
MasterCornholio
Member
I'll be fair to those that didn't enjoy my comment. I'll wait for the true sales before commenting on the split any further. I did say I don't expect there to be a massive difference but if there is I'll admit that I'm wrong.
Anyways I'm glad this game is going well since it seems very good. I'm currently going through FarCry 6 but this might be the next one I pick up. I need to see a few reviews before deciding if it's a type of game that i would enjoy.
P.S I'm going to ignore the review bombs though. I know that there's some controversy behind the author but I'm not going to use that to judge the game. Unless the game is funding some sort of weird Nazi Cult i don't have an issue with buying it.
Anyways I'm glad this game is going well since it seems very good. I'm currently going through FarCry 6 but this might be the next one I pick up. I need to see a few reviews before deciding if it's a type of game that i would enjoy.
P.S I'm going to ignore the review bombs though. I know that there's some controversy behind the author but I'm not going to use that to judge the game. Unless the game is funding some sort of weird Nazi Cult i don't have an issue with buying it.
Elysion
Banned
80% more than Elden Ring? That‘s ridiculous lol. Didn’t ER sell more than 20mio?
Regarding last-gen versions, I actually don’t think those will sell that much. A couple million, sure, but nothing close to the current gen versions. However, the Switch version is another story. If it is competently done (at least on par with the Witcher 3 Switch port), then I could see that version doing massive numbers as well (meaning >10mio).
Overall, assuming a successful Switch version, this might sell 30-40mio this year, making it by far the most successful game of 2023.
Regarding last-gen versions, I actually don’t think those will sell that much. A couple million, sure, but nothing close to the current gen versions. However, the Switch version is another story. If it is competently done (at least on par with the Witcher 3 Switch port), then I could see that version doing massive numbers as well (meaning >10mio).
Overall, assuming a successful Switch version, this might sell 30-40mio this year, making it by far the most successful game of 2023.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It does, just not as much proportionally.
Yeah I don't know why anyone assumes adding digital will make Xbox 2 : 1 lol. But it's a known fact that the huge majority of Xbox sales in UK are digital. Up to 85%.
And in some examples like Lego Star Wars (which sold gangbusters), the digital sales on Xbox were higher than PS. but when both combined, PS was still higher, however by a few percentage points, not the 85 to 15 ratio you often see in physical only sales.
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Kokoloko85
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Lol no way those Mario Kart games arent bundles.
When I bought my Switch, it was £280 by itself, or £280 including Mario Kart 8 lol
When I bought my Switch, it was £280 by itself, or £280 including Mario Kart 8 lol
Lunarorbit
Member
What are they going to do when next months npd report comes out?Meanwhile on another forum....
winjer
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Harry Potter is a big seller. It'll be on top sellers lists all year whether it's NPD, other regional sales lists or console top played lists.What are they going to do when next months npd report comes out?
They are going to ban all list threads? Or perhaps they'll edit OP charts and black out that row? lol
HotSauceEnema
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they aren't covering the UK sales this week, when they normally do, so yep that looks like the plan so far