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PAL Charts - Week 16, 2016
- Thread starter Bruno MB
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A bit OT, but damn, finally PAL charts starting to get always 3/4 page in the first day.
Guess that's what's happen when the charts are interesting lol.
Well, uh, next week won't be that interesting unfortunately. Kronos, Farming Sim 2017, Stranger of Sword City, Tales From the Borderlands(Game Exclusive) and Yo-Kai Watch.
Week 2 results for Ratchet & Clank could be interesting.
60-70% drop with it being a Friday release.
Dude, watch the spoilers will you! Not everyone wants to know what happens next week.
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But the drop, and the Chart-track info could help pinpoint sales numbers, won't be as "exciting" as this, so probably not as much discussion though.
Yeah, that part's true. Yo-Kai watch is also semi-interesting if it does well, not that I see it happening.
Cornbread78
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NA.
They have been small shipments, which tells me they underestimated what a good platformer could sell on the system at this point. Been sold out at a lot of local GS' also
Bring on Jax and Spiro Sony!
I'm so happy to see Ratchet at #1. I hope this sends a message to the industry that a non-Nintendo game can be cute, bright, colourful and successful... if effort is taken to make a great game that looks appealing to a large audience! Also the pricing will have helped those unsure to take the plunge regardless. Well done Insomniac and also Sony for giving this game the budget it deserved.
No worry, thread will back even more interesting in May.
I mean dude, It's UNCHARTED month!
And many Ninty fans will be curius about Fire Emblem Fates, including me.
Now, for the "prediction time", i say 10,000 unit for Yokay Watch next week.
DriftingSpirit
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As I said in the other thread, this is fantastic news.
Give us more games like this, Sony! Sly and Crash and Ape Escape need to have a proper comeback!
Give us more games like this, Sony! Sly and Crash and Ape Escape need to have a proper comeback!
Thanks for sharing, Corn. This is good.
Or a Heavenly Sword remake. Could happen... right?
No worry, thread will back even more interesting in May.
I mean dude, It's UNCHARTED month!
And many Ninty fans will be curius about Fire Emblem Fates, including me.
Now, for the "prediction time", i say 10,000 unit for Yokay Watch next week.
Since we're coming up to May, we should agree on something as a thread ... Serious time.
Is Battlebomba or Bombaborn best?
Honestly though, it's been advertised that much, I could be proven wrong
Honestly? I have no idea of what expect, haha.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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Ive come to the conclusion that as soon as a game has a protagonist that is even remotely family friendly , a subsection of this site consider it a platformer.
If racthet is a platformer so is sunset overdrive.
Newtype-001
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MrCookiepants
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Ratchet hitting a new peak 15 years later. Pretty amazing when you think about it. Hope Insomniac goes all out with the next game.
Maybe they broke the release date in many stores?
I mean its awesome to see it number on even with Dark Souls 3.
Great to see Ratchet on top! I wasn't expecting Quantum Break to sell better in its third week vs Dark Souls III on its second week; especially since Dark Souls is a very respected franchise and 3 was critically acclaimed. Good to see Quantum Break still on there though, amazing game!
Oh, oooohhh, hehe, yeah, that's surprising actually. Either DS not so popular in France, or they absolutely love R&C, but pretty much all stores must've broken the street date in that case, no?
I believe DS sales were heavily skewed towards PS4 to begin with, so not really that surprising.
DriftingSpirit
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Oh, release date was earlier for France.
I'm happy to admit I may have been wrong. But my conclusion had nothing to do with the protaganist so I don't know what point you're trying to make.
My idea on whether or not something is a platformer has always derived from whether or not there's much jumping from platform to platform involved, as blunt as that may seem.
I mean, I've tended to think of Flashback as one my favourite MegaDrive adventure platformers, even though jumping across gaps and climbing stuff is only a part of what that game is all about :/
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh that's expain a lot.
Still... very surprised it beated Dark Souls III on PS4.
Though i think if we combined both SKUs, Dark Souls PS4 is over... i think.
Explains a bit then. Anyone know what was up with the weirdass release dates for Ratchet? Europe effectively had 3 different dates then.
Yeah but still cool to see
Miles Quaritch
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Did Euro PES not release on X1?
Doesn't look like it. I got mine from Argos and they didn't have the XB1 version there.
UK 22:nd, France 15:th, rest of Europe 20:th, effectively 3 different release dates.
UK usually has a different one, but France and rest of Europe being almost a week apart is strange.
By the look of things, it mind as well not have released on the PS4 either, didn't beat Fifa 16, that's been out for 7-8 months...
Cornbread78
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SEGAvangelist
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Sunset Overdrive is very much a platformer, IMO. It's all about jumping on things. Sure there is a lot of shooting and cool weapons, but the platforming is probably the most important thing in the game.
Didn't know Quantum Break was doing so well overseas in the UK (compared to the games around it).
#1 two weeks ago, #3 last week, #7 this week with what I'd call some big games around it.
Dirt Rally dropped out of the top 10 in that period it seems. I have both games, and dirt took a back seat here too.
#1 two weeks ago, #3 last week, #7 this week with what I'd call some big games around it.
Dirt Rally dropped out of the top 10 in that period it seems. I have both games, and dirt took a back seat here too.
So why was the film released earlier there than rest of Europe, the rabbit hole just gets deeper!
LifeBrandRobot
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I'm impressed by that number of Vita games. Didn't know that Spain had a lot of Japanese video game fans lol.
Google "Invizimals" and Spain
LifeBrandRobot
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Google "Invizimals" and Spain
Ahh home grown ehh. Invizimals has been around forever but I know nothing about it lol.
Miles Quaritch
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There was a time when PES being exclusive would be huge news...
PES hasn't been a big seller in the UK for years. Mainland is slightly different, but it's pretty much a dead duck in the UK. There used to be a picture floating around of PES and FIFA next to each other in a store with all the FIFA copies sold out and like one or two PES copies sold.
Oh, I know it's not a big seller, anywhere, just that, it not even managing to beat either one of the FIFA16's that's been out for so long, why even bother?
Also, if the street date breaking of Amazon UK is true, PAL charts might still be discussion worthy next week, no?
It's actually not a new game, just PES 2016 with some DLC added.
UK charts don't include street broken games for whatever reason. At least when it came up last that was the conclusion.