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PAL Charts - Week 44, 2015
- Thread starter Bruno MB
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Uncharted is doing much better than I expected then.
Bruno MB
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Australia:
Week 44, 2015 - Full Price Games (All Formats)
01 (NE) HALO 5: GUARDIANS (MICROSOFT)
02 (01) ASSASSIN'S CREED: SYNDICATE (UBISOFT)
03 (NE) WWE 2K16 (TAKE 2)
04 (03) UNCHARTED: THE NATHAN DRAKE COLLECTION (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
05 (04) FIFA 16 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
06 (02) GUITAR HERO LIVE (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
07 (06) NBA 2K16 (TAKE 2)
08 (NE) MX VS ATV: SUPERCROSS ENCORE (NORDIC GAMES)
09 (07) LEGO DIMENSIONS (WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE)
10 (05) 3DS THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TRI FORCE HEROES (NINTENDO)
New Zealand:
Week 44, 2015 - Full Price Games (All Formats)
01 (NE) HALO 5: GUARDIANS (MICROSOFT)
03 (NE) WWE 2K16 (TAKE 2)
02 (01) ASSASSIN'S CREED: SYNDICATE (UBISOFT)
04 (03) UNCHARTED: THE NATHAN DRAKE COLLECTION (SONY COMPUTER ENT.)
05 (02) FIFA 16 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
06 (06) GUITAR HERO LIVE (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
07 (04) NBA 2K16 (TAKE 2)
05 (07) MINECRAFT (MICROSOFT)
06 (10) GRAND THEFT AUTO V (TAKE 2)
10 (08) RUGBY LIVE 3 (TRU BLU ENTERTAINMENT)
Greece:
September 2015 - Individual Formats (Units)
01 (NE) PS4 FIFA 16 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
02 (NE) PS3 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2016 (KONAMI)
03 (NE) PS4 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2016 (KONAMI)
04 (NE) PS4 METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN (KONAMI)
05 (05) PS3 FIFA 15 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
06 (NE) PS4 NBA 2K16 (TAKE 2)
07 (01) PS3 CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS (ACTIVISION BLIZZARD)
08 (NE) PS4 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2016 - ANNIVERSARY EDITION (KONAMI)
09 (NE) PC PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2016 (KONAMI)
10 (02) PS3 GRAND THEFT AUTO V (TAKE 2)
Belgium
Week 43, 2015 - All Console / PC Formats
01 (NE) ASSASSIN'S CREED: SYNDICATE (UBISOFT)
01 (01) PC THE SIMS 4 (ELECTRONIC ARTS)
Bruno MB
Member
Call of Duty: Black Ops III claims top spot in first week
2015 so far reveals there have never been more games released on a Tuesday (25 and counting, previous record was 2012 with 17 for the whole year), but Activision's ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops III’ forsakes Tuesday for Friday for the first time since 2009 / 6 iterations ago. So 'Black Ops III' launched Friday 6th November and UK gamers had to divide their disposable income between fireworks, the Treyarch-developed first person shooter and the continued wallet-drain of ‘Spectre’ at the cinema. However, ‘Black Ops III’ explodes on to the scene at No1 and in terms of revenue generated in week 1 (regardless of release day) ‘Black Ops III’ ranks at No14 amongst all titles. Compared to other Call of Duty titles this is the 7th in terms of week 1 takings, though of course all of those above it benefited from 5 days of sell-through in week 1 (UK charts run Sun-Sat). The Gen 8 (PS4/Xbox One) transition is overwhelming with 91% of sales units coming from these 2 formats (compared to 68% for last year’s ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’. EA’s ‘FIFA 16’ climbs 1 place to No2 (-7%) and EA have the only other new entry at No3 as ‘Need For Speed’ arrives for PS4/Xbox One. Microsoft’s ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ drops from No1 to No4 (- 78%) and Ubisoft’s ‘Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate’ drops 3 places to No5 (-55%). There are numerous re-entries due to various retailer promotions, most notable of which is Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart 7’ back in at No14 (+898%).
Lots of words to say that Call of Duty: Black Ops III had the worst opening in the series since Call of Duty: World at War.
Ouch at that Halo 5 drop.
04 (01) HALO 5: GUARDIANS (MICROSOFT) - 33,000 / 183,000 (-78%)
Katana_Strikes
Member
Wonder why CoD came out on Friday this time round.
And yeah that Halo drop on top of its launch week numbers is very poor. Can I be the first to start the "well all by friends bought it digital last week"?
And yeah that Halo drop on top of its launch week numbers is very poor. Can I be the first to start the "well all by friends bought it digital last week"?
The legs on that game are actually quite surprising across the EU.
Interested to see where it crops up this week in the UK with new games dropping.
Pennywise83
Banned
Mario Kart 7 back in at No14 (+898%)
lol
lol
Maximilian Kolbe
Member
COD dropped too?
So what UK gamers buying this year? Fallout 4?
So what UK gamers buying this year? Fallout 4?
Katana_Strikes
Member
Tomb Raider. Obvs
Not really a surprise the launch was going to always be front loaded. The question for me is whether it generates decent WOM to retain decent baseline of legs or whether continues to tail off to almost nothing fairly rapidly.
If the latter in PAL then loyalty of US fans is going to be critical to how game is ultimately judged.
MS generated decent PR but it clearly has lots of holes and soon enough questions of how well the game itself did and how active its online is will be asked vs other titles.
Mind you looks like CoD BO didn't have huge launch for the franchise either.
Personally I think Fallout 4 and Battlefront are going to emerge the big winners in context for this period.
TR I think unfortunately is going to be badly burnt between all the bigger AAA titles and struggle but we'll see (and pretty soon too).
Acquiescence
Member
Where's that hold for Syndicate that Ubisoft were talking about.
Yep, my bad.
Probably the week 1 to week 2 hold. 38% is a tiny drop, helped out a lot by those cheap ass bundles.
Well that drop for Halo is expected imo. The game was always going to be severely front loaded.
But man that CoD drop you've explained Bruno is nuts.
How has AW outsold Blops week 1 when the word of mouth seems way more positive this year, an open beta was done and install base is bigger than 2014.
Was last gen picking up the slack that much or is this just franchise fatigue?
Bruno MB
Member
Do you have 2* week sales for Halo 3 , Reach and Halo 4?
Same range (around 80%) but all of them had a huge opening compared to Halo 5.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
That was last week, it retained 60%+ of its opening week. This is week 3.
I expected Halo 5 to have better legs, since the worst opening... well, that is.
Last chance is the NPD.
if Halo don't sell at least 1 million...
Thank you.
Steverulez
Member
It will stick around because MS will bundle is aggressively, hopefully that will help them see a bigger opening for Halo 6 given its a great game
Acquiescence
Member
I'm not talking specifically about last week, I mean in general. They said that it would catch up to Unity through legs and it doesn't look like that's going to happen at all. And yeah, as Hasney said, the game only managed to perform well in its second week due to bundles anyway.
Maximilian Kolbe
Member
Not really, some past COD dropped over 80%.
I think it is the joint highest with MGSV for the year so far.
We'll probably see the same for Fallout. Tuesday releases seem to do this now.
AnthonypUK
Member
From the scammel jammel @VG_Dave
ps4 - 48%
Xbox 43%
360 5%
PS3 3%
AW:
Ps4 35%
Xbox: 32%
360 21%
PS3 11%
True, it still might if these deals keep on coming. Watch Dogs is still at 13 so those bundles keep on trundling.
I'm expecting it to be a Black Friday sales winner which Unity missed out on launching later too, as is the trend with Ubi games recently.
Acquiescence
Member
Quite a healthy percentage for the Xbone considering the marketing partnership this time around.
That's a good split for Xbox actually it's usually much bigger for multiplats.
I guess ppl don't care that much about resolution and timed DLCs.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
Don't ask me, I was questioning Ubi's reasoning about that, pointing to Black Flag's sales pattern without saying whether they were factoring the cross-gen split release. But it was a PR footnote on their financial results for a period that didn't even include Syndicate's release. They've got enough leeway to put a positive spin without too much scrutiny. Once they report their Oct-Dec quarterly results we'll probably get a better indication of how it really performed for them.
Yeah, I'm thinking it's still associated with XBox and it will take a few years to change that even if it ever does.
Pennywise83
Banned
This is what happens when you wish that a milder drop in the second week is due to word-of-mouth.
Always said BO III was not gonna be bigger than Ghost.
And to be fair, i also said BO III was not gonna beat AW.
...But after the news of the pre orders, i changed my prediction Ghost > AW > BO III in Ghost > BO III > AW
...But, looks like i was always right. for now. In UK.
Well... we will see.
It's still a shift and the marketing partnership is only just starting now. Some of the more uninformed customers could be in for a surprise when the first DLC drops 30 days early on PS4. It was clear from the wording at E3 that it's a multi-year deal.
Considering the years of Xbox marketing I would not expect a huge difference between the 2 platforms. I would not expect a major swap on the first title.
dead monkey uk
Member
That is a good result for Xbox One, especially when owners had Halo around the same time.