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Starfield is No.1 in the UK boxed charts. Almost identical launch to Diablo 4
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Impressive considering how skewed Xbox towards digital. PC is fully digital. I am surprised that it was close to Diablo 4 though.
P.S. on the second though, Diablo 4 was heavily skewed towards PC.
P.S. on the second though, Diablo 4 was heavily skewed towards PC.
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DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Fuck me! That's huuuuuge. Wtf!
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
UK is the second biggest Xbox market though. But good for Todd, I guess. It will be interesting to see the drop on the second week.
Bernoulli
M2 slut
Starfield is No.1 in the UK boxed charts, which is impressive. It’s not the biggest physical launch of 2023 (it’s behind Hogwarts, Zelda, Star Wars, Resi 4, FF16 and Dead Island 2 on that list), but it’s almost identical to Diablo 4
since when gamepass counts in sales?
since when gamepass counts in sales?
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ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
It's failed to break 350k on Steam during it's first weekend and short of 100k from Fallout 4.
And historically UK market is skewed more in favour of Xbox because it's the only country outside US where the console is still doing numbers.
But overall, you can spin this news the way you like, part of the reason why I hate obscure GP 'players'. Halo had 20m+ of them on launch and died in 3 months.
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German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
UK has terrible taste in food, but exceptional taste in videogames.
Bernoulli
M2 slut
he is using gamepass to say it's the biggest launch
it doesn't make sense at all unless now downloads and sales are equal
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
That's not what he said.
Bernoulli
M2 slut
he says the game is behind that list in Physical launch ( meaning sales)
then says the game is the biggest 2023 launch with everything else and gamepass so basically using downloads same as sales
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H-I-M
Member
He's literally using GP as an argument to conclude that it might be the biggest game of the year so far.
Knowing fully well that even just trying the game for 5 minutes counts as a 'Game pass player'.
GHG
Member
Sales-Age - Final Fantasy 16 UK physical sales beat Diablo 4's and Dead Island 2's
FFXVI - 'Fantasy' Seems like a great start, which will continue as more and more people get hands on a PS5. Also, I had to ...
Unban him, now.
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ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
It's also worth noting that GI is UK-centric outlet and UK boxed ales are usually so weird.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
He's literally using GP as an argument to conclude that it might be the biggest game of the year so far.
Knowing fully well that even just trying the game for 5 minutes counts as a 'Game pass player'.
He's not equating game pass to sales. That's something users here are doing.
Kilau
Member
Even F2P game have launch numbers.
chromatic9
Member
It may be similar to Diablo digitally or it may not. Could be higher, slightly less, significantly less. Lets wait for the digital numbers/reports.
Bernoulli
M2 slut
kazuyamishima
Member
He's extrapolating digital sales because the xbox digital trend in the UK is huge according to the data he provided.
But the weird thing is that he doesn't have the complete data yet (Digital from Xbox and PC) and then in another response, he said that FF16 sales were okay when Digital + Physical sales were about 71k launch week.
The guy shares a lot of info that he doesn't have to, but some of his wording and explanations are very weird.
But the weird thing is that he doesn't have the complete data yet (Digital from Xbox and PC) and then in another response, he said that FF16 sales were okay when Digital + Physical sales were about 71k launch week.
The guy shares a lot of info that he doesn't have to, but some of his wording and explanations are very weird.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
I can argue you can't have the biggest launch while skipping two arguably biggest consoles (Switch and PS5). With GP or without it.
For UK, FC24 will destroy the charts again. For US, CoD MW3 is on it's way. And something tells me that Spidey 2 will launch on par, but those GP millions will be full-price customers.
Red5
Member
New gamepass subs to play Starfield is a sale.
That's what the endgame here is, to grow GP and become the Netflix of gaming. MS would certainly prefer to turn all of those sales into GP subs if they could.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Looks like Ding's been compromised
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Mr Moose
Member
No, it is not, stop making things up.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
This thread went to shit in record time.
ByWatterson
Member
If you include all the support from 16-year-olds who can't vote, Bernie Sanders had the most successful presidential campaign of all time.
Kilau
Member
Just saying that I think that’s his approach. Same as MS, players not sales. Platform doesn’t really matter, the biggest game in the world could be F2P mobile only.
Red5
Member
Stop being obtuse.
If a game is pushing GamePass subs up that means they're making profit which is a sale.
They're literally cannibalizing physical and Digital copy sales in order to sell subs like Netflix and every streaming service. If they cared about retail sales they wouldn't be pushing day one on GP.
jm89
Member
That's how i understood it as well.
Some of his answers his giving to people is in such a oddly convulated way.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Sales-Age - Final Fantasy 16 UK physical sales beat Diablo 4's and Dead Island 2's
FFXVI - 'Fantasy' Seems like a great start, which will continue as more and more people get hands on a PS5. Also, I had to ...www.neogaf.com
Unban him, now.
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ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Right from the skewed and obscure data-points lol
Mr Moose
Member
Red5
Member
Same bad actors as in the review thread, same axe to grind.
Red5
Member
kazuyamishima
Member
I find it really strange that he's assuming something without the evidence, It will possibly be true, we'll see if he's right or not.
Mr Moose
Member
A gamepass sub is not a sale for Starfield. The end.
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Hard to Kill
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GHG
Member
it’s behind Hogwarts, Zelda, Star Wars, Resi 4, FF16 and Dead Island 2 on that list
But then...:
When you include gamepass even the impossible becomes possible.
When we all gamepass, we all win.
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Bernoulli
M2 slut
where is the list that he's talking about?
but we are getting the circana report anyway and there Starfield is going to be 100% at the top in the US
Red5
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
jm89
Member
Yeah i can see starfield doing well digitally, i mean it should considering the platforms it's releasing on.
The other thing he said was
It's identical to diablo 4 physical sales on playstation+xbox? cause that would be actually impressive. But maybe he just meant identitcal to diablo 4 on xbox? idk, his not being very clear.
Edit: actually it isn't impressive diablo 4 physical sales were poor in the uk.
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Ass of Can Whooping
Member
~80% sales digitally based on historical trends.
but yes, dring man said game pass.
Boo? He aint getting off that easily
Shame his DMs aren't open. I haven't sent a death threat in a while