The (Hypocritical) Gaming Sales and Finance Thread

I do wonder if Guinness World Records are buying Guinness World Records on DS, that it gets the record for the longest charted game ever or something as it always seems to be number 1, and yes the DS chart does change as Flintoff Cricket is number 3.

Why I came here though is because we have two digital charts, these will both see E3 impact be it Days of Play which started on the 7th June and then on to the week of conferences etc

Week ending June 9th
1. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Jumped 350 places
2. Borderlands 2
3. Rainbow Six Siege
4. FIFA 19
5. Spider-Man
6. Battalion 1944
7. Monopoly Plus
8. GTAV
9. UFC 3
10. God of War (2018)

Week ending June 16th
1. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
2. Rainbow Six Siege
3. Borderlands 2
4. Spider-Man
5. FIFA 19
6. GTAV
7. Watch Dogs 2, Makes sense after Ubisoft conference also it was £10
8. The Sims 4, Again be after EA Play and the new DLC talk
9. Monopoly Plus
10. God of War (2018)

Now I might be a bit cynical here but the Borderlands Handsome Collection is part of PlayStation Plus for June, it has also part of Game Pass since the Xbox Conference that as this is a digital "downloads" chart, I'm thinking people have just you know downloaded the game from these services as I know EofGiz, Craig (Brand Wars) and myself have all downloaded it via Game Pass along with a lot of my Xbox friends list playing it at the moment.

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I also found an interesting chart for a combined EMEAA for the week ending 23rd

1. CTR
2. GTAV
3. FIFA 19
4. Rainbow Six Siege
5. Red Dead Redemption 2
6. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
7. Day's Gone
8. The Division 2
9. The Sims 4
10. Assassin's Creed Odyssey

This an odd chart though for data as out of the 43 countries, 30 countries only have digital sales data and the 13 others have both digital & physical, also Nintendo, for instance, doesn't share digital data.

Some facts though CTR sold best on PS4 next best is a question mark as it is technically Xbox One, however as we don't have digital data from Nintendo that if you only look at physical sales then Switch version sold second best.

Judgement and Jay might be pleased Fantasy League isn't done on sales is only number 33 and Bloodstained number 44.

Ohh and I guess it tells us we all like the same rather bland looking Top 10.

The Borderlands games being included feels like cheating - I'd have thought they'd exclude games given away for free for charting purposes.

I don't know if those downloads are included or not, just my speculation that's why it charted so highly as why would you buy it digitally when you can play it due to Plus (you'll need to play online co-op, so you'd have plus) or Game Pass.

Sad news Chart-Track is no longer available, so I can't see what the number one DS, PSP, Wii or Wii U game was this week or things like individual chart etc, all that is available now is the Top 40 All Format on UKIE (Digital and EMEAA would also be possible).

Anyway, Fire Emblem Three Houses is the UK's number one, the launch has been a very good selling almost double Awakening and has sold double both the Fates games combined. I'm a tad surprised as sure the series has gotten bigger and Fates being split wouldn't have helped that title but the 3DS even back in 2013, I would have thought would have had a bigger install-base than the Switch.

It also sold around double the number 2 entry Wolfenstein Young Blood, do remember this all based on physical sales and people may have decided to get the £25 version of Wolfenstein on a digital store-front, over the £35 physical version.

One more fact Fire Emblem Three Houses, I believe is the first Switch exclusive to be UK number 1 that isn't related to Mario.

That's the UK and seems the case is similar in the states however much like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, it seems Three Houses is a sell-out, which is a good thing and a bad thing as this is yet again something Nintendo hasn't met the demand for and could have maybe sold more.

masofdas wrote:

Sad news Chart-Track is no longer available, so I can't see what the number one DS, PSP, Wii or Wii U game was this week .

That's great news about FE:TH though. Crazy to think the series was nearly being taken around the back of the shed to be put down a decade ago.

Sure is but what I have now is Q2 results etc from Sony and Nintendo.

Let's start with PlayStation as the PS4 has now past 100m and becomes fasted console to that milestone beating out the PS2 by 2 months. Still means, it is the 6th best selling system of all-time.

It will, however, pass the Wii and PS1 this year if Sony meets its target of 15m (9.2m more to sell) and will likely pass the GameBoy next fiscal year (if it meets target this year then next year it will need to sell 9m).

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Nintendo the Switch has now sold 36.87m units and the Big N still maintains it will sell 18m units this fiscal year, if that happens (it will because Lite and Pokemon) then it will end the fiscal year on around 52m, then it would put it as the 13th best selling more than likely (Xbox One numbers are unknown).

Games wise
1st Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 17.89 million, this is double the Wii U version number and if you put those together then that's even more of a crazy number, along with being more then Mario Kart 7
Super Mario Odyssey - 14.94 million
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 14.73 million
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 13.61 million
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! / Let's Go, Eevee! - 10.98 million
Splatoon 2 - 9.02 million, This is why I think we will see the 3rd game in the not too distant future
Super Mario Party - 6.99 million
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 4.10 million
1-2-Switch - 3.01 million
10th Mario Tennis Aces - 2.75 million

Mario Maker 2 will break into the Top 10 as it sold 2.42m in just three days that qualify to be counted for Q2.

The 3DS sold 200k in Q2 and seems to have no games coming soon even in Japan.

Basically, both are doing very well, I guess PS4 target being a 1m less is the only negative but still, it's 6 years old and going to become the 3rd best selling system ever eventually, that i doubt Kaz is upset.

We have some figures of the best selling games so far this year

Grand Theft Auto V (361,312)
FIFA 19 (360,588)
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 (263,520)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (259,931)
Resident Evil 2 (239,495)
Days Gone (229,182)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (175,451)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (172,065)
Anthem (165,746)
Forza Horizon 4 (144,790)

We have spent £1.56 Billion so far this year on gaming which is 47% of all spending on Entertainment.

I can believe it. I'm guessing Mas sold off some of his soul-freckles to afford all that gaming. How much does a soul go for these days?

I'll ask a Souls fan on that

Also Andy still might spend more than me on games a year (half a year in this case).

Who is still buying GTA V though?

It is rather crazy as it's always in the Top 10 in the American charts as well as others.

I feel that the Japanese chart, is the only one that ever makes sense.

Treesmurf wrote:

Who is still buying GTA V though?

I've read that some people were buying it just to get the online money that comes packaged with it, as it does/did work out cheaper than the cost in the online store.

However I imagine a lot of it is kids coming to it for the first time. That's a constant stream of new players.

To be fair I considered that once when the trade in price was the same as the download price which came with in game money, not worth the hassle in the end though. I thought all the kids were playing the Flossin' game now.

Nah, they're hankering for GTA's online casino. They're ready to take mummy and daddy's credit cards on a wiiiiiiiiild ride.

We've got numbers due to the financial reports ending Sep 30th, the PS4 is now the second best selling home console of all-time on 102m and the Switch has now sold 42m systems

With the Top 10, Nintendo published games looking like this

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 19.01 million
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 15.71 million
Super Mario Odyssey 15.38 million
Breath of the Wild 14.54 million
Pokémon: Let's Go 11.28 million
Splatoon 2 9.28 million
Super Mario Party 7.59 million
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe 4.59 million
Super Mario Maker 2 3.93 million
Link's Awakening 3.13 million

1-2-Switch has finally gone from the Top 10 and I think Fire Emblem is on around 2 million as well.

Link's Awakening already breaking into the top 10 shows how much of a bump that BotW has given the Zelda series. That's crazy considering the game's only been out for a couple of months.

I think BotW would have helped but Zelda games always do good numbers and shows why Nintendo has annualised the series.

I didn't think their numbers were amazing though? Almost 15m is probably amazing territory I'd guess. Then again, more people have machines now in general...

It depends on the game and who you are as I know Atlus would say 2m+ for Persona 5 is amazing, where I reckon Activision would say 15m it's alright for a COD.

I do have some Zelda numbers on the other 3D/HD games along with some mathsofdas

Ocarina of Time 3D 6.02m on 3DS 75.45m, 8% of the install base own
Majora's Mask 3D 3.09m on 3DS 75.45m, 4% of the install base own
Wind Waker HD 2.31m on Wii U 13.56m, 17% of the install base own
Twilight Princess HD 1.11m on Wii U 13.56m, 8% of the install base own
Link to the Past 2.82m on GBA 81.51m, 3.5% of the install base own

Avg 3.07m with 8.1% of the install base owning the game and at the moment 7.5% of the install base of the Switch have bought Links Awakening

Not had numbers for a while to talk about but here we go

Top 10 Games in the UK 2019

1 FIFA 20 with 1,502,191 copies sold
2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with 1,192,211 copies sold
3 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with 465,062 copies sold
4 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order with 438,465 copies sold
5 Red Dead Redemption 2 with 306,392 copies sold
6 FIFA 19 with 278,417 copies sold
7 Pokémon Sword with 273,991 copies sold
8 Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled with 267,285 copies sold
9 Grand Theft Auto V with 247,357 copies sold
10 Tom Clancy's The Division 2 with 237,226 copies sold

Pokemon SWiSH combined would have been 430k and Days Gone was the best selling New IP. The UK was down by 19.8% year-on-year, this is the first time since 2012 which was the year before PS4 and Xbox One, that it could be a trend as 2019 is the year before PS5 and XSX.

Still, 17.6m physical games were sold and digital was up 1.1% year-on-year.

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That's the UK but what about the world and money

Well it looks like this

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You might be asking what about the last decade and well in the UK it's rather boring

1st Grand Theft Auto V
   Call of Duty: Black Ops
   Minecraft
   Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
   FIFA 14
   FIFA 13
   FIFA 15
   Call of Duty: Black Ops II
   FIFA 11
10th FIFA 12

The Cappuccino Kid wrote:

masofdas wrote:

I have spent £1.56 Billion so far this year on gaming which is 47% of all spending on Entertainment.

Mas, have you put all of this money towards Candy Crush? The numbers don't lie!

Nah LoL, love me a MOBA

WarioWare Gold climbed the charts this week...by 822 places.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/01/uk_charts_warioware_gold_leaps_from_827th_to_fifth_in_very_successful_week_for_3ds

I wonder how many copies of a game you'd have to sell for it to be 827th in the British charts...

When we used to get PSP chart etc always thought wonder if I buy a new game if it chart