UK charts: DmC launch sales are just a third of Devil May Cry 4's
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Samurai_Heart
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So this is good or bad for GAFers? =S
Doesn't everything bomba in the UK outside CoD/FIFA?
Cosmonaut X
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...but with the feel of good first-week sales.
Snowden's Secret
Banned
If it still took #1 with just 1/3 of the sales, that's indicative of a contraction of the market more than anything.
DmC potentially bombing has, let's say, strange ramifications for the future of this franchise.
slaughterking
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Like I said in the PAL charts thread, I don't think this is deserved but it's definitely not surprising for a couple of reasons.
velociraptor
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UK sales have been awful. Is gaming dying in this country?
kurisu_1974
Banned
I hope the series will go back to Japan instead of ending up like Silent Hill. Didn't even bother with Downpour and I used to be a rabid fanboy...
Cosmonaut X
Member
Offline retail is dying, certainly. Not sure how much online retail is reflected in ChartTrack tracking at the moment though.
*slow clap*
Because the PC gaming community has always been big on character actions games...WAT?
Diablo Rosso
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It was never going to do massive numbers but I expected it to do more than just over 33% of DMC4's week 1 sales.
Stop this shit
MikeE21286
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It'll be up there in the NPDs for sure this month.
Plenty of reasons to point why this happened though.
Plenty of reasons to point why this happened though.
ubersticky
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It's $10 cheaper on PC, will run at 60+ FPS and PC gaming is bigger than ever and will siphon plenty of sales away from consoles. The "PC Gaming community" is broader and bigger and less homogenous than it's ever been. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Likewise...
shinra-bansho
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I don't really get why this warrants a separate thread from the PAL Charts one, but yeah, it bomba'd.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I laughed.
Sad to see this bomba, haven't played it yet myself but the game was always stuck between a rock and a hard place, a game that doesn't appeal to the established base but one that really needed to get away from that to exist in the first place.
I am not downplaying the PC market but I am absolutely expecting this game in particular to sell worse on PC than on the other platforms.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Devil May Cry 4 was the first DMC game I bought and played, and it put me off buying another one.
I don't see how this game is getting those high reviews. I borrowed it from a friend who was renting it and the game is nothing like a DMC game. It was rather lackluster and really boring. To be honest it is a horrible game.
I know DMC 4 gets a lot of criticism but it is a much, much better game than DmC. I'm glad I didn't plunk down the money for it.
I know DMC 4 gets a lot of criticism but it is a much, much better game than DmC. I'm glad I didn't plunk down the money for it.
Really? You don't see why this board would be interested in seeing low numbers for this game?
Cosmonaut X
Member
Personally, I'd say:
-- Collapse of the "casual" market
-- Dedicated retail crisis
-- Growth of online retail
-- Double-dip (and soon to be triple-dip) recession and "austerity" measures
-- Growth of supermarkets as games retailers, pushing a narrower range of "big" titles
Hot Coldman
Banned
Woah woah woah. Let's not get too crazy. I still want my games damn it, and I ain't buying them used.
PC sales rarely count towards sales charts, because western countries usually buy PC games digitally now and those aren't tracked. So even if the game sells good on PC, we won't know the exact numbers.
Not to mention, this is the genre that is rather big on consoles and pretty niche on PC.
jett said:
I would rather say that the hate machine towards the reboot is the main purpose. Even with positive reviews and the game ending up being pretty good, the bad word of mouth that has been going on since the game was first unveiled certainly impacted the sales the most.
Diablo Rosso
Member
How has the series done previously on Nintendo platforms?
UK market bomba, more than DMC bomba, imho.
IdreamofHIME
Member
We got no monies.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
toastyToast
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Donte Must Die
Tizoc
Member
Just to add, Dishonored and Far Cry were going at $30 during the Steam sale but were among the top sellers during that period.
This game has a chance at having high sale income from the PC/Steam side.
Sad stuff, seems to be a good game from what I've heard here and there.
Oh well, at least there's a chance they will take the series back to Japan now if other regions have similar results.
Curious if the low sales are in fact because its a reboot made by Team Ninja or because the Devil May Cry brand has lost steam over the years.
Oh well, at least there's a chance they will take the series back to Japan now if other regions have similar results.
Curious if the low sales are in fact because its a reboot made by Team Ninja or because the Devil May Cry brand has lost steam over the years.
Jawmuncher
Member
Yep UK charts make everything look like its a bombs these days
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