Woopah
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He probably just finished compiling that week's data, so shared a couple of things he found interesting.
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Circana - In US Indiana Jones ranked 2nd in dollar sales for w/e Dec 14th (behind only COD); Astro Bot went from #11 the week prior to #7 for the week
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LordOcidax
Member
I don't know why having more information is a bad thing now. I hope that Mat makes this every week.
Woopah
Member
I doubt he'd be able to release official weekly reports to non-subscribers, but getting more of his thoughts would be interesting.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
It's not a bad thing. I just wish he did it more often, with more games. And not just the games he personally likes to play.
Unknown Soldier
Member
He only gives information on games which are a part of his agenda, where's all the rest of the games and their sales info?
LordOcidax
Member
You have to pay for that.. At least is giving us something for free. And the game he chose, he knows that are going to generate some conversations.
Woopah
Member
What agenda do you think he has?
GHG
Gold Member
When I look at Xbox fans agreeing with me:
When I first changed my avatar to Phil I think a few of them momentarily forgot who I was.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Good for Astro and Indi. That's the right way for MS and Sony.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Taur007
Member
Not necessarily for "players" considering its on a service with over 25+ million people, but more "payers" is impressive considering Xbox games rarely outsell ps
I actually expect player count to be double the sales tbh.
Insanemaelstrom
Member
Can you tell me where you got that info? Considering Mat is only talking about this particular week for both games and not YTD or overall. Really curious where you got that conclusion from.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The hope is that the long-since announced but as-of-yet-revealed James Bond game will be this same quality too.
Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
It’s easy on Christmas Eve.
[SPOILER.is.broken="I think we all know there’s been way more players than astros 1.5m"][/SPOILER]
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Topher
Identifies as young
Astro Bot's 1.5 million was sales, not players.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Given the Steam concurrent numbers I don't think they've had 1.5 Million players, let alone PAYERS, at all.
This is just one specific week.
This is just one specific week.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
wait, so indiana jones's numbers are for the week?...bruh
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Weekly sales data, where no other notable game was released in that week, is quite useless.
Monthly sales chart data and, more importantly, YTD sales chart data will show a much clearer picture.
Monthly sales chart data and, more importantly, YTD sales chart data will show a much clearer picture.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
I think 1.5 million players is reasonable, but as we all know that's a vanity metric at best. Hi-Fi Rush hit 3 million players (double this), and look at what happened to the IP and the studio.
As for payers / buyers, yeah, I agree, 1.5 million is reaching a lot, considering these are the sales estimates on Steam (where the game would have sold the most).
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
RE: The question of players, I think it's a *very* safe bet it's reached more than 1.5m players already.
bsky.app
Just on console, 3rd only to CoD and Fortnite per reporting dated last week.
Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social)
Circana US Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly US Players (Not Concurrent) - W/E Dec 14, 2024 - Indy exits Early Access and jumps to 3rd on XBS - Helldivers II Omens of Tyranny update spurs strong engagement growth - Post Malone helps give Hunt: Showdown a big rankings bump.
bsky.app
Just on console, 3rd only to CoD and Fortnite per reporting dated last week.
SweetTooth
Gold Member
It is.
Topher
Identifies as young
RE: The question of players, I think it's a *very* safe bet it's reached more than 1.5m players already.
Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social)
Circana US Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly US Players (Not Concurrent) - W/E Dec 14, 2024 - Indy exits Early Access and jumps to 3rd on XBS - Helldivers II Omens of Tyranny update spurs strong engagement growth - Post Malone helps give Hunt: Showdown a big rankings bump.
Just on console, 3rd only to CoD and Fortnite per reporting dated last week.
Why does it matter if Indy had more "players" than Astro Bot had sales?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
- I don't care how it's doing relative to Astro Bot, didn't make that comparisons in my post.
- The player count was brought up by multiple users and Mat's tweet / blueskeet is the most relevant thing on that subject I can find.
- It's on a subscription service so player engagement is kinda relevant to the games success as well.
Topher
Identifies as young
The 1.5 million number in this thread is referring to Astro Bot sales. You may not have realized it, but otherwise it is just an incredibly arbitrary number.
Do not disagree with your other points.
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Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
I’ll give you a year of gold if Astro turns out to have had more Players then Indy
SweetTooth
Gold Member
I’ll give you a year of gold if Astro turns out to have had more Players then Indy
What is that?
James Sawyer Ford
Member
I’ll give you a year of gold if Astro turns out to have had more Players then Indy
I don’t think we’ll ever get a straight answer on this.
Astros playroom, given out free with every ps5 just like Indy has with Gamepass, certainly has had more players.
Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
That’s a different title again, I’m not arguing Astrobot isn’t a great game. It just seems to have a poor attachment rate with PS5 owners, showing how multiplat and Gaas these machines really are now.
I’m with other posters in this thread drop Indi on PS5 now, keep up the momentum so we can get a sequel.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
AstroBot keeps selling throughout the holidays. A few million sold at this point. Given its budget, that’s a great result. I don’t think anyone should have expected a huge attach rate, it’s not Spider-Man
I’m probably going to buy Indy day one on ps5, but it’ll be interesting to see how it is judged. The critical reception is good, but sales are unknown. Can’t really be judged fully until it drops on ps5.
I heard a sequel was already greenlit? So I think all parties believe it was a success, maybe because they have long term expectations of it growing from here on out due to good reviews and word of mouth moreso than sales
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They chose a good month for sales, December was relatively quiet for releases, so the game's sales should be relatively good. Although of course the majority will play through Gamepass anyway due to the difference in the cost of the game, which is very critical for some countries since games for $70 are far from the most comfortable price for many regions on our planet.
Fess
Member
Late ports are always mid on sales unfortunately, I don’t expect it to explode on PS5 sales charts if they’re going with spring 2025, the hype is already slowing down.
Makes me sad because the game is truly phenomenal.
Feels like a proper Indiana Jones movie, a great one even, right up there with the best old ones. There is a slight dose of jank but not game-breaking and the AI is dumb but that’s the only negative things I can bring up. The map layout is imo at the top 10 all time, absolute top class, with lots of exploration and verticality. And it’s just a total joy to play. I hope the jury don’t forget about it for TGA 2025, it was thrown under the bus by that November cutoff date. Already was my GOTY early on but has just got better the further I come. Still playing it, 32 hours so far.
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
It's 10th on the Most Played Games list.
It's 59th on The Paid Xbox games list
It's not in the top 100 on Amazon's best sellers
It's #46 on the Steams Top sellers list
Cakeboxer
Member
They are: Trailers on Youtube the day after.
TBiddy
Member
Xbox Most Played Games list updated. Down three spots from last week, but still in the top 10. Piscatella's Xbox rankings seem off a bit.
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Depends on the region I suppose? No matter what, it seems to be doing great.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Lmao when this was actually the excuse now for its poor steam CCU numbers.
Bit it's you guys who are using gamepass as the last saving grace looking at laughable 12k CCU numbers, isn't it?
I hope it does well but judging by Mat's response about this not being units and dollars only and the use of weekly results mixed with the steam CCU I suspect it had a pretty bumper week selling $100, gamepass DLC editions for that early access and faded.
It does seem he is pretty defensive of about it all though, maybe Mattyp is secretly Piscatella all along.
It does seem he is pretty defensive of about it all though, maybe Mattyp is secretly Piscatella all along.
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xrnzaaas
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I thought about getting a retail copy, but 80€ is too much and besides XSX is very likely the last disc drive model from Microsoft. Stalker 2 got my money instead, the price was very reasonable (around 60€) and I wanted to support the studio. Plus I know I would still be playing after my Game Pass sub has ended.
DeepEnigma
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Mr Moose
Member
NPD has been doing dollar sales for games for a while now. It's a bit shit, I prefer units.
