Who cares about Crash Bandicoot, right? Well, the N. Sane Trilogy has just smashed past Horizon: Zero Dawn to become the largest single-format release of 2017 thus far. It’s the UK’s second biggest debut of the year, with Ghost Recon Wildlands’ multiplatform release edging it out overall – but this is still a seriously impressive achievement.
Amazingly, it’s actually Crash Bandicoot’s first ever number one in Britain, which makes this feat all the more N. Sane. Nevertheless, the signs have always been there: the ‘Coot’s been a permanent fixture in the PlayStation Network’s best-selling PSone games for over a decade, and here at Push Square the franchise is consistently one of our best performers.
As for other new releases, Micro Machines: World Series entered in second position, while Elite Dangerous – which is finally available on the PlayStation 4 – rocketed to seventh place. The Golf Club 2 teed off in 27th position, as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered debuted in 32nd and Valkyria: Revolution bombed in 34th place.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 1st July, 2017
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
- Micro Machines: World Series
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Forza Horizon 3
- FIFA 17
- Overwatch
- Elite Dangerous
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- DiRT 4
- Rocket League
[source chart-track.co.uk]
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crash bandicoot is back word up son.
Crash Bandicoot is back and okay at best. If they fix the issues then it'll be great.
Good to see nothing from the competition can come close to this though.
Makes me wonder when the EU will intervene for Sony not giving consumer choice
Now make CTR and Bash with mp support!
@B-I-G-DEVIL Crash Team Racing has gotta be coming.
Well deserved!
Starved franchise, nostalgia, budget price, 'kid friendly', ND legacy & gamers wanting to try out for the first time = The Perfect Storm
Crash is back, by I do wonder how subsequent follow ups (new games) will do.
Anyways well deserved. It's cool to see WipeOut & Crash both hit first ever #1s in the Uk. There may be hope yet.
@get2sammyb Yes they'd be insane not to.
Wowzers. I'm not the biggest fan of Crash and only really played the first and some of the second growing up. Quite enjoying these remakes though, the first is still a pain but the second is very enjoyable.
Crash has a surprisingly big fan base.. I've had two friends who arnt gamers comment on the game when they saw me playing it and one of them (who literally won't touch a controller otherwise) was trying to find a copy to buy yesterday in stores.
I'm not surprised that it beat Horizon, Crash is still a loveable character after all this time. Good news. Now, CTR please!
@BLP_Software Other then the load times there really isn't anything else to fix.
Crash is back
Also most people forget the first 3 crash games on ps1 is a big franchise, I believe crash 1-3 sold about 21M on ps1.
@adf86 Some collision issues people have noted.
Don't bet against nostalgia is the lesson here.
This is seriously amazing! Maybe this means we'll get more high quality platformers to mix things up?
@BLP_Software you seriously need to use Eeyore as your avatar. <3
Hope those that buy it enjoy it, but I was never a fan. I tried a demo on the PS1 but didn't think much of it. The longest I've spent playing Crash was the section in Uncharted 4, and I only did that for the trophy. Huge fan of all the ND stuff since, though.
Self edited because I'm being an insensitive douche
UK likes terrible games, but we all knew that already.
@kyleforrester87 You know, its one thing to joke, but when Im simply saying hey, it has issues, and im not the only to say so, lets hope its fixed so the game is even better, its probably not wise to respond to a colourblind person with clinical deoression with mockery that they are like a fictional character.
But whatever. The game has issues and hopefully they are fixed. That was ny point and its not exclusive to me.
@BLP_Software aha sorry mate I meant no offence, reading it again I can see I was being insensitive but I didn't mean it to come across like that. I did edit it for clarity a minute ago but not sure you got that before replying, as I said it must be a pain.
@kyleforrester87 Yeah well lets not, okay? The game has issues that can be simply fixed and Ive seen fair few mention as well, that itd be awesome if it was to make a good game great.
But no. Cant have that here can we? Yeah. Im like Eeyore. Yeah im colourblind and depressed. And I expect better from people. You dont just go say that to someone because you simply have no way of knowing.
But whatever. Its done. And yeah it is a pain. I have to play DOOM with the "pee" filter.
@BLP_Software hey Dooms great however you play it :') peace out bud, sorry again.
@kyleforrester87 It was The Great Gate that had the issue. Crash is orange. So is the background. Had to remember the name there. Crash 1. Ugh.
WTF!! These are terrible news. So basically a remastered game sold more than a brand new IP?! In other words - developers might stop being creative, original and risky for creating new masterpieces instead remastering old classics. As the costs for a new IP is definitively waaaaay higher than just remastering/remaking old stuff they'd make more profit, less investment, less risk by selling nostalgia to people. Ohhhh the aftermath gonna bite us all.
@JAMes-BroWWWn You're looking at it all wrong. Horizon did extraordinarily well, which shows just how amazing Crash has done.
How about a Spyro remake now??
@kyleforrester87 @BLP_Software Ya sorry for my part in that. I was just trying to add some levity.
Great to see Crash selling well.
Looking at the "Amazon Best Sellers of 2017 (so far)" list for the states, Crash is currently at 48 out of 100. Zelda BotW is at 4 (Switch) and 15 (Wii U), Horizon is at 6, Kingdom Hearts I.5 & II.5 is 20, Nier is 39, The Show is 41, Uncharted 4 is 63, Nioh is 70, The Last of Us Remastered is 86, and Persona 5 rounds it out at 100.
I knew this was going to do well but to outsell Horizon and Zelda launch is some truly unbelievable.
Nostalgia has played a huge part in this but not only that you're getting these 3 games for a tenner each, that's got to be the bargain of the year. I think there is another element here in that we've been starved of AAA platformers for what seems like an eternity, with the only ones we get are remakes of classics like Crash and Ratchet and Clank. The only downside in all of this is that Sony don't own the IP and I'm not entirely convinced that Activision and Vicarious Visions will be able to make a great Crash game without stealing Naughty Dogs homework.
Hopefully they'll stick to CTR for there next project
@BLP_Software Can't say I've really noticed that, maybe cos it was something I expected with the originals.
Good, now I'm expecting a CTR remaster announced at PS Experience 2017.
3 great games, amazing support with conversion, budget price, summer drought, kids almost off school, nostalgia, good marketing... Tbh all the signs are there but it's still shocking how well it's done, my store got about 40 copies to free all on the day and they sold out in mere hours and yesterday our warehouse sold out so people are having to download it and they're doing it, the bandicoot is well and truly saved and Sony will be absolute nutters not securing the full exclusivity and funding CTR. 😏
@lacerz amazon isn't the be all, end all of retailers bub!
@get2sammyb maybe an announcement at PSX? 🤔😏
Great news. We all knew this was gonna sell well, surely?
Even though I had great expectations for this sales wise, I'm actually surprised just how much I've heard other people talking about it. Last Friday when I booted the game up myself, I popped over to my friends list to a big majority playing it as well. Only other times I've seen the game choice that consistent is when the latest FIFA drops or something special like a GTA V release.
@Gamer83 And a Spyro trilogy remaster would go down well too.
@adf86
I'd buy it.
Nice!
cyas in CTR!! Whoop
@viciousarcanum
No, but they put out nifty lists showing their best sellers for the year, so to take a measurement of how well something is selling compared to...say...Halo Wars 2 (not on the list), it offers recorded key performance indicators. You don't get that elsewhere. Bub.
Everytime I read these I think, this has to be the month that every person on Earth owns gta 5....
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