Assassin’s Creed Origins more or less matched the launch sales of London-based predecessor Syndicate to keep Super Mario Odyssey away from the top of the UK sales charts this week – although it obviously did launch on two platforms with larger install bases. Around 60 per cent of people purchased the Egyptian adventure on the PlayStation 4, a trend which is becoming increasingly common now.
For the record, the Italian plumber’s latest did pretty well for itself, registering the largest Nintendo Switch release thus far. Unfortunately, it’s not all good news: the brilliant Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus struggled in the face of such intense competition, debuting with sales less than half of The New Order. This caps a string of poor results for Bethesda, and it’s surely going to have to consider changing its strategy now.
Elsewhere, racing simulation Gran Turismo Sport stuck around in fifth position, fighting off competition from a discounted Grand Theft Auto V. Meanwhile, the only other new release of the week was Just Dance 2018, which entered in 23rd place and bizarrely sold best on the Nintendo Wii. Yes, the original Wii.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 28th October, 2017
- Assassin's Creed Origins
- Super Mario Odyssey
- FIFA 18
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
- Gran Turismo Sport
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Destiny 2
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- WWE 2K18
[source chart-track.co.uk]
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@Sensechat Yes, I'm sure it will have. A great addition to the discussion.
I don't see a lot of overlap between Mario and Wolfenstein but releasing Wolfenstein the same day as AOC may in hindsight not have been the best idea. Now everybody will just wait for Wolfenstein to be on sale for $20.
Anybody shopping this week in the US, Target is having a B2G1 free sale. Too bad Switch games are excluded or you could have picked up all 3.
The Switch isn't doing great in the UK the begin with, and with the impressive PS4 numbers, this was a given. I'm surprised only 60% of Origins was bought on PS4 to be fair, I thought that number would've been higher by now.
Anyway, a shame to see low sales for Wolfenstein II, but it faced strong competition.
@Octane When I'm in my local video game store, I always see a lot of Xbox players. Seems to me they might just be more hardcore than PS gamers?
Or it's the fact that we buy a lot of exclusives, whereas Xbox players only have multiplat games.
Sadly the fact that Bethesda published games have shown a tendency of being discounted soon after release must have hit Wolfenstein.
The new order released on Tuesday while new colossus released on a Friday plus new order was three years ago digital has grown rapidly in that time. I feel like wolfenstein 2 when it's all said and done will be fine and we will def get the trilogy capper
4th looks about right for Wolfenstein 2 when up against the likes of Mario, Assassins Creed & Fifa.
Again, much like Evil Within 2 it launched on a Friday (not Tuesday) unlike their original instalments, which were also released on PS3 and 360. Factor in the increase of digital sales and we have ourselves some mitigating circumstances.
Whatever it is, the issue is bigger than "Bethesda need to release review code sooner".
@Octane Well, it was heavily marketed on Xbox, so that's probably a good result. Things generally used to be much closer between the two.
Now I'm waiting for someone to drop by and tell me that everyone's waiting to buy it for Xbox One X and that's going to completely change the complexion of everything. We'll see.
Will we ever get digital numbers? Its a bit crazy in 2017 that they wont give us said sales when it helps the hype machine and its becoming stupid looking at these charts when upto 50% of the numbers are digital.
@Gatatog My thoughts exactly, it'll likely be around £20 by Christmas.
Edit: Just noticed, with all the talk of single player being a struggling genre it is funny to note over half the games in the top 10 are primarily single player.
@Sensechat I doubt it. ACO is on 3 platforms (not two) and is going to receive a discount for black friday and Christmas. Odyssey may (subjectively) be the better game, but ACO is on more platforms with much larger install bases than the switch. Even if every switch owner buys a copy by the end of the year, that's only going to amount to a fraction of the other's userbase.
Bah - sad news for Wolfenstein. I think Bethesda launch their games at odd times and their review policy doesnt help. Launching the same day as AC and Odyssey as well seemed odd. Good game, I hope and trust it makes its money. I can see it doing well on PC and digitally. Also, as others have pointed out, this will be half price in 2 months.
Come on people, buy Wolfenstein, it so deserves to be successful. I know this isn't the place to say it, but damn does Mario look fantastic.
I decided to wait to pick up AC until a few patches have been released, I am definitely excited to play it though.
Gran Turismo is quite low. Was hoping it'd have better legs than that.
I hope Wolfenstein II has long legs. Brilliant game even more so than it's predecessor, doesn't overstay it's welcome which is good for those of us without endless time on our hands, excellent writing and premise, and a good example of a single player game well executed; FPS or not the game is great. I picked up all 3, but no way I was going to leave out W-II which in my opinion should have precedence over ACO. I'm not sure why it was launched same day as the other heavy hitters, but I assume that wasn't known months ago when the date was decided. I wish somehow it could've been shifted (at least 1 week earlier would've helped). Think they could've marketed a bit better too, only seen the tv ad once here in the US.
it's me.marioooo.I'm in second place.wolfenstein is one of the best games ever.Paris game week.sly Cooper 5word up son
When a game that launched on PS4, Xbox One, and PC is competing with a game that launched on a single system that just came out in March, it would be pretty sad if it didn't sell more, lol.
"although it obviously did launch on two platforms with larger install bases"
Didn't it release on PC too? i.e three platforms? Odyssey was first in single format charts...
Love how it takes 5 new releases from massive franchises to get GTA out of the top 5 after all these years!
@Octane its not reported here but Mario is top of the single format charts meaning it outsold Assassins Creed on PS4 and Mario Kart 8 outsold Forza 7, not bad for a console that's not doing well
This is the first week (as far as I know) where Crash has been pushed out of the Top 10. Glad Crash did so well for so long.
@carlos82 I don't see how it's not doing well. It's on the path to outsell the Wii U by the time it hits the 1 year mark.
tbh Nintendo thrives in US and Japan specifically
Least in Europe they don’t do AS bad as Xbox does in Japan Cus those numbers in Japan...
Dang...
Not into Assassin’s Creed Cus too... many... games...
Wolfy well I think the controversy surrounding it might’ve hurt it just a bit... (Twitter Account nuff said)
Still amazed Assassins Creed does well tbh I’d think people would get tired of it, CoD, Pokemon, and possibly Mario.
@get2sammyb @Kidfried Ah, didn't know that. I'm also not sure how the UK market is, but I do know that PlayStation dominates over Xbox on Europe as a whole, but maybe that's not necessarily true for individual countries.
@KirbyTheVampire I think it was a joke! Anyway, first in single format is very good indeed.
@Octane UK used to be basically neck-and-neck, but it feels like Xbox has really struggled this year IMO. Hard to know without data, but that would certainly reflect trends in the US, too.
@KirbyTheVampire sarcasm my friend, it doesn't always translate well. The Switch is doing fantastically and I'm playing Mario right now 😃
@Octane agree, 60% to 40% is pretty decent for Xbox. I always thought the percental difference would be bigger on PS4 side. But then again, it's UK. The only countries in Europe where Xbox is actually relevant.
@naruball really? I think it's quite good considering the competing games.
@carlos82 People bought nintendo console to play nintendo games, even the wii u gen nintendo has a couple of million seller games.
"although it obviously did launch on two platforms with larger install bases."
Also across three separate editions: Regular, Deluxe, and Gold.
Overall, really impressive for Odyssey. Two days of sales on one platform with only one edition, still gets #1 in single-format charts.
Not sure why we're comparing the sales of AC with Mario. Different systems, different types of games, different audience. The two couldn't be more different.
@carlos82 Ah, my bad.
Bethesda have to realize that they shouldn't be putting their games out in such busy periods. Wolfenstein should have been left till January.
@JAMes-BroWWWn My bad. I thought it sold less than Grand Theft. You're right. It's sales are expected. Mom's spaghetti.
Great Bethesda games = low sales.
Garbage buggy Bethesda games = astronomic sales.
F this world...
Wolfenstein 2 deserves better sales. Great game, even if it's more of the same.
Bad news. Let's hope Wolfenstein does better over Xmas.
I bought WOLFENSTEIN II. Hopefully all the positive reviews it's had will turn into sales.
Haha Wolf 2,i hope machine games learn their lesson.
I have no idea what you think kicking into the sand is
If you think kicking into the sand is barely beating it in the UK then I mean thats just a wrong definition
Sorry bud
@loxu Watch the language please -Tasuki-
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