UK Sales Charts: Crash Bandicoot Refuses to Roll Over for Fifth Week in a Row

Crash is the new COD.

Also The Crew 2 is already been heavily discounted. The deluxe edition was down to £35 in GAME.
Sucks for those that bought it at launch.

Congrats to the publishers and studio responsible for the Crash remakes. Nice to see God of War still hanging in there, the PS4's one true exclusive in the top ten. Sonic Mania Plus seems to be doing well also.

God of War has been in the too ten for 3 months and 1 week. Over a friggin‘ quarter of the entire year. Game of the generation.
3 more weeks and it‘ll be 4 months aka a third of an entire friggin’ year.
Nothin‘ can stop the almighty Kratos. GoW GOTY‘N‘GOTG

@kyleforrester87 You casuals and your Fortnite .

Meanwhile Nintendo has two exclusives in the top 10.

I got a bit worried about GTA V last week, so I went out and bought seven thousand copies. Business as usual this week, you're welcome folks.

I keep meaning to take a serious look at Jurassic World Evolution; seeing it retain a chart position makes me even more curious.

GTAV still feeding off the souls of the damned, I see.

Glad to see Crash is still selling really well.

I swear we'll be halfway through the PS5's life cycle with GTAVI out and we'll STILL be seeing GTAV on the sales charts.

Its a shame that we don't get sales 'figures' like we do from Japan. It would be interesting to see exactly how many copies are being sold each week and how that compares to last week for example.

It would be interesting to see how many copies of GTAv for example are being sold that it can still remain in the top 10 or how many copies of Crash sold to be No1.

As I have said, timing is 'crucial' IF being the No1 is the 'most important' aspect. In a very slow week, you may only need 10k to be no1 but release in late Oct with the latest Fifa and CoD, as well as games like RDR2, AC: Odyssey, Spider-Man, Tomb Raider etc all on the market too, that 10k may well not even be good enough for a top 5. Point is its relative and we can't see how its selling without the numbers.

Being No1 for 'weeks' when there is very few game sales is not as 'impressive' to me as being Number 1 for a couple of weeks when the market is at its busiest. If all you need is 10k to be number 1 for 5-10wks, then that isn't as impressive as a game that needs to sell 500k+ to be number1 for a couple of weeks.

Without numbers, we can't say that Crash is still selling 'very' well, it might just be the 'best' selling during a very slow month but a game like Spider-Man for example could sell more in one day than Crash has sold in the past 3/4 weeks and no doubt Fifa will sell more in one day than Crash has sold since returning to the top.

@BAMozzy Indeed; we have to wait for developers / publishers to make splashy headline-grabbing claims with rounded figures always preceeded by the word "over". I'm sure they'll release a figure on Crash at some point, because it has been a newsworthy success, but it may not be as huge as we're expecting it to be. Or it'll be astronomical. Or they'll just give a total, and not a platform-specific breakdown. Or they will. Who knows?!

@RogerRoger Timing the release to coincide with 'low' market sales and with 'little/no' competition is more for PR/Marketing. The Publisher can state that Crash (for example) is a No1 selling game without having to release sales figures. It could sell far less than games like Fifa, CoD etc sell in a week and still be No1 for months if the timing is right.

Crash has done very well on PS4 - I know VGChartz isn't the 'most' accurate but it does list the sales as 4.21m - higher than God of War, GTSport, Bloodborne, Killzone, Infamous so its certainly not been a slouch. According to that website, its the 24th best selling game on that system - no figures for the switch, XB1 or PC yet but if it sells in similar percentages on those systems, it could do very well in terms of overall combined sales. I would expect that GoW would overtake that when its 'updated' as I expect the bulk of Crash sales are on other platforms now and GoW is still selling well on just PS4.

Only the top 6 games have sold in excess of 10m on PS4 and the 6th highest is the best selling 'exclusive' - Uncharted 4 at just over 10m. In other words, roughly 1 in 8 PS4 owners bought that game. The other 5 above Uncharted are predictable, GTAv, CoD:BO3, CoD:WW2, Fifa 18 and Fifa 17 (from 1st to 5th) - all over 10m with GTAv listed as 18.11m - basically 1 in every 4 PS4 owners bought it. CoD:WW2 has nearly 13m and Fifa 18 has ~11.5m so chances of being Number 1 when the 'new' games release is obviously going to be much lower than releasing with more niche titles around. Detroit for example hasn't sold 1m and games like Nioh, Persona 5 and Nier sold between 1 - 1.5m. That isn't a criticism, just saying that games like these, regardless of how 'good' they are, don't have 'mass' appeal and are more 'niche'. Especially those Japanese games that are not so popular outside of Japan - again not criticising before any fans of Japanese games jump in, its just that these games are 'niche' outside of Japan - Nioh sold more in Japan than it did in NA for example and considering that NA (and Europe too) has many more PS4 owners than Japan, it means that sales outside of Japan are much 'lower' as a percentage. It could be that 1 in 10 buy these in Japan but 1 in 30 buy them in NA for example. These games have a higher chance of being Number 1 in Japan but unlikely to be in NA, Europe or the UK.

@BAMozzy I always learn so much from your replies; thank you, genuinely.

@RogerRoger Thank-you