Last week saw the arrival of a few new games, but it's Far Cry: New Dawn that takes the top spot at UK retail. The series has always sold well, and Far Cry 5 was one of last year's best selling games overall. However, despite debuting at number one, New Dawn's opening week was dramatically down on the previous title, selling 86.5 per cent less. As ever, this doesn't account for digital purchases, which may be higher.
Metro: Exodus arrives in second place, and has performed better at retail than the previous game, Metro: Last Light. When you add on digital sales, it seems the title has done very well for itself. Meanwhile, manga brawler Jump Force debuts at number four, which isn't bad for a relatively niche fighting game.
The rest of the top 10 simply sees everything else slipping down to fit these new competitors in, with Red Dead Redemption 2 in third and Kingdom Hearts III down to eighth. Next week's chart will show where EA's ANTHEM lands following its launch on Friday.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 16th February, 2019
- Far Cry: New Dawn
- Metro: Exodus
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Jump Force
- FIFA 19
- Resident Evil 2
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
- Kingdom Hearts III
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
[source gamesindustry.biz]
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“New Dawn's opening week was dramatically down on the previous title, selling 86.5 per cent less. As ever, this doesn't account for digital purchases, which may be higher.”
That statement alone just shows how redundant the current UK sales chart is. A game could be seen as a flop in the chart but in reality it could be a success when digital sales are factored in. Any word on when digital sales are going to be implemented to the chart?
86.5% drop in sales, is from roughly 200K (according to Week1 sales of FC5) to 27K, you seriously think those 173K copies were bought digitally?!?. the UK does produce a digital sales chart, doesn't look as if anybody is bothering to combine them.
Generic Shooter 6... times are changing, shooter games have been declining sales for a while now, probably thanks to a certain free to play shooter.
At best this always just looked like an expansion for Far Cry 5 and never hugely interesting. A lot of its audience are likely waiting for Anthem or have jumped on board with Apex recently
I think part of the issue with far cry new dawn are mainly
a) most people probably didnt see and/or like the ending to far cry 5 so there would be no intrest in buying the direct sequel
b) far cry and post apocalypse games have been overused the past few years (far cry needs an AC type break, while RAGE 2 kinda stole this spotlight imo)
I admit I was one of those that bought Far Cry 5 and had pre-ordered the Gold edition - still need to go back and play the expansions actually. I did enjoy it and it was in my top 10 games of 2018. I finished everything - bar the fishing challenges.
However, I haven't bothered with New Dawn. It just didn't grab me as much as FC5 did - I agree that it looked more like an expansion to the first game - a DLC add-on to what happened next which is basically the story of New Dawn.
I opted to pre-order Metro: Exodus - the Limited Edition Aurora version on X - even though I do have Metro 2033 as I bought the Redux double pack. I also have the Legion of Dawn edition of Anthem pre-ordered and Days Gone Limited Edition (the one without the statue) pre-ordered so FC:New Dawn didn't really fit into my budget or my time. This, along with the Division 2 are both games I would like but not necessarily Day 1 purchases. I can't afford to buy 'every' game I want on day 1 - especially as I like to buy collectors/limited edition versions and therefore, New Dawn missed out this time.
Reading through the linked site, Metro only missed out on the top spot by 2000 units and sold nearly 50% more than Last Light and that's not inc any digital sales.
I wonder how well Anthem will do next week...
I enjoyed the main game in Far Cry 5 but found all the DLC very under whelming.
Great for Metro Exodus. I could not stop playing over the weekend. it is an amazing game!
Just stunning in motion (playing on PC, but read it looks great on PS4 also). Not done "photo mode" on any game since Zero Dawn - but took like 50 screen shots on my PC of this one to show my niece who wants to be a digital artist.
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