UK Sales Charts: Borderlands 3 Loots the Biggest Physical Launch of 2019

PES 2020 third best selling game of the month. Any chance of a review on here? Of course not. I presume FIFA won't be reviewed on here as well?

Not a big surprise. Borderlands fans have been waiting along time for this. I must give the first game a try and see what the fuss is about lol more importantly a rockstar game is back in the top 10 but it's not RDR2

Shocking a mess of a game sells "For the morons". 😩

@Quintumply Should have been day one, best football game on the market!

Now I know it's coming, I can relax!

Nearly 6 years on - 6!!!!!! - GTAV is still in the top 10, and yet RDR2 has already left 🙄 Congrats to Borderlands 3 - am enjoying it so far.

I'm surprised RDR2 never entered the top 10 again after the excellent Frontier Pursuits update. But then I suppose people interested would just buy it second hand, my local CEX is chock full of used copies. A crying shame.

sales are down more than half compared with BL2.

@AdamNovice microsoft is probably counting on more people getting game pass than physical sales

So games filled lootboxs and Microtransactions fill 3 of the top 5. Borderlands 3, Gears 5 and NBA 2k20. I thought gamers hated lootboxs, Microtransactions and casinos. I guess its all fake outrage. I'm proud to say i havent brought any of the 3 and Gears 5 is Xbox gamepass. unlike the fake outrage i will never buy games like them enless they're "free" or deep discount used.

@tomassi That's what I thought till I played enough of PES 2018 and realized there was something empty about the whole game. And the limit in option file import makes it highly inconvenient deleting and adding new files. Plus, people say FIFA hasn't really changed for the past few years but then so is PES 2018, 19 & 20 - they're the same. The game is terrific no doubt but Konami needs to realise lack of licences is a BIG DEAL!

Not really fake outrage @KnightWolf . Moreso most of the gaming public doesn't give a flying fudge about them and they're far too ingrained now anyway.

Unfortunately for us more hardcore fans who are more vocal about such practices it isn't going to matter if you buy it used anyway.

They've already made their money tenfold and the whales they've caught'll make them more...

@KnightWolf I think the truth is that the outrage is pretty much only amongst people like ourselves who are very much into the industry. Borderlands, Gears and PES NBA had huge marketing budgets that are playing in all forms of media and will appeal to the mass market.

However, the sales of these franchies are largely down in previous iterations and I'd like to think that this shows the impact of their design and economic model.

@leucocyte Does that include digital sales though, the last report I saw was that digital took up more than half of sales. Would maybe explain the difference?

@TheArt I'm not one to say FIFA hasn't changed. They've added lots of interesting modes etc. The thing that hasn't change though is the gameplay. And the gameplay is terrible. PES hasn't changed much off the pitch, but on the pitch (where it actually matters) its fantastic.

As for licenses, that's just an old tired argument. Everyone knows that Konami have no where near the resources that EA do, so there is no chance they will ever have the majority of licenses. They have got far better in the last two years adding lots more fully licensed leagues and getting some big teams instead of EA.

I'm sure a ton of people went digital with a game like this. I did...

@JohnnyShoulder - it doesn't, the digital chart is separate (comes out on wednesdays i think), but for AAA gaming in the UK at least, digital sales don't make anywhere close to 60% of the total - according to gamesindustrybiz, for 2018 it was around 20-25%. it's when total revenue is considered that things look really skewed towards digital, because virtual currencies, subscriptions, dlc, and the thousands of games that don't get physical releases all contribute to inflating the total. the £1bn spent on GTA shark dollars or FIFA UT packs might be great for Rockstar and EA, and give nice headline revenue numbers, but it's not a healthy statistic for the UK games industry imo.

i think it's bit too easy to reach for the 'digital' excuse when sales have taken huge declines from previous entries, when there are many other possible factors involved - in this case it released the same weekend that a call of duty beta launches, the same week as one of xbox's main name franchises, and a time that's just two weeks before FIFA launches. add in the fact that GaaS are WAY more prevalent now than it was when BL2 came out.. there are only so many of those people can play/invest in.. and if that investment continues to require money, that's money that could otherwise be spent on new games.

@tomassi The gameplay argument of PES being better is also tired as well cause FIFA's gameplay isn't bad. After enjoying the heck out of PES 2018 and constantly editing, deleting and adding files I felt like a PC gamer constantly tweaking settings instead of enjoying the game. At that point I realized licences, realistic atmospheres, stadiums, respective league graphic presentations, tons of balls, boots etc all do matter and adds to the enjoyment.

Where’s control? It didn’t even chart last week. Its a shame when new a ip that’s really great just doesn’t have the marketing to push it to a wider audience.

For sports games I started buying digitally a couple of years ago, These are the games I play the most and i am lazy to get off my couch and insert the disk everytime I want to play a PES game.

@leucocyte I think it is easier to just say sales are down by half, and not factor in digital sales at all. Until the figures are released solely for for digital games sales, we are never gonna know the true picture. The lack of digital sales data in the UK has made it almost impossible to tell the difference between a massive hit and a major flop.

Well played greedfall!! Cant wait to give it a try

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk - control is at #27.

@LN78 Cant agree more probably has a poster of Bobby Kotick on his wall. 😉

@Danloaded just letting you know the first game hasn't aged the best. So I'm warning you to pick up the first and second games really cheap to see if you like it, if you don't. Borderlands 3 gunplay and characters you play are vastly different from the others while keeping what made the first two so great. So I recommend 3 the most since it's a blast but it does have some technical issues ( I'm playing on the original Xbox one and the frame rate isn't the best, so I assume it's the same on the og PS4) sorry for the long response