UK Sales Charts: Dreams Flies Low as Bayonetta and Vanquish Breach Top 10

At least Dreams is still in the charts. Yakuza Remastered Collection has disappeared entirely off the Top 40 along with Darksiders Genesis. Bit sad that Yakuza has already disappeared but then again, it is possible that most people brought them as the individual games released digitally. I am looking forward to trying Vanquish, but I am struggling between 100% finishing the Yakuza games and starting Two Point Hospital when it releases tomorrow.

Don’t worry about dreams, videogamedunkey just made a video about it so the lack of sony advertising it is justified (obligatory /s)

Stupid Sony. Always giving their rinse and repeat movie games the spotlight instead of the fun games that step outside the box.

Star Wars Fallen Order is still in the top ten? Impressive... is that going to be the next evergreen title?

Nice work for Bayonetta and Vanquish making it to the top ten!

To be fair, a fair number of people bought Dreams months ago for the early access.

Very little publicity for dreams. Looks like a game targeted at non-traditional gamers, which has had no marketing to that group? Sony did the same thing to concrete genie.

Well, I haven’t seen it advertised much and I think they missed a golden opportunity. The game should have been Dreams as it is but should have been call Little Big Planet Dreams. The main story could have started as a complete remake of the first level of LBP but changed as you progressed through it, or as you completed it. Sackboy should have been front and center. They could have taken this route, at the completion of the first level, it becomes 3D, it becomes a racer, or a flyer, or under water, or up in space.

The lack of name, advertising and game direction is going to take a toll on Dreams.

Edit: They could have done so much with Sack Boy. You guys remember that just last gen he almost became the mascot of Sony?

Sony desperately need to start advertising exclusive software. That said, sales for dreams always likely to be lower given a bunch of sales took place during early access

I’m struggling with what to do about Dreams. I want to support first party games by purchasing it and it seems like a great game that will keep on giving into next gen. I’d rather buy physical, but we don’t yet know if all discs will be playable on PS5 so do I need to own a digital copy if I’m to hope having it available to play on the next console?

don't think anyone is surprised by dreams it was never going to appeal to the masses.

still good sales for what probally a nich title

People have been buying Dreams for months. What else did you expect. Everyone who wanted it already had it.

Dreams was always going to be a hard sell. Lets face it. A LOT if gaming is "I buy the annual Duty and Madden/FIFA" and the creativity isnt probably flowing from those people. The fact that Sony incubates a team of MM size for several years to accomplish something that might never see the black side of the accounting ledger is a testament to the company

gta5 is nearly at the top again, rip dreams.

@Nyne11Tyme lets face it after people come home from a long day at work, they dont want to do hours of work in dreams. they just want entertainment.

@Th3solution All ps4 games will be back compatible with PS5. It is pre ps4 games Sony haven't confirmed that will work.

Sony have been really weird with marketing their non AAA games recently.

Dreams is about community not just games. Get ps now if you want only games.

@TheBuzz you speak the truth. At least the creation process is less cumbersome than the alternative to game development. I could some using the game in a therapeutic way after a stressful day. But not the majority.

Thing is with Dreams is that it's going to stick around for a LONG time. I'm not going to buy it yet, but I definitely will be in the future.

Dreams was never the sort of game Sony is going to put up billboards or do tv adds for but I've seen plenty of promotion from the Twitter accounts. Like others have mentioned it's not a game that will grab the attention of the casual consumer buying their annual sports/fps games.

It also worth noting that much like pixelopus, mm is a pretty small studio and although they have been working on it for years it probably won't take much for it to be profitable, if it even truly needs to be. Still, I think this could keep a constant stream of reasonable sales going for a long time and could even get better sales later on if something remarkable gets made in it and grabs media attention.

@JohnnyShoulder Have they confirmed that this will apply to PS4 discs and digital games alike? Will the PS5 run PS4 game discs? Or will the disc act as a key to download the game digitally on PS5? That’s kind of what I was wondering as I get into purchasing games that I would plan to play on PS5. Something tells me digital games will port over fairly easily, and I am assuming discs will, but I’m not sure if I missed the announcement that they will work on PS5.

@BarefootBowser I've been playing it for months and have the opposite experience. Metacritic has it at 9.0 and 9.0. Look at project genesis on youtube for best dreams games

Not really surprised. In all of it's brilliance, Dreams is still very niche.

@Th3solution No that haven't confirmed the deets yet, just that ps5 will be compatible with ps4 games. For now I'm just assuming everything will work for now until we hear anything different officially. But recent history on how Sony has handled things like this (name changes, cross play), there maybe certain caveats that come with it.

@Th3solution There's no reason disc versions won't work if digital does. A disc copy is exactly the same it's just that in one case the files come from a disc instead of from the internet. It's the same other than disc copies need the disc to be in whereas digital copies are tied to your account so don't need that check.

I’m a big fan of physical but dreams is pointless physical. People know this. Once the servers are gone the game is dead. So I’m not surprise it’s dropped from charts. It’s a title to buy digitally

@BarefootBowser
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtQW7hEi8js6yTWEGUSuG1Q

@TheBuzz so watch a movie- don't play any video games lol

Regardless of how well it sells, still seems unlikely new Bayonetta games will expand beyond Nintendo hardware for quite a while. But, I'm hoping numbers show enough interest that Platinum does a Vanquish sequel for next-gen platforms.

@Stocksy Except that with a physical copy it has trade in value and can be loaned to a friend (if I had any 😅). That’s part of why I like physical. If I don’t care for the game sometimes I can get something back for it.
But I agree that this is a case like DriveClub or the GaaS genre where the game won’t be worth much once the servers are gone.

It was 94/100 initially on Metacritic but has since dropped to 89/100.

The multiplat chart makes Dreams look to have slid badly but it's #3 on the PS4 retail chart.

@WanderingBullet
still the highest rated current game for PS4 in both critic and user rating.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/dreams

Dreams had an early access program & I must say until digital can be on the list it is never the full story!

It kind of makes sense to wait on Dreams in general. The longer the game is out, the better it will be

@jess3a3 Yeah, I know... Just saying that 89 is not as impressive as 94.

@Shirayuki What a utter bull**** never read such a stupid remark.

@WanderingBullet Whats wrong with a 89 i think people should stop with this nonsense. A 89 is quite high for a very niche game and it shows the eork thar went in the game. If you see the sites that complain about it and what they write its a joke. 😆

Dreams is actually isn't doing too bad for the lack of marketing and its keeping pretty steady... With the current big youtubers/streamers attention its getting, its only going to experience more growth.
So when everyone starts Dreams they follow the profile MmDreamQueen by default (digital and physical users, some people unfollow it). At the end of early access the count following that profile was 130,000. 3 days after launch on the February 17th it got to 200,000. 3 days later on the 20th the count was at 230,000, and as of yesterday (24th) the count hit 270,000 unique users. Thats 140,000 in a week and a few days, more than the total for early access that was available for 8 months. So it's at about a 10,000 per day average. Dreams just starting trending on youtube this week, so I think it's safe to assume more word of mouth advertising and sales are going to happen. It'll be a slowburn like some predicted, but Dreams will do fine.
You can keep track of the MmDreamQueen here: https://indreams.me/MmDreamQueen (digital and physical copy users follow, so its a better measurement).

@TerryTonyTomas nice post. I'd rather have a slow burn with people who stick around than a flash in the pan situation. So many cool people in the community right now.

@Shirayuki What sarcasm? I think your remark i nonsense. 😆