Just a little addendum to today's UK sales charts: Final Fantasy Type-0 HD and Resident Evil: Revelations 2 both sold best on the PlayStation 4 – and by some margin. According to Metro, a whopping 78 per cent of the former's first week British sales came courtesy of Sony's next-gen machine, which perhaps shows where the fanbase for Square Enix's popular series is.
Capcom's survival horror spin-off also registered over half of its sales on the PS4, with the Xbox One managing just 23 per cent of the share, while the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 mustered 13 per cent and 11 per cent respectively. Sony's system is selling better than the competition, of course, but it's still alarming to see splits this big.
Battlefield Hardline, for example, sold best on the PS4, but just 46 per cent of its sales came from Sony's machine, while the Xbox One managed a much closer 43 per cent. So, what's going on? Well, it looks to us like Microsoft has managed to convince the first-person shooter crowd to purchase its system – but broader tastes are defaulting on the PS4, particularly with regards to Japanese titles.
We suppose that this isn't an enormous surprise, as Final Fantasy and Resident Evil are both heavily associated with the PlayStation brand. Still, considering how close things were between the Xbox 360 and PS3 last generation in the UK, this is perhaps a reminder of just how far Sony's pulled ahead in what's considered one of Microsoft's stronger territories.
[source metro.co.uk]
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Xbone the home of brainless clones shooting each other first person style 😂
@Boxmonkey I don't think that's fair. It's pretty clear that the market for games like Final Fantasy and Metal Gear is going to be on PlayStation, though, and these numbers just prove it.
UK usually prefers Sony over Microsoft it seems, more sales info from other places would help paint a bigger picture. It's good to know these two games are doing well, I may be picking up Type-0 sooner than I initially thought.
Yesterday I was talking to a co-worker who has an xbox one. I asked him why not a ps4 and his response was "the xbox is better" I nodded (as I was flabbergasted). I then asked him about the potential DRM Microsoft wanted to put on the console - he didn't understand, I asked him about the resolution - he said it was brilliant, I asked him what's his favourite games, unbelievably it was fifa and cod. I asked him if he plays final fantasy he didn't even know what it was. That's this article played out in real life on the fore court of a car supermarket in Liverpool.
well I'm not the only one who stopped buying microsoft consoles and switched back to PS. #neverforget
Not surpring, but SE still treats PS fans like sh*t and Nintendo fans even worse. Yet, these are the fanbases that keep SE going. Pathetic.
It is well known that the average xbot is sport/fps addicted.
@Gamer83 WE ARE BUT WORMS
@kyleforrester87
Sadly I think SE really does believe that about PlayStation fans and it's unimaginable what they think of Nintendo fans. SE sure goes out of its way to appease a fanbase that couldn't give a damn about its games though.
@Gamer83 I dunno. I can't believe they sit around a table and go 'what can we make to upset our fans this week?' The likes of SE, Capcom etc must believe in the content they are putting out, wether they are sometimes misguided is up for debate but I think it's odd to consider the intent malicious.
@kyleforrester87
Well, I have to admit I'm still mind f'd by the scumbag move to take Tomb Raider away from the fans who supported it the most. SE doesn't seem to do much for PlayStation or Nintendo fans though. In Capcom's case I don't think it's a matter of wanting to anger people, it's simply a terribly run company.
@Gamer83 Yes the TR issue is a strange one. But deals happen all the time, and - internally at least - it had to have had benefits else they wouldn't have bothered. We can live in hope that they'll put some of that cash they got from the exclusivity agreement into something awesome for us all to enjoy down the line
@themcnoisy that's true of s lot of people though. My girlfriends brother doesn't even own cod. All he uses his ps3 for is FIFA. He's quite happy with that though. There are a lot of people who just want to play FIFA and CoD just as Taylor Swift sells more records than say, The Mars Volta. There's nothing wrong with either, but one arguably takes a little more work to get into.
Oh and Liverpool is boss. I'm from there.
@themcnoisy That's the common folk for you sadly...they have yet to experience the awesomeness that is RPGs.
@Johnnycide Agreed, nothing wrong with it at all. @Gamer83 the problem with square, Capcom, Sega etc is they became bloated and have forgotten the reason they make games let alone the reasons their games were great. The pioneers in each company have left for pastures new not necessarily in the games industry and the new inventive ideas they once had have now evaporated. The relationships square built with Sony have come and gone with new employees and differing view points. We are just lucky that someone with authority in square and Sony is looking to build the relationship back up.
@Johnnycide The Mars Volta! Christ I havnt even thought about them in years. listens to Televators
@kyleforrester87 I was lucky enough to see ATD-I, The Mars Volta and Antemasque live. Phenomenal stuff. Got the Antemasque vinyl too. It's pretty sweet, and Televators is freakin' godlike homes.
@johnnycide I had a friend who was well into them back in college 2003, honestly I've not heard anything more recent as I kind of forgot about them after I left college. Will add them to my playlist!
I wonder what that lad is doing now...he loved his Halo 2!
@themcnoisy
I would just think if you're a good business person common sense says look at the numbers and the numbers will show where the SE fanbase is. It's mostly on PlayStation and it's even much larger on Nintendo than on the Xbox. I'd love to know what the moneyhat was that they accepted from MS because they cost themselves a number of sales.
@Gamer83 Unfortunately common sense and running a game publishing company dont go hand in hand. Of course more jrpg fans are on ps. We know that, we didn't have it statistically until these released figures, but we still knew it. Hopefully we will get a run of games from square like ff6-12 now when they just release for 1 platform. Ff6 snes, ff7,8,9 ps1, 10 and 12 ps2.
@themcnoisy
I was never really big into SE's games to be honest, because I'm not a huge JRPG fan but yeah I hope for the sake of PlayStation fans who keep supporting SE despite getting battered around by it that a consistent flow of good PS4 games from its development teams happens. This company ties itself up in so many different games though. Announce one, start to delveop it, then stop development halfway through announce another game that isn't even off the ground yet... it's freaking ridiculous and not efficient at all. FF XV should've been out years ago and KH 3 shouldn't be too far off into the future. Instead, we'll be lucky if FF XV releases in 2016 and KH 3 in 2025.
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