UK Sales Charts: Horizon: Zero Dawn Beats Zelda to Summit

I'm just around 8 hours in but I'd say the success is well deserved to say the least.

Zelda did great though and seems as though about 80% of them was on Switch it did really well to get second place as a launch title

@get2sammyb @Gamer83

coughs And what did I say?

Well deserved from the sound of it, hearing that it's fantastic fun and that Aloy is a great character. I'll probably get Horizon later this month.

Frakkin' GTAV man.

Most my friends list been on Horizon so this doesn't surprise me! Personally I love the game got Platinum last night - going to start it again though because my new obsession of photomode wants more haha

Welp, that was unexpected.
Seems like Sony can do no wrong this Gen.

Also UC4 placed 18th. Looks like it's going to have a long tail, soon it'll break 10million.

@get2sammyb I've been saying this for weeks 😃 there simply isn't enough Switch/Wii U consoles out there and if you look back the others in the series have sold well without ever been huge.

Horizon is fantastic and is well deserved and with the bundles available this was a no brained to anyone who hadn't jumped on board yet, with a £100 price difference between playing this or Zelda. For the record I have both and both are fantastic games and I hope that Aloy is here to stay.

sales were somewhere between 135K (No man's sky) and 195K (Uncharted 4). hopefully sales will not fall off a cliff like NMS, but i think it'll have a decent run hanging around the charts. it's an excellent game, and there's not much else really apart from mass effect to steal its thunder for the next month or two.

i'm 14 hours in, and still haven't left the nora territory!. hunting is just so much fun.. though i got a bit confused and spent quite a while trying (and failing) to work out where some of the collectables in the region are (ancient vessels, vantages, etc).

Fantastic to see it sell so well, it's also incredible too see a company go from well, Killzone to something incredible, a great story itself and I hope they go from strength to strength in the future.

Even if (like me) you're not that interested in Horizon, its still great news all-round

Zelda being beaten by Horizon it's pathetic when you consider basically everybody who bought a Switch had to also buy Zelda

Did Horizon launch the same day as Zelda?

@DualWielding Not really when you consider the install base of each console...

@JoeBlogs To be fair 2 out of 3 were unpredictable.

Congrats to guerilla games, it's nice to see new ip sold this well. I'm still in the beginning of the area (2 hour playtime) and I still can't believe my old ps4 can run this level of graphics, the performance is really smooth.

I'm not all that surprised that Zelda only took second. It's just about the only game worth buying a Switch for and the Wii U install base is tiny.

That said, Horizon is AMAZING and deserves that spot. It's a much better game than Zelda in my opinion.

@get2sammyb Oops my bad (reading)

Sounds like Sony has a real winner on their hands

Horizon just gets better and better as you progress through it. I got to Meridian and was in awe (just like Aloy) at the city. The game is so rich in detail.

Guessing that means we won't see killzone again for a while. Congratulations on your achievement guerrilla. Never in doubt it would outsell zelda due to install base, but even so it seems like it has beaten all realistic expectations. Listen up Capcom. Dinosaurs = awesome. Therefore a new Dino crisis = ££££€€€€$$$$

Bye bye Killzone!
I am happy to have supported Zelda, though...there have been many good games lately but it is something special. I also look forward to play Horizon though... Figures it would be silly to try to enjoy both at the same time.

@get2sammyb Killzone has always been a strong technical showcase but as a person who's not into FPS at all, I am glad I get to enjoy the studio's technological magic too

@get2sammyb not trying to diminish HZD accomplishment but there's also a wide install base gap behind these sales numbers obviously.

@BLP_Software
I wasn't talking about one week of sales in one region, though? Besides, it doesn't matter. All I want is Horizon: Zero Dawn to sell in the 5 mil to 10 mil range (I know the latter is probably on the high side) just so it can pretty much guarantee a sequel is made. I'm happy it seems to be off to a great start, hopefully it'll do well in NPDs also. Don't care if it's first or not, so long as it still makes a big impact.

@Mega-Gazz
Seriously, took two huge new game launches to knock it from the top. Who's still buying it? You'd figure everyone and their mother has a copy by now.

I wss gonna order it from amazon uk last night ( since all you guys talking about it made me want to try it 😂 i'm hoocked on this site) but it sais im the website "usually dispatched in 1-2 months"
I think they sold out 😢
Oh well time for me to finish far cry primal, gonna kill mamuths instead of robots 😂

@adf86
I still don't understand that sentiment it would be a step back (for either studio). I get people love Uncharted and The Last of Us and now Horizon, but you're talking about teams with a lot of talent, and Killzone 2 is still Guerrilla's best-reviewed game of all-time, to be fair it was a different time in 2009. Still, I think there's room for GG to do both, but I'd have to say given a choice, I want Horizon 2 to be its next game, and I wouldn't mind a sizeable expansion along the lines of The Witcher 3 expansions, while we wait.

Awesome. I think Horizon is the best PS4 exclusive this gen.

given what guerrilla has learned from open world building with horizon, i think there is potential for the killzone series to move in that direction - the franchise is dripping with history and lore which has never been fully explored, and the conflict with vekta and isa could work well in a similar rpg-lite set-up as horizon - keeping the FPS perspective the series is known for. plus its multiplayer was great in the PS3 days. i think shadowfall started off with a bigger ambitions, but the constraints of hitting the PS4 launch date produced a title that, graphics aside, didn't really build on what came before and wasn't anywhere near as good as KZ2 or 3. whether there'll be another killzone in the near future i think will depend on whether guerrilla can build a sequel for horizon with a smaller team than the original - there were rumours of guerrilla cambridge working on a PS4 game in an 'established franchise' - some of that team were on secondment from the amsterdam studio.

AH! Guess I was right after all

Sweet, great sales for a new IP. The three day sales lead definitely paid off.

I love this top 10!

Get in UK for the first week this year the top 10 put a smile on my chops!

No surprise. Breath of the Wild is good, but it's on two bad systems. Wii U, which has had its share of problems, and Switch, which is just total garbage.

Don't release the same week as Zelda they said.
It'll get eaten alive they said.

@Mahe Why do you believe Switch is total garbage?

Not fanboying or anything, Im the impartial middleman, but youre the first Ive met who has said that who I feel I can get an actual response out of.

@Mahe The Switch is a fantastic bit of kit, it's everything the Vita should have been, the pro controller is also one of the best controllers i've ever used, miles ahead of the dualshock four.

@BLP_Software You're not a fanboy no, but by reading his comments i think he is lol

I just saw on Amazon in the US that Horizon is "Temporarily out of stock". I would say it's doing pretty good in the US as well.

Last week was (imho) the greatest week in gaming, Horizon on Wednesday and Zelda on Friday. 2 giants of the gaming world excelled themselves. For all the crying us gamers do, what a great time to be alive. Now somehow need to find the time to play all the games...third world problems eh?!

_{Please watch the language -Tasuki-}

@paradox32
And then Nier: Automata just a few days after Zelda. Yeah, it's a great time to be gaming. The first three months of this year have been the best in a long time.

Told ya there was no point in moving Horizon release around. Both games have got their harvest, and a more than convincing harvest at that.

One could be more impressed with 1-2 Switch - a "should-be bundle tech demo nobody will want for 60 bucks" selling fourth in a reportedly "nintendophobic" country? You can't but credit that. XD

@Gamer83 I'd throw in the last months of 2016 as well - between FFXV, World of Final Fantasy and Pokemon SunMoon, it's been a wild ride as far as I'm concerned.

@nhSnork
Some good games in the latter part of 2016 as well, but I feel like the start to this year blows 2016 away with all the great Japanese games, highlighted by Resident Evil's stunning return to form, and Horizon giving us a great new IP.

Well done Horizon, but looking at the install base, the fact that Horizon launched a couple of days earlier and the fact that this is the UK charts (where Nintendo had always done poorly), It doesn't mean that much.

@Gamer83 yep, I'm just about to preorder Nier now the great reviews are in...and Persona 5...my poor wallet 😊

@BLP_Software There are just way too many reasons to even list. Let's just say that 0 % is the percent at which the Switch concept and execution appeal to me. I have Wii U for Zelda, a PS4 for all the other games, and 2DS for handheld games. I'm totally set.

@GraveLordXD Yeah, Wii U Gamepad was garbage too. Thank Hylia for Pro controller in Breath of the Wild!

@GraveLordXD I have heard that as well, but when I get to that shrine... I'm going to try the Wii Remote

@GraveLordXD Yeah, it's a huge problem for Wii U. But at least it's not the Switch, where the whole system rests on flimsy rail attachments, or the subpar dock that might scratch your screen, or have a controller charging method that basically forces you to fiddle with the rails, the system itself and/or the dock.