Sony commanded a dizzying 60 per cent of launch FIFA 18 sales after snagging marketing rights to the soccer simulation. Last year it managed 53 per cent, so it’s actually improved its share of the spoils year-over-year. However, it’s worth noting that sales of the footie favourite are actually down 25 per cent compared to FIFA 17, though that was a Tuesday launch as opposed to this year’s version being a Friday release unless you bought one of the more expensive editions.
Xbox One could only muster 37 per cent of the FIFA 18 launch sales, while the Nintendo Switch accounted for just one per cent – some perspective for fans of that platform, perhaps. It’s worth adding that none of this data takes into account digital sales, where the title has been promoted heavily on each manufacturer’s storefront.
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There’s not a whole lot else to say in this week’s UK sales charts. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony just about managed to make the best sellers list in 36th position, while the likes of Destiny 2, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, and Project CARS 2 continued to hang around in the Top Ten.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 30th September, 2017
- FIFA 18
- Destiny 2
- Forza Horizon 3
- NBA 2K18
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
- Project CARS 2
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
- LEGO Worlds
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
[source chart-track.co.uk]
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That's a pretty impressive rise for Forza Horizon 3 ahead of Forza 7's release this week.
The Top 10 charts should be renamed the "Top 9 - plus GTA"
@roe You basically can't buy an Xbox One in the UK without Forza Horizon 3.
Nintendo losing third party support in 3, 2, 1...
Good to see Uncharted TLL still in the charts. I wonder what their sales expectations are on this one. I'd imagine the hardcore fans probably got it for free.
@Dodoo lol so on point
@Fight_Teza_Fight Have to imagine The Lost Legacy has done very well. Budget can't have been that high for it — was developed in less than a year, for example — and like you say, Season Pass owners got it for free.
Of course not many people bought it on Switch, it's a lesser version of the game and playing it on the go isn't that massive of an incentive.
Only 37% of FIFA's sales were on Xbox? That's what losing the marketing does for you.
No surprises there expect Fifa to sit pretty at the top of the chart for the next few weeks.
@get2sammyb Ah, that'll explain it then. Cheers.
@get2sammyb I think that's probably the case. I also think the quality of the game surprised most people. Budget price tag also helped.
@adf86 Don't worry, the marketing change had no impact at @BLP_Software's Mum's Sainsbury's!
At least now we know that portability doesn't matter for most people.
So if the PS4 got 60%, Xbox got 37% and the Switch got 1%, where did the other 2% go? Was it released on another platform?
@adf86 "Of course not many people bought it on Switch, it's a lesser version of the game and playing it on the go isn't that massive of an incentive."
But you can say that of basically every NS game. All NS games will always be inferior compared to the other versions, that's just the way it is.
@deepspace5d Xbox 360 and PS3, which got the "Legacy" editions (old game with updated roster). The X360 Legacy edition actually outsold the NS non-Legacy version.
Nintendo fans really embracing that third party support huh? I hope Skyrim does better: it will still probably be one of the lesser version available but with portability. Of course FIFA did this too...
Not too shabby,
Though not too unexpected either.
@Feena
Nintendo fans and thirdy party ?
They wouldn't know what it was if you explained it to them with venn diagrams and flow charts.
@KitsuneNight Wii, DS, GBA, SNES and other successful Nintendo systems sold a ton of third party games.
It's just that NS really isn't on that level.
Here's a fun, relevant fact: Wii got FIFA games all the way up to FIFA 15. Sure, the last ones were Legacy editions, but that just goes to show you how Wii was in completely different ballpark with third parties than where NS is right now.
EA really dumbed down the Switch version of Fifa and in most cases people who own multiple consoles will buy superior versions. PS4 and Xbox One will always have the better port compared to Switch so for people who don't care about portability, the Switch version is always going to be a non-factor. Will be interesting to see if other third party games can sell well enough however that developers consider it worth their time to continue supporting the platform. I expect EA will not bring Madden over and may even drop Fifa on Switch next year.
Anyway, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy holding strong is nice to see. I'd be interested in world wide sales to this point. Hope it does well enough for Naughty Dog to consider more budget priced spinoffs.
@Mahe It doesn't say much for the system's chances of 3rd party support then if developers aren't going to put their all into it and consumers don't buy them in good numbers.
@adf86 I had my share of a failed Nintendo system with Wii U, it's the same song and dance with NS.
Luckily, there are so many games PS4 and 2DS that there's literally too much to play!
Okay, I'm usually the first one to tie a lady to the tracks of the Nintendo Hype Train, but I think some of the comments here pointing at the 1% of sales of FIFA on Switch as some sort of trumpet sounding for the death of third party support on the system are probably getting a little overzealous.
There are over sixty million PS4s in the wild. There are around thirty million Xbox Ones. There were less than five million Switch consoles sold as of the end of July.
Now, I'm not a big city mathematician, but if you bang those numbers into a calculator, what you find is that the PS4 sales of FIFA are pretty much what you'd expect, the Xbox One numbers are perhaps a little bit higher than you'd expect, and the Switch sales are a little low based on the market share, but by no means comically low.
That's not to say that third party support isn't going to die on the Switch. Because it almost certainly will. But this isn't really evidence of that, I don't think.
@johncalmc
Nah, im just snarking at the fact that the Nintendo faithfull, usually just buy the Nintendo titles and ignore most third party titles.
Hell I did it myself, with my Wii U most of my games are Nintendo games.
Cause the third party titles for that machine are and thin on the ground and inferior ports.
I only got COD black ops II for the Wii U cause it was less then a fiver.
@Mahe
Don't say that, I just bought the damn thing !
For breath of the wild mostly, but still.
@KitsuneNight Honestly, I think you wasted your money...
Hope you enjoy it more than I did.
@Mahe
Well i traded in a load of hard and software I don't use for it.
So i didn't actually had to pay anything for it.
I mostly got it, because I wanted to play breath of the wild, but wasnt willing to lay down 400 euro for an NX and a single game.
But I got a stack of games for it and a pro controller, so here is hoping.
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