Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of those juggernaut blockbusters that appeals to all players regardless of a console’s audience, so Sony will be delighted with the performance of the game on its console. A very impressive 68 per cent of the sequel’s UK retail sales were made on the PlayStation 4, which is a huge split when you consider that the Xbox One is much more of a factor on these shores compared to the rest of Europe.
The general story surrounding Rockstar’s hugely anticipated release isn’t actually a record breaking one, however – although Chart-Track’s lack of digital continues to paint a partial picture of the British games industry. As it goes, the Western could not overturn FIFA 19, and so has to settle for the second largest launch of the year. When you consider that EA Sports’ soccer sim was also down year-over-year, it’s perhaps not what we’d expected.
Red Dead Redemption 2 could only manage 27 per cent of Grand Theft Auto V’s first week total, but the digital sales share was much smaller in 2013, and the latter game had an extra three days to rack up its unholy total. Rockstar’s latest did more than double its 2010 predecessor's debut, and again, it’s worth reiterating that this is without digital taken into account. It’s the third fastest-selling game of the generation in Britain – not including multiple FIFA instalments.
There were other new releases last week, but none of them made the top ten. Paw Patrol: On a Roll entered in 17th position, while Nickelodeon Kart Racers and My Hero One's Justice settled for 21st and 23rd place respectively. We’ve included the full top ten below.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 27th October, 2018
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
- FIFA 19
- Forza Horizon 4
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- LEGO DC Super-Villains
- Super Mario Party
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
[source gamesindustry.biz]
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The British really love football apparently.
@Th3solution it’s the most popular game here definitely. I hate it.
@Lychaos which game ? Football or ?
RDR2 will probably sell north of 20m units over time I reckon but the lack of digital numbers is needed now.
@beemo Well, with the Bucs and the Dolphins, I don’t blame you. 😜
These lists that don't include digital numbers are fake news.
Completely forgot about Boku no Hero Academia! Need to buy it ASAP!
@beemo Ouch, Yeah .... my condolences. Lol. Well, at least we have Red Dead to drown our sports sorrows. That, or maybe the Jets can win the Super Bowl when you play them in Madden. 😅
Thats a big split
Could be worse. You guys could have picked the GIANTS.
It's incredible to me that Crash is still up there. I mean, I know it's gotten a boost from the other systems, but still. That feels unprecedented for a $40 remake collection of 20 year old games. Really interested in seeing how Spyro fares in comparison.
@get2sammyb Should have picked the Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes to Tyreek Hill is very entertaining.
Guys that's cool and all but PLEASE disable your HDR. It is extremely disappointing and does indeed turn the image blander! I did some comparison shots and the game is better with HDR off...
@sajoey Imagine the boost Crash will have because of the Crash/Spyro game bundle that is supposedly coming.
Can't f*** with Red Dead
this game is so bloody crazy, ive been locked away from the world since Friday and couldn't be happier loll
@AFCC looks better with HDR to me. You need to have it set up properly. Also screenshots do look bad with HDR
We should just discard FIFA as many literally only play that game every year and nothing else. As for GTA, it will always have a bigger fan base no matter how much better the Red Dead games are but in any case that's still a great start and it'll be interesting to see what the split was for digital sales
Well, see, now I am confused.
I had this all set to go for Red Dead 2's release...
...and even found a suitably shame-faced .gif to go with the inevitable conclusion of me being proven wrong...
...but upon reading the details of this article, whilst Red Dead 2 has done very well indeed (making me wrong), it hasn't broken any records or obliterated anything (making @get2sammyb wrong).
This is the internet, isn't it? We can't both be wrong, can we? I thought everything had to be black-and-white, winners and losers, right?
What the heck is this "grey" people keep trying to advocate?!
Kind of a depressing list tbh, good games but all geared toward the very general audience...I'll play Odyssey when I am done with Valkyria 4 and Shenmue.
@beemo It starts off super slow. It wasn't until they took the handcuffs off and let me do my own thing that I started enjoying it.
@get2sammyb did u watch the giants game today? I missed it, who won?
OK I lied, I watched it, my redskins are looking good!
@ellsworth004 Don't want to talk about anything other than the one Odell catch. Everything else was bunk.
@RogerRoger There's only black-and-white on the Internet.
TBH I still think we've got to wait for worldwide numbers because these UK charts have been chucking out declines all year round and I'm not sure they're giving us a very accurate picture at the moment.
I'll take the L for now, though.
@get2sammyb My Packers lost as well today.
So, guess we're all losers!
Well, except for some Redskin fan here in the community. 😅
@Lychaos general opinions around the net tend to be that HDR looks like crap and I agree that it is way way worse than Spider-Man and GoW! I've tried it with different values and can't achieve the same vibrant colors I get with other games! Also hdr off looks a bit better to me!
So yeah Rockstar did a poor job pretty much...
@Deadlyblack yeah packers fan here and I thought we would get embarrassed by the rams but we almost pulled it off. It just sucks that this loss pretty much means no playoffs this year
The 4k option and HDR look amazing on the X. I'm amazed they messed up the Pro version. A game like this should look like God of War at least.
Second biggest launched behind FIFA 19 is still nothing to be sniffed at, though. There have been some huge sellers throughout the year, and I'm sure RDR2 will have legs... And it's gonna be huge in the US.
I’m having a great time with RDR 2 now. The controls are kinda difficult, but I’m learning how to handle it.
And football is the best sport ever, unlike NFL.
France is the best in World Cup.
Grêmio is the best in South America.
Manchester City is the king of England.
Barcelona 5 x 1 Real Madrid.
Word up son.
@ShogunRok RDR 2 is doing great, unlike Manchester United, lol.
High five?
@Deadlyblack We really should create an NFL thread in the forums because I’m definitely derailing now butttttt... I couldn’t believe the end to that Green Bay game. You probably would have won if Rodgers actually got the ball. 😅
@ShogunRok It’s not but remember FIFA was also down massively this year as well. Obviously digital not being included in the charts is a huge problem, but I’m beginning to wonder if prices are putting people off.
Like, usually at this point in the generation you can get new releases for less than you could at the start, but it feels like in the UK things have gone the other way. And unlike on PS3, you’re no longer getting those supermarket door busters for the biggest games either.
@get2sammyb yeah that was an amazing catch I must admit.
NFL thread is a great idea!
It's simple: Lots of people including me went digital with RDR2 because we wanted to play at launch midnight - no waiting for delivery uncertainties, and this isn't a game buyers are looking to resell. And said people like me bought GTAV physical in 2013 as digital wasn't too popular at the time.
FIFA on the other hand, folks like to buy physical because of the resale value and there's always gonna be a new one each year so why have it sitting on your harddrive or tied to your account, who goes back to play 2 or 3yrs old FIFA. I don't think FIFA's digital sales are massive, I can bet RDR2 sold more digitally.
That said, Digital sales really need to be tracked now, serious.
@waluigifan1 you really expect a 3rd party publisher to put in the same work as a First Party studio 🤦♂️
if im not mistaken the 1st game sold 15m copies with ps3/360 players around 160m,
but this generation around ps4 users 80m and xbone users 30m,
the sequel probably will probably sell more or less the same
RIP failbox
@get2sammyb Maybe it's because this country's a mess.
@LN78 I wouldn’t say it runs or looks significantly better. I mean yes it does look better and it runs better in certain parts but it isn’t like it blowing the other systems away
@beemo pittsburgh Steelers best nfl franchises ever word up son
@get2sammyb for real dog.my pittsburgh Steelers is on a roll playa.whats up with your NY giants😱.pittsburgh Steelers best nfl franchises ever.word ☝ up son
@PS_Nation France 🇫🇷 is the best.just like red dead redemption.god of war is the best PlayStation franchises ever.martin is the best comedy sitcom ever.ps4 is the best.pittsburgh Steelers is the greatest nfl franchises ever.were backkkkkkkk.👍word life.word to your mother.word up son
@Deadlyblack nope playa not all of us are losers.my pittsburgh Steelers won and nobody cant stop us.james Conner is unstoppable now.defense is great now.roethlisberger is of course doing is thing.antonio brown is the best receiver in the NFL.here we go steelers here we go.pittsburgh Steelers best nfl franchises ever.you better recognize dog.word up son
@Splat pittsburgh Steelers are baaaaaaccckkkk.im from new york.born and raised as a pittsburgh Steelers fan.best nfl franchises ever word up son
@get2sammyb I think I'm due an apology. =p
I did say red dead was more niche than the hype suggested. If you can call it niche.
Remember the HDR on Everybody’s Golf was broken on release? It was a misty and dull mess, this was patched, but took quite a while to get resolved.
LN78, yes agreed..
I used a video guide to set up my Samsung a while back and it really helped.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n6aiGM8nIGs
@RogerRoger These records are kinda strange. They should do the sales for the same amount of days and then compare.
I'm quite surprised actually, 68% on ps4 and 32% on xbox1? If it's japanese games like monster hunter world or devil may cry 5, sure, but a wild west cowboy game like red dead 2? It seems sony is really smart choosing what games to bundle.
With spider-man, cod bo4, and red dead 2 bundle it seems playstation 4 will be quite successful this year
@Th3solution boom boom! Lol go giants! (Just, maybe not this season.....😔)
@playstation1995 giants might have something to say about that! Er, next season! Lol 😂
@wiiware I know. It’ll be no secret that the game runs best on the X. But still.........man, next gen will be very interesting.......
@AFCC
it looks great for me, just need to set have the right settings
@wiiware
its more to do with that a lot more people have a ps4 than a xbox, so those numbers are about right, its not the percentage sold compared to each console its the total sold between them
@beemo
it really takes a few hours to get going, but after that you cant put it down.
@Kiloman74 While it may run better but I don't think most people will notice unless that people zoom 300% in their 4k tv while playing the game, xbox one x is better technically but not $100 better I think.
@suikoden Hmm I don't know about that, in usa final fantasy 13 sells way better on ps3 compared to xbox 360 although ps3 sells less, it's because the jrpg audience is on ps3.
I think the number of console sold is only the maximum amount of some games can sold, for example usually indie games sold way better on switch compared to ps4 although there's more ps4 console compare to switch. Maybe most xbox1 audience only buy first person shooter (halo/cod) and sport games?
@OldHunter ...said the bishop to the actress.
I thankyeow 😎
Wow,red dead 2 not number 1 in UK. I wouldn't put it past the brits, to have last of us 2 and ghosts of tshushima released,yet freaking fifa still would top the charts. I love my football too,and get fifa every year,but wow I did not see it being on top this week with red dead out. You nutty brits !
@hulkie Lol but RDR2 is on top.
27% of GTA V is still around a half million copies, not that bad for the UK, plus there is only about 60% of the console install base for that time. not sure digital numbers would have made that big of a difference really, especially since it's not on PC. for the UK in 2017, the top 10 games were the exact same when digital sales were factored in.. destiny was up a couple of places due to about 30% digital sales, and GT sport down a place or two because it sold only about 12% digital. in my opinion, the UK might not be widely reflective of the world market at this point. sales are in decline, and no amount of "it doesn't include digital" is going to mask that effect.. i think it's also probably slower to adopt digital (especially for a game's launch) due to the average broadband being just 10mb/s, the popularity of re-selling boxed games back to game/cex etc, and launch prices being typically 25% more than buying a boxed version. RDR2 is £60 on PSN (and it's also a 100Gb download).. i saw it in HMV at the weekend for £48, and HMV isn't exactly known to be cheap, so it could probably be found cheaper still. plus if you buy stuff mail order, it almost always will arrive before launch (except from amazon, but nobody in sound mind would buy games from amazon). the situation where physical versions are considerably cheaper than the console storefronts is way more prevalent here than elsewhere, from what i've seen. i'd be surprised if there are many stores in the US that sell the games for $40 or $45 on day 1 instead of $60. plus i have a hunch game prices are going to rise for PS5.. i think they'll be £65 or £70 on PSN.
I've got a few friends who only ever play the yearly FIFA and CoD games. I might delete them, not hardcore enough for my friends list.
@Splat
Everyone has their own things I guess. I loved the slow pace from the start and keep loving almost everything in the game. Sometimes I love it so much I'd nearly cry. I love when games go for realism and in this case what you feel being immersed in a western movie as a gamer (which is not really realism but more cinematic feel) . The only thing I find annoying is the game time moving way too fast and being too 'gamey'. So what I mean is the slow pace is perfect and doesn't cater for speed running like gamers
@suikoden
'a lot more people have a ps4 than a xbox,'
Like Sammy said in the article, I think in the UK it's not as much as in the rest of Europe where its like 3 or 4 to 1
@suikoden have you tried turning it off and checking?
I thought mine looked fine too but after turning it off I noticed I was losing too much color detail!
@AFCC
opposite for me, more colour detail etc but had to mess around with setting in game and tv
Edit
Off topic will you have a review for call of cthulhu this week?
@LN78 I think DF said there's no graphicals difference between ps4 pro and xbox1x besides native 4k vs cb 4k and more stable framerate in some demanding place although both console still play the game at 30 fps max. I think $500 is too much for that system since it launched 1 year late and the difference isn't like, say, ps2 vs gamecube.
It's worth it for xbox fans though since all of their old games on xbox1 will be upgraded to 4k or near 4k on xbox1x.
@get2sammyb Oi! Hey man! Not happy about that ok! What bloody gridiron team do you support? Don’t be dissing my Giants man! 😡😂 kidding👍✌️
"When you consider that EA Sports’ soccer sim was also down year-over-year, it’s perhaps not what we’d expected"
Yes but expect RDR2 to have a longtail sales curve v's FIFA 19
@ShogunRok
I just realised the title is very misleading and only from 'which game had the best launch week' point of view. In all objectivity it should state RDR2 is number 1 and topples COD in UK charts as the main news
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