UK Sales Charts: Concrete Genie's Wishes Dashed As PS4 Exclusive Flops in Shops

Considering I've not seen any promotion for Concrete Genie I can't say I'm not surprised in the slightest!

The new Yooka Laylee game is great, one of the best I've played this year

That's horrible for Concrete Genie :/

I know I'll get my copy eventually, but still. Hope it does well enough, somehow.

If I didn't follow gaming news closey I would have no clue concrete genie was even a thing. I guess it also didn't help that the day it was released was the same day Sony/wired released all that PS5 news.

Terrible news for Concrete Genie,I expected it to do ALOT better!But then saying that,it's one game that was going to be a Day One for me but I have yet to buy it..

Concrete Genie always struck me as a digital game only sort of like Papo & Yo. Kind of surprised they even bothered to release it physical, even if it was only $30.

YL2 kind of both stealth announced and stealth released after the 2-3 year buildup that was the first game on Kickstarter. The first game wasn't that good, and this 1 joined the legion of 2D games, so not surprised it didn't sell well either.

Both will be $10 in 6 weeks for BF either physical or digital.

That top ten makes me sad. A shame for CG, hope they didn't do too badly.

I nees to buy that game. Trying to work through Katana Zero, Yoshis Crafted World, Tetris Effect and Blasphemous first...

@LieutenantFatman id imagine digital is gonna tell the true tale. Here is hoping to better digital numbers

I'm surprised Ghost Recon: Breakpoint is up there, didn't people play the open beta a week before release?!

Feel bad for Yooka Laylee and Concrete Genie.

@ApostateMage I think casual gamers just look for name recognition these days. They don't look for originality otherwise concrete genie would be alot higher id imagine

Edit: just noticed 9/10 are established franchises

I'll be picking these up digitally at some point soon hopefully.

That's a shame honestly , Concrete Genie is so good in my opinion . My 2nd favorite game of 2019 so far behind Days Gone .

I hope Concrete Genie has done well digitally. But considering this was made by one of Sony's smallest studios and had very little advertising spend (it seems), it probably needs far fewer sales to be profitable.

might have helped if you could actually find concrete genie anywhere. neither of the 2 game stores, the hmv, nor any of the big supermarkets near me bothered to stock it in the first place. game did stock trine 4 discs, but it didn't even make top 40.

@Wazeddie22 same here but in my case I'm broke, no time to play it right now, maybe next year or December I will buy it then.

@leucocyte I came on to say the same thing. There have been a few occasions this year where games just haven’t been stocked at places I visit. This and Wreckfest never made it to my local shops.

@leucocyte including amazon? Well that is a shame because that does seem like a limited physical release then, when i do get the time to buy it will have to be digital unless the situation changes that is.

@huyi - i don't know about amazon since i didn't check as i never buy games from amazon, but i was out and about at the weekend, and didn't see it anywhere - potential impulse buy lost. if physical stores aren't stocking it, it's massively limited its sales potential.

Really hoped Dirt rally 2.0 would be in the top ten since it's only €20 or £16 now. For me the 2 Dirt rally games are the best games of this generation and anyone who hasn't tried them is mad not to give them a go.

never even knew it was released on disc bought my copy of PSN store so im guessing the numbers are better.

Two of the worst gambling games that arrived in October at the top, this is just plain ludicrous.

That's a shame, because Concrete Genie is fun. It's not live service trash.

@lukey-luke98

Thats what i'm thinking because my word it is always in the top 10 for UK and USA.

No wonder R* are in no hurry to release GTA 6.

Definitely buying it physical but it's going in my backlog.

That's a real bummer. I do follow gaming news as good as possible and I knew about Concrete Genie and I pre-ordered it but honestly I didn't know it got a physical release until now. Thought it's going to be a PSN game thru and thru. As Sony made a physical releas version they definitely should have cared to make more promo.

Alright, dang it — I’m going to buy Concrete Genie tomorrow. This is ridiculous.
It’s everything I wish we could see more of in games — artistic and unique, shorter run time and not a 100 hour slog, lower price point, socially conscious, and well scored in reviews. Forget my backlog ... I’m getting it.

@Th3solution Think I might have to do the same. Didn’t really want to add to my large backlog unless it was a instant ‘must buy’ (TLOU 2/CyberPunk) but believe it’s important to support types of games you want to see getting made. Even if it gets reduced before I get round to playing it.

I brought Rebel Cops for the same reason.

@BearsEatBeets Yup, I do it quite often too. A recent example is Hellblade. Bought it near launch and only played it a couple months ago (and really, really enjoyed it). Alas, my efforts didn’t save Ninja Theory from selling out to Microsoft, but at least I did my part to support them. 😔

There had to be a better way we can reward passionate developers and their work instead of throw all our money into those same few titles.

@Netret0120 You can bet they are already well underway in developing GTA 6, although I doubt that it will release before the next gen consoles launch.

I’m surprised to see Gears 5 and Sea of Thieves to make it in the top 10 seeing as they are both on GamePass...