UK Sales Charts: Spider-Man: Miles Morales Clings to Top 10 in Another Quiet Week

I’m surprised physical sales still take place. I guess some supermarkets sell games. Still, not very relevant as an indicator at the moment I don’t think.

@thefourfoldroot it's a big disappointment that no-one is adapting their stats to include digital sales.

I guess they don't have any commercial customers for that information, because the platform owners already have it.

@Playstation
True, didn’t consider Amazon. Guess some companies may use Amazon storage and distribution for physical media still.

There's not much new games to play in this early year, fortunately I still have a lot of updated to 60 fps games backlog, still finishing jedi fallen order and next, the division 2 and psplus games 😃

@thefourfoldroot I've been buying physical games almost exclusively online for many years now, the lockdowns don't really affect that

Miles Morales is a great game, nice to see it getting back into the top 10 as more people are able to buy PS5s.

I'm regretting going digital for the fomo. Demon's souls is £60 everywhere physically and the digital price hasn't even flinched. I knew the first year would be rough but the more i think about paying £70 for the base version of a digital game, the more my blood boils!

For any Americans about to jump in:
£70=97USD and the 10 dollar increase brought you on par with what the UK has been paying all along. I was happy with that price also.

Jim Ryan sucks!

Do you think we will ever get these combined with digital ?

@thefourfoldroot I often order them online, I've been doing that for several years now.

@B-I-G-DEVIL No. These sales charts exist to combine data from retailers and sell them back to interested companies.

@Loftimus
CEX here in the U.K. will also give you £31 back in credit for it, meaning it’s £29 net if you don’t plan on keeping it forever.
Amazes me that people buy full price digitally, I only ever buy digital when prices are heavily reduced in sales.

@Octane right makes sense , thank you.

@Loftimus do you know that US prices are without VAT and any local tax when European prices always include VAT and any tax? So while the US games will end to be cheaper anyway, the difference could be minimal in some cases.

@madcow78 in what world is 17 dollars difference minimal?

@madcow78 and this is digital i'm talking about so, no extra shipping/manufactoring costs for the publisher. Plus, I pay my internet provider for delivery!!! It's just a blatant rip off and i can't see why you would defend it, other than out of spite for others.

@Loftimus Yeah, but you guys aren't paying thousands to tens of thousands a year for "healthcare" you could never afford to actually use.... My (mental) health would be a lot better if I could sink those thousands into playstation games....

Even the US price is absurd. And I get sick of the corporate defenders going "but inflation!' Not a valid metric for discretionary purchases. It's actually a contrary one, inflation means all your necessities keep rising in cost, so you have less and less for discretionary purchases. Unless your income keeps outpacing inflation, but because the US calculates the inflationary index on variables that are a century out of date, your food costs could rise 20% but inflation only went up 1% because the cost of a luxury cars and cruises dropped considerably.

Agreed on the digital costs, 100%. The new pricing seems based on trying to cash in on the buy/sell physical loop, which is weird as the world moves digital. They can't mark down digital because then physical retailers will complain.

I understand why they're not discounting Demon's Souls. It's a core-niche game that's very in demand among that core demographic. They don't want to discount it until it's sold it's full-price potential, and it won't do that until hardware is widely available. There's still a lot of potential $70 customers for it that haven't been able to buy hardware, and thus haven't been able to spend $70 yet. They'll discount it once those potential sales are done. I think the price will sink like a rock once hardware stabilizes. Sales are just going to halt without deep discounts once the target market all gets their hardware.

@Loftimus 20% off £70 is 11.6 hence the price is £58.33 without VAT that is 81.96 US dollars. A difference of 11.96 dollars = 8.51 pounds. It’s more but every country has its own prices, do you know that 10 years ago in Dublin a freaking pepper - one single small freaking pepper - was 1€ that is almost £1? Nobody defends prices but thinking that everything is a conspiracy or a rip-off doesn’t help and we should always grasp the trade off. For example, in the UK wage taxes are lower than Italian but in Italy you will retire with a real pension based on your last years wage. In the UK if you don’t have a private pension scheme you will only get £150 a week half of which is for utility bills.

Finally a business can’t offer lower prices than retailers or the latter will just not buy any product. See, if Sony decides to lower MSRP of digital licences, retailers will stop buying PlayStation products altogether. Does that sound as a good thing for Sony? If so, why neither MS or Nintendo did that?

I must stop buying GTA 5 lol

Did Assassins Creed Valhalla sell well? I hope so as i really enjoyed that game.

@Total_Weirdo "I'll have 1 Uncharted, 3 Maddens, 2 Red Deads, a Cyberpunk....about GTAV, do you sell by the case?"
-The consumer marketplace.

AFAIK Valhalla did very well, it was at the top or next to the top of the holiday charts, at least worldwide.

I really appreciate the weekly gaming charts and monthly NPD charts you guys summarize.
It's really interesting.
I wonder if you also could do something like that about other markets like France, Italy or others who provides weekly chart updates?
Or would it break the mould?

Regardless, appreciate that work

@thefourfoldroot That’s all I buy if I can. Got Immortals for $20 and Tony Hawk for $8 new both physical.

@madcow78 slice it how you want, but i was paying £55 for the pinnicle of gaming, 8 months ago. Thats a £15 increase, which is too much.