Bundle doesn't count in France.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III claims top spot in first week
2015 so far reveals there have never been more games released on a Tuesday (25 and counting, previous record was 2012 with 17 for the whole year), but Activision's ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops III’ forsakes Tuesday for Friday for the first time since 2009 / 6 iterations ago. So 'Black Ops III' launched Friday 6th November and UK gamers had to divide their disposable income between fireworks, the Treyarch-developed first person shooter and the continued wallet-drain of ‘Spectre’ at the cinema. However, ‘Black Ops III’ explodes on to the scene at No1 and in terms of revenue generated in week 1 (regardless of release day) ‘Black Ops III’ ranks at No14 amongst all titles. Compared to other Call of Duty titles this is the 7th in terms of week 1 takings, though of course all of those above it benefited from 5 days of sell-through in week 1 (UK charts run Sun-Sat). The Gen 8 (PS4/Xbox One) transition is overwhelming with 91% of sales units coming from these 2 formats (compared to 68% for last year’s ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’. EA’s ‘FIFA 16’ climbs 1 place to No2 (-7%) and EA have the only other new entry at No3 as ‘Need For Speed’ arrives for PS4/Xbox One. Microsoft’s ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ drops from No1 to No4 (- 78%) and Ubisoft’s ‘Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate’ drops 3 places to No5 (-55%). There are numerous re-entries due to various retailer promotions, most notable of which is Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart 7’ back in at No14 (+898%).
Lots of words to say that Call of Duty: Black Ops III had the worst opening in the series since Call of Duty: World at War.
Ouch at that Halo 5 drop.
04 (01) HALO 5: GUARDIANS (MICROSOFT) - 33,000 / 183,000 (-78%)
Uncharted is doing much better than I expected then.
So, around 41k for Halo 5.
‘Mario Kart 7’ back in at No14 (+898%)
lol
COD dropped too?
So what UK gamers buying this year? Fallout 4?
Lots of words to say that Call of Duty: Black Ops III had the worst opening in the series since Call of Duty: World at War.
Ouch at that Halo 5 drop.
04 (01) HALO 5: GUARDIANS (MICROSOFT) - 33,000 / 183,000 (-78%)
So, around 41k for Halo 5.
Not really a surprise the launch was going to always be front loaded. The question for me is whether it generates decent WOM to retain decent baseline of legs or whether continues to tail off to almost nothing fairly rapidly.Lots of words to say that Call of Duty: Black Ops III had the worst opening in the series since Call of Duty: World at War.
Ouch at that Halo 5 drop.
04 (01) HALO 5: GUARDIANS (MICROSOFT) - 33,000 / 183,000 (-78%)
People love their CoD campaigns.91% of sales units coming from these 2 formats
Same drop as MGS V, another Tuesday release
33k
Where's that hold for Syndicate that Ubisoft were talking about.
Lots of words to say that Call of Duty: Black Ops III had the worst opening in the series since Call of Duty: World at War.
Ouch at that Halo 5 drop.
04 (01) HALO 5: GUARDIANS (MICROSOFT) - 33,000 / 183,000 (-78%)
Do you have 2* week sales for Halo 3 , Reach and Halo 4?
Where's that hold for Syndicate that Ubisoft were talking about.
Same range (around 80%) but all of them had a huge opening compared to Halo 5.
Same range (around 80%) but all of them had a huge opening compared to Halo 5.
I expected Halo 5 to have better legs, since the worst opening... well, that is.
Last chance is the NPD.
if Halo don't sell at least 1 million...
Probably the week 1 to week 2 hold. 38% is a tiny drop, helped out a lot by those cheap ass bundles.
That was last week, it retained 60%+ of its opening week. This is week 3.
Last week, we had the lowest second week drop I've seen this year (39% for AC:Syndicate), this week, I think this is one of the highest second week drops we've seen at 78%?
Last week, we had the lowest second week drop I've seen this year (39% for AC:Syndicate), this week, I think this is one of the highest second week drops we've seen at 78%?
BLOPS 3 PS4/Xbone split anyone?
I'm not talking specifically about last week, I mean in general. They said that it would catch up to Unity through legs and it doesn't look like that's going too happen at all. And yeah, as Hasney said, the game only managed to perform well in its second week due to bundles anyway.
PS4 48%
XB1 43%
360 5%
PS3 3%
That's a good split for Xbox actually it's usually much bigger for multiplats.PS4 48%
XB1 43%
360 5%
PS3 3%
I'm not talking specifically about last week, I mean in general. They said that it would catch up to Unity through legs and it doesn't look like that's going too happen at all. And yeah, as Hasney said, the game only managed to perform well in its second week due to bundles anyway.
Quite a healthy percentage for the Xbone considering the marketing partnership this time around.
I'm not talking specifically about last week, I mean in general. They said that it would catch up to Unity through legs and it doesn't look like that's going too happen at all. And yeah, as Hasney said, the game only managed to perform well in its second week due to bundles anyway.
The worst debut for Call of Duty since WaW? I expected it to do better than the last two entries.
Quite a healthy percentage for the Xbone considering the marketing partnership this time around.
Quite a healthy percentage for the Xbone considering the marketing partnership this time around.
PS4 48%
XB1 43%
360 5%
PS3 3%