feint_ruled
Member
I had to laugh at the news reports that "footfall" was less than expected on UK Black Friday. It's not even a public holiday, people are all at work! Media getting pretty carried away with the whole thing.
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PAL Charts - Week 47, 2015
- Thread starter Bruno MB
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Stilton Disco
Member
Chatting with people at work and family, I'm not surprised it. Like you say, its a workday, but last year was just awful, a lot of hullabaloo and effort for little reward, and I think that turned most people off the idea of going out of the way for it this year.
Which is good, a sale day before Christmas is great, but the entire thing is handled in such a vulgar manner.
The worst of it is, it's not even good deals like America 99% of the time. Most of the stuff on sale were already on sale before anyways, now you're just getting another £10 off something because they couldn't move stock.
It's good if you're wanting to buy something already and hold off waiting for a few £ off, but I wouldn't go out my way to buy something just because it's Black Friday. That said though, there were some sweet deals on Xbox Ones this year (That £220 bundle with Ori and RR specifically)
Either a Bloomberg or an MSNBC article, I can't remember.
That ori and rare replay deal wasn't even as good as the uncharted and fifa ps4 bundle for 30 quid more. Especially as those two xbox games are worth nothing.
Ninja Sharingan
Banned
Did 9 of your friends do the same? or is it 8? Am I doing it right?.....Ok where is my coat!? I'll be off now :/
Ha, only 3 friends when they all asked me if Witcher 3 was good... I told them to go to US PSN
Ha, only 3 friends when they all asked me if Witcher 3 was good... I told them to go to US PSN
You singlehandedly destroyed the PAL charts by doing that. Extrapolating from that, 100% of people are told to buy from US PSN now.
SolidSnakex
Member
EA stopped talking specifics about sales numbers awhile back.
They are making a smart investment decision, that's all.
To be honest, it's probably why the charts are delayed. Trying to come up with a way to do PR on 0 UK sales.
Oh, well that sucks. Guess its better for them but worse for the savy consumer.
Nah, we just decided not to post them.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Coming upto 11am....
Come on...what are teh chances we don't get the charts today either?
Come on...what are teh chances we don't get the charts today either?
I honestly think we just don't know. MS could quite easily ask them not to release that information if they're no longer talking about it.
Chobel
Member
The industry and the Chobel avatar are doomed!
Well the guy I made the bet with is banned, so I guess I won by default.
Doesn't Chart-track gather their retail data indepedently from platform holders? How would MS have any say in what data Chart-track is or isn't allowed to release to their subscribers?
Graphics Horse
Member
Chart Track Christmas party must've been one hell of a night.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Christmas party in November?
Nah, it was just a good ol' knees up to celebrate 2m X1 sold and Chobel winning his bet.
From their subscribers, sure. I meant publicly announcing.
From what we know from the people that do publish software numbers as well, the console numbers aren't in those packs. Or well hidden at the very least
Katana_Strikes
Member
I don't think they've been released to anyone yet and our people are all 3rd parties who receive the numbers AFAIK.
We had ours last week!
panda-zebra
Member
Chobel just shot himself in the foot.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about avatar bets (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in other forums where you can get off lightly just because someone received a temp ban...
Still no word on the charts.
The flying fuck is going on. Just tell us if we get them today, at this point.
Bruno MB
Member
This year's Black Friday week will definitely be down YoY, especially because last year had Pokémon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire which sold over 150,000 units, and the week before Black Friday there were bigger releases (Grand Theft Auto V + Far Cry 4 doubled Star Wars: Battlefront sales).
Code:
Week 47, 2015 - 1,111,438 units / £42.4m [notable releases: Star Wars: Battlefront]
[B]Week 48, 2015 - _________ units / £____m [notable releases: nothing][/B]
Week 47, 2014 - 1,486,145 units / £57.4m [notable releases: Grand Theft Auto V, Far Cry 4, Dragon Age: Inquisition]
[B]Week 48, 2014 - 1,960,751 units / £62.0m [notable releases: Pokémon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire, Super Smash Bros. Wii U][/B]It will still be huge so it's good and we like numberz.
SolidSnakex
Member
Yeah, and it's across the board as far as sales go. They don't talk about anything. That way no one can speculate on how games have sold based on which ones they choose to talk about. For example, if they came out and bragged about Battlefront's sales and then refused to say anything about Mirror's Edge, it'd make people think that the sales of ME were bad. So they just don't comment on sales at all.
Primethius
Banned
RIP Pal Charts. You had a good run.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
Work day and it was before most people's monthly pay day.
dead monkey uk
Member
Still no word on the charts.
They are still counting all the £19 copies of Until Dawn that were sold.
"Hey guys, my spreadsheet isn't working. What's 1 plus 2?!"
Meanwhile:
"This data must be wrong. I don't see any Mario Tennis sales anywhere. DELAY THE CHARTS"