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Nintendo Switch exclusive Astral Chain tops UK chart
- Thread starter Theorry
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I wonder if they've missed the boat on marketing a bit; I didn't realise Control was out - despite being interested in it when it appeared at E3 last year - until I saw the Digital Foundry breakdown on it, whereas I've been very aware that Astral Chain was imminent since E3.
I don't think that being optimistic at all. At this point in game sales, assuming digital numbers to be at least a 3rd of physical is probably low balling it, especially on a handheld.
A game on multiple platforms got outsold by a japanese niche switch game.....!
I feel so bad for Remedy, they just can't catch a break. Even with the Sony marketing machine, there was little interest.
I am hooke don control, Best remedy game in years upon years, Playability wise it's better than Alan Wake for me.
I feel so bad for Remedy, they just can't catch a break. Even with the Sony marketing machine, there was little interest.
I am hooke don control, Best remedy game in years upon years, Playability wise it's better than Alan Wake for me.
Its doing very well in Japan as well, tried to buy a copy from the biggest game retailer in my city and they had sold out of both the limited and regular versions.
From the other thread:
1. Astral chain: ~10,700
2. Wreckfest: ~9,600
3. Man of Medan: ~9,342
4. Control: ~9,039
1. Astral chain: ~10,700
2. Wreckfest: ~9,600
3. Man of Medan: ~9,342
4. Control: ~9,039
Agreed. I'm just holding out hope that digital was strong for these titles
Given the market and the game, that's pretty decent for Astral Chain tbh
Some other Switch numbers:
XBC2 - 14K
Octopath Traveler - 10K-11K
FETH - 19K-20K
SMM2 - ~30K
10.7K is a good amount for AC, I'd say.
XBC2 - 14K
Octopath Traveler - 10K-11K
FETH - 19K-20K
SMM2 - ~30K
10.7K is a good amount for AC, I'd say.
"As ever, this chart does not track digital downloads."
What the hell? I thought they were supposed to be doing this at the beginning of the year?!
What the hell? I thought they were supposed to be doing this at the beginning of the year?!
Isn't it, though? Other than the Wii and DS, which are hardly representative of how Nintendo generally does there.
Well, we need PC (and other digital) sales to know if that's the case. But yeah, it deserves to do really well and UK console sales aren't great unfortunately. At least it's doing well in the US according to Benji.
I've seen zero marketing for any of the new releases in any form besides Man of Medan which has had some TV advertising.
I expected Control to do better but it sounds like Xbox players that enjoy Remedy games didn't turn out for it.
Happy for Platinum though, will probably get around to Astral in a few months time.
I expected Control to do better but it sounds like Xbox players that enjoy Remedy games didn't turn out for it.
Happy for Platinum though, will probably get around to Astral in a few months time.
In what form?
I've not seen TV ads, radio ads, youtube ads, billboards or posters on the side of buses for any of the new releases besides Medan.
Yup. If anything the game has probably already surpassed W101 numbers. I kinda expected it but with new IPs there's always the fear of bombing.
First of all, marketing isn't advertising.
And all the Nintendo channels (insta, twitter, facebook, youtube) had a lot of AC stuff the last month.
It did better than the majority of Platinum game's, including Nier: Automata.
The sales are fine, just not mindblowing.
Their handhelds have historically done great.
Home console wise, it's true that the NES and SNES didn't do great here, but it's pretty much just those - the N64, GameCube, and Wii U sales were all mediocre to terrible globally, and the Wii and Switch were/are smash hits.
It's not been true for a long, long time.
You don't see that kind of advertisement for most games.
Astral Chain was featured at multiple Directs, e3, Gamescom and on social media.
Quantum break sold more than double what Control did on both systems, according to MVC UK.
In the US, Control seems to have done much stronger relative to UK, so Control probably takes the crown there. Contrast this comment from Mat Piscatella with the UK performance:
Mat Piscatella said:
Down 58.7%
Anecdotally, Astral Chain didn't seem to have a huge launch shipment in Europe. I had a hard time tracking down a physical copy over the weekend. It's obviously not going to be a massive seller for Nintendo, but I hope it's at least meeting or exceeding their expectations (which I suspect it is).
Same for Astral most likely. Why would UK be a top performing market for it?
I know it's not going to last long but it's nice to see new deserving IPs and games that don't fall into the sports/MP shooter category filling the top spots of the charts.
Digital is strong on Switch, like 30-50% of sales, especially high for more niche games like this. And the Voucher program seems very successful too, Astral Chain has been in the eShop charts worldwide since weeks.
You know, I don't have anything conclusive to prove it. Benji says he believes that Control will rank higher, but then again, his predictions are in general way below what Mat predicts (Mat thinks top 4 ranking for Control, Benji believes a low top 10 ranking). In the end, we will have to see. IIRC, Control doesn't report digital sales, so we should be able to compare physical versus physical for the games.
The reason why different things are expected is because in the UK, QB ~ 2.5x Control, while the US expectation is Control > QB. That difference shows that Control underperformed in the UK, despite numbers being quite close between Control and Astral Chain. I expect the relative factor will therefore (due to the underperformance) be larger than for Astral Chain, which would put Control ahead. But in the end, we should wait and see how things shake out. I'd be happy if Astral Chain is above Control, because we already have comments/predictions putting Control at good numbers, and that would mean Astral Chain did very well.