Sleepy week for game sales overall. Doom and Animal Crossing can't get here soon enough.
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UK Charts: PS4 exclusives Yakuza and Dreams crack Top Ten
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Sleepy week for game sales overall. Doom and Animal Crossing can't get here soon enough.
I can't imagine why most people would want to buy dreams physical, especially with the low price point on PSN. Hopefully it keeps trucking along and with the lack of big releases over the next 6 months hopefully it can stay in the conversation and build a following
I mean clearly some people have bought it physically, hence its chart position. But this is a game that will definitely skew more digitally.
Probably because hardly anyone on Xbox buys physical games anymore.
How is Yakuza so high. That's crazy.
For a sec I thought UK had tracked the imported copies of Y7 lol
I'd say unit sales are dire as people shift to digital. Not just buying the games digital but the MTX too.
Was expecting an easy win for Dreams this week with it being so quiet and it also being a budget release too (and this being a unit chart).
I'm sure it'll have legs though and given its dip in and out nature, I would imagine most will opt for the digital version which isn't included in these sales.
I'm sure it'll have legs though and given its dip in and out nature, I would imagine most will opt for the digital version which isn't included in these sales.
Think the bigger story here is GTA 5 is still in the top 10....what 5 years after its release, incredible!!
I suspect that it's less Yakuza doing well and more the UK physical game market being incredibly soft right now that any half-decent release will chart. Of course, that doesn't mean everyone's gonna be a winner (hello, Snack World), but if you can get 5000 pre-orders, you'll almost certainly make the top ten right now.
Tells me Darksiders didn't do too hot.
Still pretty impressive for Yakuza as the collection has been out digital for a while now, I'd love to know actual numbers though.
Dring commented on it on Twitter when I asked for a comparison with Darksiders III.
You're not counted here, and neither is anyone else who purchased Dreams in early access, where it has been for sale for the past year. Something the concern trolls are choosing to ignore.
This is not revising history. I was one of those people expecting it to flop and I still didn't think it was gonna flop hard enough to land outside the top 20 in such a quiet week. Saying no one expected it to make the top 20 is just not true, 8 is right in line with expectations of floppage for a Sony first-party game seven years in the making. Outside the top 20 would have been nuts.
I mean, sure, that's true. But I still didn't expect Yakuza Remaster to chart at all, let alone at #3. Especially in a week where we had Dreams.
The concern is unwarranted, but not because of the Friday release, since all Sony games launch on Friday.
Yeah I second this. Dreams is in it for the long game. The word of mouth. The creators getting more comfortable and ambitious with the tools.
There's not really hours upon hours of quality content right now to jump into and creating will be tough for many, even if a lot of it is quite simple (much requires patience and dedication). The game will grow via word of mouth, via ludicrous games and scenes going viral that people can't believe are made in Dreams. There are some already but they can be fairly short test levels, but impressive nonetheless. Every month there will be something new and creative and fun coming out of this from the users. In a year, two years, polished experiences that you can get legit hours of great gameplay out of. It will snowball and it will pick up sales. I honestly can't see that not happening now. Sony just need to keep supporting it, which I trust they will do. I think Dreams is a platform more than just a game and it is here to stay.
Is that a UK thing? I'm not in the UK so I thought they all released on Tuesdays like they do here.
Sony right now is unpredictable IMO, hard to even say if it's a good thing or a bad thing. They could kick in their Dreams marketing when PS5 comes out but I somehow doubt it. Like, the PS4 launched with a good amount of indie titles, then Sony literally stops caring about them 3 years later... now Shuhei is lead of their indie department? Shawn Layden quits immediately? Their first party policies change suddenly? They say they will now announce things through their Directs but they seem to have stopped doing it? It's all so confusing.
How is that the bigger news when this has been more or less the status quo for most of the last decade ?
Its not gonna stop selling anytime soon, unless R+ "kills" it and forces people to move to a sequel.
Which Yakuza game is that? Looks great!
Never played a Yakuza game, would the title in this gif be a good starting point?
None of Level 5's self-publishing efforts have gone well for them in the West it seems. Might have been a mistake to try to go at it on their own.
If this turns out to be a meme...
Yakuza 3.
Most people would say start with Yakuza 0 and carry on in that order.
Yakuza 3.
Most people would say start with Yakuza 0 and carry on in that order.
I started with that game (Yakuza 3) and fell in love with the franchise that way but it's definitely not the best starting point. The story of every Yakuza game is more or less self-contained but there are many returning characters and organizations. It will be more impactful if you know their background. The best way to play the series is in order from 0-6. Yakuza 1 & 2 were on the PS2 but also have modern remakes called Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2.
Yakuza 3 is also generally seen as one of the weaker games (still great though) while Yakuza 0 is often seen as the very best. So, the best order is to start with Yakuza 0 (Zero) and then Kiwami, Kiwami 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in that order if you like the series enough to continue.
You also shouldn't feel that you need to play all of the games to finish some big overarching story spanning all games which will be resolved in the last, there isn't one. You can start with Zero and end with Zero and you will have a complete, self-contained game. Same goes for every entry.
Speaking of I popped in Smyth's today and they had a copy of Layton but no sign of Snack World...