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[UK] FIFA 20 boxed sales are down by 7%, down on PS4 and slightly up on Xbox One and NSW compared to FIFA 19
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Yeah, aint buying a 19 re-skin. It is quite disgusting how EA has managed the series on Switch.
EA must be angry now after doing whatever they could in their power to slow down the Switch version.
Seems like a pretty good result for EA. With the rise of digital, only a 7% drop in boxed sales is very good indeed. I expect EA Access on PS4 to have also contributed to a higher digital split.
For first time buyers, it's still a better value at $60 than the likes of MARIO Tennis Aces, New Super MARIO Bros U and 1-2 Switch.
Value erodes for return buyers, but that's the unfortunate reality until EA ports Frostbite over to the Switch.
when you make a console with the power profile in the region of the last gen consoles, it's hard to escape legacy last gen ports.
Konami doesn't even bother to port fox engine over to bring PES to the Switch.
For first time buyers, it's still a better value at $60 than the likes of MARIO Tennis Aces, New Super MARIO Bros U and 1-2 Switch.
Value erodes for return buyers, but that's the unfortunate reality until EA ports Frostbite over to the Switch.
when you make a console with the power profile in the region of the last gen consoles, it's hard to escape legacy last gen ports.
Konami doesn't even bother to port fox engine over to bring PES to the Switch.
Seeing Switch sales go up disgusts me. Rewarding EA of all companies with this cashgrab is horrifying.
NSMBUD is a better value for first time buyers. it's a full game + DLC. it's only a bad value if you already had it on Wii U.
i dont know, it may actually be a good thing as it will prove to EA that the sales potential is there and they might actually put in more of an effort for the next game.
Trickle down isnt a thing, much less with EA. Why put an effort for a full feature game when they can just shit out fifa 21 Legacy Edition and still sell by the thousands.
I bought it on XB1. I got the Champions Edition because it had Van Dijk on the cover and because I'm a mug.
Or maybe, just let people spend their money as they want instead of high horseing them?
I barely see a point in discussing that as we don't know how successful EA Access on PS4 is. I would rather make the point that digital adoption is a reason for the drop. It only rose on Xbox because of the bundles.
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It's most likely a combination of both.
EA Access on PS4 -> People try the game for 10 hours -> They buy the game via PSN.
EA digital share is at 47%, growing every year, it's safe to assume that FIFA 20 digital split is pretty high as well.
This is overall a good sign for third party relations with Nintendo. I'm sure EA is happy with this.
Thing is we didn't hear anything about EA Access on PS4 in terms of success but we can of course count EA Access being a part of people moving to digital so it doesn't matter in the end anyway.
I am more surprised that there were bundles of Fifa 20 for Xbox One - did Sony not go for the exclusive marketing again?
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They did, retailers were adding a standalone FIFA 20 copy to the Xbox One Bundle.
Thanks for highlighting this.
It's a rather unspectacular debut but I can see it stretch its legs in the forthcoming weeks.
The Switch version still only makes up 1% of all physical FIFA 2020 sales. People aren't totally stupid it seems.
?? Why on earth would it not be allowed? Retailers can bundle any items together they like.
FIFA 20 was bundled with XB1S ADS this time, so the sales from all those bundles are technically digital.
Oh that's interesting. Because the article said that FH3 and SoT was also bundled and they saw an increase in the physical charts.
Probably not. It's the usual trend of FIFA where it fails off at the end of the gen with the middle is the peak.
Plus digital is £20 more expensive than physical and EA Access doesn't even make up that difference. I doubt the majority of FIFA buyers will jump at that.
They are still counted as physical sales. Same thing happened with PUBG when it released last year.
They probably just count bundle sales as physical sales, even if a code on a card.
the digital ultimate edition had a 10% discount if you purchased from the FIFA 19 hub and then you could get another 10% off via EA Access
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There were 'unofficial' bundles with all the different models of the XB1's with FIFA included as a separate copy as opposed to a hard bundle like Sony had which had a copy of FIFA in the box. I'm guessing the XB1s digital version did okay seeing as FH3 + Sea of Thieves are in the charts but you could also get a 1TBs Gears 5 bundle/extra controller bundle with FIFA and Division 2 thrown in for £199 and there were XB1X bundles with FIFA thrown in as well.
Yes, Volta is selling it for me too. I'd love a new dedicated Fifa Street version in the future too.
That explains the rather good split for the Xbox version of FIFA, at least in terms of physical sales.
It also explains why Division 2 got a bump in physical sales.
The S being 169£ with FH3, SoT and FIFA was and is definitely a very attractive bundle. I guess a trial for gamepass is also included.
I got the XB1 SAD deal for £161 off eBay with Fifa 20, a second controller, SoT, Forza & Minecraft which was a bargain. I've sold on every code & the extra controller already and bought Game Pass Ultimate for like 14 months for less than £100 all in which makes it an unreal price for me.
Fifa, SoT, Forza & Minecraft are all just digital codes on pages but they're considered retail sales as they're through proper shops. Fifa was packed separately but the other games are the standard packed in games in the console box.
It's only 1% of the sales. Even if it sold 1m copies it's only 10k copies.