Just wow. PS4 almost doubling XBO's FIFA numbers. Didn't expect that.
And Spider-Man continues being a monster. Incredible!
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UK Charts: FIFA takes No.1, but physical launch sales plummet
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Xbox has abit more incentive to buy digital with EA Access i think. :)
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I see Xbox owners didn't support Valkyria Chronicles 4. No surprise there. They cry about wanting the games and then don't buy them.
Yeah, Football is HUGE in U.K. and FIFA covers every age demographic of gamer. Plus it's multiplayer, multi platform. And again, it's FIFA. Haha
Eh, Xbox is pretty strong in the UK. Maybe the strongest outside the US.
Either way, Shadow is doing well after the soft start.
No, they lost the marketing deal and the sales have been going down since then, the last time they had it it was 53% for PS4.
Gotta love that constant presence Of Crash in the charts, wouldn't be surprised if a new game gets announced next E3.
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Think it still has influence? I mean EA Access is a great deal. All of my friends always get EA Access for month just for FIFA so they can play early and have the extra discount. :)
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Because the people that cry about those games on internet forums and Twitter do not represent the entire base.
What has an influence? EA Access? Sure, but the sales going down when they lost the marketing suggests another reason.
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VC4 is a niche series on PS4 and PC, let alone Xbox One. No one expected this game to sell a lot.
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Yeah no kidding. They don't represent much of anything given that 7% of the sales were on Xbox in one of the biggest Xbox markets. I'm sure you'll have the usual people claiming that Xbox owners prefer to buy the game digitally though.
Lol dude relax. It's a small fan base in general, it's one sku, one market, and a competitive season for games.
Just out of interest, how many sales or % do you think EA Access accounts for?
Yes, and we are talking about a niche title, in a niche genre, this is not Monster Hunter or Final Fantasy.
I mean but the Xbox has EA access which also means there was marketing there as well too?
I think it's weird.
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No idea. But FIFA seems every year going more and more digital like every game really. But FIFA has some big incentives to go digital or sub to EA Access.
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Maybe let them crossplay with the PS3 and 360. They need friends also. :D
If like me you bought on Xbox digitally for the EA access discount then you aren't in the figures. This is the point. We know generally Xbox has higher digital numbers as a % of owners than PS but in this case it will be skewed more. Of course overall PS will be higher selling version but I will bet anyone that true split is 40:60 in the UK at best.
Why not look at the UK numbers?
Digital sales are not included in these numbers.
We had this said last year.
FIFA will sell enough worldwide on switch for EA to be happy
Because some people on ERA, for some reasons, believe UK numbers = Worldwide numbers.
Next one will be called indie edition and will outsell other versions combined.
Spidey at #2 best selling game for the year. Quite impressive.
Tomb Raider is holding surprisingly well and Crash is just Crash.
Fifa's performance is to be expected. Outselling everything in an instant.
Tomb Raider is holding surprisingly well and Crash is just Crash.
Fifa's performance is to be expected. Outselling everything in an instant.
Only trolls. UK is FIFA's single biggest market so the numbers are interesting regardless.
they're not, fifa sales in UK are not representative in the slightest
Wait, we do? Where does it say that or has those number been revealed before? I'm not being sarcastic or anything, I'm just generally asking because I never knew this.
As I said before, Fifa needs a big install base for Ultimate Team. I would buy most multi platform titles on Switch but I'll get Fifa on PS4 so that I can trade players.
you could at least put the spider-man news in the OP
but it's to be expected that it wouldn't be there
but it's to be expected that it wouldn't be there
Terrible number for Fifa19 Switch
No excuses that number is pathetic.
Having a possible lower first week then last year when the user base is exponentially bigger should have helped it at least do a little more.
No excuses that number is pathetic.
Having a possible lower first week then last year when the user base is exponentially bigger should have helped it at least do a little more.
The Fifa numbers in general don't look good unless the digital increase makes up for it.
The Switch Fifa sales are just sad.
The Switch Fifa sales are just sad.
We don't know. You/we can't use almost 3 years old info from Ubisoft when they said that Xbox user spend more on average digitally.
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