[Chris Dring] Astro Bot's UK launch is solid. First week sales are 21% higher than the debut of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in 2021
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Correct me if I’m wrong.
We so far have UK, Spain and Japan sales
UK - 30K
Spain - 10K
Japan - 12K Physical
What are the worldwide estimates for 1 week sales if going by these figures?
Rest of Europe, NA and other regions not included yet.
1 million plus copies sold first week?
We so far have UK, Spain and Japan sales
UK - 30K
Spain - 10K
Japan - 12K Physical
What are the worldwide estimates for 1 week sales if going by these figures?
Rest of Europe, NA and other regions not included yet.
1 million plus copies sold first week?
GAAS is my favourite business model but it looks like single player AAA games are the future. Oh well. I concede that I was totally wrong about the GAAS future.
This goes against the narrative he started with the physical sales. That doom thread got all the attention with 15 pages on Era and finally locked. I bet this (positive) news will be buried
Anyway, great news! Astrobot is a game for everyone so it's the perfect gift this holiday. They are going to sell so many Pros to play it
I think that was retail/physical only data he had at the time. He did not have digital. Now he has retail/physical and digital numbers which is why its actually only 21% higher than Ratchet. Which is not great, but also for a game with a modest budget it will probably do well enough.
As of some months ago, around half of the PS5 users were new to PS. PS5 will continue this gen, and PS6 super likely will be BC so will continue selling.
That 4M were two years after launch when the game only was discounted 3 short periods of time (and another one for PS+) until $30, the maximum discount it had until now. It was been only two years and has room to be discounted beyond that. It isn't rare to see a game like this selling a third of its units after that point.
But well, take the 5M+ for Rift Apart if you see the 6M+ as too optimistic. A 21% over that would be 6M+ for Astro Bot.
But again, I think Astro Bot will sell more than 21% over Rift Apart. We have to consider that the % of PS5 games sold that are digital increased since the Rift Apart release: now is at 80%. Meaning, the UK physical sales are a smaller portion today of the total UK sales than they were back in the Rift Apart release days.
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Killzone would sell 10+ million at this era given that it doesn't come out colorful and ***. People are thirsty for this type of games.
He should have said that before not after he got all the engagement and people already moved on after calling it a flop.
He never called it a flop. He said physical sales were tracking 1/3rd behind Ratchet and Clank from 3 years ago.
He didn't but your thread on GAF and the 15+ pages on Era was negative about the sales. It's the only reason why you made that thread, to rub it in
People don't like it when realism is brought to their fantasy. They want to live in a fantasy world where Astro Bot is Mario.He didn't but your thread on GAF and the 15+ pages on Era was negative about the sales. It's the only reason why you made that thread, to rub it in
A mistake that was corrected the moment it was called out.
You're going to need to do better. I don't need to craft a fake narrative around such a topic.