GearSJW 5: Physical sales down 20x from Gears 3, 4.5x from Gears 4 "mS shocked @ how Disastrously low" - ZhugeEX

[Goukosan 2,258]

8 hours ago, DynamiteCop! said:

They're doing what makes sense for their business model. For the longest time everyone has been saying "Microsoft is trying to hide numbers" and yada, yada, yada. The reality is their whole model has been on the move and changed, and with things like heavy digital adoption on Xbox versus the other platforms, GamePass and the forthcoming xCloud even talking about sales numbers is retarded because it's so hard to break down.

 

Like Gears 5 for example in the UK, it debuted at #7 with 23,000 sales, that's in one day on a Friday with the $80 Ultimate Edition, it only had the 6th of the month to register. That doesn't paint any kind of a picture though because the reality is with digital it's more like 75,000 total given word of mouth split from people like Zhuge and Benji talking about hypothesized 70% digital adoption, and their overall expectations etc.

 

Here is launch week with one day to chart. 

 

 

The UK has a pretty 1:1 purchasing makeup to the US in most cases, and we're basically 5x of whatever they have going on. That's like the general rule of thumb. So in ONE DAY that would be 75,000 in the UK, 380,000 in the US, 50,000 on Steam, GamePass globally and then the rest of the world for sales. In one day it probably had hard sales around 700,000 - 750,000 globally. 

 

Then the plot thickens even more. Here is its second week in the UK, now it's at #2 with a full week on the board and not just that one day. Also bear in mind the retail standard edition of the game had become available in this week on a Tuesday. The only version of the game that was selling the previous Friday was the $80 Ultimate Edition. 

 

 

Some of this can be kind of deciphered but look at the extents you need to go to try and paint a picture. It's messy. 

Oh boy... he is back to extrapolating different markets to the US 

[Goukosan 2,258]

9 hours ago, madmaltese said:

secret agenda? Wtf are you talking about

I mean... he is slow Jonny after all... give him a few days to catch up