Dark Alliance - 96% of physical copies sold split between PS4/5, Xbox Series accounts for only 4% - UK

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It’s not unusual to see the physical sales of new releases skew heavily in favour of PlayStation in the UK, but the emergence of Xbox Game Pass is making the splits ridiculous. Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, which launched in Britain last week, generated 54 per cent of its boxed copy sales on PS5 and a further 42 per cent on PS4 – that’s 96 per cent in total.

It means that just four per cent of physical copies in the UK were sold on Xbox platforms, an unprecedented split between console families.

 

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2021/07/in_the_uk_96_percent_of_dark_alliances_physical_sales_were_on_ps5_ps4

 

4% 

[Cooke 2,027]

why would xbox gamers buy it? its on gamepass.. so uh its kinda free. What would be weird is if that 4% were higher. Enjoy paying for that shit game though British cows 

Edited July 5, 2021 by Cooke

[Cooke 2,027]

This is the equivalent of buying a shitty movie when you can watch it on Netflix for less than half the price. 

[madmaltese★ 2,559]

2 hours ago, Cooke said:

why would xbox gamers buy it? its on gamepass.. so uh its kinda free. What would be weird is if that 4% were higher. Enjoy paying for that shit game though British cows 

Very true but don't forget how much Phil and Xbox use to say that GP actually boosts game sales 

[Voidler 1,675]

2 hours ago, Cooke said:

why would xbox gamers buy it? its on gamepass.. so uh its kinda free. What would be weird is if that 4% were higher. Enjoy paying for that shit game though British cows 

It matters when retailers start reducing shelf space for Xbox when it only brings in 4% of game sales

[FIREPOWER 722]

Didn’t Phil the Clown say that GamePass would increase game sales! How is this possible? 

[bhytre 2,753]

It's s-strategy - Microcuck 

[Cooke 2,027]

34 minutes ago, Voidler said:

It matters when retailers start reducing shelf space for Xbox when it only brings in 4% of game sales

Unfortunately this is the future. It's digital entertainment, discs are fading fast. 

[DynamiteCop 2,085]

35 minutes ago, Voidler said:

It matters when retailers start reducing shelf space for Xbox when it only brings in 4% of game sales

Retailers barely even exist anymore.

[JonDnD 2,624]

Guy on era said the retail copies sold were in the thousands , like in 1000s lol

[Twinblade★ 3,912]

14 minutes ago, JonbX said:

Guy on era said the retail copies sold were in the thousands , like in 1000s lol

 

Im not surprised it seemed pretty rough based on the footage I saw.

[Voidler 1,675]

39 minutes ago, DynamiteCop said:

Retailers barely even exist anymore.

They still exist, especially for new hardware purchases

[JonDnD 2,624]

17 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

 

Im not surprised it seemed pretty rough based on the footage I saw.

I tried it on GP, its terrible

[Mr. Impossible 408]

To the people using Netflix as an example of gamepass, look at what happened there. The biggest studios pulled out to maximize their catalogs.

 

If the numbers don't work for game makers why would they waste their time having their sales cannibalized? 

[madmaltese★ 2,559]

1 hour ago, Twinblade said:

 

Im not surprised it seemed pretty rough based on the footage I saw.

Having tried it last night, 'pretty rough' would be a compliment.

 

 

[Cooke 2,027]

42 minutes ago, Mr. Impossible said:

To the people using Netflix as an example of gamepass, look at what happened there. The biggest studios pulled out to maximize their catalogs.

 

If the numbers don't work for game makers why would they waste their time having their sales cannibalized? 

That's why MS has been buying studios to compensate for that eventuality.. or they add their own service to it like EA play.