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Call of Duty: Vanguard has missed the million mark in its launch year for the first time since the franchise exploded in 2007 with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (1.038.938).
Compared to last year sales have declined by 36%, a whopping 60% drop vs 2017.
[2021] Call of Duty: Vanguard - 975.339 (58,3% digital)
[2020] Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - 1.528.985 (69,1% digital)
[2017] Call of Duty: WWI - 2.442.416 (22,8% digital)
Franchise record:
[2010] Call of Duty: Black Ops - 3.266.298
On the contrary FIFA remains as strong as ever and 2021 sales increased by 4,5%.
[2021] FIFA 22 - 2.338.778 (60,8% digital)
[2020] FIFA 21 - 2.237.175 (51,9% digital)
Resident Evil Village sold a little less than Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.
Resident Evil Village - 331.252
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - 354.257
Compared to last year sales have declined by 36%, a whopping 60% drop vs 2017.
[2021] Call of Duty: Vanguard - 975.339 (58,3% digital)
[2020] Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - 1.528.985 (69,1% digital)
[2017] Call of Duty: WWI - 2.442.416 (22,8% digital)
Franchise record:
[2010] Call of Duty: Black Ops - 3.266.298
On the contrary FIFA remains as strong as ever and 2021 sales increased by 4,5%.
[2021] FIFA 22 - 2.338.778 (60,8% digital)
[2020] FIFA 21 - 2.237.175 (51,9% digital)
Resident Evil Village sold a little less than Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.
Resident Evil Village - 331.252
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - 354.257
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Using 249 for Series S, 449 for Series X and 284.1m in 2021, and 117.7m in 2020
For 2021
Series S 375,500
Series X 424,500
For 2020
Series S 85,000
Series X 215,000
Using 359 for PS5 DE, 449 for PS5 Disc and 505.5m in 2021, and 191.0m in 2020
For 2021
PS5 DE 370,000
PS5 Disc 830,000
For 2020*
PS5 DE 372,222
PS5 Disc 127,778
Someone want to double check my maths on the 2020?
For 2021
Series S 375,500
Series X 424,500
For 2020
Series S 85,000
Series X 215,000
Using 359 for PS5 DE, 449 for PS5 Disc and 505.5m in 2021, and 191.0m in 2020
For 2021
PS5 DE 370,000
PS5 Disc 830,000
For 2020*
PS5 DE 372,222
PS5 Disc 127,778
Someone want to double check my maths on the 2020?
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COD MW got really close to the franchise record right or is that 3.6M in one year?
[2019] Call of Duty: MW - (guessing it was >BOCW, so >1.5M)
[2020] Call of Duty: MW - 899,921 (63.3% digital)
[2021] Call of Duty: MW - 110,812 (digital only)
COD MW 19 LTD should be 2.5M - 3M by now.
Wow pc gaming must be quite small in uk given the units on that top 20
Also interesting to see that the top 20 games of year is split with such wildly varying digital and physical rates. It’s also clear that the physical market is dominated by Nintendo and Sony but that seemed evident for a while now
Also interesting to see that the top 20 games of year is split with such wildly varying digital and physical rates. It’s also clear that the physical market is dominated by Nintendo and Sony but that seemed evident for a while now
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Thats physical.
No I’m looking at the download to own chart only 3 titles crack 100k
And it’s 5% total spend against consoles at about 25% too
Sorry seeing that now! Yeah that does seem low, what market is making up the difference?
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By franchise record I meant in the first year and not the lifetime sales total.
Yes, but the numbers for previous Battlefield first year sales are retail only.
[2021] Battlefield 2042 - 297.462 (58,6%)
[2018] Battlefield V - 313.100
[2016] Battlefield 1 - 1.050.000
[2013] Battlefield 4 - 838.869
[2011] Battlefield 3 - 1.186.895
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That really shows how awful the BF2042 performance is. BFV probably had a 50%+ digital ratio.
Thanks! Pretty poor then - didn't realise just how badly V underperformed.
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Nintendo games do very well at all to feature (highly some times!) in combined charts like these when they all have a big fat 0 for the digital versions. Think it's about time Nintendo stopped being stubborn and disclosed their sales on the eShop because their already great performances in these charts are still only telling part of the story.
Yeah its baffling haha.
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A lot of information here, UK markets may be the most detailed in the data we get which is very important in the digital age.
Marketshare of Accessories from Top 20 by units:
Software side of things:
- Physical still has major value and hold, 40% of total revenue, despite having only 20% of sales
- Crucial since many just look at sales to estimate digital dominance. Turns out physical sales are on average are of far higher value.
- Marketshare of physical SW by units : PS 39%, Nintendo 46%, Xbox 14%
- PS:XB split has gone from 63% PS in 2018 to 73% in 2021.
- Marketshare of HW by revenue : PS 48%, Nintendo 27%, Xbox 25%
Marketshare of Accessories from Top 20 by units:
Software side of things:
- Assassins Creed is near series heights. Brotherhood and ACII sold around 900k, Valhalla is near 700k, and its going to have considerable legs like Odyssey did.
- COD: Vanguard is massively down from series heights of 3.2M, even massively down from last years Black Ops Cold War which did 1.5M. Nevertheless, MW 2019 is no doubt one of the best selling COD of all time, 2.4-3M in its first year if one assumes digital of 50-60%. It also had incredible legs, selling a further 1M in 2 years. MW 2022 is going to be massive.
- Guardians seemed to have done okay. Half of what Avengers did.
- Spiderman Miles Morales has incredible legs selling 400k in the first year and 505k in the 2nd year.
- Playstation exclusives:
- Spiderman - 676,661 (40% digital = 1,127,768)
- Crash Bandicoot - 651,354 (26.5% digital)
- TLOU II - 543,218 (36.6% digital)
- GOW - 400k (30% digital = 571k)
- Gran Turismo Sport - 484,833 (12.4% digital)
- Horizon Zero Dawn - 456,374 (includes digital)
- Spiderman MM - 400,636 (31.7% digital)
- Ghost of Tsushima - 373k (48.5% digital)
- Spyro - 333,725 (20% digital = 416k)
- Ratchet and Clank - 225,477 (18.4% digital)
- FF7 Remake < 320,000 (including digtal)
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Take Two does give NPD digital data. They specifically request it not be used in the public Top 20 charts.
Why? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Love the accessories chart.
Some very interesting tidbits there.
Nintodo not having much, besides the most new hardware sold.
The 150quid Elite controller is selling gangbusters for the price point.
The pink PS controller sold more than I expected.
Some very interesting tidbits there.
Nintodo not having much, besides the most new hardware sold.
The 150quid Elite controller is selling gangbusters for the price point.
The pink PS controller sold more than I expected.
Controllers are always tricky with a SKU chart.
In 2021, Sony had just 3 different PS5 controllers.
Nintendo has 3 main SKUs. The Pro controller, Grey and Blue/Pink Joycons, but also a lot of other Joycon colors.
Microsoft had 3 main SKUs for the Series launch. Black, white and blue plus the Elite controller, but even more other color options than Nintend. Also many limited editons or the black one with a cable that is also another SKU.
Especialy the 20yo Anniversary seems to be stocked plentiful.
That one might chart in 2022 if they don't stop production.
I'm surprised how low Nintendo accessory sales are. I guess most Switch players are satisfied with using each JoyCon as a controller for popular local multiplayer games like Mario Kart, Smash Bros, or Mario Party.
This year's Modern Warfare 2019 sequel should be a huge rebound.
Nah, Vanguard was just an unappealing COD title. Same with Battlefield 2042 (which somehow managed to decline even worse than COD).
This year's Modern Warfare 2019 sequel should be a huge rebound.
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PS4 software declined by 55% between 20-21 and 21-22. Unlike a game like fifa where you absolutely need the yearly release, CoD will have faced the blunt of that software dive (let’s even call it hard crash)
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Playstation Physical software sales UK
- 2020: 7.8M
- 2021: 5.7M
The above poster is correct. COD has not crashed, as always COD depends on the quality and brand of the individual title. MW 19 likely sold near 3M in the UK in its first year, close to the series' all time heights in 2009-2011. It went on to sell 900k the next year, better legs that any other recent COD title.
COD MW 22 is going to be an absolute monster in sales.
It's worth keeping in mind exactly how many different joycon configurations there are. When you have basically 15 different SKUs with full retail distribution for one controller (and that's only the paired sets, if we add individual L/R joycon SKUs it nearly doubles) it's going to be tough for any one to really dominate.
I mean if we broke down console hardware similarly by SKU, how often do you think switch would hold the top spot in the UK or US?
It is a handheld remember and I think a lot of younger games primarily use it as a handheld. Only really need accessories when your playing on a TV which is probably rare enough not to need extra joycons.
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Yes, hard bundles are included, GfK Chart-Track is the only European tracker that includes them in their software rankings.
Minecraft isn't on Steam.
So no digital PC sales are tracked.
It's just Xbox (of course if you buy the Minecraft PC version from the Microsoft store it's counted as Xbox platform). Just not the much higher selling Java version.
That explains the super low digital ratio.
Switch, Xbox and Playstation physical vs just Xbox digital.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's that way.
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There are strange things with Minecraft in the rank. If you look at the physical top 20 chart it says the company is Nintendo and it has sold 363.859 units, which suggest that it is just Minecraft - Nintendo Switch version. In the overall rank the amount is also 363.859 units for retail sales so the PlayStation 4 sku or the Xbox One is excluded. Minecraft also appears in the top 20 PC download chart with 35.892 units.
Now that I have time, we can get way more accurate hardware numbers for 2021 since we got them for 2020.
2020
NSW: 1,450,000
PS5: 450,000
PS4: 420,000
XBS: 310,000
XB1: 300,000
2021
NSW: 1,200,000
PS5: 1,150,000
XBS: 850,000
PS4: 130,000
XB1: 3,900
LTD
PS4: 7,680,000
XB1: 5,700,000
NSW: 5,140,000
PS5: 1,600,000
XBS: 1,160,000
PS5 / XBS Ratio
2020: 59 / 41
2021: 58 / 42
LTD: 58 / 42
2020
NSW: 1,450,000
PS5: 450,000
PS4: 420,000
XBS: 310,000
XB1: 300,000
2021
NSW: 1,200,000
PS5: 1,150,000
XBS: 850,000
PS4: 130,000
XB1: 3,900
LTD
PS4: 7,680,000
XB1: 5,700,000
NSW: 5,140,000
PS5: 1,600,000
XBS: 1,160,000
PS5 / XBS Ratio
2020: 59 / 41
2021: 58 / 42
LTD: 58 / 42
I wonder if the Switch can eventually reach 7M in the UK as well. Do you have other generations numbers as well?
The Switch should sell another ~1M in 2022 given the strong software lineup, so it would only need to sell another ~1M in 2023 and beyond to reach 7M sold in total.
It should get close at least.
