Sales fore US week ending 11/16/2013:
PS4 Launch Week
1. Call of Duty: Ghosts (PS4)Activision, Shooter 703,638
2. Battlefield 4 (PS4) Electronic Arts, Shooter 396,187
3. Killzone: Shadow Fall (PS4)Sony Computer Entertainment, Action 355,148
4. Call of Duty: Ghosts (X360) Activision, Shooter
5. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (PS4) Ubisoft, Action 345,176
Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.
BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.
PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???
And they never fixed it.
Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.
I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)
/grabs popcorn
11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.
The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.
What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.
Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.
interesting numbers. fair to say the next gen has gotten off to a good start. But cod leading the pack is very disappointing. when will people learn!?
Ps4 is doing very well. Hope knack sells well. I really am enjoying it along with killzone sf.
AND!
that is just 2 days' data ;)
I know that VG Chartz is an estimate (based on their own proprietary methods (I guess???)), but 984,212 for the PS4 is listed, when Sony has already said that they SOLD THROUGH TO CONSUMERS over a million PS4s. Sony, as a publicly-traded company, has released a specific statement of "OVER ONE MILLION PS4s SOLD IN 24 HOURS"... Not "almost one million". VG Chartz is close, but no cigar. Still impressive as those sales were only in the US and Canada!
Sad to see COD leading. It seems people are just really boring and prefer mundane, generic, formulaic games over innovative ones. If COD doesn't sell as well in EU as in NA, then it might be a great showcase of your average american IQ.