The UK's physical sales charts for last week are here, and it's more good news for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
The RPG has debuted at number two, only trumped by Hogwarts Legacy, which has been top for several weeks in a row.
Furthermore, 96 per cent of the copies sold were for PS5 — perhaps not as shocking a statistic when you remember the game launched on Game Pass on Xbox systems, but in the realm of physical sales, that's quite the gulf.
Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD) Mat Piscatella has revealed the PS5 version of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle boosted sales for the game to number one in the US for the week ending April 19.
First and foremost, this must be great for the folks at Machine Games. Well done & congrats!
Xbox making BIG money out of Playstation nation this year!
Oblivion Remaster is already the third biggest release on PS5 this year! Only behind (so far) of Monster Hunter: Wild and Assassins Creed Shadows!
Shadow Dropped!
Zero Marketing!
Instant Success!
So is Sega these days.
Funny really you make a good game and make it available for sale and people buy it. What a world we live in
Still this argument? Lol.
The truth is the Xbox division cannot even survive without PS now, not the other way around.
@Kornholic
"It's a shame that Xbox players don't respect games and game culture enough to support them."
You should take your concerns to the devs who gets fat checks upfront and supports Gamepass with their games in the first place, not the gamers. Gamepass is not for free, you know?
I pay, they provide. It´s simple as that. I´ll enjoy my games on Gamepass for as long as I can. I´ll support the games that aren´t available on Gamepass as well, but I refuse to be ripoff by a company like Nintendo and their insanely overpriced products. My money! My rules!
@MrDead
"You should be thanking the people that keep the industry alive by buying games, the fact that MS tried to ban multiplatform publishers from their biggest console market is detrimental to the industry."
Now they´re making games and making big money out of everyone and your lame rhetoric was destroyed.
And yes, you´re right. Xbox gamers should thank PC, Nintendo, Mobile and Playstation gamers for support Xbox gamers while funding and making those games available to us day one and making XGS a better, more profitable and financial stable for Xbox developers.
Since the majority of Xbox players absolutely REFUSE to buy and pay for games, it wouldn't be even possible to make these types of big budget games without releasing them on PS5.
It's a shame that Xbox players don't respect games and game culture enough to support them.
If I'm supporting the game and studio by paying for it via gamepass, I'm not also going to buy the game on top of that unless it is about to leave the service and I want to finish it. That would be like subscribing to Netflix while going out and buying Stranger Things box set on bluray.
Playstation making BIG money out of Xbox nation this year.
Zero work, zero costs, zero risks... just collecting gold.
Just like with Sega and other big third party studios 🙌
And it's not just that 30% cut only.
Imagine if there's just one person saying:
"Mmmh, Indiana Jones is now on PS5. I just wanted to buy a new console. Oh, look here, Forza on PS now, too? Oh, what's that - Death Stranding 2 only on PS5? I guess I'm gonna get a PS5 then."
These are the decisions that lead to quarterly financial reports seen in the last one.
When Playstation made almost double the revenue of what Xbox did, with increased, even record hardware sales and profits.
It's not just that "30% cut".
Yes and some people don't seem to understand, the more consoles Playstation sells (because more people choose PS5 because of this), even more money they make because these people don't just buy these Xbox games on our console, they buy ALL 3rd party games across the board and Sony gets money from ALL of them. Sony is making a killing even more now. Some people don't realise just how much of a big massive WIN this is for Sony, now that MS put their games there. Just more 3rd party games that Sony gets a big fat chunk from. More games for all the users to choose from and Sony just sits back, on top of releasing their own games and the 2nd party games too. Sony is laughing. MS is laughing. Playstation gamers are laughing. Xbox gamers get what they've always had, their GamePass to continue unimpeded.
But they dont get Sony's games and we get all theirs, that's the kicker lol
You should be thanking the people that keep the industry alive by buying games, the fact that MS tried to ban multiplatform publishers from their biggest console market is detrimental to the industry.
Thank you gamers for buying this game and slowing down MS's mass layoffs and market manipulation is what you should be saying here.
That's a weird take on it since Oblivion was also released on PS3 back in the days, but okaaay. We know what you're trying to do LOL.
It's really no surprise that a publisher is taking advantage of available platforms to release their games on. I mean that's what EA, Ubisoft, and Activision (before becoming Xbox Games) have always done. It's poor business decision otherwise. This just means that Playstation is the best place to have access to all of the great games.
Now that Xbox fanboys have accepted that xbox games will be released on PS5 (and Switch 2), Microsoft will be able to release them on Day one from now on. Just had to get people to swallow the pill.
I really gotta say I am a bit curious about E-Day.
With hardly any sales anymore, wether hardware nor software, probably not even subscriptions in a quantity they would want to have:
Is Spencer going to pull the trigger and bring Gears D1 on Playstation?
Yeah, it's funny how some Xbox fanboys thought it would be a cold day in hell before Xbox first party games would ever release on PS. Then they kept moving the goal posts back each time a game came over to PS ("it's okay for that game, but it will never be this game, etc."). And now it's "We're making money ever time PS gamers buy our games, Yay!"
The very definition of "Cope".
It’s what a good game from a good franchise deserves.
I still think it would have done better if it came out on PS5 day one.
That's my guess, too.
In hindsight, it's really been a bold decision to not release it on Playstation in a month like December.
But instead back in August already to announce it's going to come to Playstation, then proceed to make it a weird "4 ½ months timed exclusive", and then to release it in a time with so much competition/big games being around.
Isn't this just weird?
I mean why would you do that, purely from a business point of view speaking.
Well in reality Microsoft probably wanted to release D1 on PlayStation but probably made the decision late in development... remember in an interview Spencer said, just a few months earlier, that the game would not be coming to PlayStation.
So this is probably the result of a bunch of 'inside baseball'.
The result is that Microsoft is on pace to dominate PlayStation sales charts for the month of April and May. It's great for Sony too as they get a windfall of platforming fees from a former competitor.
All in all this is good for both companies and even better for PlayStation consumers that get access to PlayStation exclusive games like Death Stranding and Ghost of Yotie on top of games like Indiana Jones, Forza, Doom, Oblivion, 33, and GTA all in the same year.
Well, yeah. Nothing to disagree with you.
Although, as far as "dominating Playstation charts" goes:
We'll see. I have nothing against anyone dominating anything.
But this term of "domination" shouldn't be used too losely I suppose.
Indiana Jones was #1 best-selling game in a single week (so far). Let's see how Forza went.
And after May we'll have better numbers, or even after 2025.
I guess it's safe to say Clair Obscure already surpassed Indiana's sales on PS5.
While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been received very well, some haters are trying to drag it down by giving it 0's and 1's scores.
Already got so many turn based franchises converted to real time. Even got Baldur's Gate III.
"Even got Baldur's Gate III."
*I meant to say, we even got another turn based high rated game in the form of Baldur's Gate III that became GOTY ... but even after all that we see these activities.
Should've elaborated.
I didn't mean Bladur's became real-time. That effort goes to the Dragon Age franchise and others.
I don't like turn based combat but I am. Willing to try it. Some people just hate for no reason. I mean if I don't like a game I can ignore it why do I need to spread hate
Pokemon was the main reason I got to experience turn based (before FF n all).
I didn't even realize it was turn based until a friend of mine pointed it out, that I've been enjoying turn based all along.
@Armaggedon
Yep, pretty much
There the same crowd who cry woke, this is their job. Always finding something to critisize.
I saw a review that gave the game zero because they thought Sciel (a hot babe in the game) was DEI, as she had a, what they described as, square face. lol
Funny because these are probably the same people Square Enix try to please with new mainline FF games.
Honestly, I stopped playing the FF games when they went away from turn-based combat.. That was FF. They should have created a new series or spin offs that had the real time combat.
That's pathetic. I don't like turn-based games but I don't hate them. It just doesn't do anything for me. I can still acknowledge that this is. Looks like an amazing game. WTF is wrong with people? Lol
Many triple-A games are emphasizing graphics over depth. Not Clair Obscur.
God if War is a great game. I really enjoyed Callisto Protocol. Why do lame journos always try to knock games? I like variety. I like open world, I like linear games, I like story games, I like action games.
You don’t have to pit different style of games against each other to try and make one look better. You could make an article saying we need more turn based games and I would agree. There is so much negativity in the gaming space. Why not try telling us why this game stands on its own merits instead of shitting on other games? But Negativity gets clicks and that’s all you care about even though it’s hurting gaming.
I don't think there's as much negativity as people are being led to believe. I think there's a lot of emphasis on the very hateful/spiteful but small group of gamers. Over the years I've noticed that criticism gets lumped into the hateful speech and devs/publishers completely ignore valid criticism. Harder still for people with valid criticism to be heard when mainstream buys up everything blindly. The gaming industry is not in a good place at all with all these anti consumer bs that keeps being pushed.
Anytime I see an author/person start comparing other games. I lose interest, I don’t need you to knock or drag some other game to elevate another. I just want to know about THE GAME IM INTERESTED IN!
“There is so much negativity in the gaming space. ”
The sad truth is that negativity gets hits, so bad sites (like The Gamer, which is one of the worst examples) uses 'hot takes' to get hits and thus make money. I've run a few sites over the years and it was frustrating that a thoughtful positive piece would get a quarter of the hits of a sloppy negative piece.
One of those makes money, one of them doesn't. Eventually people either leave gaming journalism (like I did) or they lean into it and tell themselves they're keeping the industry honest or something so that they can sleep at night.
Yeah even among gaming fans people hate others for being excited about things they don't like no matter how little.
It's like someone saying hey I liked forspoken
And it's met with your a piece of s***t and you suck because your funding bad things in the industry
Its perception. People view certain aspects of gaming to be superior to others. I try to appreciate games for their unique, virtually irreplicable traits and features.
Typically the negative people are the loudest and have the largest platforms like Youtube and Instagram promoting their content to the level of pop superstars. Unfortunately publishers and the gaming press listen to them most.
I’m confused. The author complains about linearity experiences in these games that are pretty… and then praises Expedition 33 for linearity and neglects that it’s also a looker? Also, the phrase Pretty-‘Em-Ups is absolutely stupid.
Poorly thought out opinions that read like GenAI Slop is kind of The Gamer's brand.
I don’t know if I would really call Clair Obscure a “looker”, Artistically its pretty amazing, but on a technical level it 100% feels like a last gen game that can be maxed out on PC.
But lightning, shadows, especially textures (those can be quite bad for some things), etc, they can be pretty average looking
Not that I’m necessarily complaining, good art direction will almost always trumps over those things specially if its a matter of prioritizing other areas like gameplay or story(which this game definitely does)
If i wasnt playing Oblivion this is what i would be playing, will defnitely be getting this in future
96% PS5
4% Xbox
https://youtu.be/YTC75cKzuN...
Good! I'm glad Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 got a strong debut. We'll deserved and I hope it continues to sell well.
96%... maybe there was no Xbox disc available?
That's great 👍🏽
This is why devs praise being on Game Pass. They know that the Xbox install base won't buy their game anyway, and they get a nice payout upfront. It's a complete win win.