SEGA Europe: AVP fastest selling game this year

[The Fake Shemp]

SEGA of Europe have just tweeted that Aliens vs. Predator is the fastest selling game of the year, in  the UK. This means it beat heavy weight titles like Mass Effect and even their own  Bayonetta.

“News just in; AvP is the fastest selling game this year and also no.1 in the all-formats chart here in the UK.“

I guess critical reception is not needed to sell megaton copies, you just need to sprinkle some badass license characters and watch it explode.

I blame FatalT, personally.

[duckman2000]

Brits. I fucking knew it though, this is the new Enter the Matrix.

[The Fake Shemp]

Oh god, Enter the Matrix

[archie4208]

Hasn't it been scientifically proven that Brits have the worst taste in everything?

[Great Rumbler]

Should've had Mario and Sonic in it, probably have sold ten million copies by now.

[Himu]

How and why would anyone buy this?

[Raban]

Hasn't it been scientifically proven that Brits have the worst taste in everything?

I'm not sure about scientifically, but they sure make it clear enough by themselves that we should stop paying attention to everything that's popular over there.

[duckman2000]

Additionally, I'm pretty sure this game has set a new record for the amount of paid and unpaid shills a mediocre game has ever had on NeoGAF. Dudes openly refused to post negative reviews, because hey, those guys either didn't "get" the game, or the Sega didn't pay enough for high scores.

[maxy]

Go AVP gooo

Game is good and fun to play and AVP is still very strong franchise
Bu bu bu this is Rogue Warrior naysayers annihilated 

[Stoney Mason]

What's slightly interesting about the Euro chart is how far Mass Effect 2 has dropped on it.

It's at #15 currently.


To put that in perspective Forza 3 is #12 and Bayonetta is #16.

So it might be reasonable to think it did a huge first week and then dropped like most games do although something like MW 2 is still at #6. New Super Mario Bros is at #4 and even Army of Two is at #10.

Edit: Although technically this is an all formats chart I believe so you would generally expect multi-platform games to outpace single platform games outside of Nintendo of course.

[archie4208]

Bayonetta had a price collapse, so that explains its positioning.

[Raban]

Bayonetta had a price collapse, so that explains its positioning.

How much is it now?

BestBuy.com says $59.99. Price collapse?

[archie4208]

Guys in the Euro sales thread at GAF were saying you could get it for like 15 pounds.

[Raban]

Guys in the Euro sales thread at GAF were saying you could get it for like 15 pounds.

Lucky bastards. Americunts still have to pay full price :'(

[duckman2000]

Guys in the Euro sales thread at GAF were saying you could get it for like 15 pounds.

Lucky bastards. Americunts still have to pay full price :'(

Sure, if they are dumb enough to buy their games in stores.

[maxy]

What's slightly interesting about the Euro chart is how far Mass Effect 2 has dropped on it.

It's at #15 currently.


To put that in perspective Forza 3 is #12 and Bayonetta is #16.

So it might be reasonable to think it did a huge first week and then dropped like most games do although something like MW 2 is still at #6. New Super Mario Bros is at #4 and even Army of Two is at #10.

Mass Effect 2 is now probably around 200k in UK...
It debuted at 90k

UK Top 10: January 2010
01 (__) [WII] Just Dance - 184,000
02 (02) [WII] Wii Fit Plus - 111,000
03 (01) [WII] Wii Sports Resort - 90,000
04 (__) [360] Mass Effect 2 - 90,000
05 (04) [360] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 61,000
06 (03) [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 57,000
07 (07) [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 56,000
08 (__) [WII] Mario Kart Wii - 45,000
09 (10) [360] Forza Motorsport 3 - 39,000
10 (__) [360] Army of Two: The 40th Day - 37,000

Famitsu numbers,btw

[Stoney Mason]

Mass Effect 2 is now probably around 200k in UK...

It's definitely sold well enough for a single platform game. Just sort of surprising to see it around Forza (another single platform franchise) and the different weight certain franchises carry between the UK and the American market.

[duckman2000]

Well, you can't really expect a WB company to make a FOX game. Bummer, but hey. I'm still trying to understand why in the hell SEGA settled for ever-shitty Rebellion.

[Stoney Mason]

Well, you can't really expect a WB company to make a FOX game. Bummer, but hey. I'm still trying to understand why in the hell SEGA settled for ever-shitty Rebellion.

A lot of these things come down to budget. Rebellion doesn't cost alot. And they have experience with this license. And the sales have been good. From a budget perspective SEGA made the right call here which is different from a gamer perspective. ( I didnt like that demo at all so if the final game is representative of that, then I'll pass)

[Stoney Mason]

Oh fuck, I just remembered that Rebellion made a AvP title in 2007. Wonder if everyone thought that was better than reviewers thought too.

This is like the 3rd or 4th AVP game they have done over the history of that company.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

AVP has been at the top or in 2nd place on the Steam chart for about a week now.  Its also ranking high on Amazon.  No way is it going to keep selling well in the long term, but I think Sega (and especially Rebellion) lucked out major here.

[duckman2000]

Yeah, Rebellion lives to make a few more super-shitty games.

[duckman2000]

And it's $49.99 (on Steam) too. Don't people read reviews?

Brits. I fucking knew it though, this is the new Enter the Matrix.

[TripleA]

Not sure why people are surprised, Aliens Vs Predator is a pretty big brand.

[ferrarimanf355]

wat.

[maxy]

And it's $49.99 (on Steam) too. Don't people read reviews?

Only nerds read reviews and have meltdowns over them.

[Bebpo]

And it's $49.99 (on Steam) too. Don't people read reviews?

Does bayonetta sell?

[Cravis]

Go AVP gooo

Game is good and fun to play and AVP is still very strong franchise
Bu bu bu this is Rogue Warrior naysayers annihilated 

I tip my hat to you good sir.

I've finished up the Predator campaign and working on the Marine now. Online is excellent when you get a good group together.

[duckman2000]

Great, now it's like we have our very own MMaRsu/slasher_thrasher21 duo

Also, this is awesome

Kingsley noted that the game has received "three totally shit reviews by some Americans, which is a bit odd," adding that some of the reviews were "inexcusably bad." Said Kingsley, "If you discount those poor reviews AvP is averaging high for us."

So, uh, if you ignore the negative reviews, then the critical reception has been overwhelmingly positive!

[Jansen]

fucking awful games sell well all the time. it's really unfortunate in this case as i would have liked to seen this game bomb and put rebellion down for good.

[Great Rumbler]

Great, now it's like we have our very own MMaRsu/slasher_thrasher21 duo

Also, this is awesome

Kingsley noted that the game has received "three totally shit reviews by some Americans, which is a bit odd," adding that some of the reviews were "inexcusably bad." Said Kingsley, "If you discount those poor reviews AvP is averaging high for us."

So, uh, if you ignore the negative reviews, then the critical reception has been overwhelmingly positive!

GameSpy, Gamespot, Game Informer, Giant Bomb, and 1up. That's five, not three, Kingsley. Learn to count.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Hasn't it been scientifically proven that Brits have the worst taste in everything?

Probably from eating deep fried candy bars.