Far Cry: Primal Sells an Estimated 877K Units First Week at Retail - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 March 2016 / 34,986 Views
Action-adventure game Far Cry: Primal sold 877,204 units first week worldwide at retail, according to our latest estimates, which can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending February 27th.
Our provisional estimate was first week sales of 576,011, but following the release of the most recent set of NPD data, as well as a stronger sales in a number of European countries than our data suggested, this has since been revised massively upwards.
Breaking down the sales by platform, the game sold best on the PlayStation 4 with 582,098 units sold (66%), compared to 295,106 units sold on the Xbox One (34%).
Far Cry: Primal released at retailer on February 23rd worldwide.
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I haven't checked the numbers for the previous Far Cry games, but this sounds low, even if we take digital into account.
It seems like this game didn't get much advertisement to the public. It was talked about, but I feel more money went into promoting The Division than this game.
i think it is clear for ubi that annual games will not translate into good sales , first AC , now Far Cry
According to GFK the game has sold over 100K in Germany on PS4 alone.
I believe there is a strong chance that worldwide the game has sold over 1 million first week if we include digital sales. ( and maybe even only at retail)
