Prey Sells an Estimated 180K Units First Week at Retail - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 June 2017 / 32,888 Views
The first-person shooter from Bethesda Softworks and Arkane Studios - Prey - sold 180,097 units first week in the west at retail on consoles, according to our estimates. First week sales can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending May 6.
Breaking down the sales by platform, the game sold best on the PlayStation 4 with 121,579 units sold (68%), compared to 58,518 units sold on the Xbox One (32%).
Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in Europe with 77,863 units sold (43%), compared to 71,004 units sold in the US (39%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 18,409 units in the UK, 13,528 units in Germany, and 11,073 units in France.
Prey released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One worldwide on May 5.
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I'm sorry for Arkane. Deserved to have a greater success. The gameplay it's a little too clunky but the atmosphere it's awesome. Characterization of the characters and the game world is wonderful.
wish it did better. great game based on the hours I've played so far. Killer atmosphere, like Bioshock on a space station
JESUS! Thats an astonishing flop.
I blame the crap decision by Bethesda of not sending review copies to reviewing sites.Game had no hype whatsoever before launch
For a Bethesda game, this is more of less a flop.
