XCOM 2 Sells an Estimated 57K Units First Week at Retail on Consoles - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 22 October 2016 / 50,446 Views
The turn-based tactics game from 2K Games and Firaxis Games - XCOM 2 - sold 57,048 units first week at retail on consoles, according to our estimates. First week sales can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending October 1.
Breaking down the sales by platform, the game sold best on the PlayStation 4 with 40,570 units sold (71%), compared to 16,478 units sold on the Xbox One (29%).
Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in Europe with 25,854 units sold (45%), compared 21,302 units sold in the US (37%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 6,439 units in the UK, 4,134 units in Germany, and 3,711 units in France.
The PC version of the game sold 59,857 at retail in its first week at retail in February and has sold 202,159 units to date.
XCOM 2 released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 27 in North America and September 30 in Europe.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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It's sad but not completely unexpected. It's a late port and, as we've seen many times with consoles to PC ports that come late, those who wanted the game have already bought it. Hopefully, digital sales will be higher than that, like on PC where SteamSpy calculated that 600K copies where sold the first week.
Yes, very sad but not unexpected.
Oh well, no XCOM 3 for us then.
That... seems low.
That's a sad, sad number for a game of this caliber. I wish it, and the sub genre was more popular. The series is so good. I actually....don't have it yet. Was going to buy it on Thursday, but got railroaded. Monday hopefully.
bad game, bad sale
These low sales are expected given the late port, the amount of Day 1 DLC and the possibility of a complete game down the line like it happened with Enemy Unknown.
$60 is not a fair price for a game that has been out for 6 months.
bad game, bad sale
This makes sense although it is a shame. This genre does not sell well at all on consoles so they couldn't have been expecting much.
I already have the game on PC, its amazing, I would have gotten the PS4 version if it was available at the same time, recommend it to anyone :)
