Sonic Forces Sells an Estimated 234,000 Units First Week at Retail - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 January 2018 / 25,203 Views
The platform game from publisher Sega and developer Sonic Team - Sonic Forces - sold 234,032 units first week at retail, according to our estimates. First week sales can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending November 11.
Breaking down the sales by platform, the game sold best on the Nintendo Switch with 117,083 units sold (50%), compared to 87,659 units sold on the PlayStation 4 (37%) and 29,290 units sold on the Xbox One (13%).
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That's actually not that bad. Generations did about the same first week on 360/PS3 and went on to sell about 3m lifetime on those 2 platforms, and console digital is higher now than it was in 2011 so actual first week on XB1/PS4/Switch combined is likely over 300k with digital. That being said, Forces didn't review as well as Generations did and that will likely affect it's legs, so I don't see it getting anywhere near Generations.
For reference, VGC has Generations at 123k first week on 360 and 104k first week on PS3, and those numbers include US and EU (but not Japan, where the game released later). Console digital was only around 5-10% back in 2011, now it's at around 40%.
To be honest Sonic Generation sales were not impressive. They were ok. That last Sonic game to impress sales wise was Unleashed. Over 5 million.
Honestly, Sonic Boom's sales were impressive to me. 300k for broken, almost non-playable game, full priced and on a dead console is pretty impressive hahahahaha
Don't forget, it launched for $40, not full price. This game will likely do alright but unless it finds tremendous long term support on the Switch, I don't see it matching or surpassing Generations and some of the best selling Sonic titles.
I seem to recall Generations being $40 on release as well. But yeah, I agree that it won't have the legs of Generations since it didn't review as well. 2m lifetime across all 4 platforms should eventually happen I think, might even approach 3m. Certainly won't reach the 5.5m that Generations has sold across all 4 platforms.
That's 234.000 units too much.
Sales might be better if it reviewed better. Not a critical success. I was hoping it might have some of that magic that people liked about Sonic Generations.
It surpassed the sales of Generations in its first week, and is a great improvement in the last four games, Lost World, Rise of Lyric, Shattered Crystal and Fire & Ice, the Forces will surpass the 3 million units
Horrible. Absolutely horrible. Will reach 1 million, but will struggle even with 4 platforms.
Do you really think it will cross 1 million? Even with the terrible reception it had from critics and fans?
Sega failed again they should just give sonic to nintendo
The fanbase should climb down from the high horse and accept in which league Sonic plays now. These numbers are pretty okay, and the game seems to be pretty okay, too. Deal with it, fanbase. Your insane expectations will not be met anymore.
SEGA have been doing a terrible job at handling this franchise. 230k first week is terrible for such an iconic series. I'll be surprised if this games crosses 700k tbh
