Dragon's Dogma 2 Had the Biggest Launch of 2024 in the UK - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 April 2024 / 4,211 Views
The head of GamesIndustry Christopher Dring announced Dragon's Dogma 2 had the biggest launch of 2024 in the UK when you combine physical and digital sales.
Launch sales for the game were just ahead of the PlayStation 5 exclusive, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth.
"So with digital data (via GSD), Dragon's Dogma 2 is the biggest game launch of the year so far in the UK, narrowly ahead of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth."
Dragon's Dogma 2 released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on March 22.
So with digital data (via GSD), Dragon's Dogma 2 is the biggest game launch of the year so far in the UK, narrowly ahead of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth.
— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) March 29, 2024
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So it means that 1. Ff7 sales ware quite good (one platform) or 2. Dd2 didn't sell that much (if ff7 sales were mediocre).
I think all are respectively good launch week sales.
Dragons Dogma isn't a huge franchise, so it's sales besting a big exclusive launch (likely around 3m WW) is an amazing start.
FFVII Rebirth was never suspected to have "bad" sales at launch although some pushed that narrative, but like 35% worse then VII Remake which did 3.5m WW in 3 days. The problem with recent FF games is not launch week sales, but lack of legs.
Well Dragon's Dogma was behind FIFA at retail in its launch week so even with a high digital ratio I doubt either game had phenomal launches, but they also aren't the kind of games you would usually expect to have the biggest launches in a year.
So rebirth was narrowly beaten means they had good sales number?
Why hasn't square released any numbers yet!?
Probably because it's not up to expectations and they fear losing stock value agai. I doubt launch sales are less than 2.5 million worldwide though.
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