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New PS5 bundle sends Horizon Forbidden West back to No.1 | UK Boxed Charts

Horizon Forbidden West is back at No.1 in the UK boxed charts, three months after it was first released.

The game's sales rose 94% week-on-week following the release of a new official PS5 hardware bundle. That means Nintendo Switch Sports is down to No.2 after three weeks at No.1. The Switch exclusive saw physical sales drop 37% week-on-week.
The arrival of more PS5 stock has boosted sales of other titles on the platform, including Gran Turismo 7, which is at No.10 following a 38% sales rise, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which re-enters the chart at No.15 after sales jumped 275%.
Source - GamesIndustry.biz

Not a huge surprise...the UK keeps getting hit by a lot of PS5 stock. The game has been inside the top 10 for some weeks in a row by now.

Also nice for Gran Turismo 7 and specially Ratchet & Clank.

I feel the UK monthly hardware charts will be a surprise for may. Sony is gaining a lot of those lost sales from Jan / March.
 

GhostOfTsu

Banned
The game basically never left the Top 10 since release even without a bundle (same for NPD).

The legs on Aloy are craaazy 😛

horizon zero dawn GIF
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
The games aren't free, the games price is added to the console with a small discount.
Yes but let’s face it. Every single ps5 is selling out right now. Sony knew this and used it to increase the price of each ps5 by 50 pounds. Kinda lame to do that to people who don’t want to buy this game but now have no choice but to pay 50 pounds for it.

The game has been out off for three months and they still haven’t released any figures for it. Not a good look. However, any ps5 they sell now will be an automatic sale for horizon which will undoubtedly inflate the sales numbers just in time for them to announce them.
 
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GhostOfTsu

Banned
If you can’t make sales the normal way, hope your game gets bundled.

Its a pathetic tactic but it’s a great thing to buy a machine and get a free game with it.
Halo Infinite, Call of Duty, Spider-Man, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing all got bundles. They flopped too?

Horizon was on top of the charts for months now and fourth best-selling game of 2022. Seem like the hate campaign Elden Ring vs Horizon didn't work.

Did you see the sales charts and all the really not great titles that beat it in sales even in the past few months? They’ve been posted here.
Pokemon, Lego Star Wars and Elden Ring are the only games that beat it. Those are the not great titles?
 
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jaysius

Banned
Halo Infinite, Call of Duty, Spider-Man, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing all got bundles. They flopped too?

Horizon was on top of the charts for months now and fourth best-selling game of 2022. Seem like the hate campaign Elden Ring vs Horizon didn't work.
PS Store Sales Charts: Horizon Forbidden West Plays Second Fiddle to Elden Ring

Hate campaign?

PLAYSTATION BLOG March 2022
US/CanadaEU
1ELDEN RINGGran Turismo 7
2Gran Turismo 7Grand Theft Auto V
3WWE 2K22ELDEN RING
4Grand Theft Auto VWWE 2K22
5Tiny Tina’s WonderlandsFIFA 22
6NBA 2K22F1 2021
7STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGINTiny Tina’s Wonderlands
8Horizon Forbidden WestStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
9Ghostwire: TokyoHorizon Forbidden West




GTA V beat it… so did WWE. Hell even Stranger of Paradise beat it.
 
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jaysius

Banned
OMG GT7 and GTA V beat Elden Ring in the EU. Elden Ring must be a flop in the EU. That is how ridiculous you sound.
PlayStation Store February 2022

US/CanadaEU
1ELDEN RINGELDEN RING
2Horizon Forbidden WestHorizon Forbidden West
3Dying Light 2Dying Light 2
4SifuCyberpunk 2077
5Cyberpunk 2077Sifu
6NBA 2K22F1 2021
7Madden NFL 22FIFA 22
8Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles MoralesAssassin’s Creed Valhalla
9Call of Duty: VanguardNBA 2K22

A drop from 2 to 8 is very steep and 2 to 9 is even worse. Elden Ring fell from 1 to 3… it’s like your allergic to any kind of logic.

You see the steeper fall is worse.
 
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jaysius

Banned
By that logic, any bundles are 'maybe' indicative of bad sales...like Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 & Animal Crossing.
Some of those pack ins are well after launch, and the Mario Kart 8 was a Black Friday special.

I can’t believe UK Switch got the actual game with the custom Animal Crossing console, in NA we just got the ugly console.

Horizon came out in February.
 
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Vognerful

Member
Yes but let’s face it. Every single ps5 is selling out right now. Sony knew this and used it to increase the price of each ps5 by 50 pounds. Kinda lame to do that to people who don’t want to buy this game but now have to choice but to pay 50 pounds for it.

The game has been out off for three months and they still haven’t released any figures for it. Not a good look. However, any ps5 they sell now will be an automatic sale for horizon which will undoubtedly inflate the sales numbers just in time for them to announce them.
Even the previous months had the game bundled with it in non official way. We spoke about how in money countries like UAE, Spain, UK, Germany, etc. That the only way to get a PS5 is to buy it with 1 or even 2 games. In UAE, the 2 games had to be horizon forbidden west and GT7.

Even Xbox is getting on it as I saw them bundled with Forza or Halo.

Anyway , congrats to Sony and guerrilla games
 

jroc74

Phone reception is more important to me than human rights
Even the previous months had the game bundled with it in non official way. We spoke about how in money countries like UAE, Spain, UK, Germany, etc. That the only way to get a PS5 is to buy it with 1 or even 2 games. In UAE, the 2 games had to be horizon forbidden west and GT7.

Even Xbox is getting on it as I saw them bundled with Forza or Halo.

Anyway , congrats to Sony and guerrilla games

Naw, I heard that's pathetic.
 

DenchDeckard

Moderated wildly
Those bundles working wonders. But whatever, there's stock finally coming in and that's amazing to see. Keep em coming Sony.
 
Some of those pack ins are well after launch, and the Mario Kart 8 was a Black Friday special.

I can’t believe UK Switch got the actual game with the custom Animal Crossing console, in NA we just got the ugly console.

Horizon came out in February.
Kind of a really weak rebuttal when the Mario Kart one is the only one that wasn't launched in contemporary to the console. In general, pretty much every 'big' Nintendo game has a contemporary Switch or Switch lite bundle, has it been the case for Pokemon Sword and Shield, SSBros, Mario Tennis Ace or Monster Hunter Rise, while Splatoon 2 had a 2 month delay , as HFW
 
By that logic, any bundles are 'maybe' indicative of bad sales...like Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 & Animal Crossing.

These are limited edition bundles.

Impossible to buy PS5 without bundled games where I live. Standard PS5 boxes have games taped to them.
 
Sony exclusives really have done some mental damage to some people. Jaffes right they need therepy.

If ragnarok releases this year I think it will send them over the edge. Does gaf need a support system in place for these vulnerable people?

No other reason why every Sony game that is bundled effortlessly cross 20 million mark.

While masterpiece like Elden Ring is finding it hard to cross 15 million sold.
 

Gandih42

Member
Halo Infinite, Call of Duty, Spider-Man, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing all got bundles. They flopped too?

Horizon was on top of the charts for months now and fourth best-selling game of 2022. Seem like the hate campaign Elden Ring vs Horizon didn't work.
PS Store Sales Charts: Horizon Forbidden West Plays Second Fiddle to Elden Ring

Hate campaign?

PLAYSTATION BLOG March 2022


GTA V beat it… so did WWE. Hell even Stranger of Paradise beat it.

Based US/Canada charting weeb ass games like Stranger of Paradise. No wonder none of my friends in the great white Scandinavian sort-of-north have ever heard of the games I play. It's all FIFA and Cars :messenger_persevering:
 

reksveks

Member
UK monthly hardware numbers will be interesting.

Trying to figure out how in stock the console was last year.

Can see the ps5 was the #6 item in 2021.
Also almost 200k consoles sold in May 2021. (92k in April 2022)

2 days till Jim Ryan gives us a bit more info hopefully.
 
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DukeNukem00

Banned
If you can’t make sales the normal way, hope your game gets bundled.

Its a pathetic tactic but it’s a great thing to buy a machine and get a free game with it.

Bundles increase the cost of the console. After 2 or 3 months since launch, single consoles never came up for sale again where im at. You only have 3 game bundles if you want a ps5. It costs almost 700 euros
 
These are limited edition bundles.

Impossible to buy PS5 without bundled games where I live. Standard PS5 boxes have games taped to them.
They are so 'limited@ that they are usually easily to buy for at least one year after the initial release. Sony official bundle, like the one in OP, are the same.
The fact that PS5 come with games taped in has nothing to do with official bundle nor with Sony, because is something that vendor do, as bundling PS5 with often non official periferic like dualsense charger and headset
 

reksveks

Member
Forgive me if I’m wrong here, but if Sony only bundled games that were struggling in sales, then wouldn’t they have bundled Returnal instead?
Yeah, it's a dumb argument.

Sony clearly understand that people typically buy a game to be a graphical showcase and are using that fact to boost margins on their consoles and probably to hurt scalpers.

I need to see if this bundle is on StockX, it doesn't look like it.
 
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Damn that Starfield delay did a number on some of you.

Literally every single console gets multiple bundles. Nintendo is king on that. Every major seller for them had bundles numerous times so far.

PS5's first official bundle happened a year and half after the console was released. Probably the longest a console manufacturer took to do something like this.

Why the fake outrage? lmao It's just that people actually want a PS5 and that's sending those games to the top 10 again...not only the bundled games. That will keep happening...
 

Vognerful

Member
Sony exclusives really have done some mental damage to some people. Jaffes right they need therepy.

If ragnarok releases this year I think it will send them over the edge. Does gaf need a support system in place for these vulnerable people?

Thanks for the update that Horizon: Forbidden West didn't sell one copy outside a bundle. I can confirm as it was bundled in with my launch PS5. That sneaky cunt Jim Ryan at it again.
Justin Timberlake Eye Roll GIF by Agent M Loves Gifs

Who knew bundles could inflict such pain?

It's not like its a bad game either so I don't understand all the crying. It's a game that is an excellent showcase for the hardware and one which most people would enjoy.

Forgive me if I’m wrong here, but if Sony only bundled games that were struggling in sales, then wouldn’t they have bundled Returnal instead?

Can we be more direct with our comments and responses to whom we are responding to?

If it is to make fun of jaysus or whatever his name is because he said that HFW is not selling good numbers, then you go ahead and address him directly.

If it is about people who you think saying that Sony sell their consoles with bundled with physical Sony games is a rebuttal to sales numbers, please understand that this rema4k is only related to physical game charts where it is usually the case where this happens. Are you denying that PS5 solds that way? Are you saying that there is no relation between the 2?

Wouldn't you support this method as it help Sony, the game developer, as well as gamers to try their games?
 

Vognerful

Member
Damn that Starfield delay did a number on some of you.

Literally every single console gets multiple bundles. Nintendo is king on that. Every major seller for them had bundles numerous times so far.

PS5's first official bundle happened a year and half after the console was released. Probably the longest a console manufacturer took to do something like this.

Why the fake outrage? lmao It's just that people actually want a PS5 and that's sending those games to the top 10 again...not only the bundled games. That will keep happening...
There is no fake or real outrage unless the one is some people minds.

We have been going through this exact same subject for almost 6 months, even more. Everytime we made a comment that if I wanted to buy a PS5, it comes bundled with a game or additional controller, even on threads that are not related to sales figures, some of you take it as an attack on Sony and its sales figures.

Unless you drop this baiting attitude, these threads will always dwindle to such fighting
 
There is no fake or real outrage unless the one is some people minds.

We have been going through this exact same subject for almost 6 months, even more. Everytime we made a comment that if I wanted to buy a PS5, it comes bundled with a game or additional controller, even on threads that are not related to sales figures, some of you take it as an attack on Sony and its sales figures.

Unless you drop this baiting attitude, these threads will always dwindle to such fighting

The baiter complaining about bait 🤡
 
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