UK Sales Charts: The Division 2 Shoots to the Top Spot

Where are those digital charts at that were "soon" almost two months ago?

so about 60k sales or so (still, 50% more than anthem). i think if you expect the 'missing' 240k to have been bought digitally, you're dreaming. the size of PS4/XB1 uk install base has doubled too since the division came out, so it's not an especially strong start. even though i didn't buy it, i thought it would have done much better than this to be honest. makes you wonder just how much of the original game's audience didn't return for a second bite.

@Cpt_Price it's 11th.

Not sure how much digital factors in TBF. Even I, being a die hard physical guy, was tempted to go digital because
A) it's an online only game, and.
B) the price was about £5 difference to wait for the postman as opposed to predownload.

@GADG3Tx87 I share the same preference for physical. I rarely sell my games and keep them just in case I wish to replay in the future (which never happens). However, these types of games will just be a paperweight - and a rubbish one at that once the servers close. Makes digital much more appealing.

it's £42 (for silver members at least) on shopto - that's £18 cheaper than the digital version, not exactly a bit of loose pocket change for most people. whether digital is more appealing or more convenient, it isn't going to incentivise demand (not in the uk at least) more than the economic factors of saving a not inconsiderable amount of money. certainly not to point where the ratio is at least 4:1 in favour of it which it would need to be to explain the week 1 disc sales decline. i think the uk games market is just in a bit of a weird place.. whether it can support all these GaaS type titles is debateable, and we're seeing more of them trying to gain a share of a limited resource.

Useless without digital sales.

@get2sammyb maybe its because most games sell at retail for £50 now instead of £40. I dunno what brought about the change but thats probably had an effect

@Danloaded

Don't know were you are looking still get most new games for £40, only thing I can think is do you use Amazon and game? Look around and most new games are £40 or under a launch unless it's something like red dead , but even then it was £45 and not £50

@suikoden amazon i use. If i preorder a game its usually 40 due to the preorder price guarantee but if you look in most supermarkets and even amazon after launch day they have got a tendancy to go to £50. Mainly AAA service titles tho. DMC5 was 40 but Division 2 is currently around 50

It is worth mentioning that the original Division released on a Tuesday, whereas the sequel on a Friday. Will account for some of the drop off in sales.