Contrary to Concrete Genie’s desperately disappointing retail debut, Sony’s likeable MediEvil remake appears to have got off to a strong start in the UK sales charts. Skeletal soldier Sir Dan was able to hang with goliath new arrivals Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, WWE 2K20, and The Outer Worlds, finishing fifth in the latest British best-sellers list.
While its numbers are unlikely to be particularly outstanding, it’s worth remembering that PixelOpus’ sophomore effort could only muster a 35th place finish a few weeks ago, before disappearing from the Top 40 entirely. To be fair, the Japanese giant has done a marginally better job of promoting its nostalgic 90s revival – a little bit of effort goes a long way, apparently.
[source ukie.org.uk, via News: UK Sales Charts: WWE 2K20 Debuts in Third Despite Its Countless Glitches Going Viral]
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No doubt also sales boosted by Nostalgia which Concrete Genie certainly wouldn't have...
@BAMozzy That's true, but MediEvil was never a huge franchise. You're right, though — it's a factor.
nah it has the same promotion that concrete genie got even sony wws show they support for the game, just admit that it instead of blaming sony on concrete genies sales
@Lekzie1 Disagree. It's definitely received more promotion than Concrete Genie.
@get2sammyb It seemed to be a very popular choice in the recent Poll when asked which, if any, games people were planning to buy when up against both CoD and Outer Worlds. If I remember correctly, a quarter of those who responded wanted just MediEvil - the highest percentage of all and not including the options with at least 1 of the other games listed.
Ever since its announcement, even before, its often been one of the franchises that many seem to want even if it wasn't a particularly big franchise. Maybe some of the enthusiasm will have rubbed off on the newer gamers that missed it first time, I don't know but we have seen quite a few older gen games do well and this may well be riding on the coat tails of the likes of Crash and Spyro, also a known entity too....
@get2sammyb then ur not been wandering around, concrete genie received tons of trailers, coverage on other gaming sites and channels, and its always present alongside medievil on alot of events, and been reviewed by many critics and received better than medievil, cant blame sony if people wasnt interested on painting the town alive, but this is ur site u can s*** on sony all u want
PLEASE watch the language - Quintumply
@Lekzie1 Hey there! Just wanted to ask you to please keep your comments clear of bad language. This is the third time I've had to edit your comments. Please leave out the swearing in future
I bought MediEvil not COD, Outer Worlds or Concrete Genie. No amount of advertising would have made a deference in my choices. I some did not like the demo, I feel that pushed sales for the game.
I plan to buy concrete genie but in the end I bought medievil, I like medievil atmosphere more and I think the game audio visual is great.
@JohnKarnes same here. I will pick up Conrete Genie at some point probably, but the PS1 was my favourite console of all time alongside the N64, and nothing would stop me getting MediEvil.
I'm really facilitated. Especially after the the luke warm commercial reception of Concrete Genie. Maybe Sony can end up releasing big blockbusters and smaller scaled games after all. I've bought both Concrete Genie at launch and MediEvil at launch. Good price points good games.
Great to hear. Would be even better if it lead a brand new entry in the franchise.
Concrete Genie would have sold great digitally I never even knew it was on disc until you showed the charts.
I really want to know concrete genies digital sales. Its super lame that its near the end of 2019 and we still dont have them included.
MediEvil was great, got the Platinum yesterday. Concrete Genie however, having all that advertising, just didn't look interesting. The first time I saw it I was intrigued but the more I saw of it, the less I cared for it.
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