UK Sales Charts: The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Manages a Top 10 Debut, Sells Best on PS5

What's wrong with people?

I guess that just shows what a big franchise name can do to sell a game without it actually being any good, and that your average punter doesn't read reviews?

It can't all be streamers buying it for some sort of meme value?

It just goes to show that most people don't even look at news sites before they make a purchase decision. The overwhelming majority ARE casual gamers after all.

Well at least they'll think about it in the future xD

A lot of buyer's regret this week.

It lord of the rings it sells no matter if it good or bad people will buy it

When people ask "how could devs and publishers possibly release a game in as poor of a state as Gollum?", here is your answer. If you spend money on the license and barely anything on dev costs you can trick enough mugs into buying it to still make money, reputation be damned

You have a typo at number 1

It's lord of the rings so the casuals will flock to it especially as the majority don't go on gaming sites so they wouldn't even know it's a mess. They probably watched the trailer and thought that looked decent.

But theres going to be a lot of disappointed people over the weekend.

Remember when CDPR had to offer mass refunds?

I hope these people don't just accept the £40/50 hit to their wallets and really kick off about it

I guess The Lord of the Rings really is just too precious to ignore for some folks.

That's the pull of a major IP right there. Even unfiltered garbage will manage to sell.

Not surprising. Same people that eat up fifa, assassins creed, and horizon.

There’s definitely some screaming in anger going on.

@NinjaNicky I see what u did there! Not a huge Zelda fan, but it does seem like there’s more to do on this rendition…

LotR Gollum may surprise due to its position at the charts, but I believe there's a more intriguing question that still remains answered: who keeps buying GTA 5?

Gollum may suck. But LOTR has a huge fandom so thank definitely help.

@AhmadSumadi Funny enough, this just shows you how bad rings of power was.😂

@rachetmarvel I mean, Rings Of Power might be bad. But this has no bearing on that at all.

Gollum rocks a steady 60fps and that is more than enough to buy it. GOTY material right there

Poor guys they’re in for a real treat according to reviews.

The games aren’t selling much in general. Anything new charts

I said to myself I will buy a new game next week whatever it may be, turns out Gollum it is.

@romando Uninformed gamers & brand recognition together can be lucrative.

Gollum making the Top 10 shows that name sells

From what I've seen the game is absolutely horrid and shouldn't even be anywhere near the Top 10 sales

Avenged gollumfold

This just seems to indicate that a game's financial success is never really indicative of its quality.

I hoped there's at least 1 useful comment here about the game. But no, just jokes and trash talk.

Honestly, probably a ton of preorders who forgot to cancel.

@Nintendo4Sonic here's a helpful comment. " Purchase this game if you don't respect your time, like to waste money, and enjoy having frustrating and sub generic game play." 8/10 Starzz

@Mythologue it's always been the case. But people with a confirmation bias say if a game is good, it will sell well, that's why x sold well, while in reality it's so much more nuanced than that. Plenty of bad games sell well, plenty of great games end up being flops for a variety of reasons.

@Nintendo4Sonic What do you expect? You think anyone that uses this site actually bought it? Those sales will be from a more casual bunch that expect a big IP means quality.

@HeeHo yeah maybe. I just hoped to read something good about this game. I mean, games aren't always bad when they get bad ratings. Like Balan Wonderworld, which is way better than its reputation.

Streamers. It's people playing it for clicks. I hope.