Crash Bandicoot the best selling release of the year (UK)

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-07-03-uk-charts-crash-bandicoot-is-the-biggest-single-format-release-of-the-year

Crash Bandicoot is now confirmed to have the best launch of the year in the UK outselling Horizon, Zelda etc. and according to Neogaf it had a better launch than any Mario game ever.

"b-but Crash was never good"

"b-but Crash was never popular"

"b-but muh mario"

N64 babbies are getting BTFO today just like they got BTFO 20 years ago, lol.

6/10 was generous

These games were so much fun. They deserve to be back in the spotlight at least for a little while.

@reduc_ab_:

But isn't Crash about $20 less than the mentioned games?

@PSP107: Um, I guess. Why does that matter?

Good to hear!

I played it on the PS1 back in the day. I'll be picking this up before too long.

@reduc_ab_: @sheeplemcow:

Parents would rather pay $40 than $60 for a new game for their kids.

And those who are re-buying it wouldn't had paid $60.

That is very impressive!

I would buy it as well, if it was multi-plat.

@PSP107: Dude....okay. It's impressive that this game is #1 right now regardless. And as said, they're great games and worthy of renewed attention.

Doesn't mean much

couldn't be that hard for it to beat Micro-Machines

in all fairness to Horizon, it did have to contend in a packed release schedule with games like Nioh and Nier Automata and Persona 5 not too far off either, Crash is releasing following a bit of a dry spell

I have a desire to maybe play these games again, but not right now, not at this price, not with my backlog the way it is either

@reduc_ab_: "Dude....okay. It's impressive that this game is #1 right now regardless. And as said, they're great games and worthy of renewed attention."

Why you yelling at me? =(

@PSP107:

Says you! I would've easily paid 60 for N Sane Trilogy! 30 bucks is a steal!!

@killered3:

Says you too.

@PSP107: .....yelling at you? What are you talking about?

Seriously? Wow, that's depressing...

I'm not surprised. Retro gaming is in right now in a huge way and Crash Bandicoot was a very popular retro franchise that many people have fond memories of.

I don't understand why some people continue to underestimate how high the demand is for retro gaming related things right now. The market has absolutely exploded in popularity over the last few years. As a retro gaming fan, I couldn't be happier.

you saying crash bandicoot will outsell mario odyssey?

also...the UK?....so what is #1 game over there? 100k copies?

oh...and article says ghost recon wildlands sold better in its first week...so crash isnt the number 1 launch game.....ghost recon is a multiplat though.

@gameofthering: Don't worry. It will be in time for Christmas. No matter how much Sony are paying to try and hide the fact. Another money hat from Sony.

Good for Crash, and for Crash fans, they got a great remaster that more than does justice to the original games.

But your entire console warrior bullshit and nonsense in the OP is a sad, pathetic, laugh

@charizard1605: It is, but here at leats it makes sense :P After all this is the whole premise of the board haha

More interesting than the remake is perhaps the possibility of the IP making a real comeback. Let's see how Acti play their hand with this. Inb4 Crash "4" with map packs + skin packs + season pass + MP + Twitch parnertships :v

It doesn't, though? It's as bad as KBFloyd's selective bashing of other brands (mostly Sony) based on momentary regional trends, and we're all too happy to call him out on it, aren't we? Why are we not extending the same treatment to this shitty OP, which a) cites numbers without sources, b) stokes up a 20 year old console rivalry which literally has nothing to do with the definition of the board, c) stokes up a 20 year old mascot rivalry, which again has nothing to do with the board, and d) is based on one week of sales in one country?

I think it's a bit hypocritical.

wow

It just goes to show how truly strong the PS brand is and has always been in the UK. :)

Activision would be crazy not to make more Crash games in this style moving forward.

Just wanna leave this here . . .

really? you aren't going to cry about him saying this destroys mario and all the n64 fans? that he pissed all over the thread....

It does though? On what other board does a console rivalry make sense on this site? I mean dude. "SYSTEM WARS". If we can't have Crash v Mario v Sonic v ...uummm.... Banjo? No he was full Nintendo at one point.... uummm... Master Chief here, we can't have it anywhere :P Those dudes are/were the faces of their respective consoles (the ones still alive, that is).

Granted, granted, the OP is kinda...yeah. He does however have a source, a good source at that for everything non-Mario in his OP.

As for the Mario stuff, meh, it's not like people are gonna get confused on which series is bigger anyway.

Character wars are very specifically outside of the purview of this board, aren't they? And again, we have no issues calling Floyd out on his very similar bullshit- this is just a Sony version of a Floyd post. I don't see why it should pass muster.

System Wars is System Wars. Simply comparing game exclusivity sales would have been good enough. Heck, stating that Crash N.Sane will have better sales than Odyssey in the UK (and/or elsewhere) would at least be relevant. Digging up a 20 year old rivalry (which, incidentally, doesn't end in the direction that the OP is so desperately trying to spin his narrative, we all know which game sold higher) is as bad as saying 'PS4 is a flop in Japan.' I called bullshit then, I will call bullshit now.

@KBFloYd: Good for you.

Crash Bandicoot: N Sane Trilogy didn't have any competition so it makes sense it got that justify victory and I happen to enjoy the game myself. It feels good replaying Crash after my deport from PS1 era.

They better start doing Spyro the Dragon remake one day.

@lamprey263: I don't think Horizon sales were hurt by niche JRPG's. There isn't a big overlap in Horizon and Persona. I just think they screwed up by making you fight robot dinosaurs instead of real dinosaurs and if you take out the robot dinosaurs you're basically stuck with an open world Tomb Raider. It just wasn't a very good game imo.

Also well deserved sales for Crash. Most fun I've had with a game this year other than Yakuza 0 and Zelda.

@charizard1605: 1st, To be fair, the PS4 is kind of a flop in Japan. Much like the WiiU. I doubt it'll do much more than what the Vita has currently sold (so, slightly north of 6million units total for the PS4). Watch as the Switch easily sells 2 to 3 times (or more) as much as the PS4 did, in a much smaller amount of time :P Though that's a whole different debate better suited for other threads.

Character wars, in this particular instance are console wars dude. Crash was the face of PS1 and in some sense is still one of the faces of the brand as a whole. Mario was and is the face of Nintendo (arguably it's also one of the faces of Japan, period, given him showing up in the Olympic Games promotion for 2020). With Crash being revived, it's now more relevant than ever to make those sort of comparisons (even if the end results are always the same lol). A year ago or two? I would agree with you on this, however I feel this make sense right now. You can't really disassociate either from the platform in question.

If Sega somehow made a new console and Sonic somehow managed to get massive again, comparisons between them and Nintendo would also be natural, even though both IP's (Crash and Sonic) dropped in quality and stopped being exclusive, the contextual and cultural associations remain. And like I said before, it's not like anyone is confused about which series came out on top (with a ridiculous margin too).

Also, no one is stopping you from calling him out or even locking the thread, I'm just disputing said calling out, to a degree :P

I won't lock the thread, fair is fair, he made this thread first (I had to lock jcrame's far better thread on this topic, sadly). I'm just going to call DeepH out on his bullshit, which originally is all I did- I said the OP was a terrible OP, after commenting on the actual subject on hand. And it is- it's vindictive fanboy war stoking of the worst kind, because people like OP and Floyd and iandizion are not actually gamers, they don't enjoy games, they enjoy their brand, and they take a vindictive pleasure in other people not enjoying the games they should be. It's a level of discourse that simply should not be allowed, but as you pointed out, such is the nature of this board.

As for PS4- it's not a flop in Japan. If it sells 6 million, it's still a reasonable success, but its success will ultimately be measured by its software support and sales, and on that front, as the platform that revitalized the third party development industry in Japan, the PS4 is an undisputed triumph. Switch will probably almost certainly outsell the PS4- but the 3DS outsold the PS3 as well. The Switch's core appeal in Japan will come from its mobility.

@charizard1605: just ro reinforce that, system wars will be system wars but it is what it is.

As much as it's within the rules, topics like this inject negativity into an otherwise positive piece of news.

Yup, which is a total bummer. Like, this could have been a nice topic to just celebrate the great sales for a beloved game franchise's long awaited revival. Nope! Have to inject it with needless fanboy bullshit and negativity. It's stuff like this that made me come here less, actually, and now I am being reminded of why staying away is a better idea. Bleh :/

Gaming is suffering. Any other notion is a misguided one :v

@Desmonic: @charizard1605: let's not fight my boys and hug instead. :(

Des and I aren't actually fighting. We've gone and traded blows multiple times in the past before, but I think we both know not to actually take it too seriously :P

Pretty much lol

F*ck off and get your own material instead of just quoting me. Jesus, you're insufferable

<3

@charizard1605: @Desmonic: Good because I'm not above handing out slaps if I see you boys bickering again, you hear? Good! ;)

No but honestly, it's not a narrative I want to subscribe to. Gaming isn't a zero-sum hobby to me.

Shhhh.

:P

@charizard1605: Man this got ugly and butthurt really fast...

How about you keep your assumption about me to yourself and stop embarrasing yourself. I mean like WTF? If you really thing Im the one thats hung up about a 20 years old console war then you have no perception about the respektiv fanbases. The nintendo fanbase always acts like they are the authority of certain genres and plattformes are the number 1 in this regard.

You want to call me out? For what?

Im the one that called out nintendo fanboys always shitting on other plattformers. Crash is not even the number one victim from the shitposting.

You say I cherrypicked?

Well we only got sales numbers from UK so where should I get other numbers from? Im nothing like Floyd and the numbers from crash are very impressive so no idea what your problem is here.

You are just butthurt someone called out the shit nintenofanboys always sling at other franchises and I bet you would have no problem if I had called out someone else.

This is cute. Go check my posts to iandizion and KBFloYD if you truly think that.

Also, learn more words than 'butthurt'

picking a fight with a mod?

the balls on this guy lol

@deeph: Woooooowwwww there. Do not make me regret my actions bro. I only give 1 warning. This is yours.

The UK once again proves that it really is the greatest nation in the world.

Outside of China.