inFamous: Second Son Firmly Holds The Top Spot Against MGS V and TitanFall In Its Second Week In UK

GearNuke: "inFamous: Second Son is a PS4 exclusive from Sucker Punch, and it seems to be doing really well in term of its sales. Not only it gave the PS4 hardware a boost in sales, it also debuted higher than any previous inFamous games. According to Chart-Track, inFamous: Second Son is still the top selling game in its second week of sales in UK."

[buzzkiller6142]

The sales gap between them shrinks from 15,000 units to 3,000 with ‘Titanfall’ (-42%) also stuck at No3, only 100 units behind Metal Gear this week.

titanfall is holding on really well considering its its third week

[thereapersson]

Sucker Punch deserves all the accolades it can garner for delivering such an amazingly engrossing, richly detailed next generation experience. So early in this console cycle and we are already seeing games this gorgeous, imagine what we'll see in another year or so!

[thrust]

On neogaf titanfall is second I this one it is third :/

[abzdine]

i think that the fact MS haven't commented on the sales since TF release is a proof of this failure of a deal with EA.
MS know how NOT to well spend their money.

[arika]

Wow! Good job sucker punch and sony and thanks for making a great game early in ps4 cycle!

[Eonjay]

@thurst

Do you have the link to the thread. You are probably right especially if they are doing individual sales by system. In other words, Titanfall probably outsold Metal Gear for Xbox One, but not when added to the PS4 Metal Gear SKU.

When taken separately, Infamous probably outsold Metal Gear PS4 by more than 3k.

Furthermore, if the second alt sources Chart-Track quote is correct and Infamous was ahead of Metal Gear by 15k last week, then there is something wrong with Vgchartz numbers:
http://www.vgchartz.com/wee...

[chrismichaels04]

Congrats to Sony and Sucker Punch for the continued amazing success of Infamous. Its especially impressive to see Infamous succeed this much in a month jam packed with other big game releases that also included Titanfall, MGSV Ground Zeroes, South Park Stick of Truth and Dark Souls 2.

[truefan1]

Since this is starting to turn into a Titanfall bash fest let's look at the complete picture the sales gap shrank from 15,000 to 3000 meaning that even though Titanfall has been out 10 more days it is about to regain the top spot, I imagine by next week. Titanfall is displaying staying power. Also don't forget there are approximately 230,000 more ps4s. The attach rate for TF is approx 40% 200,000/500,000 and 18% 130,000/730,000 for infamous. These are estimations using the unreliabke but you get an idea vgchartz.com. Despite what you want to believe Titanfall has been very successful. Also you guys keep mentioning marketing, you realize both games had commercials right? The main marketing for TF has been the Internet talking about it, even the ps4 fans downplaying it was a major factor.

www.chart-track.co.uk/? I=1838&s=1111 for the gap closing info.

[UltimateMaster]

@thrust
Neogaf =/= reality nor credible sources.
It's a forum.

[patrik23]

Good job SONY and SUCKER PUNCH. Let's see if I:SS can be on top third week in a row.

[wotta]

The sales gap is more than 3000. Not sure where you get your info from, but that's wrong.

[BelkingOfSony]

More reliable than lolchartz

[chrissx]

No suprises.Infamous ss is a great game and nxt gen experience.I'm pretty sure its gonna be mostly like this with Ps4 exclusives this gen,As usual

[5eriously]

So Titanfall failed to sell a huge amount of Xbone's as expected and gets owned by another game in the EU regions?

The mostly overhyped, anticipated, advertised console seller of the new gen? /s

I cannot wait for the release of the real numbers very soon. Will make for great entertainment on N4G.

Seems like we will be enduring a lot of trolling buthurt from the #hopefools soon (wink)

/Rush to shop to stock up on popcorn!

[DJustinUNCHAIND]

It's holding steady at third place after 3 weeks. Not including digital sales.

What makes you say it wasn't successful?

[No_Limit]

He, like many here just can't fathom the thought that a non-PS game can also be good and sell well. It is normal protocol here, nothing more and I expect many more responses similar to his will appear shortly.

[fei-hung]

I think he is talking about it being a failure in context of how much support, hype and marketing Titanfall had behind it compared to ISS.

1) Since its reveal, journalists and media outlets have hyped the Shit out of TF. ISS didn't get half the attention TF did and therefore it got a heck of a lot less publicity.

2) TF won awards since its reveal, ISS won nothing in comparison. Again, free marketing and hype.

3) TF comes from the founders and makers of the most beloved COD. ISS comes from a Dev that made prequels to a niche game. Yes ISS sold, but in comparison to a CoD or a uncharted, infamous barely sold.

4) people argue new IP vs established, but it is the new IP which has had all the support and backing from day one. It is the new IP that has set the Internet a blaze being touted as the next big thing into next gen gaming above and beyond any other game.

5) TF had a far bigger advertising budget compared to ISS.

Yes, success and failure is subjective. I personally do not think TF is a failure having sold almost a million units on 1 system at launch, but in context of everything it had going for it and going up against a game that has never sold particularly well which had very little support in comparison from journalists and their outlets, TF hasn't done as well.

Context is important. You can always argue that 25% attach rate is far better than what infamous has achieved. You could also argue x1 price drop and the game literally being given away free. However, add per your question, I believe the context was what I pointed out above.

[harrisk954]

He means that it was likely not as successful as EA and MS had hoped on the XB1 platform. The game was HYPED beyond belief for the past several months and it is falling in the charts fairly rapidly, even though MS was giving it away with XB1s. Just anecdotally, I was in my local Best Buy (South Florida) and the guys there tell me that XB1 Titanfall bundles are collecting dust at the same time that they had no PS4s in stock and all copies of I:SS were sold out. And looking at the Amazon Top 100 list: http://www.amazon.com/best-... it does not look good for the XB1 or Titanfall. PS4 is (and has been) holding steady at number 4, with I:SS at number 7 over a week (10 days to be exact)... XB1 Titanfall Bundle now down to 23 and Titanfall the game down to 35. I am not trolling. I am simply responding to DJustinUNCHAIND's question in an article on this very topic of I:SS vs. Titanfall sales.

[kayoss]

I think wong fei hung here explained it very well.

[player002]

are u stupid?3 week of sales of course titanfall is not number one anymore look at overall sales titanfall is way ahead sheesh.with that said good for infamous it is a good game but the lack of replay value will hurt overall sales in future as used copies hit stores where titanfall is online shooter much more replay value when the numbers are released for march everyone will see titanfall sold great and moved nuff XB1's

[mediate-this]

It's just sickening that people agree with you, and you're so wrong. Titanfall boosted xb1 sales crazy and sold a million copies to a install base of four million. Stop with the anti titanfall propaganda.

[idontcare]

some people are so stupid ... of course ISS sells better than Titanfall. It's an already established IP .. Titanfall is a completely new franchise.

besides that ... who cares about numbers? it's about FUN ... and Titanfall delivers!

[No_Limit]

Both inFamous and Titanfall have great hold on for this week. Well deserved!

But Minecraft X360 still in the Top10, that is just amazing for a game that was released that long ago,

[ltachiUchiha]

Really happy for Sucker Punch. They really deserve it for really showcasing what Next Gen games are capable of early in this gen. I can only imagine how much they will push the envelope with their next outing. Glad to be part of true next gen experience's this early in next gen, cant wait for The Order 1886 to drop & see Uncharted 4 in action. Next gen is here folks & much more to come.

[hkgamer]

single player games will probably have a big drop after week 4 when people start trading their games in and people buying second hand instead.

Still great news for infamous SS though. I think it will be an achievement if it outsells Infamous 2 considering the userbase. Outselliing the original would probably show that Sucker Punch may be one of the developers that will be pushing high selling exclusives.

[Bathyj]

This is encouraging. I'm really happy their getting the accolades and the sales they deserve.

Second Son is the first next gen game to really nail graphics, story and gameplay, except for maybe assassins creed. Well done.

[pornflakes]

Cant believe this boring game sells so much. I mean, the graphics are really WONDERFUL, the controlls are also great but the rest of the game is just medicore, the side missions are boring as hell.

But i dont wonder this sells so much, all of my friends are waiting for the PS exclusives.

Easy Platin for Second son also, 2 days only :)

[Hicken]

I can't believe how rarely you get marked for trolling.

To claim that inFamous is boring is pretty disingenuous.

[GmacG]

Why because his opinion is different than yours? Some people just don't like button mashers that much...sorry.

[mediate-this]

Its his opinion, deal with it and try not to act lije everyone is a sheep, some people lije it some dont, not a problem in my eues. I agree to an extent, was fun but its boring now. Beat it in two days, graphics are nice but there are so many things that dont look right.

Walking through puddles dont even cause a ripple, textures washed out lots of bad facial models. The game was down graded for sure. As if there isnt a super flight in it.

Also delsin is a horrible character in my eyes, dont like the hipster look

[kayoss]

Wait you mean a game with a story is boring compare to a game (titanfall) with no story is better? are you really telling me a game that you mindless aim and shoot and kill people, rinse and repeat have more depth then a game that have story and as you progress through the game the story unfolds to give you a better understanding of the character you use?
Do you watch movies?
By your comment, you probably hate every single movie that have a great story and plot.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

"are you really telling me a game that you mindless aim and shoot and kill STUPID BOTS, rinse and repeat"

There, I fixed it for ya... It's funny when people call InFamous boring in an article with Titanfall in it... The game that no ammount of mechs (which is just your killstreak OP bonus) and wallrunning could save from the cheap COD feel, now even worse with dumb bots for you to shoot while you literally can't find another player in that mess.

Now, InFamous isn't perfect. Story and character isn't the best out there, but it's good (actually more than good as foundations for the new character). The game have other minor faults, like repetitive side missions and power variety (you get enough power types, but the move set itself is basically the same across powers), but still, tight gameplay.

The only real flaw on it is the length. This is not a new dilemma to InFamous, being an open world game, 15~20 hours to platinum is maybe too little, but being a game that pushes for multiple playthroughs as karma affects both story and powers, they need to keep it doable in convenient time for most players.

Anyway, much like other InFamous games, you tend to finish the game way before you're done enjoying it, I know I was in no way bored of it, maybe I became somewhat bored in post-game as you don't have much to do left but I just started another playthrough instead. As the credits rolled I just wished there were more/longer story-driven missions (not necessarily main missions, paper trail missions for instance are awesome side missions, kinda makes me wish it was all available right away).

[MeLoveRamen]

Your friends do know that PS exclusives are not the only games they can play on ps4 right? You also have third party, indie, and free to play , and the ps plus games for free.

[TristanPR77]

Infamous second son dominated Titanfall for 2 consecutive weeks. This wasn't supposed to happen, ISS is a single player game while Titanfall is an online multiplayer more mainstream and hyped. This is really a big surprise also, a demo like ground Zeroes sold more than Titanfall for consecutive weeks, that is not good for Titanfall unless you adopt the excuse that Titanfall is doing great holding third place, really? Titanfall was supposed to change the industry, a game changer bla bla bla

[WilDRangeRrfc]

I can't fathom how you and all the Sony fans think TF has sold badly on X1 it has an attach rate of every 1 in 3 X1 owners having it,so out of 3 million X1 1 million have it,tell me how that's bad,that is impressive what planet are you on?? The Beta had record numbers playing online at one time,do you all just ignore reality to suit your twisted fanboy opinions??? For information I have PS4 and 7 games including ISS which is the best single player game on the market and is gorgeous,but TF is way more fun and metric and reviews back my claims,and before someone copy and pastes one of my sentences and adds a stupid reply and ending it calling me an Xbot know this I buy all multiplats for PS4 and own only TF on X1 so I'm no fanboy,you haters are mocking a game you obviously want on PS4 otherwise why all the hate I will tell you JEALOUSY TF is amazing dealwitit!!!

[Flamingweazel]

It didnt sell that well when you factor in the massive hype, advertising, heck it prob wont outsell Killzone shadowfall. This was MS only hope until fall to move consoles and it had 1 smal 1 week bump then back to being ps4's biatch.

[Ittoryu]

TF is amazing dealwitit!!! Accept the demo had record numbers the sales did not reflect. A console the has "4 million" units out there and released the exclusive that was supposed to sale more xbones didn't 1 in 4 thats 25%, according to media, gets out sold by a single player niche that says something to me it's fun for all about 4 hours. A million units sold is good for a new IP but MS did what it always does put its foot in its mouth if it hadn't been hype to the seventh level of hell the sales numbers probably would get less attention.

[MeLoveRamen]

Didn't a hundred thousand or two of titanfall was sold for free considering it was free with an xbone so i don't think it sold a million close but no dice.

[Zero30]

Im sorry but Second Son was a ok game but multiplayer is still king. Nothing wrong with a good single player experience with a great story but then what else afterwards? Playstation needs to cater more to co-op and multiplayer if it truly wants to be king of gaming. If you have issues with multiplayer its moreso because you are insecure with playing with others and/or a weak gamer with no skills online so you enjoy being under a safe blanket known as single player more than likely. Sorry but gamers like myself enjoy competition and connecting with gamers online as its fun and different experience each time.

To say multiplayer is tacked on games is true in some games but not all and is a silly concept just because you don't like multiplayer. Multiplayer is and can be a great experience and not a tack on with all games as some believe. Notvall single players are great hence Metal Gear Solid was a time waster. Sony would would contradict its social theme on the PS4 if it just focused on single player games which would give advantage to Xbox One in the near future as most gamers like to play with friends and create their own story of a good time not just play by themselves all the time as gaming is a much bigger than just single player. Titanfall is FUN, Infamous was good with a great story but PS4 needs more of a multiplayer experience of games. Hopefully Destiny will be their trump card come September 9th.

Not every gamer is a anti social coward. MULTIPLAYER RULES!!!

[Majin-vegeta]

China called they want their wall back.

MP is still king??Wtf is this your first console generation?Not every game needs shitty MP if you want crap like that pick up an FPS,MMO or fighting game.

Ahhh I see you're stealth trolling nice try kid.

[AceBlazer13]

What's the number of sp goty compared to the apparent 'king' mp.

[Ittoryu]

I enjoy single player because I dont have to deal with douches that play multiplayer only. There is no skill in video games just memorized maps and button locations when you learn something that takes real skill you'll know the difference.

[MeLoveRamen]

Know we know who is 12 years old who thinks he's a badass cause he's good at titanfall.

Really kid

[CRASHBASHUK]

well this proves that the Xbox one price cut in the UK didn't work
ps4 is still dominate in the UK
just hope that Delsin Rowe doesn't scream Sarah if you know what I mean ;)

[LambOfLucifer79]

Don't you just love that any comment that praises Microsoft is downvoted?

[LambOfLucifer79]

Thanks for proving me right. You'd think some of the people who comment on this site work for Sony or Microsoft

[lemoncake]

If you own a ps4 then you are also going to buy this game, so no wonder it is selling well. If it had been released at end of the year or next year i dont think it would have sold as well, so good on them for getting it out on time.

[MasterCornholio]

I think it would have sold better because by the end of this year there will be over 10 million PS4s sold.

[Silly Mammo]

The same could have been said about TF.

[pornflakes]

TF is a multiplayer ONLY game.. this just showes the true power of the xbox brand -> Connecting people and have fun for hunderts of hours.

I pleayed second son from Friday to Sunday and did Platin already. Like i wrote before, the game looks wonderful, but this game has nothing special except great effects and graphics.

Iam really hoping that THE ORDER will get a multiplayer feature if not, i wont buy this game.. i will just rent it to get the trophys.

[TheFallenAngel]

Titanfall is losing steam already. My buddy who bought it for PC and bragged about it on Facebook hardly plays it now.

[phantomxll]

Technically all of the top 3 are losing steam since all of their sales numbers have gone down since they were released.

[TheFallenAngel]

Very happy for infamous. Even without of ridiculously amount of hype it's selling good.

[Goku781]

Infamous was "The Beast" against Titanfall. Playstion Domination as usual.

[phantomxll]

Im not surprised that Infamous SS sold more than Titanfall. There are more PS4s out there but they both are doing very well. Also this is the first really good AAA title since..... since ever on the console lol (sorry Knack and Killzone fans).
PS4 owners have been fiending for some quality, and they finally got it.

[MegaRay]

True, still infamous's games is so much fun, I cant believe uncharted overshadowed infamous during PS3 era

[sigfredod]

well deserved

[Silly Mammo]

So many passive aggressive spin comments from X1 fans in this article. Makes me smile. :)

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Firmly is a question of perspective I suppose. Infamous sold according to Chart Track approx 3100 more units than Titanfall in its second week.

"The sales gap between them shrinks from 15,000 units to 3,000 with ‘Titanfall’ (-42%) also stuck at No3, only 100 units behind Metal Gear this week"

[Father__Merrin]

792p lmao

infamous has done brilliantly

792p lmao

I hope they get out the 30fps lock patch, the game is enjoyable, remember the next time there is a singleplayer only game on Xbox, Xbox fans don't need it as they are multiplayer only lmao lmao this is just too funny

[DanteVFenris666]

I honestly want suck punch to split into two even though they said they wouldn't. Have 3 year cycles and release a game every 1.5 years and doing two different conduits simultaneously. That way they make not only two fun conduits but also make more money to increase budget