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The MS store has updates every Saturday the top paid list which is the best selling games for the past week. In the US and in the UK (Xbox biggest markets) Sea of Thieves has outsold Far Cry 5 this past week.
US Store https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/top-paid/games/xbox?icid=CNavXboxGamesDownload
1. Sea of Thieves
2. A Way Out
3. PUBG
4. Far Cry 5
5. Fortnite
UK Store https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/top-paid/games/xbox
1. A Way Out
2. PUBG
3. Sea of Thieves
4. Fortnite
5. Titanfall 2(on sale for $6)
6. Far Cry 5
Pretty Impressive that SoT is outselling a big AAA that just released.
Comments
Games Pass isn’t cannibalizing traditional sales, as Sea of Thieves is proving
Despite what might have been expected, Micrsoft's Games Pass isn't stealing away business from traditional games sales. Or at least Sea of Thieves is proving to be a strange first anomaly.
https://www.criticalhit.net/gaming/games-pass-isnt-cannibalizing-traditional-sales-sea-thieves-proving/
No it was not. After Rare updated Sea Of Thieves to a new client some people had issues launching the game through Game Pass but Rare fixed it pretty fast.
Additionally if you look at the PC category, and the link to Sea of Thieves package from there, it's same package for both PC and XBox. So what we know is that no Far Cry 5 package for XBox managed to outsell total Sea of Thieves sales for both XBox and PC.
Taken directly from VGChatz.com that tracks game sells.
Go tell them they are wrong.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=235480&page=1#17
Havent seen someone link to VGCHartz in a long time.
People still think they're made up numbers are worth anything?
Prove them wrong.
I'm content with posting the reasons why they're wrong here for others to read so that others might know they're wrong, even if the person who is wrong almost never realizes that he's wrong himself.
http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/vgchartz-and-those-wacky-numbers.453770085/
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/109870/Analysis_What_VGChartz_Does_And_Doesnt_Do_For_The_Game_Biz.php
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/629/where-do-vg-chartz-north-american-numbers-come-from/
http://n4g.com/news/573237/why-vgchartz-isnt-considered-reliable
https://www.reddit.com/r/wiiu/comments/2ess6o/psa_for_wii_u_subreddit_do_not_source_vgchartz/
So there... proven that you shouldn't be posting rubbish. VGChartz has a long and dedicated history of... being rubbish.
If you would read your own links you would see where they discuss that VGChartz gets their numbers from Official NDA reports.
Also that has nothing to do what I posted in the OP. It clearly has a link directy to the Microsoft Store.
So quick to debate something that you don't even know about.
You still are not getting it.
The OP says that Sea Of Thieves is the #1 game on the Microsoft store with a link from the Microsoft strore. This is from Microsoft them selves.
Now which link is proving that wrong?
I cannot believe that after the first couple days showing how little this game offers that anyone would buy it,even worse at it's ridiculous price.However there is one small detail i have learned over the last several years,there are megaton of gamer's that are very hmm how you say,shallow gamer's that just like games that are simple,not too much thinking,easy to play and still chat if a streamer etc etc,you get my point.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.