In its first week Sony’s PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale struggled to reach a decent chart position here in the UK all-format charts – but in its second week it’s vanished completely.
The game, according to Chart-Track, fell out of the top 40 completely, selling less than the critically mauled Call Of Duty: Black Ops Declassified on the PS Vita.
If you just factor in the PS3 charts, it’s dropped from 12th place to 19th, and from 8th to 9th in the PlayStation Vita specific charts.
Hopes that the game was doing gangbusters on PSN went largely unfounded, too.
Sony’s other big hope for this Christmas, Wonderbook: Book Of Spells, dropped from 20th to 21st place, although that title is much more likely to have a longer tail as we move towards Christmas.
Sympozium
if I’m not seeing PS Stars in Game for PS3/Vita then its no surprise its failing. Belfast store doesn’t even have it, I didn’t even see any new Vita release that was for this Christmas except for Blops.
Quag
I like the game but i don’t want to pay £39.99 for fighting games, Infact most i’d pay for a fighting game is prob £15-20.
Kennykazey
Why? PSASBR has more content and replayability than most. It’s the kind of game you’ll still be playing years later with friends. At least, I know I will.
deadwelsh
Lol, I smell Januarys PS+ freebie
Kennykazey
Such a great game, it deserves so much more. I’m currently playing, and loving it. But Sony released it at the worst possible time, a total idiot move on their part.
skibadee
you really like pointing out the bad with this game.
Alex C
Me? Not really. PSASBR was one of the year’s most hyped games from Sony with lots of Blog posts and a constant flow of info, some good reviews (including our 9/10) but has bombed massively at retail.
That’s – IMO – a story worth telling.
The PS3 needed a big Christmas title this year to make it apart from the 360, but it looks like BR wasn’t that game. The irony is that it look like it might be the oft-derided Wonderbook that comes to Sony rescue after all.
Sad Panda
I’m a little sad about this, despite the negativity in the Panda clan surrounding the Beta, I stuck to my guns and picked this up at launch. The full game is right up there with Smash Bros Melee and far superior to Brawl. This game is built for local multiplayer but surprisingly the campaign is addictive too.
I hope the poor sales don’t wreck the chance of the DLC support this title deserves.
Vaile23
“pretty good” is quite generous, it’s very tedious and not actually worth the 30 quid they’re offering it at, regardless of the cross buy promotion
skibadee
totally disagree think it is a brilliant little fighter.
aerobes
There’s been a ton of advertising here in the US so I don’t really see that being the issue. People understanding what the game is all about from the advertising is a different issue.
Personally I just don’t think it’s very good. What should have been super fun feels strung out, tough to see the action and understand what’s taking place and worst of all, pretty boring. That’s just me though.
Forrest_01
Not just you – From what i have played, i agree with all of your points.
The Von Braun
Sad, but not surprising news.
Sony once it seemed, really knew how to promote it’s goods, but now? just seem to be throwing money either in wrong direction or at a market who really just don’t care.
Tried to get my PS3 owning friends into likes of Warhawk, Resistance, Killzone, Uncharted etc, even bought them copies of the games as birthday/Xmas gifts etc.
Waste of time-All they wanted was COD/MW/BLOPS and the map packs for them.
You can seemingly have the right goods for the right product, but how do you convince people to try something different?.