• bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    251·
    10 months ago

    Does this stat take release date into account? Otherwise it seems like a pretty meaningless metric. An AAA game that releases in January is going to have better sales for the year compared to one that releases in October.

    • JowlesMcGee@kbin.social
      13·
      10 months ago

      It doesn’t, but most game sales are front loaded at release. Having 8 months on the shelf still makes a difference, for sure, but it’s still notable that it was number 1.

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    10 months ago

    What’s crazy to me is that after the first week or two, I didn’t see anyone talking about it. I kind of assumed it either flopped or was mediocre but I guess people just silently played it?

    • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.comEnglish
      23·
      10 months ago

      It has that mainstream appeal as in being a brand parents know (Harry Potter) and being pretty inoffensive (i.e. no guns and blood or sex and partying) so I imagine just about every kid with a system it runs on and in the age bracket of 6-16 got it for Christmas or their Birthday despite not being on the wishlist.

    • meant2live218@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Looks like the original tweet ended as (Rock Band) to indicate the game that took #1 back in 2008, and either OP or the auto-titler missed the parentheses?

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      TBF the graphics, setup and intro were pretty good (esp if you’re a fan of the series). The problem was that it went absolutely nowhere after that, beyond “you’re at Hogwarts and it looks pretty”. I guess that was good enough for enough people to put it over the top.