Having released on Friday of last week, we're able to get an early glimpse into the sales potential of Astro Bot thanks to Games Industry's ever-informative Chris Dring. Apparently, the PS5 exclusive's opening numbers "aren't huge", and are roughly a third below what fellow platformer Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart managed when it first launched in 2021.
However, Dring is specifically referring to physical UK sales for Astro Bot, so we're still a ways off painting anything that resembles a full picture. "It's certainly sold more copies in the UK in just two days than Concord sold worldwide," he concludes.
From our perspective, Astro Bot's overall quality has never been in doubt — but questions over its sales potential were always going to pop up. It might be the highest-rated release of 2024 so far, but it's not God of War or Marvel's Spider-Man in terms of widespread appeal — and so it's always been difficult to predict its level of consumer-based success. Of course, it also depends on Sony's own internal targets for the game, which aren't public knowledge at the time of writing.
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However, Dring is specifically referring to physical UK sales for Astro Bot, so we're still a ways off painting anything that resembles a full picture. "It's certainly sold more copies in the UK in just two days than Concord sold worldwide," he concludes.
From our perspective, Astro Bot's overall quality has never been in doubt — but questions over its sales potential were always going to pop up. It might be the highest-rated release of 2024 so far, but it's not God of War or Marvel's Spider-Man in terms of widespread appeal — and so it's always been difficult to predict its level of consumer-based success. Of course, it also depends on Sony's own internal targets for the game, which aren't public knowledge at the time of writing.
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