Prey rallies in second week, prime of UK charts and almost 200,000 homeowners on Steam

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Mario dropped from primary to quantity three, with the quantity two spot taken by Grand Theft Auto V. That’s based on the UK stats group GfK Chart-Track which, it ought to be remembered, solely monitor bodily gross sales.

On SteamSpy, Prey now has an estimated 191,590 homeowners, and Bruno MB has compiled different European gross sales information and posted it to NeoGAF, to offer a extra complete image of Prey’s efficiency. As some commenters have identified, its decline of solely 32% on its first week gross sales is encouraging, however can be extra so if it did not comply with a lacklustre launch and a sluggish week for recreation gross sales total.

“Good it did not fully collapse, I suppose,” is Not Drake’s evaluation. 

The information follows a worrying pattern for triple-A video games with a single-player focus. In current weeks we have heard that Deus Ex and Mass Effect are on ice as franchises, Hitman’s fate continues to be up within the air, and Arkane’s final title, Dishonored 2, additionally struggled commercially regardless of a robust important reception.