GFK: Both Versions of Sonic Boom On UK/Ireland Charts

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1. Impressive. But we won’t know how well worldwide sales are until next year.

2. That’s… better than I was expecting to see. Especially given there’s been essentially no publicity at all on this funny little group of islands in the North Atlantic.

   1. That’s sad. The UK (and also Brazil) have the highest concentration of Sonic fans in the world. Sega seriously takes you guys for granted. At least one measly commercial would do.

      1. They have been airing commercials for the games here in the US.

      2. The odd thing is I want the Boom games to both do well and to flop. I want them to do well so it keeps Sonic in the public eye, but I want them to flop because they’re shit, and if they flop, Sega won’t be so eager to make sequels, and can allocate the money to Sonic Team instead and release a proper actual Sonic game, not some Mario-Ratchet-whatever-wannabe.

         1. I have to agree..

3. This is a bit disappointing for me. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but for once, I want a Sonic game to fail as miserably as fucking possible. I REALLY don’t want Sega to think they can make profit from broken, unfinished, poorly executed games. Damn casuals will buy anything thrown at ’em… Getting tired of your shit, Sega. Don’t enable companies to bully consumers anymore.

   1. I indicate that Sega is for nothing in the development of the game there. After the failure, I believe that they realized it, when they did not want to distribute the game in testers.

   2. Somethin’ tells me they already plan on not bringing this back, sans the TV show, which is doing better than I expected. I don’t think many of us would mind if that show stayed for 2 or 3 seasons.

      But after the whole BRB disbanding, I think SEGA realized the mistake they made.

      Also, just wondering, does anyone know if Sonic Boom was one of those games that originally had nothing to do with another franchise? Sonic Boom barley has any actual Sonic elements besides the main characters and rings. It seems like they might have tacked Sonic on for teh monehs.

4. Some clarification; these positions are on the PLATFORM (WiiU/3DS) charts (a much less impressive feat). Neither game charted on the full software sales list.

   1. Yeah, the link leads to the 3DS-only charts.

5. This is great news! That means there is a chance for sega to hire a better company and build up and forward towards a new and better sonic boom game, learn from their mistakes and make a new game with characters featured in the TV show, more side quest, more missions and collectables.

   Gosh I’m so excited

   1. *laughs uproariously and uncontrollably*

6. UK has bad taste. Lots of their other UK charts disappoint me.

   1. But, I must applaud the UK fans. They are dedicated to their franchise, unlike me. I’m such a hateful kid….

   2. UK has bad taste

      Looking at the top of the Wii U and 3DS charts, it doesn’t seem that way; there’s Pokémon, Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Lego Batman 3… though you do have a point about Just Dance 2015 😉

7. I’m willing to bet a good chunk of it is out of curiosity,a lot of people probably wanna see what the fuss is about.Also I like to imagine the Generations sales are from people who played Boom,were disappointing,and then recommended Generations to cheer them up.I’m probably thinking too hard about this though,nice to see it’s doing better than I thought it would though.

8. i do like the sonic boom tv show and the game i just love everything about sonic

9. Hm, I’m surprised that broken and unfinished mess (Rise Of Lyric) managed to even reach that high up in the charts.

10. please, humanity, let sonic boom games fail so sega understand their mistake and don’t do shit anymore..

11. “both versions of Sonic Boom have hit #16 and #22 on their UK/Ireland Top 50 charts, respectively.”

    ………….I am speechless by the absence of common sense and standards these people have. Still, I want to see numbers of copies sold of both games.

    And Generations is “still selling” because of that shitty 3DS version ?

    *checks the chart*

    PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!!!!

    Riiiiiiiiiight…..

    When I see this, I think the last time SEGA/Sonic Team actually did something with Sonic was back in 2008/2009, but that’s not saying much.

    I’m with Funkyjeremi : these t*rds deserve to bomb, much like Lost World did.

    That’ll teach ’em a lesson to stop making this comedic/nostalgic crap things for once.

    1. Sonic Boom isn’t comedic or nostalgic, it’s just plain bad.

12. The lost hex was just a location in the world of sonic. Not an entire redesign of the world. Thank goodness

13. Lol. the 3ds verison is just ahead of an completely outdated verison of Street Fighter 4. That is almost sad.

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