Astro Bot sold more physical copies in the UK than Concord did worldwide

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Astro Bot sold more physical copies in the UK than Concord did worldwide

We're not going to make fun of poor ol' Concord, dead just two weeks after its launch. However, journalist Christopher Dring of GamesIndustry.biz has drawn a rather telling comparison.

He estimates that in just two days, Astro Bot sold more physical copies in the UK than Concord did worldwide. Proof, if it was needed, that Firewalk's multiplayer title was a true failure.

However, Dring also notes that about a third fewer copies of Astro Bot were sold than Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in its day, again in the UK. Even so, he believes that Team Asobi's game will sell more in the long term.

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