Tag: Sales
PS Store Sales Charts GTA 5 Manages to Dethrone Elden Ring in Shadow of the Erdtree Release Month
June 2024's best-selling game in Europe and USA
Despite the new Shadow of the Erdtree expansion fuelling fresh sales of Elden Ring, it was Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V that's been named the best-selling game of June 2024 on the PS Store across both the USA and Europe. The 11-year-old game continues to top sales charts worldwide, with anticipation...
News UK Sales Charts: British GP Catapults F1 24 into Top 10
Up 23 places on the sales grid
The excitement surrounding this past weekend's British Grand Prix has translated into a dramatic sales boost for F1 24, with the Codemasters simulator jumping up 23 places in the UK sales charts. In 31st position previously, the game was the eighth best-selling physical game for the week of the Silverstone race, which...
News May 2024 USA Sales: Sucker Punch Classic Ghost of Tsushima Jumps 70 Places to Top Charts
Jin and tonic
It may be an indictment of a particularly slow period for big new releases, but it’s still no less impressive to see Ghost of Tsushima top the USA sales charts for the period spanning 5th May through 1st June. The legendary Sucker Punch title jumped 70 places month-over-month on the back of the game’s PC release, proving Sony’s...
News Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Smashes Through 8 Million Sales
KAKAROT!
When it comes to commercial success, you should never bet against big-name anime games. Case in point: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot has just topped 8 million sales — a figure that most titles couldn't even dream of reaching. Kakarot is an open world action RPG that retells the story of Dragon Ball Z (and a few others through DLC). It first...
News UK Sales Charts: Elden Ring Appears in the Top 10 Not Once But Twice
Shadow clone
It might not be topping the chart, but both physical editions of Elden Ring are currently in the UK's top 10. The regular version of FromSoftware's celebrated action RPG is currently in fourth, up from number 15. Meanwhile, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Edition — which includes a voucher code for the DLC as well as the main game...
News Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Reaches 5 Million Sales in First Three Days
Out of the shadows
Publisher Bandai Namco and developer FromSoftware have just announced a huge sales milestone for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, just days after launch. The expansion, which launched on PS5 and PS4 back on the 21st June, has reached 5 million copies sold within three days. "This milestone is the result of the tremendous...
News PS5 Fan Favourite Stellar Blade Sold Over 1 Million Copies, Dev Estimates
Collabs, DLC, and sequel are "under review"
Stellar Blade studio Shift Up has shared it estimates the PS5 exclusive has now sold more than one million units since its release in late April. The game has consistently ranked high in sales charts across the UK, USA, and Japan after the launch, which has resulted in today's milestone. In a press...
News UK Sales Charts: Still Wakes the Deep and Elden Ring Share a Top 10
Big and small
The latest physical sales chart for the UK is in, and interestingly we're seeing both ends of the spectrum this time. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Edition is off to a good start in second place, with only EA Sports FC 24 in front of it. However, also within the top 10 (just about) is Still Wakes the Deep, the horror adventure from...
That's no spin
Released in 2017 (was it really that long ago?!), Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy has just hit an impressive sales milestone. The collection, which is available across PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC, has topped 20 million — and at least by our count, that makes it the single highest selling Crash Bandicoot release ever...
News Japan Sales Charts: SMT 5: Vengeance Tops, Still Sells Best on Switch
The only PS5 game present
The latest Japanese sales charts are in, but we're struggling to find any talking points outside of the newly released Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance. An enhanced and expanded re-release of Shin Megami Tensei 5 — previously a Nintendo Switch exclusive — it made the jump to PS5, PS4, and Xbox Series last week. However,...
PS Store Sales Charts Xbox's Sea of Thieves Is Massive on PS5, Helldivers 2 Finally Starts to Slip
A pirate's life
Microsoft's decision to bring former Xbox console exclusives to PS5 is starting to make a lot of sense. Sea of Thieves, the open world pirate sim that seems to have gone from strength to strength over the years, has actually managed to top the PS Store charts for May 2024. Sea of Thieves released right at the end of April, so it...
News Elden Ring Hits a Staggering 25 Million Sales Ahead of Erdtree's Arrival
Ohhhh, Elden Ring
Elden Ring is massive. Properly massive. We knew that already, but seeing that the game's just smashed through 25 million sales really hammers it home. The figure was confirmed earlier today by developer FromSoftware, and the crazy thing is that with Shadow of the Erdtree launching next week, those sales numbers are probably in for...
News Sublime Horror Resident Evil Village Tops 10 Million Units
Achieves milestone faster than any other entry
Capcom is continuing to do extraordinarily well, with Resident Evil Village now surpassing 10 million units sold. The number, accurate as of 31st March, accounts for all platforms – including PS5 and PS4. The title first released on 7th May, 2021 and was updated with PSVR2 support upon the launch of...
News Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Swings 11 Million Sales as Sony Calls PS5 Exclusive a 'Great Success'
Can it catch the first game?
According to Sony's latest financial briefing, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has topped a rather impressive 11 million sales. The PS5 exclusive launched in October of last year, and got off to a flying start as the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game to date. It moved a staggering 2.5 million copies in the space of 24...
News Fallout Franchise Sales Explode Like Megaton in Amazon Show Aftermath
Every entry is up
Curious about the kind of profound effect a popular television show can have on the sales of video game franchise? Just look at these latest numbers for the Fallout series in the aftermath of Amazon’s enormous adaptation. In the United States, sales of all titles in the post-apocalyptic property jumped significantly...
News PS5 Players Are Buying Fewer New Games, But Spending More Than Ever Overall
Microtransactions making the moolah
One difference between the PS5 and PS4 is the rise of live service games. A dirty word among the most engaged enthusiasts, this is not a genre but merely a business model; it means titles are designed to evolve and improve over time, as opposed to offering one-and-done experiences. And it’s changing consumers’...
News PS5 Is Sony's Most Profitable Console Generation to Date
Not-so doom and gloom
There’s a growing sentiment among the gaming enthusiast circles, not necessarily always backed up by fact, that console gaming is collapsing. While it’s true the market is facing issues of spiralling costs and slowing growth, it’s a concern not always rooted in reality. Case in point: Sony’s just announced PS5 is its...
News PS5's Streaming Handheld PS Portal Is Proving a Huge Hit
A whole new world
Back when the PS Portal was rumoured and subsequently announced, social media was filled with armchair executives deeming the device to be a disaster. As it turns out, Sony understands the market better than many people think, and its PS5 streaming handheld has become a lynchpin of its new-gen console’s overall experience...
News PS5 Sales Trend Ahead of PS4 in US, Leads Console Market By 'Significant Margin'
PS5 alive
Over the last few weeks or so, there's been some debate regarding the PS5 and its perceived sales momentum. This discussion likely stems from the fact that Sony itself reported a decline in units sold year-on-year, and as a result, revised its commercial forecast. However, as we pointed out in our Reaction article, context is key. The PS5...
News Xbox Games Are Selling Gangbusters on PS5
Surely more will follow
While the sales of single player titles Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment have been a little more muted, Xbox Game Studios’ two live service titles are selling like crazy on PS5, giving Microsoft all the incentive it needs to port more titles to Sony’s system. Originally, the Redmond firm’s multiformat release strategy was...
News Apr 2024 USA Sales: Stellar Blade Slashes Straight to Number 1, Helldivers 2 Is Still Insane
PS5 tops hardware yet again
Stellar Blade is the big winner of the latest US sales report from analytical company Circana (as outlined by the ever-informative Mat Piscatella). The current PS5 exclusive topped the charts for April, having released on the 26th of the month. Admittedly, it was a pretty quiet period for new releases, but it's still an...
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Tops an Impressive 3 Million Sales
The Arisen has arisen
Two and a bit months after its release, Dragon's Dogma 2 has now sold 3 million copies. Last we heard, the open world RPG had topped 2.5 million in one week or so, which means it's managed an additional 500,000 sales since. Given that the original Dragon's Dogma took years to really take off in a commercial sense, the...
News UK Sales Charts: System Shock Just Misses Out on Top 10 as Paper Mario Leads
Shock to the system
A pair of new releases means a bit of a shake-up on the UK's physical games chart, but only one of them has cracked the top 10. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo's remake of its beloved RPG, has hopped right to the top. Unfortunately, it's less of a big debut for the console release of System Shock, which arrives at...
News Japan Sales Charts: Stellar Blade Is on Top Again, Sells 10,000+ Copies
Beats out three Nintendo Switch games
Stellar Blade has recorded another week at the top of the Japanese gaming sales chart, this time selling 10,935 copies to beat out competition from a trio of Nintendo Switch exclusives. The PS5 exclusive has now sold 91,099 units in total since its release in Japan. It's taken top place three weeks in a row now...
News UK Sales Charts: Gap in New Releases Means Business as Usual for Regular Bestsellers
Can you guess the whole top 10?
The UK's physical games chart often proves how unimaginative most British buyers are, especially when the new releases dry up. We're in one of those moments right now, where the top 10 is mostly full of the games you'd expect. For example, EA Sports FC 24 earns itself another number one, with nearly two thirds of the...
News Japan Sales Charts: Stellar Blade PS5 Sales Hold Strong
Beli-Eve
We all know retail PS5 software sales are pretty poor in Japan right now, so it’s a testament to Shift Up’s character action outing that Stellar Blade’s actually doing decently. The Korean outing tagged another 13,033 units to its total for the week ending 12th May, lifting its lifetime sales up to 80,164 units overall. With digital...
News UK Sales Charts: Indie Hit Sea of Stars Breaks into a Top 10 Full of Juggernauts
Just about
Developer Sabotage Studio and iam8bit have teamed up to bring the beloved Sea of Stars to physical retail, and it's squeaked into a top 10 that's otherwise filled with the games you'd expect. Debuting at number 10, it's a pretty solid result for the delayed physical release of a small, throwback RPG, but obviously it'll struggle to really...
News Monster Hunter Series Tops 100 Million Sales Milestone
World sells 25 million, Rise at 15 million
The Monster Hunter franchise from Capcom continues to go from strength to strength as the publisher has announced the series has now sold over 100 million copies across its many entries. Fuelled by recent entries like World and Rise, it sits in prime position to capitalise on the series' growing popularity...
News PS5 Sales Reach 59.3 Million as Sony Falls Just Short of Fiscal Year Forecast
Happy new (financial) year
The PS5 is doing fantastically overall, although the console's results for the final quarter of Sony's fiscal year 2023 means it's fallen slightly behind the company's already-lowered forecast. The machine managed to ship 4.5 million units in the three-month period ending 31st March, 2024, bringing its total for FY23 to...
News Fallout 4 Continues Sales Momentum in the UK, April's Best-Selling Game
New Vegas and 76 also in top 10
Fallout 4 was the UK's best-selling game last month, as the popularity of the TV adaptation from Amazon Prime keeps on fuelling sales. Combined with deep discounts across the entire series, Christopher Dring of GamesIndustry.biz said the Bethesda RPG earned top spot "comfortably", with the second-placed EA Sports FC...
Hell yeah
PlayStation has published the PS Store sales charts for April, and the rankings make for an interesting read. High-profile PS5 exclusive Stellar Blade did pretty well, rocking up to second in North America and fourth in Europe. That's not quite on par with what we'd expect from, say, a AAA PlayStation Studios title, but it's still a very...
PS5 creeps closer to 6 million
The latest Japanese software charts are in, giving us a look into the sales figures of recent releases like Stellar Blade and Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. To start with, Stellar Blade, the PS5 exclusive from South Korean developer Shift Up, debuted at the summit, selling just over 67,100 physical copies...
News Capcom Hits Record High Profits for Seventh Year in a Row
Capgod
Japanese games publisher Capcom has been absolutely killing it for many years now, and with its latest annual financial results, it's done it yet again. Thanks to a series of top-selling games in its most popular franchises, the company has reached record high profits for the seventh consecutive year, and the 11th consecutive year of...
News UK Sales Charts: Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition Rains on Stellar Blade's Parade
PS5 exclusive now in second
It's been a good week for sci-fi games in the UK. The top two titles at physical retail are currently Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition and the PS5 exclusive Stellar Blade. The latter has to settle for second place this time, as the current-gen edition of CD Projekt's redeemed RPG has stormed the chart, rocketing from 40th...
News PS5 Launch Makes Sea of Thieves One of USA's Best-Selling Games
Up to second from #36
Sea of Thieves has been named the second best-selling game in the USA for the week ending 27th April 2024 thanks to its early access PS5 launch. The port from Xbox consoles officially released on 30th April 2024, but a Premium Edition offering five days of early access sold well enough to make it the country's second...
News Helldivers 2 Is Already One of Sony's Best-Ever Sellers in the US
Democracy always wins
This author thought Helldivers 2 was going to be a colossal flop, so it just goes to show how unpredictable this industry can be. According to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, it currently sits behind a trio of Spider-Man titles, a couple of God of War games, and Ghost of Tsushima as Sony’s seventh highest grossing game in the...
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Sales Remain Muted in the USA, Compared to Past Games
Reportedly well behind Remake
There's been a lot of discussion surrounding the commercial success of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. The PS5 exclusive launched on the 29th February, but despite garnering near universal acclaim from critics, questions were quickly raised regarding sales numbers, with Square Enix yet to provide any official statistics (which...
News Mar 2024 USA Sales: Dragon's Dogma 2 Tops the Charts, Helldivers 2 Is Unstoppable
Democracy at work
March was a good month for new games, as a number of fresh releases walked straight into the USA software charts. As per Circana (formerly NPD) analyst Mat Piscatella, it was Dragon's Dogma 2 that caught fire in March, claiming the crown as the month's best-selling title. The action RPG sequel is also the third best-selling game of...
News Stellar Blade Is a Best-Seller in the UK After Launch PS5 Sales
Stellar performance
Stellar Blade was the best-selling physical game in the UK last week, with its launch sales on PS5 being enough to see it top sales charts in the region. Sony and Shift Up haven't shared any official sales data just yet, but this marks a good start for the title, which holds the potential to sell well long-term. TopSpin 2K25 was...
News Rise of the Ronin PS5 Sales Beating the Nioh Series
"High valuation by players"
Koei Tecmo has shared a brief sales update for recent PS5 exclusive Rise of the Ronin, revealing "sales are surpassing the Nioh series". Without posting any hard numbers, it goes on to say the game has a "high valuation" amongst players and the company is now looking at "mid to long-term growth" for the title. Released...
News Fallout 4 Sales Up 7,500% in Europe as Bethesda Series Dominates
Four Fallout games in the top 10
Bethesda has managed to successfully spread Fallout fever off the back of Amazon Prime's well-received TV show, with sales of Fallout 4 increasing by a whopping 7,500 per cent in Europe. It was the continent's best-selling game last week, accounting for both physical and digital purchases. Other titles in the RPG...
News UK Sales Charts: Helldivers 2 Returns to Top 10 in Quiet Week for New PS5, PS4 Releases
Cooling off
Boy, those first few months of 2024 were crazy, right? The torrent of big, flashy new games is finally relenting, though, and the UK's physical games chart is beginning to settle into a groove. EA Sports FC 24 is number one, once again, and Hogwarts Legacy is equally consistent at number two. The remainder of the bestsellers has been...
News Whoa! Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Has Sold More Than 5 Million Copies
Head spinning
It seems Toys for Bob's warmly received Crash Bandicoot sequel has been a huge success. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, the first numbered sequel in the series since 1998's Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, has sold over five million copies, according to the studio's design director, Toby Schadt. It's About Time is a return to the...
PS Store Sales Charts Helldivers 2 Dominates Once Again, Dragon's Dogma 2 in Third
Marching on
Helldivers 2 continues its winning streak over on the PS Store. Arrowhead's co-op shooter was February's most downloaded PS5 title, and now it's done the same for March too. It's in first place on both the US and EU charts, seeing off hot competition in the weeks since it launched. Second place differs between North America and Europe,...
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Has Sold Around 2 Million Copies, PS5 Player Data Suggests
Supposedly behind Remake and 16
Unless a game is breaking records, it's quite rare that we get direct sales data from publishers — and Square Enix in particular is somewhat notorious for this. As such, interested parties usually have little choice but to try and determine commercial success through other means. One way to do this is to look at...
News Japan Sales Charts: Rise of the Ronin Rides Again, Refuses to Leave Top 3
All rise
Rise of the Ronin has once again done reasonably well for itself in the latest Japanese sales charts. The current PS5 exclusive launched a few weeks back, but unlike fellow action RPG Dragon's Dogma 2, it's been able to stick in the top ten since its release. It sold an additional 12,000 copies at retail, bringing its physical total up to...
News Despite Flagging Physical Software Sales, PS5's Retail Presence Is Still Strong in Japan
We visited Yodobashi Akiba to find out first hand
During a recent trip to Tokyo, we were eager to observe PlayStation’s retail presence. A lot has been made of PS5’s flagging physical software sales, which look downright embarrassing compared to the biggest hits on Nintendo Switch. Titles like Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Dragon’s Dogma 2 have...
News Helldivers 2 Is Selling at a Faster Rate Than Spider-Man 2 in the UK
Democracy trumps web-slinging
New sales tracking data from GSD — which accounts for both physical and digital purchases — has revealed Helldivers 2 is selling better than Marvel's Spider-Man 2 in the UK across its first eight weeks of availability. The multiplayer title's sales are trending better than what Insomniac's latest web-slinging epic...
News UK Sales Charts: Helldivers 2 Takes a Dive, Elden Ring Spirit Springs Back to the Top 10
Doubt you could even imagine it
In a calmer week for new game releases, perhaps the biggest surprise in the UK's physical games chart is the return of a modern classic. Yes, Elden Ring is back in the top 10, leaping from 20th all the way up to third, mixing in with the heavy hitters. It's unclear if this is simply down to a price reduction, or if...
Keep ronin, ronin, ronin
Despite Dragon's Dogma 2 boasting marginally better launch sales than Rise of the Ronin (with both titles releasing on the same day), it's Team Ninja's PS5 exclusive that's managed to stand stronger in the latest Japanese charts. Indeed, Ronin has actually done quite well for itself, shifting an additional 20,000 retail...
