Tag: Sales
News PS5's Astro Bot Is Having a Much Better Launch Than Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in the UK
Hot bot
The UK's software charts for the month of September are here, courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz, and it's good news for Astro Bot. Team Asobi's brilliant platformer lands at number five in the overall run of things, including physical and digital sales data. One interesting statistic is that the game's sales in its first four weeks are 24 per...
News Japan Sales Charts: PS5 Continues to Tank in Japan Following Price Increase
Astro Bot hanging in there
The latest weekly Japanese gaming charts have arrived, and it seems Sony is still struggling in its homeland. The good news is that Astro Bot is holding fairly steady in the physical software chart, currently in third place. The less good news is that it's only managed 28,521 copies to date; the current number one game,...
News Ubisoft 'Fully Mobilised' After Soft Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Sales
Wants to position the release as a strong long-term performer
Ubisoft has said it’s “fully mobilised to swiftly implement a series of updates to polish and improve” Star Wars Outlaws after it admitted the game had a “softer than expected launch”. While it pointed out that the release had received “solid ratings”, it said that it wants...
News Superb Strategy RPG Unicorn Overlord Tops 1 Million Sales
On the march
Released back in March of this year on PS5 and PS4, Unicorn Overlord has officially broken through 1 million sales — an impressive (and well deserved) benchmark for developer Vanillaware. Last we heard, the strategy RPG had shifted half a million units within a month or so, making it one of the fastest — or possibly the fastest —...
News Retro PS2 TimeSplitters Titles Outperform PS5, PC Flop Concord in UK Charts
As consumers increasingly switch to digital
We don’t mean to flog a horse while it’s already down, but astounding data coming out of the UK reveals that two retro TimeSplitters titles – released as part of PS Plus Premium but also sold separately on PS5 and PS4 – outperformed tentpole first-party title Concord. Of course, we know
News The Novelty of PlayStation's PC Ports Does Appear to Be Dampening
Not so special anymore
God of War Ragnarok has released to a robust but rather unremarkable 25k concurrent players on Steam. That number is fluctuating and is likely to increase further over the weekend, but it’s a huge decline compared to the original God of War’s much more impressive peak of 73k concurrent players. It shows that the novelty of...
News PS5's Astro Bot the USA's Second Best-Selling Game in Its First Week
"Solid week one," says analyst
While the Circana (NPD) report for September's US video game sales has yet to be released, the firm's own Mat Piscatella has weighed in on Astro Bot's sales performance thus far. Unfortunately, we haven't seen official figures from Sony (and probably won't unless they're truly noteworthy), and have so far had to rely...
News Astro Bot PS5 Sales Trending Ahead of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in the UK
It's all okay
Hold your horses, then! Initial information coming out of the UK was that Astro Bot may be underperforming, as its boxed sales were below those of 2021’s equally excellent Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. However, as we stressed at the time, digital splits have continued to increase in Britain over the past three years, and this...
News Japan Sales Charts: Astro Bot Barely Registers at Retail, PS5 Numbers Plummet After Price Hike
Astro Bottom
The latest Japanese hardware and software charts are in, and they don't make for particularly positive reading if you're sitting on the Sony side of the fence. To start with, Astro Bot has entered in second place, but with just under 12,700 copies sold at retail, that's hardly worth bragging about. It's an incredibly low debut for a...
News Astro Bot PS5 Sales 'Aren't Huge' in UK, But There's Still Hope
Ifs and bots
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...
Star Wars Outlaws, too
It's been a long time coming, but the PS5 has finally topped six million sales in Japan. The current-gen console's been heading towards that milestone for months, but a lack of notable system sellers has meant slow progress. Still, it's something for Sony to celebrate in its native country. For reference, the PS4 has sold...
News Black Myth: Wukong's Sales Top 18 Million in Two Weeks on PS5, PC
Expansion is in development
There have been a number of breakout successes this year: Palworld got the ball rolling and Helldivers 2 picked up the mantle. But none compare to the absolutely outrageous story emerging around Black Myth: Wukong: the title has now topped 18 million sales across PS5 and PC in just two weeks. As previously reported,
News Concord PS5, PC Sales Estimates Are Somehow Even Worse Than We Thought
An unbelievable 25,000 copies
It doesn't take a genius to realise that Concord has bombed. Sony's PS5 and PC hero shooter has, by all accounts, seriously struggled to attract players. At this point, it's common knowledge that the title almost immediately crashed and burned on Steam, where its frankly dismal user numbers are publicly available. It...
News Black Myth: Wukong Has Sold an Astonishing 10 Million Copies in Three Days on PS5, PC
Monkey doing business
It's official: Black Myth: Wukong is a huge hit. Game Science's Journey to the West-inspired action RPG has now sold an incredible 10 million copies across PS5 and PC platforms. The studio shared the news today on its social channels: For it to reach sales of 10 million would be more than enough of an accomplishment, but...
News PS5 Is Selling Twice As Fast As PS4 in China
On the move
While there’s a lot of doom and gloom surrounding consoles lately, largely due to flattening growth and spiralling costs, it’s perhaps worth remembering that there are still plenty of success stories that can be attributed to the PS5. One of which pertains to the Chinese market, where Sony’s system is selling two times faster than...
Hell yeah
Helldivers 2 has been reigning supreme as the USA's top-selling game of 2024, but just like that, it's now playing second fiddle. EA Sports College Football 25 has trumped Sony's sci-fi co-op shooter, touching down in first place on July's software chart and now the year's best-selling title. According to analyst Mat Piscatella, the game's...
News Over 1,000 Discounts on PS5, PS4 Games in Latest PS Store Sale
PS offering
The PS Store is playing host to yet another sale. While the big August offer is still ongoing, a new sale has begun, named PlayStation Indies, reducing prices on a vast array of PS5 and PS4 games and their associated add-ons. There's a wide range of titles included here, including some we wouldn't necessarily label as indies, but...
News UK Sales Charts: EA Sports FC 24 the Best Selling PS5, PS4 Game in Stagnant Top 10
The usual, please
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise (if any at all), but EA Sports FC 24 is, once again, number one on the UK's physical games chart. Unfortunately, the rest of the top 10 is similarly predictable, which largely comes down to a slower pace of new releases, leaving us with the usual suspects. A handful of Switch software leads...
News PS Portal Is By Far the UK's Most Popular Gaming Accessory Right Now
A massive success
Back when Sony’s streaming handheld PS Portal was announced, an enormous 33 per cent of you polled on Push Square said you had zero interest in the device. Well, as it turns out, you’re in the minority, because the Remote Play portable is proving a runaway hit for the platform holder. In the UK,
News PS5 Continues to Dominate a Slow UK Games Industry in July
Despite a slow month for games
PS5 once again was the best-selling console in the UK for July, despite it being a weak month for the industry overall. Approximately 77,000 consoles were sold overall, with the PS5 moving the bulk of those machines. Sony’s system was down 30 per cent year-over-year, while the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X|S...
News It Took PS5 Longer Than PS4 to Pass 4 Million Units Milestone in the UK, But There's Context
It costs a helluva lot more for starters
The PS5 has officially crossed the four million units milestone in the UK, but it’s achieved it 31 weeks slower than its predecessor, the PS4. There’s crucial context here that needs to be observed, however: the PS5 wasn’t readily available for the first two years of the generation, as the aftermath of...
News Smash Hit Roguelike Balatro Has Sold Over 2 Million Copies, Free Major Update Incoming
Cashing in
Balatro, the devilishly addictive roguelike deckbuilder, has now passed the two million sales milestone across all platforms. The game, almost entirely made by someone known only as LocalThunk, has been a big success critically, and we can safely say it's been a commercial hit too. The game sees players drawing cards and playing poker...
News PS5 Sales Reach 60 Million Milestone, Now at 61.7 Million Consoles Sold
2.4 million PS5 systems purchased in Q1
Sony has shared in its first fiscal year 2024 financials report that 2.4 million PS5 consoles were sold during Q1, meaning the current-gen system has now sold 61.7 million units overall. This is a decrease of 900,000 purchases when stacked against the same period last year, though Sony did make gains in other...
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PS5 Sales Still a Secret as Square Enix Reports Year-on-Year Decline
Final Fantasy 14 is still a monster, though
Square Enix has released its latest earnings report, and unfortunately, those still wating on official sales numbers for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be left disappointed. The sequel's commercial success remains shrouded in mystery while the publisher reveals a year-on-year decline for game sales over the...
News Jun 2024 USA Sales: Kingdom Hearts Up 396 Places to Rival Elden Ring DLC Takeover
Steam bundle sends Kingdom Hearts into third
Elden Ring was the best-selling title of June 2024 in the USA thanks to the release of its Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, but the real story of the month comes from Square Enix's weird and wonderful crossover series Kingdom Hearts. Following ports to Steam — previously exclusive to the Epic Games Store —...
News UK Sales Charts: Hogwarts Legacy Continues Winning Streak Amid Quiet Release Schedule
A kind of magic
While there are brilliant new games hitting digital storefronts pretty much every week, it's definitely a different story when you zoom in on physical releases. In the realm of disc-based titles, the usual summer slump is in full effect, and you can see it in action on the UK's latest bestsellers list. Topping things off is Hogwarts...
News Armored Core 6 Crashes Through 3 Million Sales as First Anniversary Approaches
Core support
We suppose it's quite easy to forget, but FromSoftware actually released another game between Elden Ring and Shadow of the Erdtree. Its hardcore mecha action title, Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, launched in August of last year, and as it approaches its first anniversary, we've been handed news of it breaking through 3 million sales...
News UK Sales Charts: Prince of Persia, Cyberpunk Jump Back into Top 10
Found crown
The UK's latest physical games chart is here, and while it's largely what you'd expect at this point, there are one or two surprise reappearances from discounted titles. Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition is back in the top 10, moving from 14th to eighth place. It's an even bigger leap for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, which was out of...
News 'PlayStation's Blessed with Marketing Budgets We're Not Able to Enjoy,' Xbox Bigwig Bemoans
Marketing man doesn't mince his words
Microsoft is in a dire position in Europe, with the latest round of data suggesting PS5 is outselling the Xbox Series X|S by a ratio of almost 10:1 on the continent. One of the reasons for that enormous discrepancy all comes down to brand awareness, and Sony has spent the past 30 years carefully and effectively...
News EA Sports College Football 25 Sells 2.2 Million Copies for $100
Early Access scheme brings home the bacon
It’s nothing new in the games industry, but it’s probably something you’re going to see a lot more: an eye-watering 2.2 million people coughed up $99.99 to purchase EA Sports College Football 25’s Deluxe Edition, which launched three days early, on 16th July. The game is available for everyone from...
News Only Two New PS5 Titles Infiltrated the European Top Ten for the First Half of 2024
Older releases round out the list
Here’s a reminder that most people are perfectly content buying and playing older games on their spangly new systems: only two new PS5 titles released in 2024 managed to make the year’s top ten so far. That’s right, despite Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Tekken 8, Stellar Blade, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and...
News PS5 Simply Can't Match the Pace of 2023 in Europe
But holding steady
For the first half of 2024, sales of PS5 are down 16 per cent year-over-year. While this may sound like cause for concern, it’s worth noting it’s still comfortably the region’s best-selling console, and it’s competing with a particularly fruitful period. In the early months of 2023, Sony widely promoted the platform’s...
News UK Sales Charts: It Takes Two Leapfrogs Back into Top 10, Hogwarts Legacy Takes the Lead
Three griffins on a shirt
Hazelight Studio's hit co-op game, It Takes Two, has made its return to the UK's physical top 10. It's currently in ninth position, thanks to some deep discounts if Amazon is anything to go by. It's always good to see the usually unmoving bestsellers shaken up a little, though aside from this title, it's all pretty...
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...
