UK Sales Charts: Resident Evil 2 Sells Best on PS4 by a Mile

Nice. Well deserved for a great game.

Well the UK is primarily PS4 so...

Good for Resident Evil 2. I’m glad I was able to get it over the weekend. And of course, GTA V comes and goes on this list whenever it darn well pleases lol.

It's brilliant but I'm glad I got the PC version. 60 FPS on maxed out graphics on a laptop really shows that Capcom put in the effort this time around. Hopefully badly optimised ports become a thing of the past.

Playing for the first time and it’s a great game. About the sales, it feels right to play Resident Evil on PlayStation, and all the multiplats sell better on PlayStation as well.

amazing game .graphics.boss.atmosphere.weapons.the whole nine yards.resident evil 2.is all that with a cherry on top.congratulations capcom.now give me dragon dogma 2.word life.word up son

@Neolit going by some numbers ive figured, every person on the planet owns at least 3 copies of gta5.

RE2 is what a "remastered" should be like.

It's good, but bear in mind there are twice as many PS4s out there as Xboxes, at least worldwide - I know this is UK only but I'd expect a similar split worldwide.

Thing is, the natural split if it sold to the same percentage of the owners of each console would be 66% of sales to PS4. This is 8% above that which is cool but it's not that dramatic. (Also, I wonder how many of those Xboxes that have contributed to sales figures are just sitting in the backroom of a CeX now and aren't actually part of the install base? Pretty much a dead console at this point.)

@Agramonte it's a remake not a remaster. A remaster isn't meant to be a remake, if you remaster a film you clean up the image and use a high res source for the bluray. Totally different from remaking the whole film with new actors etc.

With the increasing use of online purchases I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a lot closer to RE7 in sales if not exceeding it. Weren’t we supposed to be getting digital sales shown as well this year? When is that starting?

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Nice, I hope this is enough proof to publishers and investors that Survival Horror is not a dead genre.

@Matroska : it's about 1.3 to 1 in the UK.. it much closer than the worldwide number. though the only games that seem to perform that closely are shooters. BF V actually did better at retail in 2018 on XB1 by about 4000 copies. FIFA which I thought would have been close, was almost 2:1 in favour of PS4.. all that champions league advertising must be money well spent.

@ThroughTheIris56 Nah. The success of a single game is never enough proof for anything, especially if it's a remake, so sales are affected by nostalgia. Crash could have come out last year for the first time and "no one" would have given a damn. It did well because of nostalgia and everyone who had already played it talking about it. Games with animal protagonists haven't done well in quite a while.

As for Survival horror, it may be more popular but no serious conclusions can be drawn from RE2.

@get2sammyb When are we getting digital sales included? I thought Chart Track was including them from this year?

That article pic is so Star Wars.

Sale charts are for elitists, most the time indie titles that have amazing sale records against AAA titles in some weeks and months are not shown, let alone games that are FREE TO PLAY, and early access, and those inevitable games stuck in beta for like 5 years now... Official UK charts means nothing, resident evil 2 is amazing though and deserves its spot

@Matroska you counter-arguement is based on world wide sales. This article is about UK, where the hardware sales of both, PS4 and Xbox 1, are pretty even.

@ellsworth004 Zero copies not even a used copy GTA 😴😴😴😴😴

@Flaming_Kaiser yeah i dont own it either, ive played it. Didnt care for it. But if u just look at it from sales its probably the greatest game ever...

@Frigate

Not entirely accurate that it didn't sell better than RE7 it sold only 18% fewer physical than RE7 but GFX Chart-Track does not count digital sales which of course have risen alot year on year since RE7's release 2 years ago, also RE7 got released on a Tuesday in the UK giving it 3 more days in sales. I think RE2 probably outperformed RE7 all things considered

@naruball Fair enough it's probably not enough by itself, but when can add this to the financial success of games like Resi 7 and Alien Isolation, there is strong evidence that there is a demand out there for survival horror.

For Resi 2 I'm sure nostalgia played a part, but not for a number of people who have never played the original myself included. And even if it is due to nostalgia, it's still appreciation for a game of the survival horror genre, and proves there are potential customers for it.

...wait, Resident Evil 2 isn't a PlayStation4 exclusive?

Given how PushSquare has been heavily promoting and discussing the remake, I just assumed it was.

@JAMes-BroWWWn there's still a big lead for PS4, 6+ million (could be close to 7) as opposed to under 5 million for XB1 (could be close to 4, then we're comparing about 4 million to about 7 million. Also as I said, just cos they've sold, doesn't mean people still have them and didn't trade them in a while ago.

@Matroska There is no "big" leap between PS4 and Xbox One in UK. PS4 has around 6 millions hardware units sold and Xbox around 5 millions. That‘s not big at all. UK is literally the only market, in EU, where Xbox has relevance. Other regions have really big leaps between those 2 consoles. UK does not.

Here is the link to the sales reveal.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/gamingbolt.com/ps4-sells-1-million-units-in-2018-in-uk-switch-ltd-sales-at-1-4-million-xbox-one-at-under-5-million/amp

@OmegaYato in terms of console sales the UK is pretty even when it comes to PS and Xbox and most actually own both systems

@get2sammyb another fun stat, apparently most people chose to play as Leon

@ellsworth004 Same as COD lol mainstream is where the developers want to target their games at. 😁

@RogerRoger Did you ever watch a add on TV from Microsoft its like they are exclusive.

@Flaming_Kaiser Ah, television. That'll be the thing I haven't watched in almost... blimey, seven years now!

@RogerRoger Or look at the online ads. 🤓

@Flaming_Kaiser If they haven't been on PushSquare, I won't have seen them. This is the only place I visit!

Thanks for trying, though!