PS5 Pulling Ahead in the UK Thanks to Sony's Summer Sale

Awesome! Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling :3

Not sure how this is cause for celebration. Half of the titles in the list are / soon to be Microsoft owned

A few backward compatible Xbox games on the list with the server fixes that occurred. Kind of interesting how they spiked after that.

How many copies of gta v do some people own? I personally think that this is quite depressing reading, same old stuff at the top 10. No wonder fewer and fewer risks are taken on original ideas.

Wait black ops 2? Lol

Hogwarts. My fave game so far this year.

Ya know it baffles how FIFA continues to be a mainstay in the top 10, considering nigh on everyone on the store review page, more or less say 23 is bloody awful 🙂

Other than Diablo IV and maybe Hogwarts I think rest of the games are in discount.

@dimi Yes, they were discounted and also Microsoft fixed the servers, so they spiked in sales. Think I picked up BO2 for £9.99 digitally.

Kind of crazy seeing backwards compatibility games in the top 10 but that has to be reassuring for companies to save old games. They can find a whole new target audience again. Black Op’s 2 is still the highest selling COD game ever. I am at 250 hours of diablo 4 and just getting started, but i can’t wait for the big 3 to start launching some new heavy hitters. Those will surely shake up the sales chart.

Grand theft auto 5 and red dead redemption 2 for the win word up son

It's a sad day indeed when the latest call of duty is being purchased less than one's from 10+ years ago

@ironcrow86 haters love to hate. People who love it will still complain an moan!

@luvgaming1001 I think just Diablo V will be exclusive, and that game is years away. I don't know about older COD games. But I understand your point, but Sony should definitely celebrate, even with all this news about Microsoft's purchases, they're managing to keep being the top selling video game.
To me, it just goes to show that the only company that have to be worried is Microsoft, not Sony, who will lose out on all that revenue. Kind of hard to think, even knowing all the money Microsoft had, how they're going to fund all these franchises without losing money and without Sony´s consumer base.

PlayStation is king.... Xbox fanbois be crying Yo

@ApostateMage mine too!!

@ironcrow86 I bought it on sale and I'm enjoying it, I havent bought a fifa game for years though so to me it was a massive leap in graphics and gameplay, fun to play local co op with friends and family, hard-core football game fans might disagree.

@Gbarsotini @number1024 Not meaning to dispute your points but it would be next gen that Sony is being set up to lose. COD is worth $1bn in annual revenue for PlayStation and it's Sony that would need COD instead of the other way round (unless of course Sony develops it's own killer FPS)

@number1024 If you had to opt for Netflix or HBO, which will you choose? MS will soon have double the number of studios compared to Sony. Even if you don't care for COD, Starfield, there are others like Doom, Diablo, Warcraft, Quake, StarCraft, Wolfenstein and many more that will push single console players to Xbox SX2 over PS6

@luvgaming1001 Yeah, there´s that too. But 10 years of COD, I think the next gen are safe. For the most part anyway.
Even that way, Activision needs a lot of money to fund the games, expansions, etc. If Microsoft, in the future, is willing to give it away for free only to MS owners (I know it´s not free, but GP is cheap), they need to start thinking a way to make more money. Or a lot of franchises now in Microsoft´s umbrella will get the shaft, and they´re solely focus will be on COD at that time.
I really don´t know, is just talk and guessing, 10 years is really far away, maybe I won´t even be gaming by then. haha

COD is worth $1bn in annual revenue for PlayStation and it's Sony that would need COD instead of the other way round (unless of course Sony develops it's own killer FPS)

This makes literally no sense. If it’s worth $1b in revenue to Sony then it’s worth over $2b in revenue to ABK from PS alone.

PlayStation Revenue is $26.9 and it can’t afford to lose $1b but ABK who has a yearly revenue of $7.5b can afford to lose almost $2.5b of that? How does that make any sense?

@Member_the_game It must be so good for you to feel like you are part of the winning team. I am happy that this has enhanced your sense of worth in life. I on the other hand am happy that good things keep coming to all gamers on all platforms including PS, Nintendo, Xbox and PC. This year has been great so far for everyone and many more great titles to come such as Starfield, Spiderman, Forza, Balders Gate, Lies of P, etc. No need to disparage one gaming platform. Let's hope that all continue to be successful. Success drives competition.

@ChrisDeku I should have added that over 1 million PlayStation players ONLY play Call of Duty on their PlayStation and nothing else. Analysts have estimated 6 million PlayStation gamers spend 70% of their time only playing Call of Duty. Close to 15% PS players spend at least 30% on COD. If MS does a Starfield with COD, playstation will lose a significant portion of its base. MS will take a hit to their bottomline too but long term those additional players switching to XBox will more than make up for it

@cburg

To be fair I was just joking.. I actually own all 3 of the Big consoles. Admittedly I probably do spend most of my time on the PS5 (at the moment at least).

That will probably change in October though when Forza Motorsport releases for the Xbox and also Super Mario Wonder on the Switch I'm really looking forward to both of them.

"As an aside, sales of PS4 are up 331% so far this year."

Wow, that thing is never going to retire - it's like the Check Norris of home consoles!

@luvgaming1001 You're detached from reality. CoD games have been mediocre for about a decade, their success is a self sustaining loop because everyone knows that everyone else will be playing. I.e. It's popular because it's popular. However, this house of cards would crumble if it was no longer on PS, which is more than 50% of its userbase. The game would lose more than half its userbase over night. There's no FOMO, you're
missing out but so are all your friends you play with. Everyone is missing out together. They'll very likely play something else together, rather than collectively coordinate the buying of a new console with everyone they know.

PS basically has power to kill CoD anytime it wanted(it doesn't because they like money), whereas CoD has almost no power over PS as a platform.

@Member_the_game All good!!

@ChrisDeku ...CoD DOES have power on PS....Modern Warfare, Cold War, Vanguard and MW2 were the best selling games each year on PS, even beating the PS exclusives...its a huge loss to Sony if they lose that

@KingPev ABK losing 1/3 of their entire revenue is a huge loss. PlayStation losing 10-15m sales a year out of 250m+(264m last year) is a minor inconvenience in comparison.

Lots of first party games sell more units than 10-15m, they just don’t do it all in the same year as there’s no rush to play games that don’t get replaced every 12 months. CoD sales on the individual level are not that impressive, they just make a game every year so they do that number every single year. Most other games sell over the course of the entire console lifecycle.