Tag: Sales
News Jan 2026 USA Sales: 5-Year-Old PS5 Nudges Nintendo's New Switch 2 Aside
Start as you meant to go on
After losing the December 2025 sales battle to the Switch 2, PS5 was once again the best-selling console in the US this January, ranked by both units and dollar sales. The console, which is now more than five-years-old, was propped up by some lingering holiday bundles. But while it doesn’t sound like there was a huge...
News As Nier: Automata Reaches 10 Million Sales, Square Enix Teases More to Come
To be continued
Publisher Square Enix has announced that NieR: Automata has now surpassed 10 million copies sold worldwide. To commemorate this impressive milestone, the company has released the following video, which goes over the game's journey and its various related projects over the years: While this is notable news in itself, the video...
News Nioh 3 Is the Fastest-Selling Game in the Series, 1 Million Copies Sold in Two Weeks
Killer
It seems like Nioh 3 has been a big success for publisher Koei Tecmo; it's announced the game has now sold 1 million copies, two weeks out from its initial launch. Moreover, it's reached this sales milestone faster than the previous games, making it the fastest-selling entry to date. As you can see in this post, Koei Tecmo has also...
News Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter's Success Sees Falcom Profits Soar
Sky high
For our money, Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter was one of 2025's best RPGs — and so it's nice to see this amazing remake rack up some significant dough for longstanding developer Falcom. Recently, company president Toshihiro Kondo commented that the studio needed a break from the ongoing Trails timeline — and so a decision was made to...
News Unsurprisingly, Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined Is a Massive Hit in Japan
Physical sale estimates are high
It's well-documented that Japan loves Dragon Quest, and that continues to prove itself true with the most recent game. Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined was last week's best-selling physical game in the country by a landslide. With different platform versions taking up the top three spots on the chart, the total sold comes...
News There's No Stopping Multiplayer Sensation ARC Raiders, Reaches 14 Million Copies Sold
Robot rock
ARC Raiders continues its ascent, with new figures from Nexon's earnings report highlighting just how big the multiplayer shooter has become. According to the report, the sci-fi extraction shooter has now reached 14 million units sold to date. A figure of 12.4 million was reported in mid-January, meaning it's sold about another 1.6...
News The Best Soulslike Around, Lies of P Is a Big Sales Success
Base game and DLC sell four million copies
Ask anyone what the best Soulslike game not made by FromSoftware is, and Lies of P will always be amongst the first responses. The excellent quality of the base game and last year's Overture expansion has made it a big sales success, with publisher Neowiz reporting the title has now surpassed four million...
News Launch-Aligned, Ghost of Yotei PS5 Is Selling Better Than Tsushima
It's "exceeded" the sales in the "same period of time"
In the four months since its release, Ghost of Yotei has outsold Ghost of Tsushima when comparing the numbers to its own launch period. On a better sales trajectory than the original 2020 game, Sony said (via VGC) that Ghost of Yotei "exceeded the sales of the previous title in the same period...
News PS5 Officially Outsells PS3, Now at 92.2 Million Units
Sells nearly five million more consoles
With the data from its latest quarterly earnings call taken into account, it's now official: the PS5 has outsold the PS3. Sony sold eight million PS5 consoles in Q3 of fiscal year 2025 to bring the PS5's overall total to 92.2 million units, as of 31st December 2025. This sees the system outsell PS3, which...
News GTA 5 Gives ARC Raiders a Run for Its Money on the PS5 Download Chart
Still got it
You know the Grand Theft Auto 6 hype is getting to people, because GTA 5 is in the top three most-downloaded PS5 games for the month of January 2026. The PS5 port of the game is approaching four years old (GTA 5 originally launched on PS3 in 2013), so it's pretty impressive to see it going toe-to-toe with contemporary titles like ARC...
News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Initial Sales Didn't Meet SEGA's Expectations
You're too slow
In a report from November 2025, SEGA revealed a little bit more about the sales performance of its big kart racer, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. At the time, the game had reached a worthy milestone of 1 million units sold, but it seems the publisher had higher hopes. "We recently announced that worldwide cumulative sales have...
News PS5 Climbing Game Cairn Is the First Success Story of 2026
Sells 200,000 copies in a few days
Newly released PS5 mountaineering game Cairn looks to have made a strong start to life sales-wise, with developer The Game Bakers confirming it's sold over 200,000 copies since launch last week. It released on 29th January 2026, meaning the milestone has been reached in just four days. "We couldn’t be happier to...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Sells 11 Million in Just Under a Year, But May Lack World's Momentum
Capcom updates numbers
Despite the game's ropey reputation, Monster Hunter Wilds has been another big success for Capcom. In a new financial report covering the company's third quarter of its financial year 2025, the publisher states the game has now surpassed 11 million units sold. It's reached that figure in about 11 months, putting it roughly on...
News Dec 2025 USA Sales: Industry Rebounds from One of the Worst Months on Record
All the best-selling software from the last year
Console sales looked apocalyptic last month, reaching an all-time November low since records began in 1995. But December 2025 was a much healthier month for the industry overall, with hardware sales increasing six per cent year-over-year – although this was largely propelled by the Switch 2, which...
News Despite Its Price, PS5 Pro Enjoyed a Very Respectable 2025 in USA
Nothing to sniff at
Of all the PS5 consoles sold in USA last year, approximately 13% of them were PS5 Pro models. That’s a very respectable number for the superpowered system, and roughly right in line with the PS4 Pro, which accounted for around 13% of the PS4’s lifetime sales in America. It’s worth remembering that the PS5 Pro – at an...
News These PS2, PSP, and PS Vita Games Managed to Sell 1 New Copy in 2025
The USA bought these old games once last year
Video game sales data will generally always focus on what's being bought the most, but what about the titles below the best sellers you never see? As Circana reveals its end-of-year reports for game sales in the USA, analyst Mat Piscatella has shared some fun facts surrounding the data you'd never...
News In a Sea of Live Service, Ghost of Yotei Was the Third Best-Selling PS5 Game of 2025 in the US
Top of the mountain
Ghost of Yotei must have made Sony a pretty penny, because the PS5 exclusive ended up being the third best-selling title of 2025 on PS5 in the US. As per Circana's data (thanks as always Mat Piscatella), the first-party exclusive was the only single player release in the entire top ten, with every other spot being taken up by...
News Call of Duty Sales Hit 17-Year Low with Black Ops 7
Lowest US ranking since World at War
Throughout December of last year, we heard a lot of reports on how Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was underperforming in a commercial sense — and Circana's breakdown of 2025 software sales in the US certainly backs them up. As relayed by Circana's Mat Piscatella, Black Ops 7 ranked fifth in dollar sales for the...
News Skyrim-Like RPG Tainted Grail Proves a Huge Success
One million copies sold since launch
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, which is essentially an indie take on The Elder Scrolls franchise, has gone down as a considerable success for developer Questline, as it's now confirmed the RPG has sold over one million copies. In a Steam community post, the studio thanked those who have bought the game and...
News In a Satisfying Announcement, Ace Combat 7 Has Sold 7 Million Copies in 7 Years
Flying high
You’ve got to love when the universe aligns for milestones like this: the excellent arcade air combat game Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has now sold over seven million copies since its release on 18th January, 2019. In fact, it’s sold one million copies in the last year alone, as publisher Bandai Namco previously announced the title...
News Japanese PS5 Sales Continue to Improve Following Launch of Cheaper Model
Sells as much as Switch 1
The Japanese games market is pretty much cornered by Nintendo and has been for a while, but Sony's still plugging away with PS5, and it's slowly getting better for the console. Late last year, a new, Japan-exclusive PS5 model launched with a reduced retail price and support for the Japanese language only. It's proven to be...
News Most Downloaded PS5 Games of 2025 Revealed, as Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 Tops Ghost of Yotei
Times have changed
PlayStation has revealed the 20 most downloaded PS5 games of 2025, split between North America and Europe. In truth, there aren't many surprises here. Annual sports games took both top spots, with NBA 2K26 winning out in NA, and EA Sports FC 26 taking the crown in EU. In both regions, the champions were followed up by a very...
News Arc Raiders Now a Huge Multiplayer Success Story at 12 Million Sales
960,000 concurrent players this month
While other live service efforts wilt, Embark Studios has proved there is still room for significant success in the online multiplayer games sector, as ARC Raiders has now sold more than 12.4 million copies since its October 2025 launch. A report from Business Wire reveals the game reached 10 million sales at...
News Dragon Ball Z Action RPG Kakarot Tops a Mighty 10 Million Sales
"The journey isn't over yet"
It's a universal law that when a Dragon Ball game sells, it sells really well. And that's exactly what's happened (or is currently happening) with Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. Originally released in 2020 for PS4 — and re-released for PS5 in 2023 — Kakarot has now sold a whopping 10 million copies. It hit 8 million in the...
News PS5 Reportedly Hands Forza Horizon 5 an Additional 5 Million Sales
Resulting in $300 million of revenue
The PS5 version of Forza Horizon 5 has now sold more than five million units since its April 2025 launch and made over $300 million in revenue for publisher Microsoft, one Alinea Analytics reporter claims. Rhys Elliott of the analytical firm posted to social media that, as of last week, Alinea Analytics...
News ARC Raiders Battles Sports Games for PS5 Download Dominance in December
Guns or balls?
Sony has shared the PS Store's download charts for the month of December 2025, and it's ARC Raiders putting up the strongest fight for the top spot on PS5. The popular sci-fi extraction shooter manages to topple NBA 2K26 in North America, but it has to settle for second in Europe, where EA Sports FC 26 rules the roost. ARC Raiders...
News Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Sees in the New Year with Major Sales Milestone
It's a sold strategy
Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, a remaster of its classic strategy RPG, has reached an impressive sales milestone. Shared on its social media channels, the publisher says the game has now surpassed one million copies sold: The Ivalice Chronicles is an enhanced version of the beloved...
News Xbox Sales Hit New Low in UK, Barely Competes with PS5 at This Point
Another one bites the dust
Xbox hardware sales have hit a new low in the UK, as Microsoft continues to redirect its console business. In 2025, Xbox Series numbers were down a whopping 39% — making for the worst sales result in the brand's history. Many had expected some sort of decline given the company's renewed focus on multiplatform...
News Fantasy Life i's Success Keeps Soaring After Free PS5, PS4 Update This Xmas
A life worth living
Level-5’s renaissance needs to be studied. The legendary Japanese studio released two hits this year: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time and Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road. And the former – fresh from receiving a free update over the Christmas holiday – has now sold over 1.5 million units worldwide. It’s achieved...
News Hope Prevails as Danganronpa Series Tops 10 Million Sales
Goodbye, despair
Danganronpa, the hit visual novel series from Spike Chunsoft, has surpassed global lifetime sales of 10 million. The franchise recently celebrated its 15th anniversary, and it's now reached an impressive sales milestone as a cherry on top. The Danganronpa series is broadly based on the visual novel structure, but the games feature...
News PS5 Enjoys a Decent November in the UK, Even Excluding Black Friday
But still down year-over-year
After some pretty apocalyptic console sales in the US this November, there were a few heart attacks this week when The Game Business initially erroneously reported some dreadful results for the UK. Fortunately, it was an error, and PS5 did decent for the month overall – even if it was down year-over-year. According...
It's still getting trounced
Reports suggest new PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino couldn’t stand to see Sony’s floundering status in its native Japan, and so rushed through approval of a cut-price language locked model in order to stimulate sales domestically. Under previous management, the manufacturer had purportedly accepted its status in its...
News Western Sales Have Saved the Trails Series, Falcom Boss Suggests
Beyond the horizon
It's no secret that Falcom's Trails series has flourished in the west over the last decade or so, with the Cold Steel saga introducing a whole new wave of players on PS4. In previous interviews, company CEO Toshihiro Kondo has confirmed that western sales now routinely eclipse Japanese sales of the same games — but it actually...
News PS5 Wins a Nightmarish November for All Console Hardware in the US
The worst on record since 1995
PS5 may have won the big Black Friday battle in the US this November, but the hardware market is in a bit of a mess. The latest Circana industry report reveals that hardware spending dropped 27% year-over-year, with just 1.6 million consoles being sold in total. That number combines all devices from all...
News Hogwarts Legacy Tops an Absurd 40 Million Copies Sold
Not even including subscriptions
Warner Bros has confirmed that Hogwarts Legacy has now sold more than 40 million units since its release in 2023. The last reported sales update came in March 2025, when the game had surpassed 34 million copies sold. This means Hogwarts Legacy has shifted another six million units since then. The post confirming the...
Black sheep?
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella has once again provided a breakdown of the USA's video game market, this time for the month of November, and it makes for interesting reading regarding Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. The good news for Activision is the FPS continues the series' streak of being the bestselling game in its launch month...
News Elden Ring Nightreign DLC Off to a Flyer with Two Million Launch Sales
Thank the Deluxe Edition for that
Elden Ring Nightreign players have turned up in their droves for the recently released PS5, PS4 expansion The Forsaken Hollows, with FromSoftware confirming the DLC has sold over two million copies. In a social media post, the developer shared the news in a graphic with the caption: "In the deepest recesses of...
News PS5 Dominates USA and UK on Black Friday, Comfortably Outsells All Its Rivals
On top
PS5 absolutely obliterated its rivals in the UK this Black Friday, selling an outrageous 62% of all console hardware during the week ending 30th November. To put the number into perspective, the newly released Switch 2 – in its first Black Friday – made up 23% of the sales, while the Xbox Series X|S occupied 10%, and the original Switch...
News Black Ops 7 Dominates PS5 Downloads Despite Backlash
Arc Raiders and Dispatch climb
Despite all of the negativity that's surrounded the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 — the middling reviews, the bafflingly bad campaign, the AI art accusations — Activision's latest shooter has still managed to top the PS5 down
News Japan's New PS5 Model Suffers Sales Slump in First Full Week of Data
17,400+ new PS5 model sold last week
PS5 sales in Japan remain steady when accounting for all versions of the console, but the new region-specific model of the system has dropped in sales during its first full week on the market. From the period of 24th November to 30th November, which accounts for the system's first full week of sales, Sony sold...
News PS5 Outsold by an Unexpected Rival in the Run Up to Black Friday
Well bam, there it is
An interesting datapoint from Circana analyst Mat Piscatella reveals the PS5 was outsold by an unexpected US-based rival in the run up to Black Friday last week. While the Switch 2 being top-selling hardware SKU for the week ending 22nd November won’t come as a massive surprise, the NEX Playground Interactive Gaming System...
News Hit PS5 Roguelike Ball X Pit Reaches One Million Sales, Free Content Updates Inbound
More balls please
Ball X Pit, Devolver Digital's addictive roguelike action title, has surpassed one millions copies sold. The publisher made the announcement on its socials today, alongside a teaser promising three major updates coming to the game in 2026: The updates (which will be free of charge) will add new ball types, evolutions,...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Lacklustre European Sales Continue Trending Downwards
Battlefield 6 on the up
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is looking like the weakest-performing game in the series in quite some time, and new data from the European market sees that story continue. As reported by Chris Dring on The Game Business, citing digital and physical sales data from GSD, Black Ops 7 has been replaced at the top of the chart by EA...
News PS5 Is Edging Out the Switch 2 in the UK So Far This Year
With a big Black Friday expected
There’s no beating around the bush: the Switch 2 has enjoyed an outstanding launch. In most countries, Nintendo’s new hybrid hardware has broken records, aided by excellent marketing and ample supply. It’s proven so successful in its first six months on the market that the Mario maker has actually increased...
News Japanese Ghost of Yotei PS5 Sales Are Just About Hanging On
The country's 26th bestseller last week
Across hardware and physical software sales, Nintendo dominates Japan — so much so that Ghost of Yotei was one of just three games not released for Switch 1 or Switch 2 to make the country's top 30 best-selling games chart last week. Accounting for physical copies alone (digital sales aren't counted),...
News PS5 Sales in Japan Quadruple as New Model Launches
23,000+ PS5 consoles bought
PS5 console sales in Japan have skyrocketed in the past week, as the new model designed specifically for the country enters the market. Accounting for around two to three days' worth of sales, there were exactly 23,381 purchases of the PS5 Digital Edition in Japan through until 23rd November. In comparison, PS5 sales the...
News Cult Hit PS5 Horror Game Cronos: The New Dawn Cracks Half a Million Sales
Scary good
Bloober Team, developer and publisher of Cronos: The New Dawn, has announced that its sci-fi horror adventure has surpassed sales of 500,000. The company used the game's official social channels to make the announcement: These days, Bloober Team is perhaps best known for its very well-received remake of Konami's horror classic Silent...
News Looks Like PS5 Is Going to Clean Up This Black Friday
Early sales from Spain paint a positive picture
It’s particularly early days, but it looks like Sony’s various global PS5 price promotions are going to do the business this Black Friday. Sales data from Spain confirms the company sold 41,000 units in the country for the week spanning 17th November through 23rd November. By comparison, the...
News SEGA Actually Admits Persona 5 Royal-Style Re-Releases May Result in Stunted Game Sales
Buyers can be "hesitant"
Well, well, well... How the tables turn. For a long time now, Atlus, and by extension, parent company SEGA, have dabbled in re-releasing their games. Typically, these re-releases feature expanded and / or improved content, and are often labelled as 'definitive' versions of the original title. Generally speaking, potential...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Now at a Staggering 35 Million Sales as Work on Sequel Continues to Ramp Up
Major leagues
It's actually mad to look back on the beginnings of Cyberpunk 2077 and compare that time to where the game is now. It's taken basically five solid years of updates — along with one hell of an expansion — to turn things around, but the open world RPG is now a colossal commercial success, with developer CD Projekt Red confirming...
