Tag: Sales
News Crimson Desert Sells 5 Million Copies in Less Than a Month
Another milestone reached for Pearl Abyss
Pearl Abyss has issued another sales update for its PS5 open world title Crimson Desert, confirming it's now sold more than five million copies. It achieved the milestone in less than a month, having launched on 19th March 2026. The game's social media profiles celebrated the new sales update with a post,...
News US PS5 Hardware Sales Hit a 2026 High Prior to Huge Price Increase
The peak before the collapse
Unsurprisingly, US consumers flocked to stores to pick up PS5 hardware prior to the console’s enormous price increase earlier this month. Circana analyst Mat Piscatella reveals that Sony’s console enjoyed its highest sales of 2026 so far during the week ending 4th April. The system’s price increase officially...
News PS5 Price Hike Hits Japan Hard as PS5 Pro Sales Sink to Xbox Levels
How low can you go?
There’s really no reason to purchase a non-language locked PS5 console in Japan after Sony’s latest price hike, and the market has responded. The latest Famitsu hardware sales data spanning the week ending 5th April shows that just 840 PS5 Pro consoles were sold during the period. A further 558 disc-based PS5 consoles were...
Split Fiction hits new milestone
Hazelight Studios has tapped into something pretty special with its two-player-only action adventure games, with all three titles being big success stories. The developer, led by outspoken director Josef Fares, has just announced it has reached cumulative sales of over 50 million units across A Way Out, It Takes...
Can't argue with that
Pearl Abyss really has a huge hit on its hands. Despite somewhat mixed reviews and many aspects that have divided opinion, Crimson Desert has now sold 4 million copies. It reaches that impressive milestone in a little under two weeks following its launch on 19th March 2026. As mentioned, Crimson Desert hasn't won over...
News Crimson Desert Storms the Physical UK Charts, and Almost All Copies Sold Were for PS5
King of the hill
Earlier today it was revealed that Crimson Desert has now surpassed total sales of three million, so it's no wonder that it's dominated the UK's physical games chart. Pearl Abyss' popular action game has immediately caused a stir among more established bestsellers, debuting straight at number one. A whopping 90 per cent of the...
Red hot
No matter how you feel about the game, it seems Crimson Desert has been a massive hit. The single-player, open world action adventure, from MMO studio Pearl Abyss, launched last week to a fairly mixed critical reception, but in less than a week, it's achieved more than three million copies sold. That figure comes from a recent update...
News PS5 Spin-Off God of War: Sons of Sparta Has Been a Big Hit for Sony
Punching above its weight
Here’s some proof that not everything Sony publishes needs to have a nine figure budget, as side-scrolling spin-off God of War: Sons of Sparta has quietly been a big success. The Mega Cat Studios-developed Metroidvania, which was shadow dropped during a State of Play, quietly appeared in 14t
"We will listen closely to the wide range of feedback"
It only launched a few hours ago, but Crimson Desert has already sold through two million copies worldwide, making it a massive success for dev Pearl Abyss. In a message on social media, the dev acknowledged the support of its fans, and said it’s already paying close attention to feedback and...
News Feb 2026 USA Sales: PS5 Outsells Nintendo's New Switch 2 for a Second Consecutive Month
Resident Evil Requiem a monstrous success
Sony’s five-year-old PS5 is keeping its nose in front of Nintendo’s new Switch 2, as it managed a second successive month ahead of the hybrid. While sales of the PlayStation were down year-over-year, it led the Mario maker’s machine across both units and dollar sales metrics. That may all change in...
News PS5 Leads Resident Evil Requiem Sales as 'Consoles Are Dead' Chat Falls Flat
The silent majority
There’s been a persistent opinion, perhaps partly powered by talkative PC players, that consoles are on their way out. Resident Evil Requiem is the latest example, where there’s been speculation it sold considerably better on PC than PS5. This was perhaps popularised by reports that emerged around the game’s launch which...
News Resident Evil Requiem PS5 Flying Off Shelves, Now at 6 Million Sales
The fastest entry to reach the milestone
Resident Evil Requiem has now sold more than six million units since its 27th February 2026 release, and it's the fastest any entry in the series has taken to reach the milestone. The game managed to sell five million copies during its first week on the market across physical and digital storefronts, and...
News SEGA's PS5 Games Get Good Reviews, So Why Aren't You Buying Them?
Good scores don't always mean good sales
SEGA's recent software lineup has been enjoying overall very strong reception from critics — but that has "yet to translate into a further increase in unit sales", the publisher has said. This comes from a recent Q&A all about the company's Q3 financial results. In response to a question about "scaling...
News Metal Gear Solid Delta Already One of the Best-Selling Versions of MGS3
Sales hit two million milestone
Konami today confirmed last year's Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has surpassed two million sales worldwide. It's doubled its total sales since release in August 2025, when the PS5 remake instantly opened to one million purchases on launch day. The update actually means the latest edition is already one of the...
News The UK Has Gone Mad for Resident Evil After the Huge Success of Requiem on PS5
Resi revival
Capcom recently released Resident Evil Requiem, and it's been so successful that it's seemingly dragging along every other Resi game with it. That's certainly true in the UK; the latest physical retail charts have come in, and the top 10 includes five Resident Evil games across all platforms. Requiem is still number one, of course,...
News Resident Evil Requiem Records Strong Japanese Sales, But Still Dwarfed by Resident Evil 5 and 6
194,166 copies sold in opening week
Capcom has already announced Resident Evil Requiem has sold over five million units since launch last week, and now we know just shy of 200,000 of those sales came from physical copies bought in Japan. The latest Famitsu sales data, which tracks boxed copies purchased between 23rd February 2026 and 1st March...
News Nothing Was Ever Going to Catch Resident Evil Requiem in PS Store's February Chart
Barnstormer
Resident Evil Requiem has been a huge success for Capcom already, and Sony's latest PS Store download charts only serve to echo that fact. The new horror action title is number one on both the North American and European PS5 charts, beating out February's other new releases like Nioh 3, Reanimal
News Resident Evil Requiem Surpasses an Astonishing 5 Million Sales in Its First Week
Capgod
Resident Evil Requiem, the latest game in Capcom's popular horror action series, has gotten off to an incredibly strong start. The publisher has officially announced the new entry has surpassed 5 million units sold since its launch on 27th February 2026, meaning it's reached that milestone inside its first week on the market. As far as...
News Physical Game Sales Hit All-Time Low in the US
Discless wonder
In 2025, physical game spending dropped to a new low in the US. This is according to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, who reports that based on tracked data — which dates back to 1995 — sales reached just $1.5 billion. Again, an all-time low. Now, obviously, physical games still make money — it's not like physical media is...
News Resident Evil Requiem's Physical UK Launch 'Much Bigger' Than Village, 4 Remake
Based Capcom
Capcom continues to knock it out of the park with its latest game, the very well-received Resident Evil Requiem. The horror action game launched just before the weekend on 27th February 2026, and its first few days on the market appear to have been very strong indeed. The data for physical UK sales has come in, and while it represents...
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...
