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News Japanese Sales Charts: PS4 Outsells Switch Two Weeks in a Row
Gintama also shows up to party
The PlayStation 4's on a little bit of a roll in Japan right now, as the current-gen console has outsold the Nintendo Switch for the second week in a row. Combining the numbers of both the standard model and the PS4 Pro, Sony's system breaks 50,000 units, which is a solid amount. Over on the software charts, things...
News UK Sales Charts: Digimon Marks Only Change in Impenetrable Top 10
Digimon are the champions
Another week, another mostly similar UK sales chart. This week we mainly see a reshuffle of the previous top 10, with only one dropping out (Forza Motorsport 7) and one new entry. Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory just makes it into 10th place on the list, and honestly, there isn't a whole lot more to report...
News December 2017 NPD: Call of Duty: WWII Conquers $3.29 Billion Month
PS4 crowned best-selling console of 2017
Those people who wrote articles about the death of the console industry prior to the release of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One should hang their heads in shame, as Call of Duty: WWII just dominated a $3.29 billion month for the United States games industry. That’s up 10 per cent over year-over-year,...
News Heavy Rain's Sales Reach a Ridiculous 5.3 Million Units
When it rains it pours
Back when it released in 2010, Heavy Rain was looked upon as one of the most experimental titles in Sony’s portfolio. While it built upon a lot of the groundwork laid in PlayStation 2 game Fahrenheit (or Indigo Prophecy, depending on where you’re from) its story-driven murder mystery was unlike anything available at the...
News Japanese Sales Charts: Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Fights Its Way to Number 1 on PS4
But can't beat its PSP brothers
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT launched in Japan last week, and it shot straight to the top of the software charts. The fighter-role-playing game hybrid racked up around 106,000 sales on PlayStation 4. That doesn't seem too shabby given the current Japanese market, but it's worth pointing out that the two prior Dissidia...
News UK Sales Charts: Grand Theft Auto V Returns to the Top
Chop, Chop
Grand Theft Auto V first released in 2013; it’s still topping the UK sales charts in 2018. The unbelievable success of Rockstar Games’ open world opus trucks on, with the title securing its 14th cumulative number one, putting it close to record holder Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’s 18 week record. GTA5’s now spent 226 weeks on...
News Crash Bandicoot Outsells Destiny 2 at UK Retail in 2017
Woah!
A brand new set of figures concerning last year's sales of physical games in the UK has emerged, courtesy of gamesindustry.biz. In a comprehensive breakdown of the UK games market for 2017, it's revealed that physical sales were down by 0.4%, but revenue increased by 2.1% to £792m. Perhaps most interestingly, however, is the list of the top...
News Japanese Sales Charts: PS4 Gets a Healthy New Year Boost
Sony's system enjoys a jump
Two Japanese sales charts articles in one week? Are they trying to do us in? The numbers for the first week of 2018 are here, and despite Nintendo absolutely dominating the software charts, the PlayStation 4 managed to rack up some decent figures. The standard model enjoyed a reasonable sales boost, jumping from 37,000...
News Call of Duty, Star Wars Dominate PS Store Charts in December 2017
Gang Beasts starts strong, too
There are no surprises in the PlayStation Store charts for December 2017, apart from perhaps the success of the long-overdue Gang Beasts, which charted second on the PlayStation 4 in North America and sixth in Europe. Call of Duty: WWII and Star Wars Battlefront 2 dominated depending upon your continent, with FIFA...
News Sony Wraps Up NA Holiday Sale with Fifth Week of Xmas Offers
It's almost mid-January
The sale that never ends has returned for one last week, as Sony puts a bow around its North American holiday promotion. To be honest, we’ve been back at work long enough to forget Christmas even ever happened. Anyway, the fifth week of offers is live now and includes discounts on titles like Burly Men at Sea for $6.99 and...
News Japanese Sales Charts: It's Been a Quiet Christmas for PlayStation
Zzz
We'll be frank: it's barely worth reporting on these latest Japanese charts. PlayStation had a very quiet post-Christmas period, with console sales dropping off and no new software to speak of. Only three PlayStation titles stuck around in the top 20: Earth Defense Force 5, Call of Duty: WWII, and Yakuza: Kiwami 2. Meanwhile, the standard...
News PS4 Enjoys Best Ever Year, Sells Over 20 Million Units
Success story
While many – this author included – had expected the PlayStation 4 to peak in 2016, new numbers from Sony reveal that the console actually increased 15 per cent year-over-year. In fact, data shows that the system sold a whopping 20.2 million units globally in 2017 alone – up from its previous record of 17.5 million units the year...
News PS4 Sells Almost Six Million Units in Just Over a Month
Install base now at 73.6 million units
Sony’s sent out its customary pre-CES 2018 chest puffing press release, revealing that the PlayStation 4 sold almost six million units globally over the all-important holiday period. To be precise, the system sold 5.9 million units worldwide from the period spanning 20th November through 31st December...
News UK Sales Charts: FIFA 18 Kicks off 2018 at No.1
Live and kicking
The new year is off to a fairly unsurprising start in the UK weekly sales chart. FIFA 18 has reclaimed the top spot from Call of Duty: WWII, and we see PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds nip into the top 10 at 7th, but other than that, there isn't an awful lot out of the ordinary this week. Perhaps the most interesting nugget of...
News Call of Duty: WWII Topped the US PS Store Charts for 2017
Friday the 13th in top five
Call of Duty: WWII was the most downloaded PlayStation 4 game of 2017 on the US PlayStation Store, followed by Destiny 2. The news will surely have Activision’s Bobby Kotick licking his lips, but there’s a surprise in third position: Friday the 13th. The asymmetrical online game beat out Horizon: Zero Dawn which...
News UK Sales Charts: Call of Duty Remains MVP for Final Week of 2017
Boom
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Call of Duty: WWII has kept hold of its position atop the UK physical charts as 2017 drew to a close. It's been sitting pretty as number one for eight weeks running which, according to chart trackers GfK, hasn't happened since Zumba Fitness danced into our lives in 2011. The top five hasn't changed at all, actually, but...
News Japanese Sales Charts: PS4, PS4 Pro Continue to Sell Well Over the Holidays
But that's about it
Sony has enjoyed a decent run over the last few weeks in Japan, with the holiday season pushing sales of both the PlayStation 4 and the PS4 Pro. According to the latest hardware charts, the former broke 50,000 units over the last week, and although the latter saw a very slight dip, the supercharged system still managed to top...
News UK Sales Charts: Crash Bandicoot Climbs the List for Christmas
Oodibigah
Remember when people questioned whether Crash Bandicoot could possibly be relevant in 2017? Well, the orange furred fave has done okay for himself this Christmas, with the N. Sane Trilogy climbing up the UK sales charts into sixth position over the holidays. This is a muted British best sellers list due to the lack of new releases, but...
News Crash Bandicoot Is PS4's Best Selling Remaster Collection to Date
Cool as a 'coot
“Who cares about Crash Bandicoot?” the sceptics said. “He’s just a product of 90s nostalgia!” But we told you that the N. Sane Trilogy was going to do big business for Activision, owing to the fact that you lot clicked on any articles we wrote about the character in droves. And we were right: Vicarious Visions’ brilliant...
News Japanese Sales Charts: PS4 Sturdy, But Utterly Overshadowed by Switch
This is the new norm
With your regular host Robert Ramsey AWOL for the afternoon, it’s down to yours truly to share the Japanese sales charts for the week. If you may forgive a Premier League analogy for the moment, the PlayStation 4 has cast itself as Manchester United for the time being, improving year-over-year but looking lacklustre next to...
News Call of Duty: WWII Has Already Raked in a Cool $1 Billion Worldwide
Duty calls
Call of Duty is back – although it didn’t really go anywhere to begin with, did it? Activision’s announced that historical first-person shooter Call of Duty: WWII has now raked in over $1 billion worldwide since launching last month, which in case you hadn’t noticed is an extortionate sum of money. It’s also the top selling...
News PS4 Gobbled Up Half of All Physical Game Sales in UK This Year
Wakka wakka
The quiet giant strikes again, with more staggering (but underreported) statistics emerging about the PlayStation 4’s ridiculous 2017. According to Games Industry.biz – courtesy of sales data firms UKIE and GfK Chart-Track – Sony’s console commanded 50.2 per cent of all physical game sales in the UK this year. It’s no slouch in...
News UK Sales Charts: Call of Duty: WWII Is This Year's Christmas Cracker
Got the X Factor
Call of Duty: WWII is your Christmas number one on the UK sales charts. Surprise! Activision’s franchise has topped the British best sellers list four festive seasons in a row now, although last year’s Infinite Warfare did rely on a £12.99 price drop in order to keep the record alive. The same hasn’t proven true with...
News November 2017 NPD: PS4 Dominates Hardware Sales with Best Ever Month, Call of Duty Is King
Switch, Xbox One X can't hold back Sony's system
Just goes to show what we know, eh? We predicted that the PlayStation 4 would be the “worst” selling console in November 2017, drowned out by the Nintendo Switch and the Xbox One X launch. In actual fact, it enjoyed its best month in the United States ever, topping even November 2013, when the...
News Japanese Sales Charts: Yakuza: Kiwami 2 and Earth Defense Force 5 Take Top Spots
PS4 and Pro see huge boosts
PlayStation has enjoyed a pretty great week in Japan as we enter the holiday period. Two new PlayStation 4 titles took the top spots of the software charts, with Yakuza: Kiwami 2 and Earth Defense Force 5 both breaking 100,000 copies. Equally positive are the hardware charts, where Sony's current-gen system saw a...
News NA PS Store's Gigantic Holiday Sale Is Scarily Big
'Tis the season
Oh! Oh? Oh... Sony has launched the first leg of its North American PlayStation Store Holiday Sale bonanza, and there are literally hundreds of items discounted here. Everyone’s entitled to up to 50 per cent off, but as always, PlayStation Plus subscribers will get added perks. So what are the highlights, then? Where to even...
News UK Sales Charts: Order Is Established As the Releases Dry Up
You can probably guess the top ten
You know that Ariana Grande song where she’s all like, THIS IS. THE PART WHERE? C’mon, you know the one. Anyway, this is the part where we post practically the same UK sales charts every week for, like, eight weeks because nothing much happens. That’s primarily because very little is coming out, but also...
News PS4 Sales Cross 70 Million Units Milestone, PSVR Passes 2 Million Units
Killing it
And just like that, the PlayStation 4 has passed another major milestone, crossing 70.6 million units sold to consumers worldwide. The console was at 60.4 million units as of 12th June, so it’s added over 10 million units in the six months since. The latest data is accurate as of 3rd December, so there’s still frantic holiday shopping...
News Japanese Sales Charts: PS4 Sees Slight Jump Despite Lack of New Games
Seasonal shifts
We've got another quiet Japanese sales charts report on our hands here, but at least Sony's current-gen console is still doing reasonably well for itself. PlayStation 4 sales actually increased, with the base model jumping to around 25,000 units, while the Pro crept up to 8000 units. This was despite a lack of new software. Speaking...
News UK Sales Charts: Gran Turismo Sport On Course to Overtake Crash Bandicoot
Will be Britain's best-selling PS4 exclusive of 2017
Gran Turismo Sport is now just a “few weeks away” from overtaking Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy as Britain’s best-selling PlayStation 4 exclusive of 2017 at retail. The racer has been discounted in recent weeks, but it’s still flying high on the revenue charts, and added an estimated...
News Persona 5 Sneaks Up on 2 Million Sales Worldwide
Get up get out there
Persona 5 has done very well for itself indeed. The insanely stylish role-playing release launched in the West earlier this year, and it quickly established the largest worldwide player base in the series' history. Back in July -- just a few months after the game launched -- publisher Atlus announced that total shipments and...
News Japanese Sales Charts: Hatsune Miku Hits High Notes on PS4, Wolfenstein II Barely Makes Top 20
PS4 stays steady
It's been another relatively quiet week for PlayStation in Japan, with only one new title making it into the top five. Rhythm game Hastsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone DX shifted around 35,000 copies on PlayStation 4, which isn't great, but it's not especially bad, either. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus also entered the...
News Video Games Had an Amazing Black Friday in the UK, PS4 Was Standout Success
Business is booming
Video games absolutely killed it on Black Friday 2017 it seems, as over 300,000 consoles were sold in the UK alone. The figure comes courtesy of GfK Entertainment (as reported by Games Industry.biz), with the PlayStation 4 purportedly being the standout performer. As mentioned previously, the PS4 had its strongest week since l
News Sony: PS4 Had Biggest Black Friday in PlayStation's 22 Year History
"PS4 is thriving"
Sony had the biggest Black Friday in PlayStation history, according to SIE exec Eric Lempel. Speaking with CNBC, the suit said that the organisation “sold more consoles than we ever have in our 22 year history” – despite the device largely selling out in the United States. Lempel added that additional purchases such as...
News PSVR Dominating as Virtual Reality Sector Passes Major Milestone
Sony commands 50 per cent share of sales
Sony is continuing to gobble up a large proportion of the virtual reality market with PlayStation VR, but while former president Andrew House was concerned by the lack of competition from other high-end devices earlier in the year, he’ll be happier with these latest results tracking the virtual reality...
News UK Sales Charts: PS4 Has Best Black Friday Since 2013, PSVR Sales Match Launch
GT Sport sales up almost 900 per cent
It may be into its fifth year on the market now, but the PlayStation 4 had an outstanding Black Friday 2017 in the UK – its best ever, in fact, since Black Friday 2013, which is when the system originally launched on these shores. PlayStation VR also enjoyed a significant bump last week, matching its release...
News Four Years After Launch, PS4 Is Selling Out Again
Black Friday bonanza brings online shortages
A strange thing is happening: four years after launch, the PlayStation 4 is selling out – particularly online in the United States. To be clear, if you had planned on getting Sony’s system this week, then you’ll probably find plenty of stock in store – assuming you’re willing to fight for it –...
News Japanese Sales Charts: Even the Mighty Star Wars Is No Match Whatsoever for Pokémon
No jokémon
Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon have got off to a flying start in Japan, where the two games topped the software charts with ease. Of course, being a PlayStation site we're not going to delve into the details, but honestly, there's not much else to talk about. Star Wars Battlefront 2 made it into the top five, but only managed to shift...
News UK Sales Charts: Battlefront 2 Sales Slump 60%, Skyrim VR Outsells Switch Version
Tons of new games chart
Star Wars Battlefront 2 launched with 60 per cent fewer copies than its predecessor at retail in the UK, sales data has confirmed. The previous entry enjoyed the biggest ever debut for a Star Wars game in Britain, although it did have an extra day to rack up that record compared to the new instalment. It’s also worth...
News October 2017 NPD: PS4 Is Still the Best Selling System of the Year
Middle-earth: Shadow of War conquers all
Despite increasingly intense competition, the PlayStation 4 remains the best-selling console in the United States year-to-date – but it’s going to be clinging on by its fingernails as we sprint towards the business end of the year. Nintendo Switch was the top platform once again for the month of October,...
News Japanese Sales Charts: Sonic Forces Completely Flops as Awful New Need for Speed Overtakes
Insult to injury
Well would you look at that, the latest Japanese sales charts actually offer up some interesting talking points. Right off the bat, only one new game made it into the top five, and that was Need for Speed: Payback. The open world arcade racer managed to shift a meagre 21,000 copies on PlayStation 4 despite being butchered by...
Deals Major PS4 Games Discounted to Less Than a Tenner on EU PS Store
Anything take your fancy?
Black Friday hasn’t quite arrived yet, but Sony’s hoping to get you in the mood for some sales with its Games Under £9 (or €10 for our former friends on the continent) promotion. There are some good discounts here, but nothing you won’t have seen before. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, for example, is now £6.19 with...
News Xbox One X's UK Launch Sales Eclipse the PS4 Pro
But there are caveats
Microsoft’s mid-gen refresh the Xbox One X launched with sales in the region of 80,000 units in the UK, dwarfing the 50,000 units launch of the PlayStation 4 Pro last November. It’s a decent start for the Redmond manufacturer’s much anticipated machine, matching the Nintendo Switch’s debut sales back in March. Of...
News UK Sales Charts: Call of Duty: WWII Records Best Second Week in Two Years
War never changes
Call of Duty: WWII started strong – and it’s held strong. Activision’s first-person shooter has registered the highest selling second week of both 2017 and 2016 in the UK, suggesting that the switch to historical warfare was an astute one from the publisher. Elsewhere, evergreen favourite FIFA 18 leapfrogged Assassin’s...
News Assassin's Creed 'Officially Back' as Origins Doubles Syndicate's Sales
Did very well digitally
Assassin's Creed Origins is a very good game, and it seems to be reaping the rewards. Ubisoft has revealed that the latest open world stab-'em-up doubled previous title Assassin's Creed Syndicate's launch sales, which is obviously a big improvement, and exactly the kind of result that the publisher wants to see. There are a...
News Japanese Sales Charts: Call of Duty: WWII Guns Its Way to the Top
.hack also makes its way into top 5
The latest Japanese charts are in, and guess what? Call of Duty: WWII has done pretty well for itself. The very brown and grey shooter has topped the software list with an impressive 168,234 copies on PlayStation 4. The series has always done quite well in Japan, and these numbers further solidify its standing as...
News Grand Theft Auto V Is Officially the Best Selling Game Ever
Finally beats out Wii Sports
At the rate that Grand Theft Auto V still sells, this news was inevitable. Rockstar's open world tale of crime and crazies is now the best selling game of all time, moving 85 million copies both physically and digitally. In other words, the title has finally leapfrogged Wii Sports, which sits at around 83 million...
PlayStation Store Sales Charts FIFA 18, Gran Turismo Lead the Way
Front of the pack
There are no upsets in the October 2017 PlayStation Store sales charts, with FIFA 18 pulling away from the pack like Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City [Grumble – Ed] in both Europe and North America. Over in the Old World, the divisive Gran Turismo Sport finished up in second, while it was forced to settle for fifth place in the...
News UK Sales Charts: Call of Duty's Return to WWII Prompts Resurgence
Back in black
Remember how virtually every retail release has been down this year in the UK due to growing digital sales? It hasn’t affected Call of Duty: WWII, which has absolutely smashed predecessor Infinite Warfare’s launch by a whopping 57 per cent. That should put the historical shooter just short of Black Ops III’s first week figures...
News Digital Game Sales are Now a Huge Factor in the UK, and Charts Really Need to Track Them
Even for AAA games
More and more people are opting to buy games digitally in the UK, and the shift towards purchasing titles from online marketplaces such as the PlayStation Store is happening faster than most predicted. According to data that Games Industry has obtained, we're seeing a huge increase in users buying AAA games digitally rather than...
