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News UK Sales Charts: TMNT Shredder's Revenge Kicks Shell with Surprise Top 10 Debut
Cowabunga!
The latest charts from last week's physical game sales have finally appeared, and there's a pleasant surprise among the usual suspects. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge made the jump to physical media, and it's done pretty well for itself. A number eight debut doesn't sound too hot, but that's not bad at all for a smaller...
News UK Sales Charts: Horizon Forbidden West Soars Back to the Top
96% of copies sold on PS5
Horizon Forbidden West continues to sell like hot cakes in the UK. While its position in the physical chart fluctuates, a more regular stream of PS5 stock means it's never too far from the top. This week, it's landed back at number one, up six positions. As expected, sales lean heavily to the PS5 version with 96 per cent of...
News Marvel's Spider-Man PC Wall Climbs Up the Steam Best-Sellers List
Super swinger
The two Marvel’s Spider-Man games have sold a spider-sense tingling 33 million copies on just the PS5 and PS4 alone, but you wouldn’t rule out the series pushing several million more units when it comes to PC, would you? Pre-orders opened for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered today, and the
News UK Sales Charts: Far Cry 6 Bounces Back While LEGO Star Wars Claims the High Ground
Country feeling like Mustafar right now
The UK is going through a heatwave right now, so we imagine that sales of physical games have generally been down as people stay out of the sun. Still, those that did buy some new titles to play have successfully dethroned F1 22, down a place after spending a couple of weeks on top. LEGO Star Wars: The...
News Ghost of Tsushima Surpasses 9.73 Million Copies Sold on PS5, PS4
Jin and juice
Sucker Punch’s samurai smash hit Ghost of Tsushima has surpassed 9.73 million copies sold in the two years since it launched, making it one of Sony’s strongest selling first-party releases. The impressive sales number – accurate as of 3rd July, 2022 – means that the title will almost certainly cross 10 million units when all is...
News June 2022 NPD: PS5 Sees Double Digit Growth, Biggest Dollar Sales of Year So Far
Back in business
Sony has once again proven that when it’s able to put PS5 stock on shelves, it’s able to generate dizzying sales statistics. For the month of June 2022, the new-gen system delivered double digit dollar sales growth year-over-year in the United States – and has driven the most revenue across all hardware platforms in the first...
News Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course Passes an Impressive Sales Milestone: One Million Units Sold
There is a healthy appetite for StudioMDHR's latest, it seems
Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course was released just under two weeks ago, and the terrific expansion to the base Cuphead game has already passed an astounding sales milestone: one million units sold across all platforms. Studio MDHR director and executive producer Maja Moldenhauer had...
News UK Sales Charts: Klonoa Grabs a Top 10 Debut While Horizon Forbidden West Sells More PS5s
F1 22 remains top of the podium
Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series, the remaster collection of the original two games, has landed a fairly solid debut in the UK's physical games chart. While Bandai Namco's platfomer isn't sitting on top of the pile, a respectable fifth place is a decent result for what is a lesser known franchise making a comeback...
PS Store Sales Charts The Quarry and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Battle for PS5 Number One
Shredder's Revenge makes a splash on PS4
June's North American and European charts for the PS Store are in, and there's an interesting battle at the very top. On the PS5 charts, The Quarry and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order both earn themselves a number one and number two spot; Supermassive's horror adventure clinches it in the US, while Europe...
News UK Sales Charts: British Grand Prix Boosts Perfectly Timed Release for F1 22
Pole position
F1 22, the latest Formula One racer from Codemasters, debuts at number one in the UK's physical chart with some impeccable timing. Launching just before the British Grand Prix got underway at Silverstone, it's no wonder the game arrives in first place, with the PS5 and PS4 versions combined accounting for 71 per cent of copies sold...
News UK Sales Charts: Only Three Top 10 Games Are Available on PlayStation
Not switching it up
The UK's physical games charts are usually dominated by Nintendo Switch titles, but it's getting pretty ridiculous now. The country's love affair with the hybrid console is strong as ever; the latest result shows a top 10 in which seven of the games are only on Switch. That leaves us with very little to write about on a...
News PS5 Stock Shortages Force Format to Fall Behind Xbox for a Second Week in Japan
Low five
Sony’s trying time in its home country continues, as the PS5 was outsold by the Xbox Series X|S in Japan for a second week. This already occurred once in mid-May, and was noteworthy because it was the first time a PlayStation console had been beaten by an Xbox platform in the weekly Japanese hardware charts for over a decade. Acco
News UK Sales Charts: Horizon Forbidden West Back on Top, 95% of Copies Sold Were PS5
Horizon Zero Chill
It seems PS5 stock floated back into view in the UK last week, because first-party games clambered back up the physical charts once again. Horizon Forbidden West is up from third to first, selling almost all its copies on the newer console; the PS4 version accounts for just five per cent of the week's sales. Elsewhere, Gran...
PS Store Sales Charts Evil Dead: The Game Prevents Flawless Victory for NBA 2K22
Ash vs basketball
The top PS Store downloads for May 2022 arrived last week, and they somehow passed us by. As it turns out, it wasn't the most eventful month for Sony's digital storefront, although Evil Dead: The Game put a dent in NBA 2K22's armour. The multiplayer horror title takes first place on the PS5's US chart, while 2K's basketball...
News May 2022 NPD: PS5 Stock Issues Put Sony Back in Last
As industry takes a tumble
Sony managed to improve PS5 supply in the USA in April 2022, but stock issues pegged it right back in May 2022, unfortunately. The new-gen console was outsold by both the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X|S, although an overall 19 per cent dip in industry spend year-over-year suggests the hardware production problems are...
News UK Sales Charts: The Quarry PS5, PS4 Physical Sales Run Away with 84% Share
Scary
The latest UK bestsellers list is in, telling us which games people have been buying in brick and mortar stores. One new release, The Quarry, arrives at number four on the chart, selling most copies on PS5 or PS4. Combined, the platforms command an 84 per cent share of the title's debut sales. We would say that Game Pass is affecting physical...
News The Last of Us 2 Has Sold an Impressive 10 Million Copies on PS4
Hole in one
The Last of Us 2 has sold 10 million copies on the PS4 alone. Naughty Dog confirmed the sales milestone alongside the announcement of The Last of Us: Part I. “We’re happy to share that The Last of Us 2 has sold through more than 10 million copies globally, as of this spring,” Naughty Dog’s Rochelle Snyder wrote on the PS Blog...
News UK Sales Charts: Horizon Forbidden West Back on Top Thanks to PS5 Restocks
Machines are taking over
Once again, PS5 stock returning to store shelves has seen Aloy take the throne atop the UK's physical games chart. Horizon Forbidden West was in second last week, but returns to number one thanks to an increase in PS5 availability. It's pretty clear that buyers are grabbing a copy of the action RPG alongside their brand new...
News PS5 Has Now Sold Over 20 Million Units as Sony Plans to Ramp Up Production
The only way is up
Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that it's now sold more than 20 million PS5 consoles worldwide. As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, the platform holder has reached this figure not long after its last financial reports in early May. At the time, Sony stated it had shipped 19.3 million units, but it's now crossed over the...
News Spider-Man PS5, PS4 Games Sell a Spider-Sense Tingling 33 Million Copies
In the swing of things
Wow! Marvel’s Spider-Man is far and away the biggest series in Sony’s stable, with Insomniac Games’ two superhero themed titles combining to sell 33 million copies, as of 15th May. That’s a truly jaw-dropping number: we’re talking peak Nintendo and Rockstar numbers here. Remember that there have only been two titles...
News Tekken 7 Is Now the Highest Selling Game in the Series, Topping 9 Million
Tekken 3 dethroned
Tekken 7 has surpassed 9 million sales, making it the highest selling title in Namco's long running series. PS1 classic Tekken 3 held the record previously, sitting at 8.36 million copies. Impressive! Tekken 7 has had, by far, the longest running post-launch support of any Tekken game, which has obviously helped maintain sales...
News UK Sales Charts: 92% of Sniper Elite 5 Sales Are on PS5, PS4
Debuts at number one
Sniper Elite 5 is the latest chapter in Rebellion's ongoing love affair with covertly firing high calibre rounds into digital Nazis, and it seems to have struck a chord this time around. The new game launched last week, and not only has it done well critically, people are putting down the cash for it too. In the UK's physical...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Saw a Significant Sales Spike Thanks to PS5 Version
V good
Cyberpunk 2077 may have had a shockingly bad launch back in 2020, but it's easy to forget that the game still sold incredibly well — and the recent PS5 release has reportedly had a significant impact on those numbers. In its latest financial call, CD Projekt Red said that the current-gen console version of Cyberpunk accounted for the...
News PS5 Supply Issues a 'Top Priority' for Sony as It Aims to Overtake PS4 Again in 2024
Sony taking steps to sort things out
It comes as absolutely no surprise, but Sony really wants to sort out these ongoing PS5 stock issues. The current-gen console is still being hamstrung by problems in the supply chain — both at manufacturing and shipping levels. The Japanese giant calls the continued supply issues a "top priority" in its latest...
News UK Sales Charts: Horizon Forbidden West on Top with New PS5 Bundle
Other PS5 titles also boost sales
Horizon Forbidden West has come top of the newest weekly UK sales chart documenting physical purchases thanks to the latest PS5 hardware bundle offered by Sony. While the official bundle only included a code for a digital download, Chris Dring of GamesIndustry.biz has clarified GfK counts codes supplied in bundles...
News PS5 Outsold by Xbox in Japan for First Time, But All Stock Related
High five?
In what will undoubtedly be painted as a humiliating twist for Sony, the PS5 was outsold by the Xbox Series X|S in Japan during the week ending 15th May – and it wasn’t even close. Before we delve any deeper, it’s worth noting that while Microsoft’s console has been doing comparatively well in the Land of the Rising Sun, its...
News GTA 5 on PS5 Sells Even Better Than Expected
Tiny Tina, WWE also do well
Grand Theft Auto V is such a big sales juggernaut that it's now even outpacing the sales estimates of publisher Take-Two. Relating to the new current-gen version (PS5 and Xbox Series X|S) specifically, EVP of finance Hannah Sage told GamesIndustry.biz it "exceeded expectations". However, the site also notes that overall,...
News Final Fantasy XV Hits 10 Million Units Sold Worldwide
"Thank you for your support!"
Final Fantasy XV has now sold over 10 million copies worldwide, Square Enix confirmed this morning. The PlayStation 4 JRPG first released in November 2016 before being repacked in a Royal Edition roughly 18 months later, with the latest sales milestone likely split across the two versions. The PS Plus Collection also...
News UK Sales Charts: Evil Dead: The Game Sells Best on PS5 with Top 10 Debut
Shop smart, shop S-Mart
It's been a little quiet in terms of key new releases lately, but one has managed to make its debut on the UK's physical games chart. Evil Dead: The Game arrives in fifth place, with the PS5 version commanding 56 per cent of the sales. Meanwhile, Horizon Forbidden West holds onto its spot at number three, no doubt thanks to...
News Nintendo Switch Has Now Outsold PS4 in USA
Records exist to be broken
Whisper it, but when all’s said and done, we reckon there’s a distinct chance the Nintendo Switch will have outsold even the PS2 – it’s certainly on track to do so. For now, the hybrid hardware’s latest achievement is outselling the PS4 in the United States, as confirmed in the latest NPD report, which is...
News April 2022 NPD: PS5 Back on Top After Supply Issues Thwart Sales
LEGO Star Wars the best-selling game
After just one month on the market, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is already among the six best-selling LEGO titles of all time in the US after selling more copies than any other game in the country for the month of April 2022. It also achieved the "highest launch month dollar sales for any LEGO title in...
PS Store Sales Charts LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Rules the Galaxy
MLB The Show also shows up
This probably won't come as much of a surprise, but LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was the most downloaded game on PS Store for the month of April. As you can see on the PS Blog's latest charts, the latest adventure in a galaxy far, far away dominates, taking number one on both PS5 charts and first and second place on...
News Capcom Plans to Release 'Major New Games' This Fiscal Year Amid Record Profits
Capgod
Capcom has reported its financials for the fiscal year, and it's immediately clear that the Japanese publisher is still riding high on the success that it found during the PS4 generation with blockbusters like Monster Hunter World. The company has yet again posted record profits — a winning streak going back five years now. It also reports...
News Elden Ring Sold More Than 13.4 Million Copies in Its First Five Weeks
Bandai Namco updates the numbers
Ohh, Elden Ring. The brutal action RPG has taken the gaming world by storm since it launched at the end of February, keeping the conversation going with its myriad mysteries and wealth of options. It's obviously very popular, but how popular exactly? Publisher Bandai Namco has just given us a refreshed figure on...
News PS5 Hardware Resurges in UK After Dismal Start to the Year
Best month of the year for rebounding box
PS5 has been posting poor sales numbers of late because of a lack of supply – and not, it’s important to underline, because of a lack of demand. Microsoft recently gloated that it was stealing marketshare from its closest competitor, but the caveat has always been Sony’s inability to ship enough...
News 19.3 Million PS5 Consoles Have Been Shipped So Far
Forecast missed thanks to supply issues
Sony has released its financial report for its 2021 fiscal year, of course including a rundown of how things are going in the land of PlayStation. Within the last 12 months, the company has shipped 11.5 million PS5 units. Added to the figure from FY 2020, that brings lifetime shipments to 19.3 million units...
News UK Sales Charts: More PS5 Stock Aids Horizon Forbidden West, Sifu Charts
LEGO Star Wars also still selling
You could cut and paste last week's top 10 best selling physical games in the UK into this article and get away with it if it wasn't for Sifu. Besides the boxed copy of Sloclap's now potentially not so brutal brawler, the list is virtually identical to last week. Nintendo Switch Sports is still at number one.
News Outriders Has so Far Failed to Turn a Profit for Square Enix
Riding on the edge
Square Enix hasn't had a great time with its Western arm, has it? Following years of the publisher stating that its Western-developed titles, like Tomb Raider and Deus Ex, had underperformed commercially, it only went and sold off a bunch of studios and corresponding properties to Embracer Group earlier this week, for a relatively...
News UK Sales Charts: Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7 Bounce Back Once Again
Boomerang bestsellers
Sony's games tend to perform very well when it comes to physical copies — so long as people can also buy the console. We've seen this several times with the UK's boxed bestsellers; if PS5 stock is available, its games will almost immediately float up to the top 10. The platform holder has struggled to keep supply consistent,...
News Tales of Arise Tops an Impressive 2 Million Sales
Arise!
Tales of Arise has been a hit for Bandai Namco. The largely fantastic action RPG, which released for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 in September of last year, has now topped 2 million copies sold. That's an impressive return in the current market — a figure that makes it one of the most successful Japanese-developed RPGs of the last decade...
News Devil May Cry 5 Slashes Through 5 Million Sales
Definitely not Dismal
It's official: Devil May Cry 5 has been yet another modern blockbuster for Capcom. The excellent action title, which first launched for PlayStation 4 back in March 2019, has now topped 5 million sales worldwide. We assume that this figure includes sales of Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition, which released for PS5 roughly 20...
News March 2022 NPD: PS5 Stock Problems Put Sony in Last Place
But software is connecting with consumers
PlayStation 5’s stock woes appear to be getting worse, not better, with Sony’s new-gen system landing dead last in the latest NPD report. While main competitor Microsoft was able to break a March record, and Nintendo Switch continued to perform as consistently as ever, the PS5 finds itself floundering in...
News UK Sales Charts: Gran Turismo 7 Falls Behind While LEGO Star Wars' Reign Continues
Not a close race
The UK is really going crazy for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. While this chart only represents physical sales, it's clear that the game is doing the business for Warner Bros. right now. It's been in the number one spot for three weeks in a row, and with a quiet release schedule this week, we imagine it'll take a fourth win as...
News UK Sales Charts: Horizon Forbidden West, GT7 Surge with New PS5 Stock
Both on the final podium
A new wave of PS5 stock last week lent significant sales boosts to Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7 in the UK. A 163 per cent increase in boxed purchases pushed the Polyphony Digital racer up the grid into second, and Horizon Forbidden West climbed up into third. Neither could topple
News The Witcher 3 Sales Top 40 Million, Cyberpunk 2077 Passes 18 Million
CD Projekt Red reports ridiculous figures
CD Projekt Red's latest financial call has revealed some impressive sales numbers for its two biggest games. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which first released in 2015, has surpassed a frankly staggering 40 million sales, making it one of the most commercially successful role-playing games ever made. Sales...
News UK Sales Charts: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Sales Are Impressive, Most Impressive
Never tell me the odds
The LEGO games have always done rather well when it comes to retail sales, and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has proven no different. This latest entry in the brick-filled franchise debuts in the number one spot on the UK's weekly boxed games chart. In terms of which format is most popular, it's actually the PlayStation 5...
PS Store Sales Charts Gran Turismo 7 Laps Elden Ring in Europe as Horizon Falls Off a Cliff
Stranger of Paradise also struggles
The PlayStation Store download charts for March 2022 are in, and as per usual, they make for an interesting read. Given its immense popularity, it's no surprise to see Elden Ring still hanging about the top spots. The open world action RPG retained its crown in North America, but it was actually overtaken by Gran...
News UK Sales Charts: 81% of Crusader Kings 3 Sales for the PS5 Version
Very little to discuss otherwise
Boy are the weekly UK sales charts dull to report on when the vast majority of the top 10 is the exact same as last week and new releases are nowhere to be seen. Regardless, here we are with the headline that Crusader Kings III: Console Edition sold best on PlayStation 5. 81 per cent of boxed copies shifted at retail...
News UK Sales Charts: Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Settles for Second as Kirby Conquers
The Nintendo effect
Last week was a pretty busy one for new game releases, and the UK has responded in kind, putting a whole two of them in the top 10. The latest physical game chart is in, and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is the main event for PlayStation users, debuting in second place. It loses out on a number one result thanks to Kirby and the...
News UK Sales Charts: Gran Turismo 7 Still Leading the Pack Following Online Issues
Got a race to win
Last week was a tough one for Gran Turismo 7. A big patch was released that caused the racing title some serious online connectivity issues, putting it out of commission for a couple of days. A hot fix was pushed out, and alongside it, the game caught extra heat for its stingy currency out