You can be sure it's a slow news day when we report on the PlayStation Store charts, but maybe this is something you'd like to see us cover more regularly? After all, we're pretty thorough when it comes to the UK, Japan, and USA sales charts, and the PlayStation Store is becoming an increasingly important part of the game purchasing spectrum.
Meandering intros aside, Horizon: Zero Dawn was the best-selling digital release on the PlayStation 4 for March – but only in Europe. In the United States, it could only manage second place, with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands coming out on top. Mass Effect: Andromeda finished third in the United States, while it could only hit fifth position in Europe.
On the PlayStation Vita, the God of War Collection cut a path to the top of the charts in North America, while a bundle of the various Grand Theft Auto titles for PSP managed to reach the summit in Europe, perhaps telling you everything you need to know about the handheld. Meanwhile, authentic moon landing experience Apollo-11 VR led the PlayStation VR charts in Europe, while Job Simulator continued its good run in North America.
And as is always the case, the various Crash Bandicoot games dominated the PlayStation Classics charts in Europe, while Twisted Metal: Black crushed the competition in North America. If you'd like to see the full breakdown of best sellers, then you can find the charts for Europe and North America through the respective links.
Update (18:00PM BST): As pointed out in the comments, Horizon: Zero Dawn technically launched on the last day of February in North America, so this is quite an impressive result for the open world RPG seeing as it doesn't include those all-important release day sales.
[source blog.eu.playstation.com, via blog.us.playstation.com]
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I bet Ghost Recon: Wildlands did gangbusters in the new NPD. People sleep on Ubisoft games while they quietly sell millions and millions of copies.
@Eternallover21 Nice!
I didn't know they even announced PSN sales. I'm still waiting for MS to announce XboxOneS sales numbers.
Good to see H:ZD doing so well, new IP are nice to have.
It would be interesting to see real sales numbers - not just the position. It would be interesting see how these figures compared to Physical but then if we did get those numbers, it would show how dominant and important Physical sales still are...
As for Horizon, according to VGChartz, over 50% of the sales were to the European Market with only 28.4% to the NA market. Japan made up nearly 7% of the share and the rest of the world bought the remaining 14.9%. It seems that the Europeans embraced this game the most - the UK bought more copies than Japan and around 1/3rd of the total that NA bought - considering the population difference, that's quite amazing.
I know that's physical sales though but if that trend was also in Digital, you can see why it may not of hit the top spot in the US
Eh, second place in the usa isn't bad.
I need to get back to playing this game but I've been obsessed with LoZ: Breath of the Wild.
Horizon came out in February in the US...NPD only captured part of Feb (through the 25th), so its entire sales numbers will be included in March. But did the PSN numbers only include March? If so, all digital pre-orders and digital day 1 sales were in Feb's numbers.
Horizon Zero Dawn was technically a February release in North America (28th) & a March release in Europe (1st) so that's why Ghost Recon beat it out in NA imo.
With preload being a thing a massive amount of digital purchases are probably Day 1 and would therefore not count in the final metric.
Either way we know it sold very well.
EDIT: @FATPC beat me to it
@Fight_Teza_Fight @FATPC That's a good point, I forgot about that.
I would like to see these figures actually as they tell you what is selling well on vita and PSVR. Horizon deserves all the sales it gets - clearly us Europeans have the best taste (kidding!). Loved every second of it.
The gta bundle for vita was on sale at a very reasonable price, which is likely why its sat at the top of the table this month. If anything it shows the versitility of the console, being host to hundreds of quality titles across vita, psp and psone.
Good to see horizon doing well. Imagine persona will take top spot in April.
I need to get back on Horizon but I can't prize myself away from Persona 5, also picked up Job Simulator on PSVR and it's great fun. I work in a restaurant so being able to throw a fire extinguisher at a customer who changes their order halfway through is oddly therapeutic 😃
@Eternallover21 same but it's been 2 weeks of that! and only 20% thru the game b/c there are so many side quests and the land is just beautiful to explore!
In 4K & HDR this game is mesmerizing!!
Two trophies away from Platinum in horizon, will be my first plat ever! Couldn't of been a better game to do it with. All I have to do is beat the final few missions, already did all collectables and side quests. Ever not want to beat a game?...
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