Two of Sony’s big PlayStation 4 exclusives featured in the UK’s best-selling games of 2018, with Marvel’s Spider-Man pulling big numbers in particular. The data, courtesy of the Entertainment Retailers Association, only counts physical sales, so you can expect every title on this list to have attracted bigger numbers with digital included.
Here’s the full Top 20, with retail sales included:
- FIFA 19 (EA) - 1,889,401
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar) - 1,757,212
- Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Activision) - 1,172,855
- Marvel's Spider-Man (Sony) - 676,621
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) - 458,675
- Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft) - 434,133
- Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy (Activision) - 430,551
- God Of War (Sony) - 399,395
- Forza Horizon 4 (Microsoft) - 392,960
- FIFA 18 (EA) - 351,788
- Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar) - 339,805
- Spyro Reignited Trilogy (Activision) - 333,725
- Battlefield 5 (EA) - 313,100
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft) - 305,937
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) - 284,155
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) - 240,710
- Call Of Duty: WW2 (Activision) - 230,576
- Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (Nintendo) - 227,767
- Shadow Of The Tomb Raider (Square Enix) - 226,125
- Fallout 76 (Bethesda) - 218,534
As we mentioned, the web-slinger’s numbers are impressive, but the Japanese giant will be particularly pleased with God of War. You may recall the platform holder admitting prior to its release that the series has never been a big performer in Europe, and one of the company’s goals with this soft-reboot was to make the franchise more relevant outside of its native North America. Job done?
Other standouts include Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which sold better this year than last year, and while we’ll leave Nintendo Life to sing its praises, that’s a real testament to Nintendo’s evergreen strategy. Fallout 76 sneaked onto the list despite being panned, while Grand Theft Auto V continues to sell stupidly well despite being over five years old.
[source eurogamer.net]
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I still think it's funny there were people who though Spider-Man being exclusive would kill its sales potential because, you know, nobody likes Spider-Man. LOL. Makes me wonder if MS, which has been on spending spree, looks at this and is working on a deal with Marvel for a future exclusive of its own. He may not be Spider-Man, but I could see a Black Panther game doing some business.
@Gamer83 Marvel probably doesn't want to devote a ton of resources to a game that Microsoft is just going to dump on gamepass.
I had a fantastic time with God Of War and Spider-Man.
Spyro beating Battlefield, Tomb Raider and Assassin's creed is pretty impressive.
@Gamer83 Doesn’t the story go that Marvel came to Sony, not the other way around?
@get2sammyb I've always been certain that it was part of getting Spider-Man into the MCU but who knows I mean Nintendo are getting a Ultimate Alliance game out of nowhere.
@get2sammyb
I'm not really sure, I'm just saying with all the money MS is throwing around and people at Marvel having talked about wanting to do more with games, I wouldn't be surprised if something happened with MS and a different franchise. And as @AdamNovice pointed out, Nintendo landed MUA 3. I doubt that game will do the sales Spider-Man did though. So many things worked out well for that game. The right IP, the right dev and publisher, the right genre...
@Gamer83
Single player games don't have as much impact as they used to though...
God of War and Spider-Man for the win.
@JJ2
Yeah, clearly, thankfully we have EA and Activision to save us from these horrible single player games.
@Enuo yeah, being on gamepass really screws a game, just look at forza horizon 4. Oh wait, it's almost bare bare with GoW... Don't spread misinformation
@NecuVise - forza is given away with almost every xbox sold.
i wonder just how much impact the sales in november/december have on these numbers. most of them bar RDR2 have seen significant price drops for black friday and xmas.
@leucocyte and the most popular ps4 bundle was Spiderman bunde, so what's your point exactly?
So it seems people like spidey more than the angry god.
@Gamer83
I was actually making fun of Spencer since that's what he said haha. The man is a visionary
No worries I'm just being facetious
@NecuVise In the end, God of War and Spider-Man sold way more worldwide, and Forza is the only game made by MS that sometime appears on charts. So yeah, he is not spreading misinformation...
@PS_Nation Spiderman sure mate, whatever suits you
@NecuVise - does the 676,000+ spidermans include ones bundled with PS4s? sure.. was it bundled with most PS4s sold?. no. forza bundling has been ubiquitous for 5 years on xbox. they've nothing else besides minecraft to give away.
@leucocyte you're incorrect and it's easily provable using Google.
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/10/23/xbox-holiday-2018-offerings/
So there exactly 1 bundle of forza horizon for one s and one X each.
@NecuVise Yeah, facts are suitable enough.
@PS_Nation that's true.
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