Cor blimey guv, the lads and lasses over at Rockstar must be rolling in it. Games Industry has broken down the top ten best selling games of 2019 so far in the UK, and guess what's number one? That's right, Grand Theft Auto V -- a game that first launched on PlayStation 3 all the way back in 2013. At this point it's difficult to say whether it'll ever leave the charts, even on a weekly basis.
The rest of the top ten makes for somewhat interesting reading. Three of the top five aren't even games that launched this year: Grand Theft Auto V, FIFA 19, and Red Dead Redemption 2. The Division 2 slides into cover at number three, while the stellar Resident Evil 2 remake rounds things out at number five. As a PS4 exclusive, Days Gone has also done well for itself, coming in at number six.
Here's the full top ten list, complete with numbers:
- Grand Theft Auto V (361,312)
- FIFA 19 (360,588)
- Tom Clancy's The Division 2 (263,520)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (259,931)
- Resident Evil 2 (239,495)
- Days Gone (229,182)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (175,451)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (172,065)
- Anthem (165,746)
- Forza Horizon 4 (144,790)
What do you think of this top ten? As always, feel free to question Britain's buying habits in the comments section below.
[source gamesindustry.biz]
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GTAVI will be the only thing that can stop this juggernaut. Not even Red Read 2 has ended it's 6 year reign.
Good to see the better Zombie game just about shambled ahead, too!
The downside of GTAV being the biggest seller this year is that we could be in for a very long wait for GTA 6 ☹️
Why do the likes of EA, Ubisoft and others get all the grief for microtransactions when Rockstar are the worse and have been raking it in for years. I admit i bought GTA V on PS3 and then again on PS4 because i hoped there to be some single player DLC - surely Rockstar owe us this? Obviosuly everyone who buys a PS4/XBox buys a copy of GTA V!
This 🅸🆂 awesome! The more people hear about the succes of a video game. There more people will most likely invest in the industry! And that 🅸🆂 a win
How did Anthem made it into this list?
easily top 5 games I ever play.and best franchise ever with God of war.word up son
Rockstar are kings of the open world genre. Even CDPR look to them for inspiration.
@majklpetr Anthem had big initial sales off the back of hype and marketing. That initial burst alone was enough to put it on a number of best sellers lists around the world. Just shows how big an impact these multi-million dollar advertising campaigns can have, even if the game turns out to be a bit crap.
Own three games on that list but didn't finish playing two of them.
Days Gone could actually top most of `em (except GTA and Fifa).
Of course, other big games the release later this year can and will challenge Day Gone as well, but I think Days Gone could end up in the top 5. Top 10 is a sure shot.
So sad to see Rockstar going downhill on my personal ranking of best game publishers... they only launched two games this generation, and they'll probably milk them till the end.
I picked it up for £12 quid almost finished the story but won't touch online. After having finished Yakuza Kiwami the story in GTA5 is more like a daft summer blockbuster compared to the writing of Yakuza!
We'll never get gta vi, only gta v re-remaster for ps5 with 4k & 60 fps graphics lol.
Also congrats to days gone
It's a great game, I wish I had never flogged it!
The only games I would not have predicted are Days Gone and RE2, Everything else you can +1 to the number on the end and it's next years list.
@rockertherockgod It's because R* have always stated that GTA online is a separate entity to the single player game. It's all the people buying the shark cards who pay for all the online DLC. And there has been an awful lot of DLC. And it's not that hard to make money on there. I've never bought a shark card and I've earned well over 600 million in there. Also there's no pay to win. You can't go in at level 1 and have the best car. You still have to earn all the upgrades. All different to EA etc. As for R* owing you. I think Dee would be appalled to hear that. No one owes you anything. You got what you paid for, an amazing game with hell of a lot to do. I bought it twice as well and consider it value for money.
That is an incredible record! One thing that baffles me though, the figures in brackets, is that the totally number of sales for that game this year? If so, 263,520 seems like a really small figure for Division 2 a brand new game. Only that many people have it in the UK?? Or am i being a bit thick and missing something obvious?
@Throb I was wondering the same thing. If those are total sale figures for this year it seems very low indeed.
@Eldritch @Throb Yeah, from what I can gather based on the Games Industry article, the numbers are units sold in 2019 in the UK.
@ShogunRok That really surprises me. Thank you
@ShogunRok Shocking. We're certainly slacking then. The UK needs to up it's game.
@Eldritch Bought it twice as well 😅 Disc came with my first ps4. And when I've started RDR2, I've bought digital, just not to swap the discs around all the time. But since then I barely touched GTA, all my free time goes to RDR2 Online now. 🤠
Just bought GTA5 two days ago... I'm now one of them!
Though the game is great fun but so many people are killing me online which makes it less fun :/
I'll get my revenge one day... or not.
@Eldritch Ha ha - all i can say it what Dee would "We're not going to take it" until GTA VI of course!
@RawnDawn Passive mode is your friend. I'm forever in passive/defensive mode in GTAO/RDO.
GTA games is my favorite franchise and I have had every single GTA game since GTA 3. And although my still most favorite game is GTA San Andreas, the GTA V is sharing between 2nd and 3rd places with Vice City Stories.
Speaking of GTA Online, I have had over 2 years break from it, but came back recently and was blown away by how much new content there was. It is still a money grind tho, but now it is much more stuff to do without having to sit in, gather people and load missions in between.
Now you can run plenty of activities on the same session. Anyway, I have had lots of fun with it, sadly non of my old friends play the game anymore, SO it takes some chunk of the fun out of it.
@Horizon_Rover I really need to get back on RDR Online. Things happened that stopped me playing much for a while. But I was certainly enjoying it. Even if all I was doing was hunting and fishing. lol
Wow we don’t buy many games do we.
Still haven’t bought or played GTA V. At this point I don’t plan on it either since that’s a badge of honor I feel I need to uphold because I’m one of a shrinking few who haven’t bought it! 😛
@ShogunRok Is this purely physical retail numbers or does it include downloads? I get the feeling it could be the former but admit the amounts are still smaller than I would have imagined.
I’m pleased Resi 2 and Days Gone are up there regardless. Although they will probably struggle to stay in the top ten by the end of the year.
@BearsEatBeets Apparently it includes both. This is what it says at the bottom of the Games Industry article: "ERA's sources for games data includes ISFE and B2Boost for physical, and IHS Markit estimates for digital."
that makes for somewhat depressing reading regarding the state of affairs for the games industry in the uk this year, imo. only 4 games released this year (and one of those is a remake of a previously released game) are the among the best selling, and only days gone has managed more than 200k on a single platform. i'm sure the top 10 will change for the last three months of the year, but these are not exactly stellar numbers for almost 2/3 of the year. just over 250k for the best selling new game (division 2 - which is less than week 1 sales of the original division), which is not great considering the combined ps4+xb1 install base is 12m+ in the uk. games like metro exodus, far cry new dawn, sekiro, devil may cry, rage 2.. struggling to break the 100k mark.
And then it shocks me it's not in top 5 of most of Pushsquare's Top 10s - open world, online game, ongoing game, action adventure, graphics etc because we like to pretend it's still a last gen game, when clearly no open world with cars this gen has been able to match GTAV's scope and quality.
@leucocyte Games as a service has this effect. To stay in with your favourite (most marketed) games you have to sacrifice time and money.
My stepson as an example plays fifa, fortnite, minecraft and to a much lesser extent Rocket League. That is practically the same rotation of games for 22 months - only swapping out his upgrade on fifa each year. We have bought him other games but he has absolutely no interest or time to stay up to date. So we won't bother again.
@ApostateMage Oh wow thanks for the tip mate!
Gonna go and see how to activate that asap.
Well deserved imho. Many of the "new" games just fail to impress, are devoid of content and stuffed with PC-messaging, lootboxes and micro transactions. I do know, that GTA basically has "pay to win" with the shark cards, but still it offers SO MUCH to do and only keeps on growing. It is truly the best game I've played in the past couple of years.
GTA6 will flop hard then No only joking. AMAZING really and excellent game to. Nearly got it for the PS4 to but just have to many games to play really on my PS4 (which is a good thing)
So, no games there i have played...
The Minecraft of mature rated games.
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