Last week, PlayStation 5 launched in certain territories, but one region that's had to wait an extra seven days is the UK. Sony's new console officially arrives in Great Britain on 19th November. However, despite not having the hardware itself, many PS5 titles have invaded the physical games chart.
In terms of exclusives, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales does best, with a debut in third place. Interestingly, 71 per cent of physical sales were for the PS5 version despite the console being a few days out. Demon's Souls lands number six, Sackboy: A Big Adventure is in 13th, while Godfall trails in 16th. Similarly to Spidey, the LittleBigPlanet spin-off sold far better on PS5; the PS4 version accounted for just 11 per cent of the game's sales.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla debuts at number one, which is impressive considering it launched in the same week as Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The Ubisoft action RPG's launch week sales completely outstrip Assassin's Creed Odyssey, nearly doubling the number of units. Meanwhile, Activision's FPS settles for second place, and physical sales are down compared to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
There are plenty of other new releases further down the chart. Just Dance 2021 is in 11th, Planet Coaster: Console Edition rides into 17th, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon comes in at number 20. According to GamesIndustry.biz, PS5 games accounted for 19 per cent of all software sold in this week, again despite the console itself being unavailable. It will be interesting to see how the chart shifts once PS5 itself is in people's homes.
Here's the latest top 10 in full. Remember, all this information relates to physical sales only.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 14th November 2020
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
- Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- FIFA 21
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Demon's Souls
- Super Mario 3D All-Stars
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Minecraft (Switch)
- Watch Dogs Legion
[source gamesindustry.biz]
Comments 18
Makes sense as most people would have preordered the games with the console, I myself have Miles Morales and Sackboy sat here waiting whilst I decide whether to buy Demon's Souls or Assassin's Creed to go with them
Take that, GTA!
Managed to pick AC Valhalla for £42 last week, so far is the only PS5 game I have along with Astrobot/ Bugsnax. I have a PS4 backlog too so I don't want to buy a whole load of games and rather just buy more for hopefully cheaper when I finish them!
Otherwise I would be buying Sackboy, Demon Souls, Miles Morales... Ah the choices
Impressive PS5 physical sales in the circumstances.
Has something like that ever happened. That games charting without the corresponding platform is available? Just watch, next week all the PS5 games will have a boost of sales, selling better in its second week than its launch week. Yet, prolly something never done before either. The PS5 is an absolute juggernaut.
@JAMes-BroWWWn Well there's alot of good sales on physical atm. And with black Friday around the corner I expect more of the same
That Yakuza performance is not great. The whole western release of 7 has been a complete mess
Clearly from game preorders, from people that either preordered the PS5 or are hoping to get one this year. I preordered Demon's Souls too, even if I don't have any insurance that I'll be able to nab a PS5 at launch (I live in Europe too so it's the same date, 19 Nov)
As the saying goes, "Hope is the last one to die"
Looks like Valhalla done better than Legion then. It is nearly off the top 10
That's impressive, also 71% miles sales is for ps5 is surprising, it reminded me of persona 5 (original, not royal) sales, which sold way better on ps4 compared to ps3.
Despite Valhalla's multiple bugs and annoyances it still sold really well, im personally enjoying it alot
Whats up with demon souls at6 though ? I'm guessing that will improve on Thursday 😏😃
@wiiware Terrible comparison. When Persona 5 came out the PS3 was dead several years by that point and there were already dozens of millions of PS4s because everyone had moved on.
Compared to Spiderman which is selling more on a console not even out yet.
Trying to finish off Watchdogs Legion before I start playing AC Valhalla (don’t like to play multiple games at once). Now Miles Morales has just arrived. Far too many games to play! I don’t know what to do with myself 😀
Cant wait for the sales numbers between ps5 and x series x.i know for a fact sony outsold x box.but yeah vahalla is amazing.word up son
@naruball
When GTA 5 releases for PS5, it will be back with a vengeance and go to Number 1 again lol
@Netret0120 let's celebrate till that inevitable times comes, lol.
It will be an interesting take next week with the ps5 being sold in the UK come Thursday. As some people would have held to purchase these games with the ps5 console.
PS5 also has the best 3rd party titles compared to Series X, so I expect the skew to lean even more heavily towards PS5.
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