Last week, PlayStation 5 consoles sporadically returned to retail in the UK, and that means physical PS5 software has seen a big boost. According to GamesIndustry.biz, sales of boxed PS5 games are up 64 per cent week-on-week. That translates to significantly improved figures for launch titles; Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales rockets back up to second place, while Demon's Souls, which didn't chart at all last week, returns at number 21.
The Last of Us: Part II gets an enormous spike in sales thanks to a promotion bringing the price below £20. Up by 3,992 per cent, the PS4 exclusive reaches number three. Meanwhile, new release Persona 5 Strikers debuts in fifth. Evergreen games like FIFA 21 and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War move down the top 10 to make room for these.
Here's the latest top 10 in full.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 27th February 2021
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
- Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- The Last of Us: Part II
- FIFA 21
- Persona 5 Strikers
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Minecraft (Switch)
[source gamesindustry.biz]
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Noice, keep 'em PS5's coming. Are the consoles usually bundled with these games in the UK? The largest retailer in Poland had some last week and they only sold them bundled with 3 games this time.
Still haven't got around to playing Spider-Man MM as I've currently finishing Spider-Man Remastered. Really enjoying it even though I played through the first game and all the DLC when it first came out but really looking forward to seeing how they've moved things on with MM.
Interesting, looks like when Sony's fully sorted out PS5 stock issues we'll be seeing the traditional UK charts return where like around 8 of the top 10 are PS games.
TLOU2 sales up by 3,992%... so how many did it sell in the week before? 1 copy? 3 copies? Thankfully it wasn't zero, because you'd have to report that TLOU2 sales went up by infinite% 😅
@TheDudeElDuderino clearly there's still interest in the game but all those who were willing to pay full price already have it (which is no surprise, seeing as it did incredibly well at launch)
I thought no one buys TLOU 2 dont we all hate the game?
I hope ps5 stock situations are improved every month until everyone can buy it normally on store
@Medic_Alert I think so, I remember tlou 1 remaster sold more on ps4 compared to ps3.
@TrueAssassin86x The game is disappointing story wise but for $20 it's pretty good, especially since the graphics and gameplay is good.
@Medic_Alert did you read the article? its primarily down to a big discount.
By your logic, last week, new PS owners coincidently decided to buy TLoU2 in the same week. Whilst that may account for a few sales, its not going to account for a 4000% boost.
@wiiware its far from disappointing storywise. Your opinion is not a fact, its true for you.
I was lucky enough to get hold a PS5 last week using a stock alert. The situation in the UK is slowly improving, although I was still in a 30 minute queue despite clicking within a minute of stock going online.
Here we go again.
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Interesting Top 10, for once. Good old GTAV, still hanging around.
@Medic_Alert admonishment? Hardly. I just pointed out its illogical. Read the comment again, take away any bias you want to attribute to it and you'll see its just two strangers talking to another with no reason to be disrespectful or condescending.
The article may be making an assumption but its not based on thin air. Its a very reasonable assumption that fits the facts and also fits the pattern of behaviour and the expected outcome of a product getting a heavy discount.
@Medic_Alert did I say it was wrong? I questioned why you asked it not that you were wrong to ask. The article gives a much more logical answer to why sales have gone up. Your hypothetical for a 4000% rise wasn't backed up by logic that could explain it, hence I wondered if you read the article.
Awesome. Means 3992% more people playing LOU2 of which 50% think its amazing, one of the best games they've every played while the other 50% think its the worst game they've played and feel the need to mention it.
Sounds like everyone has to comment specifically on the story for LOU2 so here's my two cents... its certainly more interesting than Call of Duty, Fifa 21 and Minecraft - but not quite a patch on Animal Crossing. I'm also very angry about Mario Kart story - its terrible. Fact!
@Hyperluminal keep in mind that 4000% could be insignificant in absolute numbers. It all depends on the previous value. If last week's sales were 5 units then a rise of 4000% would mean that it sold 205 units this week 😂
This is why providing percentile data without absolutes to which the percentage increase applies is irrelevant.
@StonyKL to be fair I think for most of the haters of TLOU2 it's actually "the worst game they've never played" - the rest seem to conveniently forget the atrocities committed at the end of the first game - naughty dog just went a bit more GRRM than those people would have liked in the sequel
@TheDudeElDuderino absolutely, you're right dude. I agree both positions are assumptions.
When applying logic however one scenario is much more likely than the other for the bulk of a 4000% increase in my opinion
I bought TLOU2 last week btw. The dramatic increase in sales doesn't surprise me at all - £14.99 is exactly the sort of price I imagine a lot of people were waiting for, and it's an amazing price considering how recent a game it is
@danlk1ng what atrocities at the end of the 1st game? Joel did what most parents would do, myself included! I'm sure that the gameplay and graphics are amazing in the sequel, they certainly look it. But I have no interest in playing that storyline so I cancelled my preorder, plenty of other games to play.
@Serialsid I agree - its what I loved about the 1st game. Came out about the same time as Interstellar which I felt was a similar story choice at the end. Both protagonists had a choice - sacrifice their daughter (in a sense for Joel) or save the world. Both chose differently and both had to deal with each consequence. Joel dealing with killing many innocent people and being responsible for not saving humanity, while in Interstellar the protagonist had to live knowing he lost his relationship with his daughter.
Had a young daughter at the time and think I'd have probably chosen the Joel option myself (although after home schooling for months now may chose differently ).
But I do like the fact the consequences of those actions take centre stage in the sequel and glad they did. Whether they did a good job is down to personal preference really.
@Serialsid I really doubt "most parents" world have gone as far as Joel did, even if they were capable of pulling that off. Granted there were "cannon fodder" enemies that needed to be killed in order to even get to Ellie at the end of the game. The sort where either you kill them or they kill you, so the choice isn't massively hard. The problem is he didn't just stop with those, he killed people it really wasn't necessary to kill in any way.
And granted, it's not like the player has any choice in the matter - there isn't an option to do a pacifist playthrough (unless you go for the "Joel stands in a room looking at some surgeons till the end of time" ending), but that doesn't change what happened.
@danlk1ng Of course he had to kill them, they were going to harvest he's "daughters " body for the slim chance they could make a cure. Forgive me if I get this wrong because it's been a few years since I played it, but didn't they knock him out. Didn't they leave him outside with nothing to defend himself with(Basically killing him) after telling him what was happening. Don't you see all the way through the game how infective the fireflys are? They are going to kill a child without her consent because maybe, and that's a massive maybe, they can make a cure! They are not innocent. Sorry but they are the bad guys to Joel, they are going to kill someone he loves. It's not his place to worry about everyone else, he worries about her. That's the beauty of the first game, it leaves it up to the player to decide if he did the right thing. Its called smart writing. And I can assure you, a hell of a lot of parents would do the same thing, if capable of doing so. I wouldn't hesitate.
@Serialsid every parent should be willing and ready to do the right thing. Save the world and let your child be slaughtered or sell the world for your child's life?
The answer should always be: sell the f**** world!
And your children should live knowing you would sell your soul for their life.
That was the point of the first one. Joel truly became a parent to Ellie. He had no choice in the matter. They were about to slaughter Ellie without giving them a chance to talk about what the procedure meant. Well, no, not if Joel had a say. And Joel told them. Fireflies died because of their hubris and they had it coming.
@TheDudeElDuderino I completely agree.
@Serialsid.... I am definitely sure you are not a parent and pretty sure you blazed through the 1st game without understanding it and are just on hype band wagon of the 1st game since its held in high esteem.
Your entire comment or argument falls flat because Ellie is not Joel's daughter. Essentially they are strangers.
Joel's daughter died at the beginning of the game cause Joel could protect her cause is a weasel of a man and an excuse of a father.
In fact Joel met Ellie because Joel was smuggling/pimping /human trafficing Ellie for money.
And when he was supposed to do the final delivery, he backstabbed everyone for his weasel selfishness.
So Joel is an irresponsible Father, a cheat and cheapskate who will use anyone for quick cash and his survival, doesn't think twice about human trafficking young girls, children, kills and backstabs people, then the events of the Last Of Us Part2 are very much what should have happened to low life Joel.
@GREGORIAN your funny. I think it's you that didn't understand the first game. It's a story about two people going through hell together, learning to trust each other, and finally loving each other. He's as much her father by the end of the game as her real dad, and if you think they are strangers by that point I feel sorry for you. And he does what he has to do to protect her, as a father should. You think he is a low life, I think he is just a man living in horrible times just trying to survive and doing what he has to do. Anyway it's only a game, everyone sees things differently.
@Serialsid You say it's about learning to trust each other but the game ends with Joel lying to Ellie and her clearly not trusting him. Remember that only a number of months ago, Marlene was Ellie's only friend and Joel has just executed her in cold blood, then lied to Ellie about it. To reiterate, the final image of the game is Ellie distrusting Joel after Joel lies to her face about having just massacred dozens of people - which perfectly leads into the state of their relationship in the sequel. Joel knows he's done something wrong, something selfish, or he'd happily tell Ellie what just happened.
@Matroska Joel lies to her at the end to spare her knowing the truth, because he loves her and doesn't want her to have to live with that knowledge. But if you look at the final scene again, you could argue from the look on her face that she knows he's lying to her, and she knows why he is doing it and she can live with that. And from my point of view he doesn't massacre anyone, he kills people that are about to murder an innocent child, they had it coming. But like I said before, it's just a computer game, people see things differently.
@Matroska oh and he kills Marlene because he knows she'll just come after Ellie and she'll never be safe whilst the fireflies are looking for her. He ends it there.
GTA5 can be £60 and still be in the 10 despite being a ps3 game
@Serialsid......... @Matroska is correct.......
You are justing making up the reasons for Joel to your narrative that he kills because he has no choice or that anything he does in the game he is forced to and its a total lie.
By the final chapter of the game both you the gamer/player and Joel have learned one thing and it is that Ellie is not some scared, naive, little girl who cannot take care of herself, i.e. She can handle the truth as opposed to Joel who cannot handle the truth.
That is exactly why he lied to Ellie, because he knew what he has just did was wrong and he was not man enough to tell Ellie, you can clearly see and feel Ellie's distrust of him as the game rolls the final scene.....
So the events of part 2 are exactly what Joel has setup to know happen to him by his actions in Part1.
People are angry because a white male got killed by a transgender person. That is what everybody does not want to admit and keep hiding behind "it's a bad story", yes it is a bad story because it does not confirm to the White male is a Superhero even if he does bad selfish things to people or even kills them.
I am not sure if the reaction would have been the same if Ellie was killed instead of Joel, I think it would have accepted by the so called haters of part2, which ironically proves Naughty Dog right actual nails what they were trying to achieve.
This game was released now 8 months ago, all games from 2020 don't get this much conversation, even Cyberpunk2077 is not talked about this much unless people are moaning about the updates.
It shows Naughty Dog's genius, my mind boggles at the thought of what they can come up with next.
@GREGORIAN I didn't mention the 2 second game. My thoughts are on the first game only. Yes Ellie is a strong and capable child, but the fireflies didn't give her the choice. Didn't speak to her, give her a chance to do what she wanted. No they were just going to murder her in cold blood. They were the bad guys and Joel had every reason to do what he did.
And who cares what sexuality a person is? That's got nothing to do with the story. Bad writing is bad writing. They wrote a very weak story trying to justify their agenda and the main stream media lapped it up. But IGN Japan said it best "its a story about right and wrong told by people who always think their right". And you bringing up race just shows where your head is at.
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