In what is reportedly a fairly rare occurrence for the physical UK games market, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart sold more copies in its second week on the market than it did during the first. The PlayStation 5 exclusive recorded a two per cent increase in sales of boxed copies, meaning it once again tops the latest UK sales chart. Positive word of mouth and hardware bundles are said to be big contributors to the game's surprisingly strong second week sales.
As GamesIndustry.biz notes, it's not uncommon for titles of this ilk to have sales drop by as much as 70 per cent in their second week of availability. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is certainly a positive anomaly in this regard.
Another surprise for the latest UK sales chart is Minecraft: Dungeons, which claimed an impressive second place after rising 28 places because of a price drop. That's not because of the PS4 version, however. Nintendo Switch owners flocked to the title, accounting for a whopping 96 per cent of total sales last week. The top 10 is then rounded out by the usual faces like FIFA 21, Resident Evil Village, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Nintendo Switch exclusives. Grand Theft Auto V also makes its return in 10th place.
Other recent PS5 releases include Chivalry 2, which slips to 28th after debuting in ninth. Meanwhile, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade and Guilty Gear Strive have fallen out of the top 40 entirely. The PS5 version of Metro Exodus kicked things off in the 17th spot, with 77 per cent of its sales for the Sony system.
Here's the latest top 10 in full.
UK Sales Charts: Week Ending 19th June 2021
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Minecraft: Dungeons
- FIFA 21
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Resident Evil Village
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Minecraft (Switch)
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
- Grand Theft Auto V
[source gamesindustry.biz]
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oh good, GTA V is back on the charts. i was worried not enough people have played it
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but also, huge congrats to Insomniac for continuing to knock it out of the park <3
As someone who has loved the Ratchet games since PS2 I'm so happy to see Rift Apart doing so well.
Great news for Ratchet!
Bless the lad! I'll be waiting for a reasonable price, but I'd rather see Ratchet up there over minecraft any day.
I’m about to finish the game, just one more level to go, and it’s absolutely wonderful to see Ratchet and Clank doing so well. The game absolutely deserves it.
good news for ratchet fans and insomniac
bad news for people laughing at people buying $70 kids game
Sony exclusives are still selling well at 70$ this shows that people will pay full price for quality games.
@mrtennis1990 I’m glad man I don’t want subscription services to become the main way we receive our games. I like buying games and supporting the developers people don’t realize that game developers do have families to feed just like the rest of us do.
Not surprised. My cousin in Spain just got it after I told him he had to play it. I am sure there is lot of that going on.
I Just finished it this weekend (been playing it non stop). The final fight is bonkers. But zero slowdowns, tons of fun.
Let's be real, subscription is the future. It's been true for all other forms of entertainment and will be for gaming as well. It just hasn't been combined properly with the streaming model. Google failed. Sony didn't have the money. I'm confident with what Microsoft is doing. There is a ridiculously massive market in the developing world, where consoles are still a luxury so for now premium gaming is still stuck in somewhat of a niche by comparison.
Regardless, it's the future model, something so ridiculously over-the-top in value that a single product simply cannot compete with it.
Two titles in the top 10, congrats insomniac 👍🏻
Glad to see Ratchet doing well!
@reek Sony will continue to kick Microsoft a$$ this gen and prove you wrong. Sony exclusives >Microsoft subscription services.
As someone without a PS5 yet, very pleased with how Ratchet is doing as well. One of my favorite Sony series and this seems to be the first real big continuation of the series since A Crack In Time.
Will definitely be my top game to get when I eventually get a PS5.
Wow that's new, congrats for insomniac 😃
Kudos to Insomniac. Outstanding game. Love it.
Spider-man (MM) still going strong. Spider-man 2 is going to do big numbers.
First Returnal and now Ratchet?!
I guess, people don't really mind that "unpayable" price tag. Muhahahahahaha
Awesome for Ratchet and Clank.
Also RE Village still going strong is nice to see.
Now that's refreshing. Beyond tired of seeing the usual suspects (FIFA, GTA, Minecraft, the evergreen Ninty games).
Very well deserved.
Reminder that there is nothing wrong with not buying a game day 1. I ll buy Rachet and Rivet next month.
People will still buy the game a year or two from now at a good price, or will borrow from their friends. That's where the Subscription advertisers are short-sighted.
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And it's a real boxed game nobody can take away from you.
I opted for game sharing at £35 each, about 80% complete. Fantastic game but not £70. They'd have got two sales at a cheaper price point for the standard edition.
$70 is currently £50, I'd have got my own copy for that price 🙂
Boy am I glad to hear that ! More R&C on the horizon ! And how crazy is it that Insomniacs have TWO games in the top 10 !
Great game!
Sales will unfortunately reflect the PS5 console shortages.
Yesterday I completed Returnal.
This game is awesome, intense, exhilarating. Sadly no one is buying it. Housemarque is now one of my fav developers.
@Dr_ENT Returnal is actually doing well in the U.S sales chart.
Would ya look at that : 7-8 single player games. But ''sInGLE pLaYeR gAmEs aRe dYiNg''
@Kirbyboy92 Yeah. That must be the reason. 100%
@Kirbyboy92 and why do ps5 owners need to buy exclusives exactly? Shouldn't Godfall have performed much better following that logic? Did the same fact help ps4 games reach the top stop in its first year? Did the weekly sales actually increase at some point?
This is unprecedented and there is no reason to downplay it.
BuT nObOdY iS gOiNg To PaY $70/£70 fOr GaMeS.
More than worth the asking price imo and well deserved.
Great game, Insomiac deserve all the success. You don't have to pay £70, I got it for £63. Got the platinum within 23 hours and could sell it but I'm enjoying building a physical PS5 library after mostly digital games last gen and I'll definitely play it again. It was worth every penny!
This makes me so happy 😁 can we get Insomniac to make a new Sly game please?
@Kirbyboy92 how come Miles Morales always tops the chart when PS5 come in stock ? I thought it was on PS4 aswell...
@Keyblade-Dan The picture they have for this article of ratchet kinda looks like the Sly 1 Game cover . ratchet has the same pose and quasi-look too.
Agreed @Naruball. Ratchet is selling well because it is a good game. Simple as that. If anything it's ps5 exclusivity may have hindered it's sales since more PS4 players. So I appreciate the risk Sony took to make a proper ps5 game.
Good to see both this and Returnal doing well. This will obviously sell more copies out of the two but it shows that even at this price people will pay for quality games.
I'm happy to pay for a game that I know will get many hours of my time.
@Kirbyboy92 yeah 8 millions people buying ps5 then realising there is no game on it and just buying anything that comes out of desperation. That must be it.
@Kirbyboy92 if you look at the Japanese charts, you can see that not everyone buys a ps5 exclusive when they get a ps5. They may play the ps+ collection, ps4 games that run better on ps5, etc. Or they may have one just because it's the cool console to own at the moment.
If your argument held any water, wouldn't Demon's Souls remake have performed better? Most ps5 owners clearly aren't interested in it, unlike Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
As for what's extremely rare in this occasion and makes its achievement of selling so well incredible, it's the fact that its sales increased in its second week, while in most cases of blockbusters, they fall around 70%.
@Kirbyboy92 yes it is, when they tend to fall by 70%. Downplay it as much as you want.
It's had more exclusives then the Xbox X thing but that's selling out still.
This whole 'there's nothing to play on the PS5' argument is a complete falsehood. There are plenty of games to play on it.
It seems some people don't think games that are also released on the older consoles count but that's stupid, of course they do. PS5 gamers are getting the superior version of the game, so superior in fact that I'm not going to even bother playing games like Resi 8 until I have a PS5.
If you're one of those people that think you've been screwed over in some way then sell it to someone that will actually appreciate owning one.
To all the people saying that this just shows that people are willing to pay £70 for a game, I actually think this proves the opposite. A week after launch you could pick this game up for between £55-£60 in the UK, which is a much more reasonable asking price imho and I suspect why sales have gone up rather than down.
The sales split between PS5 and both Xbox Series consoles combined for multiplat releases is going to end up like 80-20 soon. That's total domination in Xbox's second strongest market.
@Kirbyboy92 what are you on about, the PS5 has had the best first 5-7 months of any Sony console since the PS1... do you ask 'what's there to play on it'? sincerely? Have you forgotten how absolutely aweful in comparison the PS4 was for the first 6 months, even first 2 years?
@Kirbyboy92 it's -70% vs +2%
The difference is absolutely massive.
@Kirbyboy92 Astro's Playroom, Demon's Souls Remake, Destruction All-Stars, Returnal, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, FFVIIR DLC are what you can't get anywhere else but quicker loading times 60FPS and dualsense all make other games a blast to play on PS5. Oh and it's whisper quiet and you can't cook your breakfast on it (I don't know some people might find that last one a negative 🤣) I loved my Pro but upgrading to PS5 was worth it dualshock 4 was fine but I love the dualsense it's slightly bigger and more comfortable to hold, might not be the same for everyone though and the haptics and the adaptive triggers are excellent.
@Kirbyboy92 The thing to celebrate is that it was an incrase, at all. Big Games just don't usually do that, it would be something to celebrate even if the game dropped 2-3%, Games like this are notoriously very frontloaded, they make most of their sales in the first week and then it slows down hard. It would be like Endgame making 650 millions in its first week and making that again in the second week, it would be unprecedented.
@Kirbyboy92 when you do feel the time is right to jump on board you'll have a plethora of great titles to get through both old and new. PS4 is still a great machine so nothing wrong with keeping a hold of it for a while yet. I gave mine to my niece for Xmas so I know it's getting used while it's still going strong!
@Kirbyboy92 again, your brain needs to realize that we aren't talking about a 2% difference.
Let's say that first week sales were 100,000. The second week sales were expected to be 30,000. Instead of that, they were 102,000.
So that would make the difference 72,000, or 350% higher than expected.
Does that help?
EDIT: Or, in USD that could be easier to wrap your head around.
Let's say that they make $20 off of every copy sold.
100,000 x $20 = 2,000,000 USD (first week sales)
30,000 x $20 = 600,000 USD (expected second week sales)
102,000 x $20 = 2,040,000 USD (actual second week sales)
So, they were expecting 600k and made more than 2m instead. Do you understand how massive that is?
Looks like there's weekly PS5 stock now, like on GAME typing in "Ratchet" comes up with PS5 bundles available June 25th suggesting that's when the next PS5 stock is coming.
With weekly PS5 stock being a thing, Ratchet & Clank and Miles Morales will probably stay in the charts for a while longer.
Great news. Can't wait to see how the game charts on the NPD. Wish we still got real sales numbers, though.
How is Mario Kart 8 still getting in the top ten. Good to see R&C doing so well. I never finished the "first" reboot so didn't fancy dropping £70 on a couple of hours of play but still good to see games keeping the plague of FIFA off that number 1 spot.
@reek not in my future no way it can sustain the industry.
@reek @reek Music and movies are both PASSIVE forms of entertainment though. We don't consume games the same way we do movies/music so the comparison isn't apt IMHO. My mom can't come in and see a game I'm playing, pick up a controller and have at it. She hasn't touched a pad in decades and will not learn how to use one just to enjoy something. for movies/music the only skills you need are your own senses. Break-throughs in the internet have to happen as well for streaming to even be considered in some parts of the world.
@Omnistalgic
50 percent correct I'd say. It's true premium AAA gaming can't get your mom. HOWEVER, she already probably plays candy crush or the like through touch controls. Microsoft is working on implementing touch controls thru the mobile version (and already has abt 50) . Just click a button and play with your fingers.
The only thing stopping your mom then would be the complexity of the game which can be reduced by making it more 'casual' more 'nintendo-like'.
However, there is a huge addressable market perfectly okay with more complex games unable to play them so as a consumer, your mom would come late into the target market. And even after that, some stubborn people might still never play these games considering it a hassle.
@David187 As far as the music industry goes, artists are no longer able to command prices that are too high. In the movie industry, actors in MCU movies are going to command a higher salary than even the high-tier stuff netflix produces. And yes, in terms of financial growth, the gaming industry is going to decline with the coming of subscription model just like the music industry did, and the movie industry is going through (cinema don't sell as much tickets as the 90s but they keep increasing the ticket prices).
So, yeah in terms of financial success, I don't think it's that good but it will result in more targeted AA market than the 'target everybody' AAA market.
However, with games, consoles will still survive, people will still have the option of buying to play it locally so it won't be as disastrous as it was for the music industry. Plus, you have microtransactions, games as a service and many more ways to earn money in a game that you can't in movies/ music, which will still exist in the subscription model.
Good to see there’s still a demand for 3D platformers.
@reek Games & Movies are 2 very different beasts games change all the time & the R&D is crazy amounts of money. we have seen how gamers treat what you think is the future so far & it is not this is amazing. MS model is a blackhole when it comes to game pass.
if all 3 are available I will always go to Disc & Download over streaming. I get streaming will be around but it is not as loved in gaming like it is for film IMO.
@Kirbyboy92
Let's say theoretically exclusives push sales above everything else like you seem to be suggesting. The PS5 has quite a few for just over half a year:
Thats roughly one per month - the most generous amount of exclusives of any Sony console in its first few months since PS1 I believe. If you look at the main competitor, Xbox Series X/S, you know how many "console exclusives" it has? Zero to my knowledge, unless you want to count The Medium. Everything is on PC as well.
And Xbox, having no "true" exclusives for awhile yet is still selling really well by all rights.
I think we are moving from an era of exclusives driving hardware sales to a focus on services instead. Hence Gamepass and all that.
I favor exclusives personally and since you can't divide by zero, PS5 has infinitely more than Xbox currently and probably for quite awhile yet. But clearly you don't need "console exclusives" anymore to sell systems.
@David187 and I might add that the streaming technology required for gaming is absurdly more complicated than it is for films and music, you cannot buffer in advance what tou have to render right away at 16ms a frame. So far every streaming solution I've tested has introduced at best a very slight amount of lag and a fairly good amount of video compression.
@Immortal_Barnet in a just world, MS would just bow out, go third party and help Sony make awesome services. But nope, they get to fail over and over again and buy publishers to stay relevant. If I didn't love gaming so much, I would never even support the system, but eh...it is what it is...At least they seemed to have adopted Sony's "let the studios do what they want" mantra so we should get some awesome exclusive from MS this gen, even if it may take a while.
@Kirbyboy92 Demon's Souls, Returnal, Ratchet & Clank: RA, and hidden gem Astro's Playroom, which is the best pack-in game I've ever experienced and something I'd pay full price for.
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