UK Sales Charts: Good Week for Sony as PS5 Stock Boosts Spider-Man

Wow, tlou 2 is already priced $10, ouch.

Congrats for miles morales, happy for insomniacs 😃

@Kirbyboy92 The game is a year old now, so won't most people have already bought it?

@LiamCroft Usually good games that still bought by gamers maintain their price, like nintendo games.

@wiiware I’m not falling for your bait, and neither should anyone else. 😂

I recently finished The Last of Us Part 2 again with the outstanding PS5 patch. Geez this game is just a masterpiece. I'm glad Naughty Dog took care for the Playstation Nation with support like that. Unless some other in house studios. Cough Guerrilla Games cough.

Mario kart 8 is still topping charts 7 years , and two console gens , later . i contemplated getting this game for my switch since my only other game for it is smash bros & i've always liked mario kart games ; but i've been waiting for them to just make a new mario kart eventually but , sheesh , mk8 is looking very tempting .

@LiamCroft "The game is a year old now, so won't most people have already bought it?"

Oh yeah explain GTAV then 😌

With most people in uk buying spiderman physically, you'd think they would buy Returnal and Demon's souls physically as well, with it being the cheapest way to buy them. I'm gussing second hand copies are filling that void by now. Sony wont like that.

@Juanalf don't try and make what you think is a valid argument, its "bait" don't you know?

@wiiware @Kirbyboy92 @LiamCroft don't you think "for all ages" games (like Miles Morales here), just like 99% of Nintendo games, sell well because any parent or grandparent sees them on the shelves, feels it safe to buy for the kids as compared to the rage with blood/mud on Ellie's face obviously screaming for Mature audiences. GTAV is an exception, it's in its own world plus GTAO is more like for all ages, plus there's the thing about buying a new copy and getting shark cards is cheaper. So maybe we can agree "for all ages" games always sell better than "Mature" ones and not that TLOUII is struggling or anything.

@Juanalf oh, yeah, using GTA makes perfect sense. Every single gamer ever released has been a failure in comparison. R.I.P., gaming other than GTA.

@themightyant good point .

@Kirbyboy92
Very marmite game in all honesty.
For some it's a masterpiece, for others, not so much...
Also take into account it's a single player linear game with no major replay value, so it's not going to be constantly in the charts like multiplayer games like GTA V, FIFA 21, COD etc.

@wiiware and yet PlayStation still doubled Nintendo’s overall gaming revenue last year

Must be a sad and miserable life to feel the need to still be whining and complaining about a game 12 months on.

@2cents
That's due to Nintendo still be very traditional and relying on console sale profits and game sales as the main revenue generator.
For example, PlayStation reached $22.74B revenue in 2020. 57% of that is from PSN (software, 30% cut from MTX etc).
Only 16% was hardware sales and only 6% physical software sales.
I don't have Nintendo info for direct comparison, but you can imagine the percentages are completely different.

@blinx01 yes, I can imagine the numbers show the Nintendo fanbase is geared towards collecting while the PlayStation fanbase is geared toward player engagement. When I’m discussing video games I know which version I’d consider successful, engagement. I’m a Switch owner with huge physical library and half of my games are still unopened!

Not to mention the Switch console itself is 33% cheaper than the competition when comparing direct sales numbers, the Switch Pro could change this discrepancy by being priced at $399/499 like the PlayStation - then console sale comparisons will be more interesting

Nice for Miles Morales. Great game.

That someone can get RE: Village and then put TLOU2 in their cart for just an extra $9.99 is what makes the PlayStation library so amazing.

PC games drop even faster. And great sales.

Tons of top new AAA games every month - and great prices on the games in your backlog list when you get to them. Hard to complain about that.

@LiamCroft I'm serious, zelda botw is still $60 and still sells, same with mario oddyssey, why do you think I'm baiting?

@2cents I sort of don't care? We're talking about tlou 2 sales right? not the total of playstation sales.

@TheArt Call of duty is another games that for "mature audience" but still sells, I think most parent didn't think too much about rating when buying games, and most of gaming audience is already adult. As long as that's not super gory games like mortal kombat.

Nice to see miles morales getting to the top-means more people have been able to get a ps5 & play an excellent game. Also sweet seeing last of us part 2 in the charts, a masterpiece of gaming & imo, the best game that Sony has made.

@wiiware you implied TLOU2 isn’t a good game because it didn’t sell as much as Nintendo’s best and that games going on sale a year after release is somehow a negative thing

Nintendo has conditioned gamers like you to enjoy buying $60 Wii U ports year after year, that’s not exactly something to brag about unless you work for them. I’m a consumer, not a company shill.

A really nice spread of PlayStation and Nintendo Switch titles this week. Very healthy indeed.

@LiamCroft Every week on these sales charts articles, there’s console war rants from some people. Same over on Nintendo Life. It’s immature and it’s really, really dumb.

@2cents I don't think a good game shouldn't be discounted to $10 after only about 1 year, we can safely say the uk retailers are desperately try to get rid of this game stock.

It was a real joy to play Miles even on PS4 Pro, the game is amazing. Now waiting for Spider-Man 2 . Also TLOU 2 is incredible, it worth every cent in my opinion.

I expect we'll be seeing Spider-Man: Miles Morales having #1, 2 or 3 entries a lot throughout the rest of the year. When people panicked about the initial sales it was surprising. Obviously it wasn't that people don't want it, they're just waiting to be able to get a PS5 first.