UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank, Spider-Man Return While F1 2021 Takes Pole Position

Good to see the only PS5 exclusive worth the outlay doing well.

5 of that top ten are Switch exclusives so Nintendo are clearly doing something right - does help when you can actually buy one of their consoles though?

No signs of either Demon souls or Returnal. This is sad.

Spider man And Ratchet Holding Down The Fort.

I think insomniac is sony number one studio right now 😃

Ratchet and miles were part of a lot of bundles last week. One of my mates finally got one after looking since Feb. Hopefully my predictions of summer 2022 for ps5s being widely available are wrong and people are able to get their hands on stock easier.

@Daleaf You're right. What boggles my mind is how rare it is for people to buy second hand. I bought both Returnal and Demon Soul's for the same price as one of those games at retail price.

I get it if you really want it day one but if you can wait just a couple weeks it's possible to shave off like $20.

Also managed to pick up Rift Apart for the grand price of $25.

Insomniac Games carrying the physical games. I really wish the digital stores would be included in here. It seems so redundant knowing over 50% of Playstation purchases happen on the PS Store.
I'm pretty sure Nintendo doesn't have anywhere near that traffic on their E-Shop. At least, I don't know anyone who buys on E-Shop

i paid full price for returnal to grab a ps5 bundle..a man has to do what a man has to do...

Think PS5 stock Dropped in the UK last week, when ever that happens Miles sales jump, probably also Ratchet now as well. Not much else out there so show off the fast loading and ray tracing so naturally when people finally get a PS5 they buy these.
Going to borrow Ratchet from my friend, +1 to physical.

@JAMes-BroWWWn think its 75-80% digital in the UK

@Roqka
I’m amazed by this too. Due to a large backlog I almost always buy second hand. Once accounting for trade back it’s very hard to justify not doing so. Judgment at £4, Shenmue 3 at £2 etc. Often you get games at 1/20th the cost of new.
Until platform holders improve their return and sell back policies I’ll have no compunction about doing this whatsoever.

@sanderson72 Ratchet is not better than returnal or demon souls so how can that be worth 70 and the others not?

Ratchet is phenomenally pretty but its an easy, short as sh*t game that i had to play on renegade legend to try and get my moneys worth (it didnt even last a full week) so it is definitely not worth more than returnal which has far better gameplay as a 3rd person shooter or demon souls that gives you a lengthy, rewarding experience.

None are worth 70 and Ratchet is the worst of a great bunch. Still good but not worth 70 Ever!

@InvaderJim Geez. If that's true it's so overdue to consider digital sales.

@Loftimus Actually, I was referring to the PS5 not any game in particular.
With so much still arriving on the PS4, I'm on the lookout for something that makes me want to spend £450 and make the jump (assuming I can find one when that elusive title appears!)
Of all the PS5 exclusives, R&C has impressed me the most from what I've seen. Hated Demon Souls on the PS3; Returnal looks OK.

@sanderson72 thats fair enough mate but i can honestly say that ratchet is the same old (great) sh*t. Returnal is challenging but at the same time it is the most responsive 3rd person shooter ever and I never played ps3 DS, but it certainly doesnt feel anything less than a ps5 game.

@thefourfoldroot Well firstly, you didn’t buy those games, you effectively rented them.

Secondly, The developers and publishers got literally zero money from you. If 50% of the market did what you do then most big budget games wouldn’t be economically feasible. You basically benefit of the back of all the people buying new copies(whether full price, or waiting for a sale), to use less kind words you’re basically a parasite on the gaming community 😎

I’m not saying you shouldn’t buy second hand, you need to think about yourself first obviously, but it’s not really something to boast about and you’re actively hurting the long term survival prospects of game studios.

@JAMes-BroWWWn well we know for certain in the first quarter of this calendar year it was 79% digital worldwide for PlayStation, and that covers some territories that are still predominantly physical(like Japan).

I just started Miles this past weekend and it definitely at the very least a good showoff game for the system so this makes sense it would jump up like it did with the restock and all. The story is pretty dull so far but the gameplay and presentation make up for it. Fun game overall.

Imagine still buying GTAV, MK8Deluxe or Minecraft in 2021. Like how? I guess some people have 8 kids and everyone needs a copy.

@Kidfried old? It was released three months ago. It's one of the newest releases.

@Blacksmith1985 Monster Hunter stories released last week and is not in the top 10 after charting for only one week.

If you look at the ever green titles in this list, it’s a 100m+ selling game, two 30m+ Etc. Miles will probably sell 20m at its current ps5 attachment rate, and Ratchet will probably be another 10m seller.

Returnal and Demons souls will never be near that level. Returnal had a likely development cost around $10-15M and most like
turned a profit in the first month.

Off subject finally got my Sony A80J tv.
Dam it is a lovely OLED and with sky Q tv, movies and games the motion is butter smooth and less blurry and the detail levels are picture perfect.
HDMI CEC hand shaking is also spot on.
No complaints so far.
And they gave me a £50 Playstation store voucher.

@Kidfried As Returnals not part of a niche franchise, it’s a new up. I think you meant niche genre.

@ChrisDeku
You are right, I am renting them (although I view it as not having hundreds of old games collecting dust and taking up room, but yeah).

You are also correct that the devs and publishers are getting no money from me (there is an argument that those who get games cheaply are more likely to spend on DLC and micro transactions, but I don’t do that either!) so yes, I am a parasite in that sense as most AAA games wouldn’t be possible if everyone did this (I rarely if ever play AAA games, but we’ll ignore that for now).

The thing is though, the industry has created this situation by not letting us own digital games. Only rent licenses. If they weren’t so greedy, and allowed us ownership, and the ability to sell and trade these games we own, then there would be a fairer more equitable marketplace. Instead they refuse us this and, moreover, don’t even allow us to return games as we can most goods bought online within a reasonable period. As such, I don’t feel bad in the slightest and my money can continue to go to the second hand shops and private sellers instead.

Seems like Codemasters was a wise investment for EA afterall. Great to see high quality PlayStation games continuing to have legs. Devs at Insomniac better be getting great bonuses for leading the way for PS5 this gen so far.

Great news. F1 is another brilliant racer from CodeMasters. Can not put it down, always one more race or tweak.

R&C has it all. Gameplay, graphics and rock solid performance. How games should be now, publishers have no excuses at this point.

Miles Morales is another Gem - loved the last scene. 100% a feel good game.

Insomniac deserves all of the sales with how good Ratchet and Miles are.

can you bring back the downvote button

@thefourfoldroot you can come up with as many excuses as you want for yourself. I'm sure you'd feel differently if it were you suffering financially because of the actions of others who are mad at the industry and not you specifically.

@naruball
🤷‍♂️ Not an excuse, as I do not need to be excused. Sorry if you don’t feel it’s morally acceptable to buy games second hand (rather than at 10 times the price digitally with no ownership or rights to sell on) but not everybody agrees with you.