PS Store Sales Charts: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Rules the Galaxy

Horizon: Forbidden West not being in the top 10 in any of the PS5 and PS4 charts is shocking. It reinforces my opinion that Sony made a big mistake not waiting until late April or early May to release it.

I bought Resi 8 last month, after swearing that I wouldn't buy any more games due to purchasing HFW and GT 7 within a couple of weeks!

Interesting lists. Really does seem as if a lot of PS4 players are waiting to get a PS5 before buying the two games mentioned above or maybe I have that wrong.

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@RBMango well as someone that did buy it and competed it last week, I'm glad they didn't push it back any further.

Not as if there were any other decent games released in Feb.

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What kind of message would that have sent? Pushing it's release back due to another game? Might have made it look as if they didn't have any confidence in their product, which wouldn't have been a good look.

Over time it will sell millions upon millions of copies. It's a fantastic game after all.

@RBMango I think sales are being skewed towards physical while people are picking up games with their new PS5. I'm definitely going to buy HFW when I get round to it, but I don't have the time or desire to play games as they release.

Could you not just post some tables of the top ten games on each platform. It would make the information much clearer.

@Col_McCafferty I don't think a lot of people both at Sony and in the fanbase would have cared about the short-term message if that meant the game was given a lot more breathing room, was much more polished at release, and made more money. Games get delayed all the time because of other bigger games being released in a timeframe. Sony's hubris got the best of them from what I can see.

Granted, I'm going off hypotheticals, but Sony not saying a single peep about its sales almost four months after release speaks much louder than words. That says A LOT for a company that likes to brag about how many copies their latest exclusive darlings sell every chance they get. For contrast, they crowed about Returnal selling around 560,000 copies after three months of it being on the market, and they were very quick to say when Rift Apart sold over a million copies a little over a month of its release. If they aren't saying anything about one of their biggest games so far this generation, that can only mean the news isn't good.

@RBMango I don't think anyone foresaw how big ER would prove to be, probably not even FromSoft themselves!

It didn't seem to be the 'bigger' game at all, rather a nice alternative for anyone not interested in Aloy's new adventure. In an ideal world it would've been released late last year but there's only so many delays gamers can accept.

I think this is a case where hindsight is a wonderful thing so accusations of arrogance on Sony's behalf, are quite baffling and incorrect.

It will have legs, long legs, and may not sell as many copies as Zero Dawn but it will more than make it's money back and then some.

One thing I am pleasantly surprised by is Kena being in a top 15/20. It’s so nice seeing an indie game have legs like these. It was my 2nd favorite game last year and deserves everything.

@Col_McCafferty Oh for sure it will have long legs. Hell, The Last of Us: Part II and Miles Morales are still in the charts. Sony exclusives have a good history of long-term success.

And, you're right about "hindsight is always 20/20", but I do think it was a dumb move to not get out of Elden Ring's way just based on the volume of hype and From's cultural significance. If I was Jimmy Boy, I would have delayed it to a much quieter month. The thing that bothers me the most is that I think the game itself suffered as well because it was pretty buggy at launch (at least for me) and Guerrilla has been adding things that should have been in the game day one (disabling pick-up animations, for one example). Just sheerly from a technical standpoint, I think Sony released it too early, and that reflects poorly on their normally sterling reputation for releasing polished titles. And Sony doesn't need any more hits to its reputation after some of the weird stuff they've been doing over the last few years.

@RBMango FromSoft are or were seen as niche, whatever the hell that means, not as if HFW was released the week before GTA 6 or something!

I didn't experience many bugs nor other technical issues but I was playing it slowly, so by the time I finished it it had received a number of updates.

I think what some gamers class as a buggy game is different to a few years ago. I think if Skyrim was released now it would be subject to review bombing!

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Got 100% last week in Lego Star Wars. No game-breaking bugs - feels like a miracle honestly given my bad luck with LEGO games in the past.

Absolutely love Star Wars, yet again another game with its name that didn’t live up to expectations. Well my own anyway. Happens with every Star Wars game though. From the gate this game is 100% geared towards small children. It’s extremely basic. If you like mindless fun you’ll love it but there’s nothing to engage the ‘ol brain matter on this one for me. A few hours of play was enough to know this was going to be a return

@Happychocobo I liked it but I know what you mean. For all the noise they made about revolutionising the gameplay, it really didn’t feel massively different to the LEGO games that came before.

I really missed being able to hold triangle and select from all the characters at once - rather than having to enter the menu and select by category. The new menu system was too fiddly (even though I understand why they probably thought it was ‘better’).

The game is really quite polished though, barring the rare glitch here and there. But yeah, I’ve finished it now and probably won’t return to it again.

LEGO Marvel Superheroes is still the best one.

Love the LEGO game. Glad it is doing well.

Was a bit confused by Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands at first, but the more I played it the more I liked it. Tons of fun.

It also runs great on PS5. Some gun fights are crazy, but it handles it really well.

No sign of Ghostwire Tokyo, which is a shame. I’m really enjoying it (once I turned on English audio). I just couldn’t read subtitles whilst trying to play at the same time (especially with it being first person). But the game is great. Really good/creepy atmosphere.

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Nice to know. I know its appeal is not universal, but im certain im going to very much enjoy. Even if its just so i can run around tokyo, i'd enjoy it, but the cultural references that permiate this game and its spooky fun are a big draw for me too.
If I ever get elden ring finished, its my next want!

@BritneyfR_ee I think the mixed reviews with it also being a more niche game held it back. I also think the game is underappreciated. I loved the game very much and even got the platinum for it. The whole Japanese mythology setting was what drew me in at the first place. I hope it will get more love from more players since that game deserves it

I did have Lego Star Wars, but I traded it in. I think I've just played too many of the Lego games over the years. I also encountered a progress halting glitch and spent time trying to 'solve' it before looking up onine and realising was a glitch. Worked after resetting a check point, but then encountered another sticking point that seemed like another glitch and moved back to Elden Ring. Thats happened to me playing previous Lego games and seemed the same story here.

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I'm glad it came out when it did, it's not like there was much else to play at the time 😂

@Col_McCafferty Elden Ring was very hyped though, and also more likely to be focused on by the people who make the most noise, even if it was more successful than anticipated.

@Col_McCafferty Elden Ring dominated Horizon and Horizon was bit of a mess at launch and pretty unpolished, there was many bugs (with some still there) and tons of visuals issues. A month or two delay could have fixed the bigger issues before launch and net better sales as the shadow of Elden Ring would have passed.