UK Sales Charts: PS5 Slingshots GTA 5 to Number Two

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Mario Kart 8 and GTA V

The very definition of evergreen titles

@Member_the_game and the more people buy, the further away newer installments get.. at this rate MK:10 will come out in 2042.. still no MK:9 news

I know this is a PlayStation site and all that, but I’m so happy to see Pikmin 4 be in the top 10 for a month. It’s always been my favorite Nintendo series, and waiting almost a decade for a new entry for it to become the biggest hit in the series is cathartic.

Usually I can understand why a game is popular, even if I don't personally like it but I've never touched something as overrated as the two Zelda games on Switch 😬

I think they were just hyped up way too much by others for me.

Grand theft auto 5 the g.o.a.t. 🐐 👑.word up son

@WolfyTn

I know I just can't get my head around why people are still buying 9 & 10 year old games.

Not just still buying them but they're topping the charts.

To be fair, thinking about it, I can kind of get it with MK8. The booster pack has essentially doubled the size of the game track wise.

GTA V on the other hand, they just keep releasing the same game over and over with a polish of paint and people are lapping it up.

Absolute madness

@somnambulance Hmm. I'd be pleasantly surprised if AC6 made it to #1. It may be Fromsoft but the mech genre is pretty niche still (sadly).

I preordered yesterday 😄

@Member_the_game your forgetting the amount of kids who have got to that age that their parents will allow them to play a gta game. Even when I was a kid when the first gta came out, it was amazing we could play it, over the years I've watched kids grow up, talking about gta and wanting to play, my kids and my friends kids once you hit that certain age they really want to play.

I had a friend who let them play the game with no sound,

So considering gta 5 is 10 years old, and is now a huge online game aswel. Just think of all those kids coming of age and the inly gta game is gta 5 at this point

@Bez87

The first GTA and GTA London are probably my 2 favourite games of the entire series.

Although they're clearly showing their age nowadays, there's something charming about the simplicity of them.

I think I was 13 or 14 when the first one came out... I saved up my pocket money for it and my Grandma bought it for me whilst I was at School haha

@somnambulance Fair point! The competition is pretty scarce. Let us hope 🤞

I'm also hoping BG3 reaches decent heights against Starfield although that's 2 platforms vs 1.

GTA V will always chart when new content is released in GTA Online because it's cheaper to buy the game again, which includes $2 million dollars for GTO, than buying Shark cards.

No Final Fantasy XVI or Remnant II in the top 40!! Shocking.

@Mauzuri the game continues to sale specifically for GTA Online. There are weekly updates and get at least new "big updates" to content at least 3x a year. I got GTA 5 as a gift and have gotten maybe hundreds of hours in and I have barely touched the surface of the possibilities.

GTA Online is a combination of every game genre excluding. This is coming from a person who is more into RPGs, fantasy, and adventure games.

Also remember, the "average" gamers aren't on sites like this reading up on gaming new and tend to only play GTA or a sports game. For a game to be this strong for over a decade and for 3 console generations is nothing easy and means there's something bringing back gamers.

Seriously, who doesn't already have like 4 copies of GTAV?!

@XboxTheBestBox 100% agree. Its what gaming is all about

No GoW, No Last of us, no Uncharted, no Spider-Man, no GT7, no FFVI, etc why do people buy ps5 for (PS5 hardware is selling but no PS5 exclusives seems to be breaking top 10).

@bighal Are you just trolling right now? Uncharted hasn't had a new release since 2017. GoW Ragnarok was in the top 10 until this most recent report. GT7 is a year and half old, Spider-Man has sold over 33 million copies (across 2 games) in 5 years. FFXVI is a more niche title that has still sold very well. Just wait until Baldur's Gate 3 comes out on PS5 and Spider-Man 2 releases.

@theSpectre No I’m not trolling read what I said before acting like a jerk

I am saying we have had a lot of new PS5 being sold week in, week out. Therefore it stands to reason people buy PS5 to also play PS5 exclusives and none of them are in the top 10, so my question was why are none of the exclusives on Sony’s platform not being dragged up with increased hardware sales. One reason could be the people upgraded from PS4 so not buying them again (or simply getting the digital upgrade where available). Where the hell is that trolling?

No wonder Rockstar are taking their sweet time releasing GTA 6.

Why bother when your 10 year old game is selling better than games released this year.

@Member_the_game yea the originals have a special place aswel for me, I believe I was around the same age, I remember playing the demo for hours n hours.

Literally couldn't believe what I could do in that game compared to anything else I'd played.
London was also a great game.

I was in amazement with gta 2 when they introduced gangs.

So just think we are in our late 30s now and GTA is more relevant now more than ever, and when we were kids its all people talked about playing.

We havent had a new gta or even dlc for gta 5 for 10 years, no wonder its Still selling.

Think about the 10 years since the original.

We had gotten 15 gta related games including remasters and compilations.

GTA 4 was released 2008 that was the longest gap we had before hand.

The major titles came out, 1 to 2 years since 1997 up until 2004 not even counting any handheld games made.

We didn't have a reason to stick with 1 game as we had already moved onto the next within a year or 2.

GTA 5 to GTA 6 is the longest gap we have had, so it makes sense people are still buying.
It must be just the online because in all honesty GTA5 wasn't a great game once I'd finished it.

They hyped the heists up so much but in the main game the heists are few and far between and you couldn't even do heists out of the mains story and the only real heists you did was the first 1, the rest were more story driven than anything.