
Video game sales data will generally always focus on what's being bought the most, but what about the titles below the best sellers you never see? As Circana reveals its end-of-year reports for game sales in the USA, analyst Mat Piscatella has shared some fun facts surrounding the data you'd never normally see.
According to Piscatella, games on the PS2, PSP, and PS Vita are still receiving officially recorded purchases in the USA, and some titles were sold exactly once in 2025.
The fact a retail store is stocking PS2, PSP, and PS Vita games that it deems as "new" so many years after the consoles' lifespans is surprising, but apparently, they're still being counted.
All via Mat Piscatella, these PS2 games sold one new copy in the USA last year:
- Bombastic
- Gladius
- Grandia 3
- Kingdom Hearts 2
- Midway Arcade Treasures 2
- MVP Baseball 2005
- Odin Sphere
- Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
- Sly 2: Band of Thieves
- Stuntman: Ignition
- Yakuza 2
These PSP games sold one new copy in the USA last year:
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
- Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip
- Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
- Monster Hunter: Freedom Dual Pack
- Rock Band Unplugged
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
- UFC 2010: Undisputed
These PS Vita games sold one new copy in the USA last year:
- Borderlands 2
- Code: Realize - Winterwide Miracles
- Dynasty Warriors Next
- Little Deviants
- Punch Line
- Shinobido 2: Revenge of Zen
Were you the person who bought one of these games? Explain yourself in the comments below.
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Whoever is still buying games on PS2 has supremely good tastes. Hella respect who bought that copy of Odin Sphere
Some of these are pretty decent games and so finding a copy would be a pleasant surprise. Not sure what that 1 person wants with MVP Baseball 2005 though.
I'm surprised there's still retail store who stock brand new PS2, PSP, and Vita copy.
But not surprised with some people going back to retro games / console. I'm also saving money to get an og PS2 + a second hand copy of Front Mission 4, Ace Combat 4, Shadow of Rome, Viewtiful Joe 1, Max Payne 1, and Xenosaga eps 1.
I'd be very curious to know where they're being sold — are they all from the same place, I wonder?
I bought a couple PS2 classics on my PS3 last year, and at least one PSP game. All digital through the PlayStation Store. I wouldn't be surprised if the sales numbers there were a bit higher.
@PuppetMaster @Andee I worked for a video game distributor that has many of the games on this list, and we sold them to many retro stores throughout the US, PlayAsia, and VGP.
PSP games were made up until 2016 and PS1/PS2 games were made up until 2019. And they had many copies left of these games when I left, which, from the list above, were:
*Bombastic (copies from original pressings)
*Kingdom Hearts 2 (copies made in 2019)
*Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (copies made in 2019)
*Stuntman Ignition (copies from original pressings)
*Yakuza 2 (copies made in 2019)
*Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip (copies from original pressings)
*Monster Hunter: Freedom Dual Pack (copies made in 2016)
*Rock Band Unplugged (copies from original pressings)
*Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (copies from original pressings)
*UFC 2010: Undisputed (copies from original pressings)
*Code: Realize - Winterwide Miracles (copies from original pressings)
*Punch Line (copies from original pressings)
So somewhere in the US, someone is playing Borderlands 2 at 20fps and regretting their life choices.
God bless the person who bought Kingdom Hearts II.
If they released a PS2 today, memory cards and wired controllers and all, I would snatch one up. Same with the PSP. Especially if they started producing physical games again.
I have a Retroid that is mostly PSP. Highly recommended.
I bought a new copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga on Amazon last year. So this is me?? Amazon has tons of new ps2 games for sale. All you have to do is search new ps2 games. Probably shooting myself in the foot here. Now everyone will know and I will never find another new on Amazon lol.
I actually bought new sealed copies of KH 1 and 2 for the PS2 back in about 2016/17 from the now dearly departed G-Force Games. No idea why I didn’t just buy the PS3 remasters. I later just played them all on PS5.
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