Tag: Sales
News UK Sales Charts: Call of Duty Creates a Warzone with DOOM Eternal for Shooter Supremacy
Bang bang
The latest UK chart is in, and we're back to a relative norm. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is back atop the all formats chart, and we can probably attribute part of that resurgence to Warzone, the free-to-play add-on that now comes with every copy. Meanwhile, DOOM Eternal, which saw a strong second place debut last week, moves down a...
News Sounds Like DOOM Eternal Had a Hell of an Opening Weekend
Breaks franchise records
One of 2020's big new games, DOOM Eternal, landed at the end of last week, and by the sound of it has done very well for Bethesda. The hellishly good first person shooter had a record-breaking opening weekend, according to the publisher. Although no sales figures have been provided, Bethesda says the sequel more than doubled...
News UK Sales Charts: DOOM Eternal Secures Second Place Amid Huge Surge in Demand for Games
Coronavirus prompts spike in game sales
It's an extremely turbulent time right now, as fears surrounding coronavirus see businesses shutting up shop, employees working from home, and streets clearing as people are forced to stay indoors. It would be insensitive to make light of the situation, of course, but one interesting side effect of all this is...
News UK Sales Charts: Nioh 2 on PS4 Slays with Number One Debut at Retail
Monster sales
Finally, a new release on PlayStation 4 has made an impact on the UK's physical chart. Nioh 2, Team Ninja's Souls-esque sequel, arrived last week, and has defeated a number of huge foes to debut in first place. It's a good result for the PS4 exclusive in an unusual week for games at retail. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and FIFA 20 are...
News February 2020 NPD: Consumer Spending Dips in Uneventful Month
On the rocks
Consumer spending dropped by 29 per cent year-over-year, as February 2020 proved to be an uneventful month in the latest NPD sales report for the United States. According to analyst Mat Piscatella, “late cycle hardware dynamics for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well as a lighter new release software slate drove the variance”. It...
News UK Sales Charts: The Usual Suspects Remain as the Country Sleeps on Dreams
Pun intended
The physical UK chart feels like it's been pretty much the same for months now. This is partly down to a lack of notable new PlayStation 4 releases, of course, but it's a little difficult to drum up things to say each week when the same handful of games are perpetually the country's top sellers. This week, Nintendo secures a successful...
News PS4 Has Reportedly Sold a Ridiculous 68 Million More Units than Xbox One
109 million to 41 million
As you may already know, Microsoft doesn't report Xbox sales figures. The company stopped keeping us up to date all the way back in 2015, after it became clear that the Xbox One's numbers would not paint a pretty picture when compared to the runaway success of the PlayStation 4. Since then, we've had to rely on third-party...
News Yakuza: Like a Dragon Ships Over 400,000 Units
Breathing fire
Yakuza: Like a Dragon’s sales looked disappointing at first blush in Japan, but between physical and digital copies, the role-playing game’s done okay for itself. SEGA reports that shipments have now exceeded 400,000 copies across Asia, and the publisher is marking the occasion with a 30 per cent discount on the Japanese...
News UK Sales Charts: Dreams Declines While Two Point Hospital Gets a Very Healthy Start
NH Yes
Here's something we weren't expecting to see this morning. In a retail chart otherwise filled with the typical popular titles, Two Point Hospital gets off to a great start, coming in just behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for a second place debut. It's a pleasant surprise to see a relatively small game do so well in the shops. We're not...
News Persona 5 Scramble Enjoys Good Start in Japan, PS4 Version Easily Outsells Switch
Phantom strike
Japan is clearly up for yet more Persona 5, as action-based sequel Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers has topped the latest software charts. It's off to a pretty good start, moving 162,000 copies or so across both PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. Perhaps unsurprisingly, though, it's the PS4 version that's proving to be much...
News UK Sales Charts: Dreams Flies Low as Bayonetta and Vanquish Breach Top 10
Bad dream
We all knew it would probably happen -- Dreams has been a critical success, but commercial success appears to be much tougher for it. After debuting at number eight in last week's physical UK chart, the latest bestsellers list puts Media Molecule's masterpiece at number 15. It's not quite as bad as it sounds, though. The decrease in sales...
News Tekken 7 Celebrates 5 Million Copies Sold With Updated Character Artwork
Season 3 fighters join the party
Tekken 7 just keeps selling. Surpassing everyone's expectations, including Bandai Namco's, the fighter has maintained a very healthy competitive scene since it launched on consoles back in 2017, and its good reputation has kept those sales figures ticking along nicely. And we all know what happens whenever we get...
News Grand Theft Auto V Was the UK's Best Selling Game in January 2020
What else did you expect?
Let's not beat around the bush: January 2020 was an incredibly quiet month for video games. So quiet, in fact, that a release from 2013 ended up being the best selling title of the month here in the UK. We are, of course, referring to Grand Theft Auto V, a game which manages to appear on the UK sales charts week in, week...
News PS5 Will Ship 6 Million Units in Just a Few Months, Analyst Predicts
Big beginning
Sony’s stressed the importance of transitioning PlayStation 4 owners to the PlayStation 5 as fast as possible, and one analyst believes it could ship six million next-gen consoles by 31st March next year. With a November launch likely, it means that the organisation would have about five months to get that many systems into retail,...
News UK Sales Charts: Yakuza in Dreams Land As PS4 Exclusives Start Strong
Two new PS4 titles in top ten
If you’ve been following the Yakuza franchise since the dark days when Sony had to step in and localise Yakuza 5 on SEGA’s behalf, then it’s probably refreshing to see a trio of Ryu ga Gotoku re-releases near the top of the UK charts. Yakuza Remastered Collection was actually the biggest new physical launch in...
News PS4 and Xbox One Sales Worse in January 2020 Compared to PS3 and Xbox 360 in January 2013
Slowing down
It was a disappointing January 2020 for all consoles in the United States, but fascinatingly the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One performed worse than the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in January 2013. This is pertinent because both instances represent the final January of their respective hardware cycles. Why, then, do current-gen consoles...
News January 2020 NPD: Dragon Ball the Only Winner in Dry Month
Just Saiyan
Overall video game spend dropped by 26 per cent year-over-year in a dismal start to 2020 in the United States. As has been the case for a while now, hardware sales dipped dramatically, with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on the cusp of being replaced. Perhaps surprisingly, not even the younger, sprightlier Nintendo Switch could avoid...
News Devil May Cry 5 Becomes Best-Selling Entry in the Series at 3.1 Million Units
Capcom dominance
Capcom really has taken the PlayStation 4 generation by storm. Monster Hunter: World became its best selling video game of all time at 14.9 million units, Resident Evil 2 is officially outselling the PSone original, and now Devil May Cry 5 is the best-selling entry in the Japanese franchise. The publisher has updated its lengthy...
News The Division 2 Reaches Bargain Bin Price of $2.99 on PlayStation Store
Bargain Hunt
The Division 2 is about to get a whole lot bigger in the coming weeks with the launch of its biggest expansion yet, Warlords of New York, but you can snap up the base game for cheaper than ever at the moment. Ubisoft's looter shooter is being sold for just $2.99 on the US PlayStation Store until 3rd March. It is slightly more expensive...
News UK Sales Charts: Zombie Army 4 Lurches Into the Top 10 as Dragon Ball Crashes to Earth
Not much else to see, though
Another week, another physical UK chart to yawn at. With a lack of new software, the spending habits of Brits have hardly changed for weeks. The latest top 10, however, does have a new entry. Zombie Army 4: Dead War from Rebellion makes a debut at number eight, and we suspect it will have done even better digitally...
News Nioh Surpasses Three Million Copies Sold Worldwide Ahead of Sequel
It's all good
Developer Team Ninja hasn't got a bad word to say at the moment. After impressing us once again at a Nioh 2 preview event ahead of the sequel's release next month, it has now been revealed that the original game is even more of a sales success than we thought. The series' official Twitter account announced overnight that Nioh has...
News Sony Seems to Be Unifying PS Store Sale Themes Across Regions
All together now
Sony’s various regional branches have historically acted largely independently but beginning last year PlayStation has been attempting to unify its divisions. We saw an example of this in a recent marketing campaign, which was consistent across the entire globe, but emphasised different brands depending on the region. And now...
News PS Store Reduces the Price of Retro Games and Remasters
Old school
Sony’s launched a new sale on the European and North American PlayStation Stores, spotlighting retro games and remasters. The deals, which will run through 21st February, include reductions on titles like Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy, and
News Granblue Fantasy Versus Sales Are Off to a Good Start in Japan and Asia
Grand
The West has to wait a little longer for Granblue Fantasy Versus, but the pristine looking fighting game is already off to a solid start in Japan and other Asian territories. Publisher Cygames reports that the title has shipped and digitally sold over 150,000 copies since it launched on the 6th February. That's pretty good as far as fighting...
News The Outer Worlds Is a Big RPG Success with Two Million Copies Shipped
Not including Game Pass
Obsidian's The Outer Worlds took the RPG genre by storm last year when it became an instant hit on PlayStation 4, and it looks like that has translated into a big success at retail with more than two million copies shipped worldwide. This makes it the studio's most successful title since South Park: The Stick of Truth.
News Code Vein Sales Top 1 Million Worldwide
Bound by blood
Action role-playing title Code Vein has sold over 1 million copies worldwide, publisher Bandai Namco has announced. The game, often referred to as 'anime Dark Souls', launched in September last year, and recently it received its first expansion, 'Hellfire Knight'. It's not a bad result for a game that released during such a busy...
News PS4 Sales on the Decline as PS5 Draws Near
Next-gen approaches
Sony has just posted its latest financial report, covering the third quarter of fiscal year 2019. This covers the holiday season, and it's pretty clear that PlayStation 4 sales are beginning to fall. As you can see in Sony's presentation, sales were down 20 per cent year-on-year for its gaming sector. The company attributes this...
News PSN Earned $12.48 Billion for Sony in 2019
That's a lot of money
How big is the PlayStation Network? Well, it’s $12.48 billion big, according to data crunched by ResetEra via Sony’s latest sales report. The Japanese giant raked in an eye-watering $9.28 billion in 2019 through the PlayStation Store, with the sale of full games, add-ons, and microtransactions. It then made a further
News UK Sales Charts: Dragon Ball Z Takes a Tumble as Call of Duty Continues Winning Streak
Under 9,000
The physical game chart for the UK doesn't make for particularly inspiring reading, but hey, it seems we know what we like. With the absence of major releases, the latest chart is looking familiar as ever, with the usual suspects all swapping seats in the top 10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is in first place once more, which is likely...
News Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Felt the Force of Retailers' Cash Registers
All in order
EA has had a pretty dismal generation in general, but Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order represents a rare success story for the firm. Not only has the PlayStation 4 title attracted plenty of critical acclaim, but it’s also been a big financial success for the publisher – proof that it’s still possible to produce a great single player...
News Yakuza: Like a Dragon Sales Aren't So Disappointing in Japan After All
Huge increase in digital sales
When last week's Japanese sales charts arrived, it was looking like Yakuza: Like a Dragon had been a bit of a flop. It didn't do terribly, but it also didn't appear to spark a resurgence for the series in its homeland. However, according to SEGA's Toshihiro Nagoshi -- who oversees the Yakuza franchise -- the latest...
Close to breaking top 10
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is currently enjoying an impressive revival off the back of the recent Netflix series. The highly rated role-playing title is almost five years old at this point, but age doesn't matter when people are going gaga for Geralt. Indeed, the latest UK sales charts give us a glimpse into just how popular...
News UK Sales Charts: Call of Duty and Dragon Ball Z Duke It Out for First Place
Who came out on top?
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot got off to a flying start in UK retail last week, debuting in number one and knocking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare off its perch. Activision's ever-popular shooter has made a swift recovery, however, and has returned this week to reclaim the top spot once more. Goku's RPG still lands in second place,...
News Yakuza: Like a Dragon Fails to Spark Series Resurgence in Japan as Lacklustre Sales Continue
Launch numbers are in
SEGA knew it was taking a bit of a risk with Yakuza: Like a Dragon -- or Yakuza 7, as it's known in Japan. The latest entry in the long running series does away with its trademark action-based combat, replacing it with a turn based battle system that has been, at least in part, designed to appeal to Japan's love of traditional...
News UK Sales Charts: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Goes Super Saiyan with Number One Debut
Over 9,000
Dragon Ball Z has been around for a long time, but its enduring popularity remains extraordinary. Bandai Namco recently released a game that follows the story of this evergreen anime, named Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, and it seems Goku still has plenty of fans in the UK. A lot of them seem to own a PlayStation 4, too; Sony's platform...
News PS4 Exclusive Days Gone Makes the List of 2019's Best-Selling Games
Gridlock on the broken road
Sony’s been conspicuously quiet when it comes to Days Gone’s overall sales, but everything we’ve observed is that the Bend developed undead open worlder was a bit of a secret smash hit. And that’s reflected by NPD’s report on the best-selling games of 2019, where Deacon St. John’s debut landed in 19th...
News December 2019 NPD: Call of Duty, Star Wars Can't Soften Yearly Decline
Industry down 13% year-over-year
A whopping $3 billion were spent on video games in the United States last month, but not even juggernauts like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order could prevent the industry from succumbing to a 15 per cent year-over-year decline. This has been the tale of the tape all year, of course, as...
News MLB The Show 19 Is the Best-Selling Baseball Game of All Time
Home run
MLB The Show has always been a popular franchise, but the 2019 instalment is the best-selling baseball game in United States history. According to the NPD Group, which tracks both physical and digital game sales across the country, full-game dollar sales of the latest instalment in the baseball simulation series “have now surpassed those...
News To the Surprise of No One, PS4 Was the US' Best-Selling Console of the Decade
Big win
PlayStation 4’s success has already been very well documented, but just in case you needed a swift reminder: Sony’s system was the best-selling hardware in the United States for the past decade. That means no other device outsold it in the 2010s, despite the console not launching until November 2013. It’s hardly a surprise, of course:...
News Call of Duty Dominates Top 10 List of the Decade's Best Selling Games in the US
But guess who is top
The United States of America must really, really like the Call of Duty franchise. That's because the NPD group has just revealed the top 10 selling games of the previous decade across the US and entries in the Activision series take up a whopping seven of the top 10 places. The top 10 is as follows: Grand Theft Auto V Call of...
Reminder Last Chance to Save Big on PS4 Games in Massive PS Store Sales
What're yer buyin'?
Just a heads up: this is your last opportunity to save big on Sony’s gigantic January sale on the PlayStation Store. Offers will run through 16th January in North America, and will end at 11:59AM on 17th January in Europe, meaning your shopping time is coming to a close. If you’d like to pick up any of the promoted titles,...
News UK Sales Charts: FIFA 20 Takes Charge as January Sales Shake Up a Stagnant Top 10
Tekken a look at the bargains
We were more than ready to roll our eyes at yet another copy paste chart, but there are some interesting additions to the latest UK physical top 10. FIFA 20 scores a number one, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order also swap seats on the podium. However, a little further down is when we...
News Sony Fails to Infiltrate a Single Spot in Japanese Sales Charts
Nintendo Switch domination
Sony’s suggested that it will not delay the PlayStation 5 in Japan like it did the PlayStation 4, but it’s clear that the company’s going to have its work cut out as it plans to introduce a new stationary home console in a region that’s clearly moving away from them. Case in point: the latest Japanese software...
News PSVR Reaches Sales Milestone of 5 Million Units
A virtual success
Sony's CES 2020 conference has just concluded, and contained a fairly substantial portion of PlayStation goodness. Jim Ryan himself took to the stage to showcase the PS5's official logo and tease more information coming soon, but he also rattl
News PS4 Sales Smash Past 106 Million Units Milestone
A staggering number of games sold
It wasn’t that long ago that Sony was celebrating the PlayStation 4’s success as the second best-selling home console of all-time, but the holiday season has been kind to the hardware, and it’s now reached a sales milestone of 106 million units. The statistic was confirmed by group president Jim Ryan during...
News UK Sales Charts: WWE 2K20 Wrestles Its Way Back Into Familiar Top 10
Call of Duty still top
It's time to take a look at the first UK games chart for 2020, and it may give you a sense of déjà vu. The physical top 10 is largely unchanged since last week, and once again, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare resides in the number one spot. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and FIFA 20 have swapped places, meaning they still round...
News You'll Never Be Able to Guess the UK's Top Selling Games of the Decade
Sarcasm ends
Which games sold the most at retail in the 2010s? For the UK, it's a pretty unsurprising top 10, and you've probably guessed half of it correctly without even looking at the chart below. According to Ukie, the organisation that keeps track of UK sales charts, the last decade of physical game purchases have been largely dominated by,...
News Analyst Expects PS5 to Outsell Xbox Series X at Launch with Similar Price Points
Console to sell more than PS4
It's the very beginning of the year -- the perfect time to speculate what the next set of 12 months hold for the video game industry. Speaking of which, GamesIndustry.biz has gotten in on the action by asking various analytical experts what they expect to happen across 2020 and the effect next-generation consoles will...
News Untitled Goose Game Is Officially a Honking Success
Anything but poultry
In an age of oversaturation in the digital marketplace, indie titles really have to standout to find success these days. Untitled Goose Game – with its genius Hitman-inspired premise – managed to do just that, putting you in the webbed feet of a particularly feisty fowl. And following a brief period of console exclusivity on...
News UK Sales Charts: Nothing Can Knock Modern Warfare, FIFA 20, or Star Wars Off the Podium
2019's final chart is looking familiar
The year, and the decade, are almost over and done with, but we've got time to squeeze in one last physical UK chart. Unfortunately it isn't a particularly exciting result this time, with the top 10 largely the same as last week's. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, FIFA 20, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order continue...
