Tag: Sales
News CDPR Posts Record Sales and Revenue Thanks to Cyberpunk 2077
Corpo style
CD Projekt Red just posted a new company record for yearly sales and revenue in 2020, and it was all down to Cyberpunk 2077. Despite the game's incredibly rough launch, the open world RPG sold extremely well — mostly off the back of a massive marketing campaign and sky-high hype building. For context, revenue for 2020, with the help...
News March 2021 NPD: PS5 Is Still the Fastest-Selling Console in US History
In terms of both unit and dollar sales, during a pandemic
PlayStation 5 is the fastest-selling console in US history, after five months on the market. You may have read this headline before, but there’s an important distinction compared to February 2021’s NPD report: the next-gen format has achieved the feat in both dollar sales and unit sales,...
News Tekken 7 Breaks 7 Million Sales, Celebrates with Updated Character Artwork
Closing in on Tekken 3
Tekken 7 has reached yet another milestone in its quest to become the best selling Tekken title. The PlayStation 4 brawler has smashed its way to 7 million copies sold, which is, as always, very impressive for a fighting game these days. The last sales update that we received was in September last year, so it's taken just...
News UK Sales Charts: FIFA 21 Kicked Off the Top Spot as Outriders Falls From Top 10
Play on
It's time once again to look at the UK's physical games chart, and would you believe it, the usual roster of titles make up the top 10. FIFA 21, which retook first place last week, has been knocked off its perch by the all-powerful Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and the football sim is now in second. That's as exciting as it gets near the...
News PS5 Has Been UK's Best-Selling Console Two Months in a Row
But you still can't readily buy one
You can’t readily buy a PlayStation 5 here in the UK, but it’s been the best-selling console in the country two months in a row now. As reported earlier in the week, the system has now outsold the lifetime totals of the Nintendo Wii U, PS Vita, and SEGA Dreamcast – a not all together extraordinary feat when...
News PS5 Has Already Outsold PS Vita, Nintendo Wii U, and SEGA Dreamcast in the UK
And you can't even easily buy one
Just how well is PlayStation 5 doing in the UK? Well, it’s hard to get a read on the next-gen format’s fortunes due to it being perpetually sold out, but a Twitter post from GamesIndustry.biz’s Christopher Dring puts matters into perspective: in right around five months, the system has outsold cult consoles...
News UK Sales Charts: Physical Outriders Sales Over 50 Per Cent on PS5
Movers and shakers
Hold on, there are things to talk about with the UK's physical games chart? What is this, April Fool's Day? Right, guys? Sorry. Anyway, yes, there's finally some movement in what has been a pretty immovable chart for the last month or two. After several weeks of fluctuation, FIFA 21 finds itself back in the top spot thanks to...
News PS5 Sales Steadily Improve in Japan, As Stock Situation Steadies
Console crosses 500k milestone
Update: Just as a quick update to this article, the new Famitsu sales data for the period spanning 22nd March to 28th March has now been published. PlayStation 5 continued its excellent sales streak, shifting another 62,295 units, putting its life-to-date total at 580,211 units. Once again the Nintendo Switch...
News UK Sales Charts: Just Two PS5, PS4 Games Make the Top 10 This Week
Nintendo dominance continues
Ouch, look away now Sony — the latest UK sales chart does not make for great reading from the Japanese company's perspective. Just two PlayStation games managed to make it into the top 10 of last week's list of the best-selling physical titles across the UK. Yes, only two. Those being Minecraft: Dungeons in fifth and...
News Ghost of Tsushima Has Sold a Staggering 6.5 Million Copies
For Tsushima!
Rarely do new intellectual properties become sales sensations, but Sony has struck gold with Ghost of Tsushima. The PlayStation 4 exclusive, which launched in July 2020, has now surpassed 6.5 million copies — which is seriously impressive. Almost as impressive is the fact that the open world adventure has been completed by more than...
News UK Sales Charts: Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Takes Third in Slow Week for PlayStation
Switching it up
It's impossible to ignore at this point: the UK is absolutely loving Nintendo exclusives right now. The company's games always do well of course, but the latest chart (which only includes physical sales data, we should add) shows that six of the top 10 best-sellers can only be bought on Switch. That's a pretty impressive result...
News Excellent Roguelike Dead Cells Tops Five Million Sales
Coming back for more
Dead Cells is one of the very best roguelikes available on PlayStation 4, and the market appears to have recognised that. Developer Motion Twin has confirmed sales of the game have now surpassed five million across all platforms, with one-fifth of that impressive statistic sourced from the recent mobile port released in China...
News UK Sales Charts: Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Swings to Number One
Our hero
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales has been a mainstay of the UK's boxed games chart for many weeks now, but it's never quite made it to the top. With the latest results, though, it's finally crawled up to the number one spot, presumably driven by the PS5 stock drip-feed the country has had lately. The hardware availability has provided a...
News Stock Constrained PS5 Unit Sales Lag Behind PS4 by Less Than 1 Per Cent in USA
During a pandemic, no less
How well is the PlayStation 5 selling? Absurdly well in the United States, according to NPD data. We already know that, across its first four months on the market, it’s the fastest selling system of all-time in dollar terms – but what of units? Well, according to analyst Mat Piscatella, it’s lagging behind the PS4...
News February 2021 NPD: PS5 Is Fastest Selling System in US History
Miles Morales holding strong
Sony may be keeping things concerningly close to its chest, but make no mistake: the PlayStation 5 is a runaway freight train that’s going to be difficult to slow down. February’s NPD report, which tracks hardware and software sales in the United States, reveals that the next-gen PlayStation is now the fastest...
News 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Sales Surpass 400,000, Still Deserves More
Keep it going
Publisher Atlus has issued a second sales update for 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, now pegging the gorgeous PlayStation 4 title at just over 400,000 units across physical shipments and digital purchases. This represents an increase in sales of 100,000 compared to early January 2021. Not bad going for the latest game from Vanillaware, but it...
News UK Sales Charts: Spider-Man: Miles Morales Remains Sony's Hero in the Top 10
Still swingin'
The UK's physical game sales for the week are in, and it's Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales doing the business for Sony yet again. It appears as though this performance was driven by replenished PlayStation 5 stock, as the game sold 83 per cent of its copies on the new console. It remains in second place. The Last of Us: Part II,...
News Last Year, the UK's Gaming Purchases Were 85 Per Cent Digital
According to new data
Earlier in the year, it was reported that the United Kingdom is spending more and more on digital stores instead of physical shops, with 67 per cent of 2020's total expenditure being digital. Now, new data reveals that percentage is actually much higher. According to a new breakdown from Entertainment Retailers Association, the...
News UK Sales Charts: Spider-Man: Miles Morales and The Last of Us 2 Enjoy Huge Sales Spikes
PS5 stock gives software a leg up
Last week, PlayStation 5 consoles sporadically returned to retail in the UK, and that means physical PS5 software has seen a big boost. According to GamesIndustry.biz, sales of boxed PS5 games are up 64 per cent week-on-week. That translates to significantly improved figures for launch titles; Marvel's Spider-Man:...
News UK Sales Charts: Spider-Man: Miles Morales Clings to Top 10 in Another Quiet Week
Evergreen titles keep things ticking
With PlayStation 5 stock coming back to the UK market in fits and starts, last week saw a few next-gen games reappear in the physical chart. Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales enjoyed a particularly big spike, bumping it all the way back up to fourth position. While sales have naturally slowed down a little,...
News Tales of Vesperia Was Definitive Enough to Reach One Million Sales
Discounted on PS Store right now
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition has now sold more than one million copies worldwide since its launch back in January 2019, which is probably pretty good going for publisher Bandai Namco. Who knows how many units were the PlayStation 4 version, but we have to imagine it did fairly well on Sony's last-gen system...
News UK Sales Charts: New Wave of PS5 Stock Gives Boosts to Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Demon's Souls
PS5 games surge in sales
Here's proof that not every wave of PS5 stock released by retailers is going to scalpers: the games are seeing a huge increase in sales as and when the console is made available across the United Kingdom. This latest sales chart for the island documents that as Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales experiences a huge 264 per...
News January 2021 NPD: PS5 Breaks Decade Old Dollar Sales Record
Despite being supply constrained
Sony may not be able to ship enough PlayStation 5 consoles to meet demand, but it did get enough units into the United States retail chain to break a decade old dollar sales record. According to the latest NPD report, the console raked in more revenue in January 2021 than any other system has since the Nintend
News Old School RPG Remake Trials of Mana Tops 1 Million Sales
The legend lives on
2020's Trials of Mana has surpassed 1 million copies sold, according to the game's official Twitter account. It's a good result for the colourful action RPG, which landed on PS4 back in April last year. And to help celebrate, Square Enix has posted some lovely new artwork of the game's main cast. For those totally out of the...
News PS5 Outselling Xbox Series X|S, Could be Pushing 8 Million Units By End of March
New report is positive for Sony
According to data analysis firm Ampere (as per Games Industry), total PlayStation 5 sales could almost double by the end of March 2021. Right now, the current-gen console is around the 4 million mark (that's sold through to consumers, not retailers), but thanks to supply shortages and the various knock-on effects of...
News NBA 2K21's PS5 Price Hike Hasn't Hurt the Series' Sales
But the jury's still out
You may recall NBA 2K21 being the first title to officially announce a next-gen price tax. While other publishers like Sony have since followed suit, 2K Sports was the first publisher to mention the $69.99 price point, which is looking like it’s already established itself. And in the case of the basketball simulation, it...
News GTA 5 Ships 140 Million Copies, 2020 Its Best-Selling Year Since Launch
Rockstar asked about GTA remasters
The cries from fans for a sequel to Grand Theft Auto V will likely go unanswered for a couple more years as Rockstar confirms it has now shipped a ludicrous 140 million copies of the game. And if that wasn't absurd enough, the studio revealed that 2020 was the title's best-selling year since it launched all the way...
News UK Sales Charts: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Sneaks Back into a Very Familiar Top 10
Change the record
There are perfectly sound reasons for why the UK's physical games chart is quite sedate at the moment. The country is in lockdown, for one, and the release schedule has been rather quiet in the first few weeks of 2021. We know these things, but it doesn't help this Monday morning-eyed author trying to conjure things to say about a...
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Webs Up 4.1 Million Sales
Venomous
It’s no surprise to see Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales selling well – it was pretty much destined to be a sure-fire hit really, wasn’t it? – but as part of its rip-roaring financial report, Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 spin-off has sold through 4.1 million units as of the end of December. The...
News UK Sales Charts: Hitman 3 Drops Out of the Top 10, Call of Duty on the Rise
Another quiet week at retail
Thanks to a quiet release schedule, the excellent Hitman 3 made a strong debut in last week's UK boxed games chart. It went straight to number one, but this week, it's slipped to number 11. This is due to a pretty steep sales decline, which is a very normal pattern for new releases — and remember, this doesn't include...
News UK Sales Charts: Hitman 3 Physical Sales Exceed Hitman 2, 49% of Sales on PS5
PS5 software increases 324 per cent week-over-week
Hitman 3 shattered a series record in the digital sphere, and it’s also topped the UK sales charts, which tracks physical units only. In terms of boxed copies, the IO Interactive sequel outpaced its predecessor by 17 per cent, and 49 per cent of all sales were for the PlayStation 5 version...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Had the Biggest Digital Launch of Any Game Ever
Big leagues, Jackie
We may still be waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 to be allowed back on the PlayStation Store following its disastrous launch in December last year, but there's no getting around the fact that the game sold ridiculously well. Not long after its release, news broke that the open world title had topped 13 million copies, and now, a repo
News UK Sales Charts: Grand Theft Auto V Is the Week's Best-Selling Physical PlayStation Game
Nintendo dominates the top 10
There's no getting around it: Nintendo Switch is destroying the UK's physical games chart right now. In the all formats top 10, five of the games are exclusive to the hybrid system — six if you include the boxed version of Minecraft for Switch. The first multi-platform game in the list is Just Dance 2021, although...
News The Last of Us 2 Was the Best-Selling PS4 Exclusive of 2020 in the US
Four Sony games in the top 10
The final sales reports for 2020 are in, and The Last of Us: Part II is now officially the best-selling PlayStation 4 exclusive of the year across the US. It took third place in the overall sales chart for PlayStation 5 and PS4 software, beaten only by Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare...
News December 2020 NPD: Cyberpunk 2077 Takes Second Place, But Can't Outsell Call of Duty
Miles Morales in fourth
CD Projekt RED reported it had managed to flog 13 million copies of Cyberpunk 2077 worldwide as of late December, and that was enough to see it debut in second place in the month's US NPD sales chart. Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War pipped it to the top spot, retaining that position after a strong showing in...
News PS Store's Top Downloads of 2020 Revealed
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales in second on PS5
With games sales edging closer to an all-digital future, the PlayStation Store sales charts are arguably more important than they’ve ever been. It’s good to see first-party titles like Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales performing incredibly well on the PlayStation 5, then; the Insomniac...
News 67 Per Cent of UK Game Sales Were Digital Last Year
PS5 was second best-selling console
You know those UK sales charts we publish every week? They’re pretty irrelevant these days. That’s because they discount digital purchases, which in 2020 represented 67 per cent of the market. That’s a significant increase from 52 per cent in 2019, and while coronavirus will have played a part in that...
News UK Sales Charts: PS5, PS4 Games Make Up the Numbers in Dominant Nintendo Week
Lockdown purchases increase by 33%
That Nintendo Switch and its selection of games sure are hot products right now, aren't they? Titles exclusive to the system make up almost half of the latest UK sales chart as gaming purchases across the nation increase by 33% under lockdown. That leaves PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games feeling like their...
News Once Again, Japanese PlayStation Hardware Sales Have Fans Talking
Here weeb go again
There’s been a lot of talk about PlayStation sales in Japan recently, and that point of discussion looks set to continue as 2021 gets underway. Hardware sales statistics released by Famitsu – and compiled by ResetEra – reveal that in 2020, for the first time since 1994, cumulative Pla
News 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Sells Over 300,000 Copies, Deserves a Lot More
Get in the robot
Gorgeous story-driven strategy title 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim has sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide. That's according to publisher Atlus, following the game's Western launch on PS4 in September last year. It hit Japan long before that, back in November 2019. We don't always get sales updates for more niche titles, so the fact...
News UK Sales Charts: Cyberpunk 2077 Out of the Top 10 in Quiet Week for Games Retail
Waiting on those January sales
A new year has begun, but one thing remains a constant: the UK's physical games chart. The very last week of 2020 — that is, the week everyone spent inside eating chocolate for breakfast — was unsurprisingly a quiet week for boxed game sales. Most software saw a downward trend; FIFA 21 is in second place after a 55...
Rumour PS5 Ships 3.4 Million Units in First Four Weeks
Sony sets new hardware record
Sony’s been surprisingly coy when it comes to console sales numbers of the PlayStation 5, but we reckon that comes down to the fact that demand has vastly outpaced supply. Regardless, a report by Digitimes – citing “industry sources” – claims that the manufacturer shipped an eye-watering 3.4 million next-gen...
News UK Sales Charts: FIFA 21 Reclaims Top Spot, Cyberpunk 2077 in Eighth
Another 57% drop in sales
Assassin's Creed Valhalla couldn't continue its stint at the top of the UK sales charts as FIFA 21 takes first place for the week ending 26th December 2020. The top 10 list of the biggest physical sellers across the United Kingdom contains the usual suspects for the past seven days, with Ubisoft's Viking RPG slipping to...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Sales Top 13 Million Despite Refunds
Money maker
CD Projekt RED reports that Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold more than 13 million copies as of 20th December 2020, meaning the RPG shifted another five million units after launch. The developer stated it had reached eight million pre-orders on the day of release. This statistic also accounts for refunds processed up until the date in...
CD Projekt RED records 80% drop in sales
The accolade might not be quite as celebrated as the UK singles chart (remember when The X Factor dominated that thing?), but Ubisoft must surely be pretty chuffed with bagging top spot in the UK gaming sales chart for Christmas time. Assassin's Creed Valhalla marks the first time both the franchise and...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Sells 104,687 Copies At Launch in Japan
PS5, PS4 hardware sales in the gutter
Cyberpunk 2077 was unquestionably one of the biggest games of the year, and it even managed to find an audience in Japan, moving a very respectable 104,687 boxed copies on the PlayStation 4. It wasn’t enough to top the charts – Nintendo Switch title Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban had that...
News UK Sales Charts: Cyberpunk 2077 the Second Biggest Launch of 2020, Sells Best on PS5, PS4
V nice
Cyberpunk 2077’s boxed sales in the UK couldn’t best FIFA 21’s debut, meaning the anticipated CD Projekt RED role-playing game will end the year as the second-biggest launch of 2020. In terms of physical sales, the game sold best by far on the PlayStation 4, accounting for 60 per cent of the sales. Of course, the release will have...
News November 2020 NPD: PS5 Sets New US Hardware Launch Record, But Can't Beat Nintendo Switch
Miles Morales outsells Assassin's Creed on PlayStation platforms
The sales results for November 2020 are in, and the PlayStation 5 achieved the “highest launch month unit and dollar sales for a video game hardware platform in US history”, beating out the previous record held by the PlayStation 4. It couldn’t, however, beat the Nintendo Switch...
News UK Sales Charts: FIFA 21 Holds Number One as Immortals Fenyx Rising Misses Top 10
Immortals Fenyx Falling
The latest physical UK chart is in, and it's looking pretty familiar. Cyber Monday got the week off to a good start, and it means that a discounted FIFA 21 takes the top spot once more. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War settles for second place again, and the remainder of the top 10 is fairly predictable. Assassin's Creed...
News PS5 Is UK's Best-Selling Console in November 2020
Not a huge surprise
Unsurprisingly, having already secured the UK’s largest ever launch, the PlayStation 5 was the country’s best-selling console in November 2020. It means that, for only the third time in two years, the Nintendo Switch was forced to settle for second-place. It was a worthy competitor for Sony’s new system, seeing a 63.1 per...
