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News UK Sales Charts: Diablo 4 Unleashes Hell at Number One While Sony Exclusives Return
Devilish
The UK was clearly ready for the arrival of the demonic ARPG Diablo 4, as the game has launched straight to the top of the physical charts. Selling the majority of its copies on PS5, it's a resounding success for Blizzard. The boxed copy sales in the UK reflect the game's performance elsewhere; the publisher reports it's the fastest-selling...
News Capcom's Meteoric Rise Underlined by Resident Evil Village Sales Milestone
On fire
Capcom, in its current guise, is like a footballer that’s on a hot streak and has scored a goal every game for the past couple of months. The publisher – colloquially coined Capgod here on our internal Slack chat – is absolutely on fire, releasing hit after hit after hit. (Its latest effort, Street Fighter 6, netted a perfect score in...
News After Attracting One Million Players, Street Fighter 6's Sales Have Now Passed a Milestone
You can guess
Capcom confirmed earlier this week that Street Fighter 6 had attracted one million players, and it’s since followed up with confirmation that the critically acclaimed sequel has now sold one million copies. With one million players under its belt, it was always likely the title was close to selling one million copies to consumers...
News PS5 Console Sales Up an Impressive 81% This Year in the UK
But May represented a slight decline
PS5 console sales are up an impressive 81 per cent year-over-year in the UK so far, reflecting Sony’s ability to overcome manufacturing issues which have plagued the platform since launch. Component shortages enforced by the coronavirus pandemic led to severe stock issues, but those problems have since been...
News Dead Cells DLC Planned Until 2025 as Game Sells 10 Million Copies
Devs are tinkering and experimenting for future updates
Dead Cells developer Motion Twin has today announced the hit indie rogue-like title has now surpassed 10 million sales across all platforms. A native PS5 version is planned for release on 11th August 2023, and the studio shall continue to support the game until at least 2025. Co-developer Evil...
News UK Sales Charts: Street Fighter 6 Tackles the Top 10, But Can't KO Zelda
Fight!
It's been a very busy couple of months for big game releases, and it seems pretty much everyone has something new to enjoy. It's meant the UK's physical games chart has been relatively competitive, with lots of notable titles vying for spots in the top 10. The latest contender is Street Fighter 6, which lands a second place debut — falling...
News The Witcher 3 Sales Top a Ridiculous 50 Million
Geralt of here
There are some evergreen games that just end up going far beyond sales expectations. Grand Theft Auto V, for example, is still featured in best sellers lists, having surpassed an utterly insane 180 million copies in its lifetime. And although the vast, vast majority of titles released today could never even dream of reaching that kind...
News UK Sales Charts: The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Manages a Top 10 Debut, Sells Best on PS5
Now there's a riddle
Update: Some valuable context for the UK's charts has come in from GamesIndustry.biz head Christopher Dring. He says The Lord of the Rings: Gollum's physical sales were negligible, but the game still managed to have a better launch than LEGO 2K Drive (which, in case you're interested, has dropped to 13th): Original Story:...
News PSVR2 Sales at 600,000 Six Weeks After Launch, Sony Confirms
Purchases trend higher than PSVR
Sony has today announced in its Business Segment Meeting that PSVR2 sales were just shy of 600,000 six weeks after the 22nd February 2023 launch. This means purchases of Sony's latest VR headset are eight per cent up on the launch of the original PSVR device across the same release period. The data covers sales...
News UK Sales Charts: LEGO 2K Drive Debuts in the Top 10, But Nothing's Beating Zelda
Tyres of the Brickdom
There's no getting around it: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is gonna be topping the UK's physical game charts for a while. While it inevitably is still sat at number one, the remainder of the top 10 is also relatively unchanged. LEGO 2K Drive, however, mixes things up a bit with a debut at number seven. It's not the...
News Ghost of Tsushima Topped an Impressive 1 Million Sales in Japan
Ghost with the most
Open world epic Ghost of Tsushima sold over 1 million copies in Japan, PlayStation has confirmed. The story of surviving samurai Jin Sakai first launched on PS4 in 2020, and around a year later it was re-released on PS5 as Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut. This sales total takes both versions into account. It's an impressive...
News April 2023 Circana: PS5 Locked in Fierce Battle with Nintendo Switch
Star Wars Jedi, Dead Island 2 rule supreme
The more expensive PS5 generated more dollar sales than the Nintendo Switch in the United States in April 2023, but the hybrid hardware – now into its seventh year on the market – sold more units. That’s likely due to anticipation for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, alongside continued...
News UK Sales Charts: Nothing on PS5, PS4, Can Compete with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Stop and listen
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has — unsurprisingly — recorded the UK's biggest physical game launch of the year so far, comfortably beating what Hogwarts Legacy managed in its first week by more than 50 per cent. It took top spot from the aforementioned title, and it's probably going to stay there for the coming...
News Trails from Zero, Trails to Azure Exceed Falcom's Sales Expectations in the West
Special support
Falcom, the Japanese company behind the Trails and Ys games, has published its latest financial report — and it makes for positive reading if you're a Western fan. The report (as spotted by @AvengerMags and verified by Noisy Pixel) shows that the developer is in good health, and that its financial position has been bolste
News Japan Sales Charts: Golden Week Helps Drive PS5 Just Shy of 100k Units
All yellow
The latest Japanese sales charts, compiled and published by gaming bible Famitsu, account for two weeks of data, which is worth pointing out right away. Golden Week was kind to the PS5, however, driving the system to sales just shy of 100k units, specifically 99,938. Sony’s system was, as usual, handily outsold by the Nintendo Switch,...
News Dragon Ball Games Are Still Making the Big Bucks for Bandai Namco
We gotta power
The Dragon Ball franchise has enjoyed so much success over its near 40-year history, and the scary thing is that it's showing no real signs of slowing down. Case in point: two of its most recent video game adaptations have been huge hits for publisher Bandai Namco. The company has just revealed that both Dragon Ball FighterZ and...
News Horizon Forbidden West Has Become One of PS5's Best-Selling Games
8.4 million copies sold
As part of a celebratory PlayStation Blog post all about the 20th anniversary of Guerrilla Games, the first-party team has announced Horizon Forbidden West has sold 8.4 million units as of 16th April 2023. This is purely counting all PS5, PS4 sales and does not factor in any downloads from PS Plus Extr
PS Store Sales Charts The Last of Us 2 Rides High on HBO Series Success
Look for the light
The best-selling PS4 game on PS Store last month was The Last of Us: Part II, and that's both in North America and Europe. At first it seems quite surprising, but when you consider the enormous success of HBO's TV adaptation — not to mention a heavy discount — it all starts making sense. The remainder of the PS4 charts are...
News UK Sales Charts: Hogwarts Legacy Soars Back to Number One Thanks to PS4 Launch
Last-gen version gives it a boost
Hogwarts Legacy has already been selling extremely well with its current-gen versions, and now the game's last-gen release is here to kick things up a gear. WB Games' open world RPG has shot straight back to the top of the UK's physical charts after it finally arrived on PS4, preventing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor from...
News PS4 Version Helps Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Sell Two Million Copies
Across all six games
The latest PS4 and Nintendo Switch versions of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters have seen the six-game bundle push past two million copies sold overall. Originally released for PC and smartphones, the collection was updated with some new fonts and boost modes as it arrived on home consoles. Since this is total sales across the...
News UK Sales Charts: PS5 Makes Up 82% of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Physical Sales
The UK's second biggest game launch of 2023
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was last week's best-selling physical game in the UK, with its release marking the region's second-biggest launch of the year behind Hogwarts Legacy. 82 per cent of purchases were for the PS5 version, but sales were down overall by 35 per cent when compared to 2019's Star Wars...
News Wild Hearts, Wo Long Were 'Successful', but Koei Tecmo Sidesteps Sales Numbers
All action, no traction?
Koei Tecmo has released two high profile action titles this year, with Wild Hearts in February, and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty in March. Both games reviewed well, but at least from our perspective, it felt like they were brushed aside quite quickly in terms of the general gaming conversation. As such, we've been wondering how...
News UK Sales Charts: Dead Island 2 Shuffles into Number One Debut
Risen from the grave
Against all odds, Dead Island 2 is now available after passing through development hell, and it's turned out pretty good. It seems the UK is onboard for the gory zombie-slaying action, as it has debuted at number one in the physical chart. Of those boxed copies, it sold 68 per cent of them on PS5. It's a great start for a game...
News March 2023 Circana: PS5 Now Trending Ahead of PS4, Best March Ever for a PlayStation
Super Saiyan
Update: Not only is the PS5 trending ahead of the PS4 in the USA, but it also set a new PlayStation units record for March – after achieving the same feat for February last month as well. Estimates peg the sales at over 620k for March 2023, which is what the PSP sold at launch back in 2005. Basically, the new-gen console is sellin
News PS5 Sales Increase An Outrageous 369% in Key European Countries
Both Xbox and Switch decline
These statistics are getting a little bit samey, but new data underlines PS5’s impressive rise to dominance. The console’s sales increased 369 per cent throughout the first quarter of 2023 in key European countries like France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, and Portugal. That’s even more...
News UK Sales Charts: God of War Ragnarok, Gran Turismo 7 Rep PlayStation in Quiet Week
Steady as she goes
There's not a whole lot to dig into with the UK's latest physical chart. All the usual suspects are still kicking around in the top 10, although this is very much the calm before the storm, with a few big releases coming soon. For now, though, FIFA 23 is back on top of the pile. Resident Evil 4 drops one spot from second to...
News PSVR2 Sales May Actually Be Stronger Than Has Been Suggested
Estimates paint a more positive picture
Earlier in the month, a Bloomberg report citing analysis from IDC’s Francisco Jeronimo suggested that PSVR2 was off to a “slow” start and would need a price cut to avoid “complete disaster”. This prompted plenty of hand-wringing from enthusiasts, who pointed to many perceived “problems” with the...
News Final Fantasy 16 Is Flying Up Sales Charts After Stellar State of Play Show
And that's just pre-orders
Despite being over two months away from launch, Final Fantasy XVI has started to rocket up the best sellers charts on Amazon — and this is the case in both the US and Europe. These charts are based on sales of already released games as well as pre-orders, but generally speaking, you don't see pre-orders rise all that...
News UK Sales Charts: Strong PS5 Sales Put The Last of Us 2, Gran Turismo 7 Back in the Top 10
Clicker and collect
The UK seems to be aboard the Sony train right now. Not only has the PS5 been selling extremely well in the country, but some of the company's first-party titles are seeing a big resurgence at physical retail. If you're getting a new PlayStation, you want some games as well, right? Case in point: The Last of Us: Part II and Gran...
News PS5 Accounts for Over Half of All Console Sales in the UK This Year
Purchases up by 180%
Sales of PS5 systems account for more than half of all console purchases in the UK during the first quarter of 2023, GfK data has revealed. Both Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X|S recorded percentage losses compared to the same period of time in 2022 (down by more than 25% and then 18% respectively) while sales of the PS5 were...
News PS5, PS4 TMNT Retro Compilation Eclipses One Million Copies
Shredded
There’s a big win for retro enthusiasts here: Digital Eclipse’s excellent TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection compilation has topped one million units across all platforms, including PS5 and PS4. That’s a really huge success for a bundle of classic games, and while the source material is obviously excellent, it certainly increases the odds...
News Resident Evil 4 Remake Tops 4 Million Sales in Just Two Weeks
That's bingo
To the surprise of absolutely no one, it looks like Capcom has yet another hit on its hands. As reported earlier in the week, the Japanese publisher is sitting extremely pretty right now, with its stock value soaring and its games continuing to sell well over long periods. Released just two weeks ago today, Resident Evil 4 (the remake,...
News UK Sales Charts: Gotham Knights Leaps from the Shadows Back into the Top 10
Holy heavy discount, Batman!
We weren't expecting to be bringing up Gotham Knights today, but the public has spoken. Warner Bros. Games' maligned but actually-not-bad action game has made a surprise return to the UK's physical games chart, placing number six. The sudden uptick in sales comes down to a pretty heavy price promotion, cutting the cost...
News Japan Sales Charts: PS5 Sales Beaten by Switch But Remain Steady
Just shy of 40,000 consoles bought
Sales of the PS5 in Japan flatlined last week, stopping the steady decrease in console purchases Sony has seen in the region for the past month or so. Since hitting the highs of 65,000 systems shifted in the space of seven days, sales are beginning to rest around the 40,000 mark when both models are combined. Case...
News February 2023 Circana: PS5 Set New Unit Record for PlayStation, Towered Over Rivals
A huge month for new releases
Update: Circana’s Mat Piscatella has confirmed that the PS5 set a new February unit record for an individual PlayStation hardware platform in the United States last month. While that’s a lot of qualifiers, it effectively means the console sold a lot. Early estimates peg the platform’s results at over 500k units...
News SEGA's Demon Slayer Tie-In Tops Three Million Units Sold
Honing it to perfection
Demon Slayer’s arena battler adaptation has topped three million units sold worldwide, which is a pretty big result for the manga-cum-anime sensation. The release had cut through one million sales by late 2021, so it’s tripled that number in the months since. In our review of the game, we described it as “bare
News Bingo Time! Resident Evil 4 Sales Top 3 Million in Just Two Days
Making plenty of pesetas
Not that it should come as too big a surprise, but Resident Evil 4 is doing very well for itself. The remake is unanimously regarded as a superb reimagining of a classic, but as well as being a critical success, it's quickly become a commercial one, too. In a short statement, publisher Capcom has revealed the game has sold...
News UK Sales Charts: Resident Evil 4 Roundhouse Kicks the Competition to Take Number One
Bingo
What're ya buyin'? Turns out you're all buying Resident Evil 4. Yes, Capcom's latest remake has brought the franchise back to the top of the UK's physical games chart, making a number one debut. Most of the physical copies sold were on PS5 (73 per cent). It's a strong start for the highly acclaimed title. Elsewhere, Hogwarts Legacy remains a...
News Japan Sales Charts: Huge Drop in PS5 Sales But Still on Top, Just
Only 1,004 units in it
Sales of the PS5 console in Japan are down for a second week running, but the system still shifted just enough units to be named the country's best-selling box last week. 34,156 PS5 disc consoles were sold during the week beginning 13th March 2023 while 6,255 PS5 digital editions got bought. The PS5's closest rival was the...
News UK Sales Charts: WWE 2K23 Lays the Smack Down on Hogwarts Legacy
King of the ring
It turns out that it takes pro wrestling to take down the mighty Hogwarts Legacy. Yes, Warner Bros' super popular RPG has finally had its reign at the top of the UK's physical chart brought to an end. WWE 2K23 has burst onto the scene, pinning down a number one debut. Just over half the copies sold were on PS5, with PS4 eating up...
News Japan Sales Charts: PS5 Is Slowing But Still Soaring
Another solid week
PS5 has absolutely exploded in Japan this year, crossing the three million units milestone, and overtaking the PS4 and PS3 launch aligned. An influx of stock availability has absolutely catapulted the console to extraordinary numbers domestically, but things are very slowly beginning to level off now. Case in point: this week the...
News UK Sales Charts: Hogwarts Legacy Immovable While Wo Long Falls 25 Places
Magic
It really does seem like nothing will topple Hogwarts Legacy for the time being. The game hasn't budged at all from its position atop the UK's physical chart, and it continues to sell the vast majority of its boxed copies on PS5 (83 per cent to be precise). While some big new release will likely come along to kill its combo, we imagine...
News PS5 Has Surpassed 3 Million Sales in Japan, By the Way
On the up
A headline that seems to have been overlooked earlier in the week, the PS5 has actually just surpassed the 3 million sales mark in Japan. That's a promising milestone for a console that appeared to be struggling right out of the gate — but as has been the case worldwide, PS5 sales have been skyrocketing thanks to Sony's stock issues...
News Stunning Watersports Sim Kayak VR the Big Winner from PSVR2 Launch
Pavlov VR also off to strong start
Appropriately named Dutch developer Better Than Life’s beautiful watersports sim Kayak VR: Mirage was the best-selling PSVR2 launch title, according to data published by the PS Blog. The stunning release topped the charts in both North America and Europe, although the data does exclude titles eligible for free...
News The Last of Us 2 Was the Most Downloaded PS4 Game in February
Back for good
Demonstrating the enormous impact of HBO’s adaptation, The Last of Us: Part 2 was February 2023’s best-selling digital download for PS4 in both North America and Europe. That’s despite the game originally releasing almost three years ago now – an undeniably incredible result, showcasing renewed interest in Naughty Dog’s...
PS Store Sales Charts Hogwarts Legacy Apparates to Number One on PS5
As if by magic
The PS Store's monthly charts have arrived, and it comes as no surprise to learn what topped the PS5 bestsellers for February. Yes, Hogwarts Legacy is tip-top of both the North American and European charts. The regions' respective top 20 lists differ from there, but shared among them are entries for Wild Hearts, The Last of Us: Part...
News Surprise! Forspoken and Other Square Enix Games Didn't Meet Sales Expectations
Hope you like blockchain gaming
In news that's certain to shock absolutely no one, Forspoken — along with the glut of 'smaller' games that Square Enix released last year — did not meet the publisher's sales expectations. The company's stance on the matter is revealed in its latest business briefing (as reported by RPG Site), with current...
News PS5 Sales Just Aren't Stopping in Japan as Sony's Console Is Still King
Tops Japanese charts again
It's almost hard to believe since the Nintendo Switch has utterly dominated the Japanese hardware (and software) charts for so many years, but the PS5 is top of the pile yet again in the latest sales list. Sony's current-gen console just isn't slowing down in Japan, where it sold through another 78,412 units last week...
News PS5 Sold More Last Month in Japan Than a Chunk of 2022
Things are looking up
PS5 sales increased by an eye-opening 457 per cent year-over-year in Japan last month, as Sony finally managed to get the system’s stock situation under control. The new-gen console sold an incredible 366,982 units in February 2023, more than the first four months of 2022 combined. That’s despite an increase in price, too!...
News Hogwarts Legacy Launch Sales Outshine Everything in Europe
Well, except FIFA
You're probably getting a bit tired of hearing about it now, but in case you hadn't noticed: Hogwarts Legacy is a hit. Launching about a month ago on PS5, the RPG has been selling by the bucketload in the UK, and as it turns out, the same goes for Europe as a whole. According to a new report from GamesIndustry.biz, it's had the...
