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News The Awesome Absolum Smashes Through 200,000 Sales in Its First Week
Impact hit
Absolum, the fantastic beat-'em-up that launched on PS5 earlier this month, has smashed through 200,000 sales. That's according to publisher Dotemu, which, based on the existence of such a press release, is clearly over the moon with how the game's performed. This level of success is very much deserved, as far as we're concerned...
News The Silent Hill 2 Remake Now Represents a Quarter of the Series' Total Sales
Quarter 'bout that then
The modern remake of Silent Hill 2 has been a major hit for Konami, now responsible for a considerable portion of the franchise's total sales. In a video from Konami itself (thanks, Gematsu), it's confirmed that worldwide sales and shipments for the remake have now surpassed 2.5 million. The same video also confirms the...
News Ghost of Yotei Sales Fall Off In Japan, But PS5 Exclusive Still Sticks Around in Second Place
Mario's back on top
Following on from its impressive number one debut in the Japanese sales charts last week, Ghost of Yotei's numbers have fallen off fairly hard — but it's still managed to hold on in second place. The PS5 exclusive moved 120,196 physical copies within its launch week, having dropped on the 2nd October. It's shifted an...
News Ghost of Yotei Is Sony's Biggest PS5 Launch Since Spider-Man 2 in Europe
Selling similarly to Ghost of Tsushima
Ghost of Yotei, the latest historical sandbox from Seattle studio Sucker Punch, is crushing it. According to sales data emerging out of Europe – which compiles both physical and digital data – the sequel is selling in-line with its predecessor Ghost of Tsushima, which launched to a much more mature PS4...
News Battlefield 6 Is a Smash Hit in First Sales Report, Selling Best on PS5
Dominates UK's physical chart
As was perhaps expected, Battlefield 6 has made a strong impact; the first-person shooter has made a number one debut on the UK's physical games chart. EA's bombastic multiplayer FPS is top of the table, and at physical retail, 82 per cent of copies sold were the PS5 version. The game knocks Ghost of Yotei off its...
News Ghost of Yotei Follows in Tsushima's Footsteps, Dominates Japanese Charts on PS5
Mountainous
Ghost of Yotei looks set to be a bit of a blockbuster in Japan, as its initial sales figures have just been revealed. According to the latest Famitsu software charts (as reported by Gematsu), the PS5 exclusive shot straight to number one, shifting 120,196 copies. As always, it should be pointed out that these Japanese charts only count...
News PS4's Record-Setting US Sales Pace Is Being Comfortably Beaten by Switch 2
5% ahead over first three months
PS4 is no longer the fastest-selling console in the US, according to Circana sales data. As we touched upon earlier in the week, over its first three months on the market, the Switch 2 has beaten Sony’s sales record by 5%. According to analyst Mat Piscatella, writing on
News People Don't Buy Anywhere Near As Many Games As You Think
"Hyper enthusiasts are keeping things going"
Think about how many games release every single month. And then consider that more than 60% of US players purchase fewer than two new releases per year. It doesn’t really make economical sense, does it? And it’s why we often frown at the idea of publishers making shorter, cheaper software so we can...
News Aug 2025 USA Sales: Massive Month for Single Player Games, PS5 Can't Catch Switch 2
Helldivers 2 doesn't chart on Xbox, but could be an error
August 2025 was a big month for single player games, with both Mafia: The Old Country and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater charting third and fourth respectively on the all-formats best-sellers list. Neither game could overcome NBA 2K26 or Madden NFL 26 as you’d expect, but these are...
A strong start
There’s still a market for physical games on the PS5, and Ghost of Yotei has done particularly well. The Game Business’ Chris Dring reports that early indications for the samurai sequel are “really, really good”, with the physical release topping the UK sales charts this week. It beat out the eternal juggernaut EA Sports FC...
News Sports Games Rule PS Store in September, Sweeping Silksong and Borderlands 4 Aside on PS5
Balls out
Despite September being packed with highly anticipated titles, the PS Store charts were topped by two annual sports games: NBA 2K26 in the North America, and EA Sports FC 26 in Europe. This result shouldn't really comes as any huge surprise; there's a damn good reason why these sports sims are wheeled out every 12 months. Still, to see...
News Silent Hill F Selling Faster Than Silent Hill 2, Already at 1 Million Units
No longer silent
Konami has confirmed Silent Hill F has already sold over one million copies, meaning it's doing considerably better than last year's PS5 remake of Silent Hill 2. The excellent Bloober Team title managed to surpass one million units within a week, but Silent Hill F is now "growing in shipments at an even faster pace in each region,...
News In Spain, the PS5 Is Starting to Outsell the Switch 2 Again
Back on top
Many of PlayStation’s most passionate fans live in Europe, and the region’s always been a bit of a stranglehold for Sony. Now, according to an episode of Spanish podcast Vandal Radio, as translated by ResetEra, the PS5 is beginning to assert its dominance over the Switch 2 following the Ninten
News Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection's Impressive Sales Show Fans Are Hungry for More
Can't beat the classics
Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics has officially sold over one million copies. Publisher Capcom recently made the announcement on its socials, thanking fans of the crossover fighting series for their support: "Thanks to all of you, we have achieved global sales of 1 million copies," reads the...
News GOTY Frontrunner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Just Keeps Selling, Cracks 4.4 Million Copies
For those who come after
It seems as though Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is still selling rather well, almost five whole months since its debut back in April. In a recent interview with French outlet Clips du Lundi (as spotted by Gamereactor), members of developer Sandfall Interactive state that the RPG has now sold more than 4.4 million copies...
News Classic Sony Series Everybody's Golf Sells Best on Switch in Japan
Nice shot?
Considering the sheer popularity of the Nintendo Switch in its native Japan, it was always going to prove an uphill battle for the PS5 version of legendary Sony series Everybody’s Golf to outperform it. And now we have physical sales data available, we can see that the newest entry Everybody's Golf: Hot Shots has sold best on the Mario...
News PS5 Creeps Past 7 Million Sales in Japan
Lucky number 7
It's no secret that Nintendo has dominated the Japanese console market over the last decade or so, but contrary to somewhat popular opinion, the PS5 has found some success in Sony's homeland. The current-gen system has actually done fairly well for itself considering its initial stock shortages and subsequent price hikes, to the...
News USA's Top 20 PlayStation Games of All Time May Surprise You
Modernity has not failed us
Did you know PlayStation is enjoying its 30th anniversary in USA today? These celebrations do tend to drag on forever due to the lag that used to exist between hardware launches. You may recall, we already commemorated PlayStation’s 30th anniversary last year, as it deployed a year earlier in its native Japan. Anyway,...
News Cronos: The New Dawn, Hell Is Us Compete with Popular Favourites in UK Physical Charts
New IPs are in the mix
New names and ideas are pretty risky business in the world of video games, so it's pleasing to see a couple of recent new IPs in the UK's physical games top 10. Cronos: The New Dawn, an original horror title from Bloober Team, has debuted at number four in the chart, while two positions lower is Rogue Factor's unusual action...
News Mafia: The Old Country on PS5 Was an Offer PS Store Shoppers Couldn't Refuse
One of August's most downloaded PS5 games
The PS Store charts for August are here, and while there are no huge surprises, you may be interested to know that the middling Mafia: The Old Country was one of the month's best-selling PS5 games. While it didn't review especially well, the crime thriller action title made a splash in terms of sales,...
News Metal Gear Solid Delta Sneaks Past the One Million Sales Milestone in First 24 Hours
Snake Eater remake eating up
Konami has announced that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, a remake of the beloved classic stealth action title, has reached one million copies sold. What's more, it apparently did so within a day of its launch on 28th August 2025. That figure comprises shipments of the physical game as well as digital sales,...
News Metal Gear Solid Delta, Super Robot Wars Y Keep PS5 Software in the Japanese Top 10
Lost Soul Aside is there too
The Japanese games market is usually dominated by Switch software, but the latest Famitsu sales figures reveal a rare week in which a PS5 title rules the roost. Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has managed to score the number one slot on the physical sales chart, selling an estimated 63,585 copies. Further down the...
News Sony's Helldivers 2 on Xbox Gamble Is Absolutely Paying Off
Now the platform's "Top Paid" game
As Forza Horizon 5's sales on PS5 justify Microsoft's multi-platform efforts, Sony's decision to put Helldivers 2 on Xbox Series X|S is also looking to be a worthwhile success. Just one week after release, the port is considered the "top paid game" on the platform and is in first place on the "best seller" list...
News Helldivers 2 Xbox Sales Estimates Predict a Helluva Start for Sony's Live Service
Will it change PlayStation's thinking?
We reported recently how the late port of Final Fantasy 16 – which wasn’t included in Xbox Game Pass – had flopped on the Microsoft machine, so all eyes have been on Helldivers 2 to see whether it would resonate on the green machine. Aside from MLB The Show, which is not technically publ
News Gears of War Reckons It's Ended the Console War as Reloaded Tops 1 Million Players
Fenix down
More than one million players have tried out Gears of War Reloaded following its release across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC earlier this week. According to the developer, this milestone means the title is “ending the console war, one grub at a time”. We’re not so sure about that. The player number has likely been accelerated by...
News Jul 2025 USA Sales: PS5 Hardware Tumbles 47% Year-Over-Year in Tough Month
Switch 2 powers sector to growth, though
After a very good month of USA sales in June 2025, PS5 slumped to a bit of a stinker in July 2025, registering a 47% decline in dollar sales year-over-year. Remember, this precedes the system’s price increase on 21st August, so it’s going to be fascinating to see what kind of impact that has. This was a...
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Is Europe's Best-Selling New Game of 2025
Until FC 26, at least
Much has been made of Assassin's Creed Shadows' commercial performance — mainly because Ubisoft has been reluctant to share actual sales numbers — but we know one thing for sure: the title's been a major hit in Europe. Often overlooked in a media industry that's very US-centric, Europe remains a colossal video game market...
News Gritty FPS Ready or Not Ruled the PS Store in July 2025
Top of the pops
With console sales now up to two million units worldwide, and PS5 likely occupying the lion’s share of that, it’s no real surprise to see Ready or Not rule the PS Store in July 2025. Sony’s published the digital best-sellers for last month, with few real surprises on its new-gen console.
Astonishing earnings plot growth in every metric
In every conceivable measure, the PlayStation business is absolutely thriving. While there’s been a huge amount of chatter about the trajectory of consoles in 2025, Sony’s latest financial report paints a completely different picture. Over the last few years, one criticism that’s been levelled...
News PS5 Console Sales Surpass 80 Million Milestone, Closing in on PS3
80.3 million systems sold
Sony announced, as part of its latest financial results, that the PS5 console has now reached 80.3 million console sales. 2.5 million PS5 systems sold in the Q1 quarter of fiscal year 2025 (April to June), helping it to reach the milestone. The update means the PS5 is now closing in on the PS3's lifetime sales of roughly...
News Guilty Gear Strives Tops a Once Unthinkable 3.5 Million Players
Still my heart is blazing
Guilty Gear Strive has now surpassed 3.5 million players since its launch in 2021. Given the series' obscure and incredibly niche roots, that's a seriously impressive figure. Strive has been an immense success for Arc System Works — and truth be told, it's probably surpassed the company's wildest expectations. This time...
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Struggling Sales Drag Capcom Stock Price Through the Mud
Wild
Capcom's been on a seemingly unstoppable winning streak for years now, but the company really seems to have hit a snag with Monster Hunter Wilds. Despite racking up record sales on release back in February, the action RPG has seriously struggled to maintain commercial momentum. Capcom's most recent financial report tags Wilds at just 477,000...
News Eye-Opening PS5 Sales Data Reveals Why Microsoft Is Porting Xbox Games
Update: Revised list of best-selling PS5 games posted
We have known some of Microsoft's porting efforts, like for Forza Horizon 5, have been paying off with very strong PS5 sales as of late, but a new table from Circana really puts into perspective why the Xbox titles are going multi-platform. Across the Q2 period of 2025, which runs from 6th April...
News Hardcore FPS Ready or Not Takes PS5 by Storm, Console Sales at 2 Million
Overall sales at over 11 million
Void Interactive's hardcore FPS Ready or Not continues to go from strength to strength on consoles, as it's been shared the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions have now sold a total of two million units since launch on 15th July 2025. The team's CEO, Julio Rodriguez, posted the sales update on LinkedIn, where he...
News Devil May Cry 5 Sales Spike After TV Show, Even DMC 4 Outsells Monster Hunter Wilds in Q1
Capcom's best-selling game of the quarter
The popularity of the animated Devil May Cry TV show from Netflix has resulted in big sales spikes for the series' most recent video game entries. In the Q1 quarter, which ran from the start of April 2025 to the end of June 2025, Devil May Cry 5 was Capcom's best-selling game, with over 1.7 million units...
News PS5, PS4's Vengeance Edition Helps Shin Megami Tensei 5 Reach 2 Million Sales
1 million units from the Vengeance version
Atlus has revealed total sales for Shin Megami Tensei V have now surpassed two million units thanks to the boost from its multi-platform Vengeance edition. The RPG was originally a Nintendo Switch exclusive, but received an updated edition across PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC just over two...
News Immense Elden Ring Success Makes Its DLC, Nightreign Top Sellers Too
DLC at 10 million, Nightreign at 5 million
With more than 30 million sales to its name, Elden Ring helped FromSoftware reach a new level of fame in the games industry, having successfully turned its wide but ultimately linear Dark Souls formula into an open world. That level of success and extremely high quality has now impacted the developer's...
News Jun 2025 USA Sales: PS4's Record Launch Month Stomped by Switch 2
Let the battles begin
Sony no longer holds the record for USA launch month sales. As expected, the Nintendo Switch 2’s humongous 1.6 million opening has stomped the PS4’s still impressive 1.1 million debut. It’s perhaps worth remembering that the PS5 probably had a shot at putting up similar numbers back in 2020, but it dropped in the thick...
News Assassin's Creed Shadows Tops 5 Million Players, Performs 'In Line with Expectations'
Shadows broker
Assassin's Creed Shadows has now topped an impressive-sounding 5 million players, according to Ubisoft, having launched back in March. But of course, player count does not necessarily equal total sales, and so there'll always be arguments over how many copies Shadows has actually shifted. Unfortunately, Ubisoft simply doesn't seem to...
News Xbox Port Forza Horizon 5 Reportedly PS5's Best-Selling New Game of 2025
Sold over three million copies, say estimates
The success of the PS5 port for Forza Horizon 5 is well documented by this point, but a new sales update for the open-world racer claims it's selling so well that it's now become the console's best-selling new game of 2025 so far. According to data from Alinea Analytics, the racing title surpassed three...
News Hardcore FPS Ready or Not Is Proving Popular on Consoles, 1 Million Copies Sold
Over 10 million units sold overall
Released less than a week ago on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, Ready or Not developer VOID Interactive has confirmed the two new console versions have already sold more than one million copies. When including the original PC edition, it has sold over 10 million units in total. On the milestone, CEO Julio Rodriguez said...
News Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 Sold an Outrageous 2 Million Copies on PS5 in a Month
Project Latitude delivers
We always sensed the market for Forza Horizon 5 on PS5 was humongous, but even we’re a little stunned by how well it’s sold. The game – which has been consistently near the top of global sales charts ever since it deployed on Sony’s system – is said to have shifted two million copies in its first month on the...
News May 2025 USA Sales: PS5 the Only Console with Growth as Xbox Price Hike Proves Costly
Elden Ring: Nightreign a best-seller
Year-on-year, PS5 was the only console to see growth in May, as the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X|S saw spending decline quite dramatically. There is context for this, of course — especially on the Nintendo side of things. The imminent arrival of the Switch 2 meant that general interest in its predecessor...
News Digital Sales Make Death Stranding 2 PS5 Estimates Much Stronger
Said to have sold 1.4 million copies
Physical UK video game sales are almost dead in the water, but that does not stop early conclusions from being drawn from them. At the start of this week, Death Stranding 2 opened to a 66% drop in physical sales in the region compared to the first game. Now, via data firm Ampere, it's estimated the PS5 exclusive...
News Death Stranding 2 and Rematch Trade Blows in PS Store's Top Selling PS5 Games of June
Thing about Sam Bridges is he'll always try and walk it in
Two games you wouldn't expect to see in the same sentence are Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and Rematch, but it turns out they were two of the best-selling PS5 games on PS Store last month. In fact, they trade places exactly in the North American and European charts; Kojima Productions'...
News Overlooked Action RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink Just Topped a Solid 2 Million Sales
Out of the blue
Despite being largely overlooked when it launched back in February of last year, Granblue Fantasy: Relink has gone on to be a decent seller for Cygames. You may remember that the action RPG released at a particularly busy time, sandwiched between titles like Persona 3 Reload, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and Tekken 8. Still, it...
News The Expedition 33 Story Keeps on Getting Better with 'Unusual' Sales Increase
Thanks to word of mouth from fans
The success story that is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 shows no signs of slowing down, as new data confirms the RPG generated more revenue in its second month on the market than the first. According to Newzoo (via GamesIndustry.Biz), this is "unusual for a premium title". It's the other way around generally, and so...
News In a Surprise to Absolutely No One, Rematch Is Doing Really Well
Already sold over one million copies
Rematch, the uber-awesome Rocket League without cars soccer-style arcade game, is doing incredibly well. Sifu developer Sloclap has announced that the title has surpassed one million units sold already, and has racked up three million players across all platforms. It’s worth noting that the game is available...
News SEGA's Accidentally Outed Sales Numbers Put a Lot into Context
To sell this good takes AGES
It’s so rare we get meaningful sales data from publishers, unless a title has performed exceptionally well. But we found this accidentally uploaded information from SEGA fascinating, because it actually clues us in to the real-world performance of a number of titles. Here’s all of the data, as archived by
News Two-Week Holiday, Bonus, Switch 2 for All Lies of P Devs After Game Sells 3 Million Units
Right after DLC launch
The best Souls-like not made by FromSoftware, Lies of P has now sold over three million copies since its 2023 release. To celebrate, all members of the Round8 Studio development team will be rewarded with a two-week holiday, a bonus of 10 million KRW (~£5,400 / $7,300), and a Nintendo Switch 2. Prequel DLC Lies of P:...
