Tag: Sales - Page 2
Tough luck
A picture is beginning to form around Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and for the executives at Activision it’s not a particularly pretty one. What we’re generally seeing from all the data we have available thus far is that the first-person shooter is selling significantly worse than Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and has debuted way below...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Just Had the Worst Japanese Retail Launch in Series History
Not gone well, then
It's been an unusually rocky ride for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which has been widely panned and appears to be selling below the series' usual pace. While Activision has yet to provide any official sales information itself (which is kinda telling on its own), some data has begun to emerge, including a weak UK launch and, now, a...
News Sony Estimated to Have Made $1.5 Billion from Steam, But the Novelty Is Wearing Off
Master pace
A big report from Alinea Analytics estimates that Sony has made $1.5 billion from Steam since beginning to port its first-party titles to the PC storefront. That may seem like an enormous number, but it’s worth noting it’s taken five years to achieve. For context, the entire PlayStation division generated around $7 billion in...
News 'Terrible' Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 European Sales Are a Devastating 63% Below Battlefield 6
Ouch
According to GSD sales data for Europe – which covers both physical and digital game sales across a number of key countries, including France, Germany, and the UK – Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is enduring a difficult launch. The reports suggests that its debut week is an eye-popping 63% below Battlefield 6, and more than 50% down compared to...
News PS5 Sales Collapse in Japan as Sony Readies Overdue Rescue Plan
Language locked model launches today
Sony’s new language-locked PS5 console launches in Japan today, and it couldn’t arrive at a better moment. The latest Famitsu sales data for Japan reveals the manufacturer’s machine sold just 5,855 units last week. While sales likely slowed in anticipation for the new cut-price model, the number looks...
News Street Fighter 6's Sales Hit Another Noteworthy Milestone
The only way is up
Street Fighter 6 is a sublime fighting game, so it’s reassuring to see it continue to sell so well. The game has been steadily accumulating sales milestones since its release in 2023, and now it’s topped a very respectable six million units to date. The game previously topped 5.7 million units as of 30th September, so that...
News PS5 Exclusive Ghost of Yotei Is One of the USA's Best-Selling Games of 2025
No masking it
There's been an unusual, negative narrative surrounding the sales momentum of Ghost of Yotei, but when it comes down to the hard facts, the PS5 exclusive is doing very well for itself. As revealed in Circana's USA sales data for the month of October, Ghost of Yotei came in as the third best-selling game of the month, behind...
News Oct 2025 USA Sales: 2025's Best Seller Is Battlefield 6, the Biggest Game in Series History
The battle is won
There's no two ways about it: Battlefield 6 is a smash hit. According to Circana's October sales data for the USA, EA's first-person shooter has knocked it out of the park, already becoming the biggest game in the franchise's history and 2025's best selling game to date. As always, this stems from Circana's Mat Piscatella,...
News It Only Has One Review, But Inazuma Eleven PS5, PS4 Is a Hit
Sales march to milestone
For some reason, Level-5 didn’t want to get Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road into the hands of press. That’s the Japanese company’s prerogative, of course, but we’re yet to receive our review code. It turns out we’re not alone because the game has the grand total of one review on Metacritic. It doesn’t even have an...
News Episodic Hit Dispatch Is Only Getting More and More Popular
Now at two million copies sold
PS5, PC story game Dispatch continues to go from strength to strength now all its episodes are out, with AdHoc Studio confirming the title has now surpassed two million units sold. Across social media, the LA developer said: "We're also sad there are no new episodes this week, but thank you to the 2 million players...
News Horizon Sales Update Cements It As One of Sony's Strongest Franchises
On the ascent
You can’t mention Guerrilla’s excellent open world RPG franchise Horizon without a bunch of weirdos coming out of the woodwork. “It’s an industry plant,” they reductively regale. “It’s being milked,” they add. Well, with only two mainline instalments to date, it turns out the franchise is pretty freakin’ popular...
News Dragon's Dogma 2 Sales Top 4 Million with Still No Sign of an Expansion
Dogmatic success
Capcom has announced a new sales milestone for its fan favourite action RPG, Dragon's Dogma 2. As revealed on its official social channels, the cult hit sequel has now surpassed 4 million copies sold: Dragon's Dogma 2 launched in March 2024, meaning it's taken around 20 months for it to reach the milestone. The first 3 million...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 UK Sales Plummet 61% Compared to Black Ops 6
Behind Battlefield 6, too
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was always going to sell well enough to top the UK's physical games chart at launch, but it seems it might not be performing quite to the degree you might expect. While the game is currently number one, it's actually had a smaller launch sales period than its closest competition, Battlefield 6...
News Superhero Adventure Dispatch Projected to Hit Three-Year Sales Target in Three Months
Super speed
Developer AdHoc Studio has shared that its debut game Dispatch is seriously outperforming its sales expectations. As reported by Gamesindustry.biz, the episodic adventure game, which combines workplace comedy with superheroes, is projected to hit its three-year sales target in its first three months on the market. While we don't know...
News The Brilliant Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Has Now Sold Over 4 Million Copies
That's a lot of Henrys
Warhorse Studios has announced that its ambitious and highly acclaimed sequel, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, has reached an impressive sales milestone. The medieval RPG has now surpassed sales of 4 million. The developer announced the sales update on its socials: "We can't thank you enough for helping us reach this...
PS5 years later
Many PlayStation fans would argue that this generation has never really got going, but that hasn't stopped the PS5 from being a commercial juggernaut. Sony's current-gen machine has basically dominated the US market since its release in 2020. And now, five years on, it's the second fast selling PlayStation device ever, beaten only...
News ARC Raiders Is a Confirmed Live Service Hit as Sales Top 4 Million, Player Count Rockets
Suited and looted
Studios take risks with live service releases, but when they actually stick, they tend to be big. And things are looking rather rosy for ARC Raiders right now. As confirmed by both developer Embark Studios and parent company Nexon, the extraction shooter has smashed through 4 million sales since its launch at the end of last...
News PS5 Sales Now Top 84.2 Million Units, Well on Way to 100 Million Milestone
Keep rollin'
PS5 shipped another 3.9 million units in the quarter ending 30th September, pushing the console above 84.2 million units lifetime and closer to its inevitable 100 million units milestone. Sales were up 100k units year-over-year, meaning the system’s performance remains flat, despite higher prices and a challenging economic...
News Ghost of Yotei PS5 Sales Surpass 3.3 Million Units, Crush Boycott Nonsense
Exactly Atsu expected
Ghost of Yotei has crushed any lingering social media narratives, selling 3.3 million units as of 2nd November. That’s the total number of copies sold through to consumers, and spans the full 32 days since the game’s release. By comparison, Ghost of Tsushima sold 2.4 million units in three days, and crossed five million...
News Red Dead Redemption 2 Is Now the Fourth Best Selling Game Ever, Still Chained to PS4 at 30FPS
Rather be red
Red Dead Redemption 2 has just claimed the fourth spot on the list of all-time best selling video games. According to publisher Take-Two's latest financial report, Rockstar's open world Western is now sitting pretty at a frankly ridiculous 79 million copies sold, taking it above Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. And yet, the...
News In Japan, Switch 2 Retail Sales Are Already Closing on PS5
Mind the gap
The release of Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake in Japan last week was always going to be interesting, because the series is immensely popular and was available across Switch 2, Switch, and PS5. According to Famitsu sales data, the Switch version sold best on Nintendo’s enormous install base, shifting 232k copies. But the Switch 2...
News Ghost of Yotei Can't Beat Battlefield 6 as EA's Shooter Dominates PS5 in October
Ninja Gaiden 4 and The Outer Worlds 2 struggle
October saw the release of some very heavy hitters on PS5, and so the PS Store download charts were always going to make for an interesting read. Given that it released right at the start of the month and is a PS5 exclusive with the full weight of Sony's marketing behind it, you would have expected...
News PS2 Set to Remain King of Consoles as Nintendo Switch Sales Start to Stall
For now, at least
For years, it's seemed as though the Nintendo Switch was destined to overtake the PS2 in terms of lifetime sales — but right now, it's no longer looking like such a formality. For the first time since it hit the market, the Switch has failed to break 1 million console sales within the latest quarter, suggesting that the hybrid...
News Dispatch Proves the Telltale Model Can Still Work, Sells 1 Million Copies
Will be complete from 12th November
Only half of Dispatch is available at the moment, but it's already proving a success for AdHoc Studio as the PS5 title has now sold more than one million units. The Los Angeles developer announced the sales milestone in social media posts, as it looks to release another four episodes in the coming weeks. Episodes...
News Persona 5 Games Won't Stop Selling, Series Tops 13 Million Sales
5 star
Persona 5 as a series — that includes the original game, its expanded re-release Persona 5 Royal, and its multiple spinoffs — has now surpassed 13 million sales. This is according to SEGA's latest business report, which highlights the total in a Persona-specific section. Previously, the publisher had pointed out that the Persona 5...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Doing So Badly That's It's Been Outsold by MH Rise, Devil May Cry 5
Q2 sales results have MH Wilds at rock bottom
Capcom has today published its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, and they make for alarming reading for the publisher's biggest release of the year, Monster Hunter Wilds. While it had an excellent launch, selling more than 10 million units and setting new records for Capcom,...
News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Adds Persona 5 Protagonist as Sales Top 1 Million Units
Sellin' at the speed of light
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is a hit for SEGA, with sales now surpassing one million units worldwide. According to the Japanese publisher, since release on 25th September, players have raced over 74.5 million times, participated in over 31.5 million Grands Prix, and competed in over 13 million Ranked Matches. To attract...
News PS5 Surpasses Lifetime PS3 Sales in the US
Onto the next
The PS5 has now overtaken the PS3 in terms of lifetime sales in the US. That's according to the latest data from ever-informative Circana (formerly NPD) analyst Mat Piscatella, who reports that Sony's current-gen console topped the PS3 as of September this year. Those of you who were around for the PS3 generation may remember the...
News Sony Game Helldivers 2 Is Proving a Monstrous Success on Xbox
Hey big seller
Do you remember when we reported August’s USA sales charts? Helldivers 2 was missing from the Xbox charts, which we immediately posited as an error. Analyst Mat Piscatella, who publishes the data, said he’d investigate – and here we are. The third-person shooter is a massive success on Microsoft’s machine. So,
News Sep 2025 USA Sales: Ghost of Yotei PS5 Boycott Fails, Sequel Sells 'Great'
PS5 unit sales up 10% month-over-month
There was a small pocket of social media users who insisted Ghost of Yotei would be a failure. Unfortunately for them, the Sucker Punch sequel has done “great”. A vocal minority of the terminally online took umbrage with the release’s heroine, as well as some industry drama involving employees at the...
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,...
