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News In USA, the PS5 Pro Launched with Similar Sales to the PS4 Pro
Despite being much more expensive
Early indications are that the PS5 Pro is finding its audience as Sony intended. This week we learned that, despite costing twice as much, the PS5 Pro sold around 13k more units than the PS4 Pro at launch in Japan. And in the USA, the first data from Circana analyst Mat Piscatella is that it’s keeping pace with...
News Japan Sales Charts: PS5 Pro Gets Stronger Start Than PS4 Pro Despite Being Twice the Price
A Pro move
The first sales figures for PS5 Pro in Japan are in (thanks, Gematsu), and it's a very healthy start for the beefed-up console. In its launch week, the machine has sold 78,086 units, which is far and away the best-selling hardware for that period. This is a pretty impressive number, especially when you start thinking about its price. PS5...
News PS5 Slim Price Drop Confirmed, $380 Until 24th December
Knocks $70 off until Christmas Eve
Sony has announced by way of a new PS5 advert that the base PS5 Slim console will be available on sale at $380 until 24th December 2024. It hasn't confirmed on what date the temporary price cut will take place, though previous rumours have suggested 22nd November, or around Black Friday, is when the sale will be...
News Black Ops 6 Drives Monthly PS5 Sales Growth in the UK, 75% of Players Purchase on PlayStation
Business as usual
Sales of the PS5 in the UK rose 27% month-on-month this October, propelled by the release of the Xbox-owned Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. An enormous 75% of the game’s full-price sales were made on PlayStation platforms, with the title’s Game Pass availability shrinking series owner Xbox’s share to just 11%. Sales of the Xbox...
News PS5 Pro Pre-Orders Are Stronger Than PS4 Pro, But Scalpers Are Losing Money
All according to keikaku
While we all ranted and raved about the PS5’s unavailability at launch, tech enthusiasts tend to act like unless a product is completely sold out and being sold at a significant mark-up on reseller websites, it’s a failure. That of course is not the case, and if a manufacturer has produced the right amount of stock to...
News Astro Bot Sells 1.5 Million PS5 Copies Inside Nine Weeks
37% considered "new users"
The latest quarterly earnings report for Sony reveals Astro Bot has sold 1.5 million copies during its first nine weeks on the market, as of 3rd November 2024. This means it's already selling better than the likes of Demon's Souls, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and Returnal across roughly the same timespan after launch...
News Sony Ships 65.5 Million PS5 Consoles, in Line with PS4
77.7 million PS5 games sold
Sony has confirmed via its Q2 results for fiscal year 2024 that it's now shipped 65.5 million PS5 consoles, with a total of 3.8 million systems sold within the quarter itself. The company sold 1.1 million fewer PS5 boxes this quarter compared to the same one for the previous fiscal year, but sales of games are on the...
Black Ops 6 debuts at number one
The UK's latest physical games chart has arrived, and on the face of it, there's nothing too out of the ordinary. However, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is an interesting case; it's the first series entry that launches day and date on Xbox Game Pass, and despite this change, it seems sales remain steady on PS5 and PS4...
News Gotta Sell Fast! Sonic X Shadow Generations Has Already Surpassed 1 Million Copies Sold
A quick buck
Sonic X Shadow Generations officially launches today, 25th October, 2024, and it's already performing extremely well. In a press release, SEGA confirms that the new title has already sold more than one million copies. As reported by Sonic Stadium, the figure is the total across all platforms and includes physical and digital sales...
News Sep 2024 USA Sales: Astro Bot PS5 a Top Seller, Only FC 25 Above It
Outsells Zelda, NBA, and Space Marine 2
Astro Bot was the second best-selling game of September 2024 in the USA, only bettered by football simulator FC 25, one of the most popular releases of the entire year. The popular PS5 platformer launched on the 6th September, giving it the vast majority of the month to accrue as many sales as possible —...
News Like It or Not, This Is Why PS5 Pro Doesn't Have a Disc Drive
Digital ratio increases again on PS5
Update: Games Industry.biz’s Chris Dring has added to the US data points below with trends in Europe. While the methodology is not identical to the one employed by Mat Piscatella and excludes some countries like the UK, he reports that around 68% of “AA and AAA” PS5 game sales were digital in Europe this...
News UK Sales Charts: Lara Croft's Remastered Trilogy Raids New Release Jamboree
Chart raider
The UK's latest physical games chart is out, and as was the case last week, it's littered with numerous recent releases shaking up the norm. While Aspyr's Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered isn't technically new, it is new to retail — and it's made a decent debut at number four. Nintendo has another winner with Super Mario Party Jamboree,...
News Japan Sales Charts: PS5 Software Actually Sells for Once
But hardware remains dire
Famitsu has published the latest Japanese software sales charts, and it’s a rare week of software wins for Sony. While much has been made of PlayStation’s inability to sell games in its home territory, this week sees it occupy four of the top five spots. Atlus’ anticipated RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio started strongest,...
News Sublime PS5, PC Remake Silent Hill 2 Tops One Million Sales
Manages milestone in three days
Konami has this morning announced its excellent PS5, PC remake of Silent Hill 2, produced in conjunction with Bloober Team, has sold more than one million copies since its release on 8th October 2024. The total combines shipped copies and digital downloads, making it the fastest-selling entry in the series to date. A...
News UK Sales Charts: Silent Hill 2, Dragon Ball's Physical Copies Topple Metaphor in Massive Week
New releases bring new life
It was an absolutely colossal week for new physical game releases, and in the UK at least, Silent Hill 2 and Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero were the biggest winners, securing second and third position respectively. Metaphor: ReFantazio also did really well, debuting in seventh. As is always the case with the UK charts, we...
News Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Goes Nuclear, Sells Over 3 Million Copies in First 24 Hours
Over 9,000 etc
It's official: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is a massive hit. Publisher Bandai Namco has announced an early sales figure for the anime brawler, and to say it's off to a good start would be a gross understatement. In its first 24 hours on the market, the game surpassed a staggering 3 million copies sold. To put that number into some...
News Acclaimed PS5 Platformer Astro Bot Really Couldn't Be Selling Any Better
Beating basically every non-Mario platformer from past decade
Here’s the thing: Astro Bot is never going to outsell a series like Super Mario – it just doesn’t have the legacy to do so. It’s also never going to outsell stalwart series like Call of Duty or EA Sports FC – they’re just more commercially popular. But it sounds like, in...
News PS5 May Soon Be Unchallenged by Xbox in Some Regions
Microsoft could be pulling its consoles from some countries
As the sales of Xbox Series X|S continue to collapse, it’s beginning to look like PS5 may have a free run at some markets as Microsoft effectively exits them. While it’s still an evolving story with many mixed messages, it sounds like the Redmond firm will cease shipping consoles to...
News Aug 2024 USA Sales: Console Sales Take a Sharp Decline, But PS5 Is Still King
What a pro
The USA's video games sales data for the month of August is here, and there's been a pretty steep drop-off when it comes to hardware. Circana's Mat Piscatella states that hardware spending for August is down 36 per cent year-on-year. To be down by over a third is quite unusual, although it's possible some are saving their cash for the...
News Metaphor: ReFantazio Immediately Tops 1 Million Sales at Launch
ReFantastico
Out today on PS5 and PS4 (as well as PC and Xbox Series), Metaphor: ReFantazio has immediately surpassed 1 million sales, making it Atlus' fastest-selling game to date. An undeniably impressive feat for the fantasy RPG, which is launching into a busy October schedule. That 'fastest-selling' title needs a little context, though. We need...
PS Store Sales Charts Astro Bot, Space Marine 2, and Sports Games Slug It Out in September
Who's on top?
Lots of great PS5 games arrived last month, and it made for a very competitive top five in the PS Store's download charts. Sony's cutesy robot platformer Astro Bot secured second place in Europe's chart, while it came in fourth across the pond. Meanwhile, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 managed second in North America and third in...
News PS5's Astro Bot Is Having a Much Better Launch Than Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in the UK
Hot bot
The UK's software charts for the month of September are here, courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz, and it's good news for Astro Bot. Team Asobi's brilliant platformer lands at number five in the overall run of things, including physical and digital sales data. One interesting statistic is that the game's sales in its first four weeks are 24 per...
News Japan Sales Charts: PS5 Continues to Tank in Japan Following Price Increase
Astro Bot hanging in there
The latest weekly Japanese gaming charts have arrived, and it seems Sony is still struggling in its homeland. The good news is that Astro Bot is holding fairly steady in the physical software chart, currently in third place. The less good news is that it's only managed 28,521 copies to date; the current number one game,...
News Ubisoft 'Fully Mobilised' After Soft Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Sales
Wants to position the release as a strong long-term performer
Ubisoft has said it’s “fully mobilised to swiftly implement a series of updates to polish and improve” Star Wars Outlaws after it admitted the game had a “softer than expected launch”. While it pointed out that the release had received “solid ratings”, it said that it wants...
News Superb Strategy RPG Unicorn Overlord Tops 1 Million Sales
On the march
Released back in March of this year on PS5 and PS4, Unicorn Overlord has officially broken through 1 million sales — an impressive (and well deserved) benchmark for developer Vanillaware. Last we heard, the strategy RPG had shifted half a million units within a month or so, making it one of the fastest — or possibly the fastest —...
News Retro PS2 TimeSplitters Titles Outperform PS5, PC Flop Concord in UK Charts
As consumers increasingly switch to digital
We don’t mean to flog a horse while it’s already down, but astounding data coming out of the UK reveals that two retro TimeSplitters titles – released as part of PS Plus Premium but also sold separately on PS5 and PS4 – outperformed tentpole first-party title Concord. Of course, we know
News The Novelty of PlayStation's PC Ports Does Appear to Be Dampening
Not so special anymore
God of War Ragnarok has released to a robust but rather unremarkable 25k concurrent players on Steam. That number is fluctuating and is likely to increase further over the weekend, but it’s a huge decline compared to the original God of War’s much more impressive peak of 73k concurrent players. It shows that the novelty of...
News PS5's Astro Bot the USA's Second Best-Selling Game in Its First Week
"Solid week one," says analyst
While the Circana (NPD) report for September's US video game sales has yet to be released, the firm's own Mat Piscatella has weighed in on Astro Bot's sales performance thus far. Unfortunately, we haven't seen official figures from Sony (and probably won't unless they're truly noteworthy), and have so far had to rely...
News Astro Bot PS5 Sales Trending Ahead of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in the UK
It's all okay
Hold your horses, then! Initial information coming out of the UK was that Astro Bot may be underperforming, as its boxed sales were below those of 2021’s equally excellent Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. However, as we stressed at the time, digital splits have continued to increase in Britain over the past three years, and this...
News Japan Sales Charts: Astro Bot Barely Registers at Retail, PS5 Numbers Plummet After Price Hike
Astro Bottom
The latest Japanese hardware and software charts are in, and they don't make for particularly positive reading if you're sitting on the Sony side of the fence. To start with, Astro Bot has entered in second place, but with just under 12,700 copies sold at retail, that's hardly worth bragging about. It's an incredibly low debut for a...
News Astro Bot PS5 Sales 'Aren't Huge' in UK, But There's Still Hope
Ifs and bots
Having released on Friday of last week, we're able to get an early glimpse into the sales potential of Astro Bot thanks to Games Industry's ever-informative Chris Dring. Apparently, the PS5 exclusive's opening numbers "aren't huge", and are roughly a third below what fellow platformer Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart managed when it...
Star Wars Outlaws, too
It's been a long time coming, but the PS5 has finally topped six million sales in Japan. The current-gen console's been heading towards that milestone for months, but a lack of notable system sellers has meant slow progress. Still, it's something for Sony to celebrate in its native country. For reference, the PS4 has sold...
News Black Myth: Wukong's Sales Top 18 Million in Two Weeks on PS5, PC
Expansion is in development
There have been a number of breakout successes this year: Palworld got the ball rolling and Helldivers 2 picked up the mantle. But none compare to the absolutely outrageous story emerging around Black Myth: Wukong: the title has now topped 18 million sales across PS5 and PC in just two weeks. As previously reported,
News Concord PS5, PC Sales Estimates Are Somehow Even Worse Than We Thought
An unbelievable 25,000 copies
It doesn't take a genius to realise that Concord has bombed. Sony's PS5 and PC hero shooter has, by all accounts, seriously struggled to attract players. At this point, it's common knowledge that the title almost immediately crashed and burned on Steam, where its frankly dismal user numbers are publicly available. It...
News Black Myth: Wukong Has Sold an Astonishing 10 Million Copies in Three Days on PS5, PC
Monkey doing business
It's official: Black Myth: Wukong is a huge hit. Game Science's Journey to the West-inspired action RPG has now sold an incredible 10 million copies across PS5 and PC platforms. The studio shared the news today on its social channels: For it to reach sales of 10 million would be more than enough of an accomplishment, but...
News PS5 Is Selling Twice As Fast As PS4 in China
On the move
While there’s a lot of doom and gloom surrounding consoles lately, largely due to flattening growth and spiralling costs, it’s perhaps worth remembering that there are still plenty of success stories that can be attributed to the PS5. One of which pertains to the Chinese market, where Sony’s system is selling two times faster than...
Hell yeah
Helldivers 2 has been reigning supreme as the USA's top-selling game of 2024, but just like that, it's now playing second fiddle. EA Sports College Football 25 has trumped Sony's sci-fi co-op shooter, touching down in first place on July's software chart and now the year's best-selling title. According to analyst Mat Piscatella, the game's...
News Over 1,000 Discounts on PS5, PS4 Games in Latest PS Store Sale
PS offering
The PS Store is playing host to yet another sale. While the big August offer is still ongoing, a new sale has begun, named PlayStation Indies, reducing prices on a vast array of PS5 and PS4 games and their associated add-ons. There's a wide range of titles included here, including some we wouldn't necessarily label as indies, but...
News UK Sales Charts: EA Sports FC 24 the Best Selling PS5, PS4 Game in Stagnant Top 10
The usual, please
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise (if any at all), but EA Sports FC 24 is, once again, number one on the UK's physical games chart. Unfortunately, the rest of the top 10 is similarly predictable, which largely comes down to a slower pace of new releases, leaving us with the usual suspects. A handful of Switch software leads...
News PS Portal Is By Far the UK's Most Popular Gaming Accessory Right Now
A massive success
Back when Sony’s streaming handheld PS Portal was announced, an enormous 33 per cent of you polled on Push Square said you had zero interest in the device. Well, as it turns out, you’re in the minority, because the Remote Play portable is proving a runaway hit for the platform holder. In the UK,
News PS5 Continues to Dominate a Slow UK Games Industry in July
Despite a slow month for games
PS5 once again was the best-selling console in the UK for July, despite it being a weak month for the industry overall. Approximately 77,000 consoles were sold overall, with the PS5 moving the bulk of those machines. Sony’s system was down 30 per cent year-over-year, while the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X|S...
News It Took PS5 Longer Than PS4 to Pass 4 Million Units Milestone in the UK, But There's Context
It costs a helluva lot more for starters
The PS5 has officially crossed the four million units milestone in the UK, but it’s achieved it 31 weeks slower than its predecessor, the PS4. There’s crucial context here that needs to be observed, however: the PS5 wasn’t readily available for the first two years of the generation, as the aftermath of...
News Smash Hit Roguelike Balatro Has Sold Over 2 Million Copies, Free Major Update Incoming
Cashing in
Balatro, the devilishly addictive roguelike deckbuilder, has now passed the two million sales milestone across all platforms. The game, almost entirely made by someone known only as LocalThunk, has been a big success critically, and we can safely say it's been a commercial hit too. The game sees players drawing cards and playing poker...
News PS5 Sales Reach 60 Million Milestone, Now at 61.7 Million Consoles Sold
2.4 million PS5 systems purchased in Q1
Sony has shared in its first fiscal year 2024 financials report that 2.4 million PS5 consoles were sold during Q1, meaning the current-gen system has now sold 61.7 million units overall. This is a decrease of 900,000 purchases when stacked against the same period last year, though Sony did make gains in other...
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PS5 Sales Still a Secret as Square Enix Reports Year-on-Year Decline
Final Fantasy 14 is still a monster, though
Square Enix has released its latest earnings report, and unfortunately, those still wating on official sales numbers for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be left disappointed. The sequel's commercial success remains shrouded in mystery while the publisher reveals a year-on-year decline for game sales over the...
News Jun 2024 USA Sales: Kingdom Hearts Up 396 Places to Rival Elden Ring DLC Takeover
Steam bundle sends Kingdom Hearts into third
Elden Ring was the best-selling title of June 2024 in the USA thanks to the release of its Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, but the real story of the month comes from Square Enix's weird and wonderful crossover series Kingdom Hearts. Following ports to Steam — previously exclusive to the Epic Games Store —...
News UK Sales Charts: Hogwarts Legacy Continues Winning Streak Amid Quiet Release Schedule
A kind of magic
While there are brilliant new games hitting digital storefronts pretty much every week, it's definitely a different story when you zoom in on physical releases. In the realm of disc-based titles, the usual summer slump is in full effect, and you can see it in action on the UK's latest bestsellers list. Topping things off is Hogwarts...
News Armored Core 6 Crashes Through 3 Million Sales as First Anniversary Approaches
Core support
We suppose it's quite easy to forget, but FromSoftware actually released another game between Elden Ring and Shadow of the Erdtree. Its hardcore mecha action title, Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, launched in August of last year, and as it approaches its first anniversary, we've been handed news of it breaking through 3 million sales...
News UK Sales Charts: Prince of Persia, Cyberpunk Jump Back into Top 10
Found crown
The UK's latest physical games chart is here, and while it's largely what you'd expect at this point, there are one or two surprise reappearances from discounted titles. Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition is back in the top 10, moving from 14th to eighth place. It's an even bigger leap for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, which was out of...
News 'PlayStation's Blessed with Marketing Budgets We're Not Able to Enjoy,' Xbox Bigwig Bemoans
Marketing man doesn't mince his words
Microsoft is in a dire position in Europe, with the latest round of data suggesting PS5 is outselling the Xbox Series X|S by a ratio of almost 10:1 on the continent. One of the reasons for that enormous discrepancy all comes down to brand awareness, and Sony has spent the past 30 years carefully and effectively...
