PS Store Sales Charts: GTA 5 Manages to Dethrone Elden Ring in Shadow of the Erdtree Release Month

Helldivers 2 still hanging in there, I expect a sales boost when they release the next factions update.

Surely every man and his dog has at least 2 copies of GTAV by now????

@nitram2k11 I saw someone mention that it's cheaper to buy new copies of GTA V to get whatever premium currency GTA Online uses than it is to buy directly from the store.

So my guess is that this is the reason so many copies of GTA V have sold long after its release.

I know nothing about GTA Online, so this is just secondhand knowledge to know if this is true or not.

Grand theft auto 5 the g.o.a.t. 🐐 👑.word up son

That clarification was much needed cuz I was thinking gta5 sold more than 5 million copies which would've been crazy 🤪

Looks very generic

Yikes, gamers from the USA and Europe.. Hundreds of (much) better games out there, and y'all are going with a 10 year old game that wasn't that good to begin with? Oh dear.. truly tragic.

Great to see Astro bot at the top of the charts*

*PSVR1 NA chart.

Am I the only person on earth who doesn’t own a copy?

@GamingFan4Lyf That doesn't explain PS Store purchases though does it as you can only buy it there once? Unless you can buy it on a different profile and get the currency on your main?

@Maubari gta 5 was great. That's undeniable. But I'm not sure why it's still topping charts 11 years later.

@Maubari hundreds? hahaha , no

Great game but who the ***** is still buying this??

I want to apologise to all of you as I bought the GTAV online last week. If it makes you feel better I regret buying the game because the character controls and animations are seemingly still stuck in the early 00’s despite the amazing sandbox experience it no doubt is

@Enigk I have no idea. Just passing on information I had read.

I got the PC version of GTA V for free from Epic Game Store and I only played the game past the intro before I lost interest.

That is the extent of my GTA V knowledge.

@GamingFan4Lyf That's about as far as I got as well. Played the previous one until completion but just wasn't feeling this one at the time. Maybe when GTA VI comes out I will be ready for V.

@Enigk GTA4 has a way better story than 5

How is this still selling, so over rated to begin with, controls straight outta 2000s awful driving, half assed story, it was fine,.but stil topping charts 10 years later at this rate they'll give up on 6 and just remaster 5 again for ps6😡

GTA V is that good. Truly amazing game, and so far the best in series. But its longevity (especially GTA Online) is a bit too much 😅

Just shows what a poor state the industry is in even a retro game is the number one best selling game of the month 😂

@nomither6 There's definitely hundreds of games better than GTA5.

@yohn777 definitely not 😂 100 is pushing it & over exaggerating, let alone hundreds

@nitram2k11 I am absolutely baffled that it's still selling so well/ much.

@Kienda no but think it's me you and those people under that rock over there

This game wasn't on my radar, I must check it out

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

It's a mediocre PS3 sandbox game. I don't understand how it was so big on the PS3 let alone the PS5.

Honestly, consumers don't deserve gta 6. Rockstar could keep adding content to gta v and it'd still be at number 1 in 2050 (not even exaggerating). And this is definetly what's going to happen to 6

Gtav is a classic and a great game, the gto component of that game less so, but still fun.

However, its not 11 years later still topping the charts fun. I really dont understand, and ive bought the game multiple times on different consoles due to friends. But not since 2017. By todays standards its a very dated game, even with the updates. 6 cant come soon enough.

It's like Mario Kart for kids who get their first console. GTA5 is a rite of passage when you become a teenager.

V Rising n°7 in both regions let's go, the money sony invested on it was worth it.

Can't stop won't stop it's badboy.

@Maubari This isn't just US or Europe though but the majority of gamers are just casuals who bought a console for 1) yearly sports games (FIFA, NBA, MLB etc) and 2) whatever games that's very popular like Mario, COD, GTA, Fortnite, Minecraft etc because their fav youtubers and friends are playing it.

The chance for casual gamers to do research to play and buy some good games that aren't popular are very small. That's why we didn't see a lot of variety in the top 10 charts.

If you search charts in past 3 years GTA 5 is still in top 10 almost every month. There must be someone in RS who is buying it, keeping sealed, returning it to warehouse and selling it again round and round just to fake popularity and sale charts. It is one huge fraud!

The GTA5 sales basically tell me this. Bots or new people or same people that owned a PS4 copy rebuying it because narrow vision of the SAME GAMES OVER AND OVER of GTA5, sports and COD/playing Fornite and skins (whether teens, or adults not just kids stealing their parent's credit card), safe game purchases and laziness to branch out to Indies or any other IPs. This is why the industry is in a messy state.

For any others however simply to understand, however fit of themes/concepts, however easy to play with others, get updates, MARKETED TO DEATH that they are. Casuals need things shoved in their fast or recognisable concepts in games/movies to care because research is too much effort but enough cat videos or drama is fine for them. They have no brains. Buying games that are hobby based I'm totally fine with of gardening, climbing, farming, city building creativity, I totally get that appeal. But anything outside the fair range of those and I just go yep safeness, same problem with mainstream anime, SAFENESS.

We hobbyist/hardcore/enthusiasts and so on appreciate the medium, most treat it as just as simple as an arcade/board game/movie or card game, something to pass the time, a joyride, a period of time to fill and whatever other mundane things to do and talk boringly about in their other times about nothing that goes on in a day.

It's why we get the same tropes is because people still fall for the same boring drama tropes or garbage emotional writing trash that makes me go why is this here it doesn't even approach the themes well enough, messages are repetitive and it's not worth it. Sure people grow up and so on but regardless of demographic the same garbage appears any demographic still. I'm so immune to at this point and emotionally sucking garbage that doesn't phase me I can't cry or feel anything for it.

To me GTA is 'fine' but controls horribly, eh themes of crime thriller aspects I've seen in better IPs, boring locations to set the games in, what is even going on characters I can't tolerate and the gameplay isn't exciting, but casuals LOVE no gameplay and just generic missions and walking around boring recognisable locations, the world is fine of a recreation and whatever satire but I don't play holiday destinations I play video games.

But the industry LOVES holiday destinations because casuals are pathetic and have no imagination and the developers are also just as pathetic of destinations or sights and inspirations. It's like how much of rock climbing do we need in games, you boring developers with no imagination get your hobbies out of your games and make them better of a purpose for that rock climbing or archaeology or whatever, make it MATTER not whatever hobby they love and have to have in digital form. What a boring inclusion by boring people.

Lack of creativity and nonsense is what it is. Emotional responses people have for their hobbies into a game. Like they have no creativity. I can come up with gameplay ideas from FOAM. That's even more devoid of something yet can have more ideas for it. They need better designers/out of the box thinkers in games and audiences need better brains for better products to be on shelves then the safest trash we see.

There is a reason I hate popular IPs is the more I look at them the safe mechanics and whatever familiar licenses of cars and actors and other attractive garbage is why we ended up in this mess with PS3/360 and PS4/Xbox One is garbage and safe concepts for idiots. I don't hate popular IP because they are popular I hate what they offer isn't exciting when the competition had way better. Or they too devolved into duller games with garbage story and garbage mechanic priorities too. Whoever was in charge was just too casual about it and let it happen because of their families and garbage priorities to let things of the creative process of the company happen for safer garbage execution.

I'll stick to buying up any retro gems, the odd AA/Indie that is worth my time of GAMEPLAY not the boring story and basic themes attempted/not enough gameplay depth kinds, the industry doesn't need my money. 2024 to me is so boring that only Indies interest me and they aren't out yet so retro game purchases it is currently. Not digital though. Not as much PS4/Xbox One pre-owned physical either, PS3/360/Wii/PS2 mostly.

Indies sure could but I mean they have (not all but certain areas) just as much safeness/nostalgia (how are they any different from AAA when they know how safe to make their games or inspiration and audiences eat it up because oh familiar and just familiar is good, no it isn't creative ripoffs/reliving games on modern platforms isn't GOOD) with nothing distinct to their games so they are just too heavily inspired or too ripoff-ish so why should I give them money.

Too many Indies good and boring come out so hard to support them all or only certain ones of interest anyway and waiting on those instead.