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News June 2021 NPD: PS5 Exclusive Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Tops Software Charts
Highest US launch month dollar sales in series history
Wow! Insomniac Games is making bank for Sony this generation so far. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, despite releasing exclusively on the supply constrained PlayStation 5, topped the US software charts in June – rounding out a great month for PlayStation. MLB The Show 21 held strong in fourth...
News Guilty Gear Strive Smashes Through 500,000 Sales, First DLC Character Revealed Next Week
Keep on rockin'
Guilty Gear Strive has sold over 500,000 copies since its launch on the 11th June, Arc System Works has confirmed. Last we heard, the superb fighting game had hit 300,000 sales in less than a week of its release, so that's an additional 200,000 or so units within the space of a month. Not bad at all. The developer posted the above...
News UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Phantom Dashes Back to Number One
PS5 stock gives platforming pair a leg up
It's been proven several times by this point: when UK customers can get their hands on a PlayStation 5, software makes a big jump. It's happened again in the latest physical chart. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was down in sixth place last week, but has shot back up into first place. It's a 187 per cent...
News PS5 'Comfortably' Console Market Leader in UK
Despite strained supply
At this point, we all know that PlayStation 5 stock sells out pretty much immediately — actually getting your hands on Sony's next-gen system is still very difficult almost eight whole months after its launch. And here in the UK, it's been this way since that initial release; there's simply no keeping up. But from a...
News UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Holds Its Own in a Nintendo-Heavy Top 10
Phantom dash
Less than half of the games in the top 10 can be played on a PlayStation system. It's true that Nintendo has dominated the UK's physical games chart for months now, and the latest results are no different. Fortunately, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is hanging in there, dipping from third to sixth among all the Switch exclusives...
News Atlus Stresses Importance of Overseas Sales as Persona 5 Royal Tops 1.8 Million Copies
Royalty
Japanese video game companies are becoming more and more aware of how important worldwide operations can be — especially since traditional homes consoles like the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 thrive outside of Japan. We're now at a point where publishers such as Square Enix, Capcom, and SEGA are making a very deliberate effort to expand...
News UK Sales Charts: Mario's Hole in One Forces Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart to Settle for Third
Scarlet Nexus debuts in eighth
Insomniac Games' reign at the top of the physical UK sales chart has been brought to an end as Mario Golf: Super Rush tees off in first place, pushing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart down into third. The PlayStation 5 exclusive spent the past two weeks in the top spot, but a 78 per cent drop in sales brings it more in...
Targeting a new annual sales record
Unsurprisingly, Sony has very big plans for the PlayStation 5. Up until now, stock has been strangled due to coronavirus complications — both on and off the production line — but the console is still selling out almost immediately whenever it is actually up for sale. As the Japanese giant has mentioned...
News UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Sells Even Better in Its Second Week
Lombax going strong
In what is reportedly a fairly rare occurrence for the physical UK games market, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart sold more copies in its second week on the market than it did during the first. The PlayStation 5 exclusive recorded a two per cent increase in sales of boxed copies, meaning it once again tops the latest UK sales...
News Great Co-Op Game It Takes Two Sells Two Million Copies
Tango time
Hazelight Studios has issued a sales update for the wonderful co-op title It Takes Two, confirming the PlayStation 5 and PS4 experience has now sold two million copies across the globe. This doubles the sales statistic shared by the team towards the end of April when it was announced the game surpassed one million sales in less than a...
News Judgment Cracks 1 Million Sales
Well judged
Excellent Yakuza spinoff Judgment has done quite well for itself, following the release of the game's PlayStation 5 version in April. Developer RGG Studio reports that the crime-fighting action RPG has surpassed 1 million units in shipments and digital sales since its initial Japanese PS4 launch in 2018. SEGA must obviously view that as...
News Guilty Gear Strive Hits 300,000 Sales
Strive for more
Released just last week, Guilty Gear Strive has topped 300,000 sales across PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Steam. At first glance that may not seem like much, but context is needed: Guilty Gear has always been a very niche property buried within the already niche fighting game genre. It's highly likely that this is the fastest...
News May 2021 NPD: Resident Evil Village Is Second Best-Selling Game of 2021
Beaten only by Call of Duty
Resident Evil Village was the best-selling game for the month of May 2021, topping the charts for both the PlayStation and Xbox platforms. Those first month sales see it become the second best-selling title of the year so far, beaten only by Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The only other new release to crack the top 20...
News UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart the Next Insomniac Game to Take Top Spot
Sony takeover
First there was Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and now there's Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. If Sony is to claim top billing in the weekly UK sales chart, it's because of Insomniac Games as of late. The latest PlayStation 5 exclusive takes top spot at the first time of asking, selling three times as many copies as Returnal at...
PS Store Sales Charts Resident Evil Village Is Queen of the Castle
Hat's a fact
Perhaps unsurprisingly, May's most downloaded PlayStation 5 and PS4 game is Resident Evil Village, the acclaimed sequel in the long-running horror series. The game's a winner with critics, but it seems to be a big hit with gamers as well — the PS5 version is sitting pretty at number one in both regions, while the PS4 edition claims...
News UK Sales Charts: Miles Morales Is Hanging In There While FIFA 21 Scores Another Win
21 forever
The UK's physical games chart has its ups and downs, things that change, and sometimes, even a surprise or two. However, nothing is more consistent in this country's gaming spend than EA Sports' FIFA franchise. The football sims, understandably, are ever-present in the bestsellers, with each annual entry replacing the last. FIFA 21 has...
News UK Sales Charts: Good Week for Sony as PS5 Stock Boosts Spider-Man
The Last of Us 2 up to third
Yet another surge in PS5 stock saw Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales return to the top of the latest UK sales chart, followed closely by surprise inclusion The Last of Us: Part II. The outstanding Naughty Dog title was placed on a huge discount across UK retailers last week, knocking the price down to just £9.99. That...
News April 2021 NPD: MLB The Show 21, Returnal Lead Big Month for Sony
Returnal to sender
MLB The Show 21’s inclusion with Game Pass didn’t hinder full-price sales anywhere near as much as expected, as the game topped the April 2021 NPD best-sellers list, setting a new series record in the process. It’s worth noting that this was the first entry in the baseball simulation to also release on Xbox platforms,...
News UK Sales Charts: Mass Effect Makes Way as Resident Evil Village Reclaims Number One
Winters is coming
Resident Evil Village is doing very well for itself so far, if the UK's physical sales are anything to go by. The game debuted in the top spot, came in second last week, and is now back in prime position. Capcom's survival horror hit continues to sell best on PlayStation too, with the PS5 and PS4 versions making up nearly three...
News UK Sales Charts: Miles Morales Comes Back Swinging While Mass Effect Launches to the Top
Legendary
The love for Mass Effect has come pouring out as EA releases the long-awaited PlayStation 4 remaster collection. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition has debuted in the number one spot on the UK's physical games chart, overtaking Resident Evil Village, which is now in second place. Right behind these new releases is a reappearance from Marvel's...
News PS5 UK Stock Was So Bad in April Even PS4 Outsold It
Life in the old dog
Sony’s done a reasonable job of replenishing PlayStation 5 stock specifically in the UK this year, but April was a barren month for the next-gen console in Britain. In fact, so bad was the supply that the Japanese giant’s new system was actually outsold by its predecessor. Now obviously the PS4 is still a brilliant box with...
News UK Sales Charts: Resident Evil Village Sells Best on PS5, PS4 with 80% Share
Returnal leaves the top 10
Last week's physical UK chart saw the arrival of a key PlayStation 5 exclusive: Returnal. It debuted in a promising second place, which isn't too shabby for a pretty niche, single platform title. Despite glowing reviews, however, the game's physical sales have slumped, with the stylish shooter now sitting in 15th. Still,...
News Sony Reiterates PS5 Stock Shortages Won't Go Away Anytime Soon
Sony predicts problems will persist through 2022
The PlayStation 5 is a hot commodity right now. It's been in high demand and low supply since its launch in November of last year, with complications caused by COVID-19 making it difficult to produce enough consoles. Unfortunately, Sony doesn't expect things to improve all that much in the foreseeable...
News UK Sales Charts: PS5 Roguelike Returnal Off to Slower Start Than Other Sony Exclusives
Game over
Returnal managed to finish second on the UK sales charts at launch, but it debuted a lot lower than other major PlayStation exclusive titles. It’s worth noting that, in frustrating fashion, Britain’s best-sellers list is comprised of physical sales only – and thus is missing a major piece of the puzzle, as consumers continue to skew...
News PS5 Sales Now Trending Above PS4 Launch Aligned in Japan
But no one's buying any games
After all the hullabaloo surrounding the PlayStation 5’s launch in Japan – stock issues mean that it was trending behind even the Nintendo Wii U at one point – the next-gen console is now selling faster than its predecessor the PS4 did in the region when launch aligned. It’s worth remembering that the PS4...
News Persona 5 Strikers Smashes Through 1.3 Million Sales
Desirable
Persona 5 Strikers has done pretty well for itself. The action RPG, which launched back in February here in the West, has surpassed 1.3 million copies sold. Atlus had previously reported that Strikers hit 500,000 copies sold in Asia by the end of last year, so its Western release probably accounts for the majority of sales. It helps, of...
News Sony Sold 58.4 Million PS5, PS4 Exclusives Last Year
17 per cent of all software sales were first-party
Exclusives matter. During its latest financial report for the business year ending 31st March, 2021, Sony sold an eye-watering 58.4 million first-party games on PlayStation 5 and PS4. That’s a significant 17 per cent of the total 338.9 million games sold for its systems during the aforementioned...
News PS4 Has Sold More Games Than Any Other Console in History
At least 1.577 billion copies out there
Here's a pretty incredible statistic for you: Sony has sold more PlayStation 4 games than any other console in history. At least 1.577 billion copies of PS4 titles have been sold to customers since it launched all the way back in late 2013 — a stat that beats the previous record (also held by Sony) of 1.537...
News PS5 Console Sales Reach 7.8 Million, Beating PS4's Record
New records for revenue, PS Store too
Sony's PlayStation 5 console has now sold 7.8 million units as of 31st March 2021, meaning it has beaten the PS4's previous record for hardware sales during a console's first fiscal year on the market. It managed to sell 7.6 million systems to consumers during that same time frame. Demand for the console has...
News UK Sales Charts: NieR Replicant Has Fantastic Debut in First Place
Cyberpunk 2077 still features in 10th
Blimey, not only is NieR Replicant a great game, but it's also done pretty well for itself in the latest UK sales chart. The remastered experience from Yoko Taro forces FIFA 21 out of the top spot and claims it for its own. The rest of the top 10 is very much business as usual — Nintendo Switch exclusives...
News Awesome Co-Op Game It Takes Two Tops One Million Sales
Josef Fares celebrates
Here's a pleasant bit of news to see the weekend in with: It Takes Two has already sold more than one million copies after less than a month on the market. Confirmed with a tweet from developer Hazelight Studios, the co-op only game has proven popular with both veteran gamers and newcomers. The studio said: "Just found out It...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds Accounted for Less than 0.5% of Launch Period Sales
Through CDPR's refund program
Every time Cyberpunk 2077's immense sales numbers are brought up, people are quick to question how many of those copies were refunded. Well, we now have an answer — kind of. In its latest earnings call, CD Projekt Red stated that it spent $2.23 million on its worldwide refund program, which equates to around 30,000...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Sold 13.7 Million Copies in 2020, 28% on PS4
More than Xbox, less than PC
New information on Cyberpunk 2077 sales has been released, confirming that the open world RPG sold 13.7 million copies by the end of 2020, after it released on the 10th December. Of course, the game's disastrous launch is well documented at this point — especially on PlayStation 4 — but it still made CD Projekt Red...
News UK Sales Charts: Cyberpunk 2077 Returns to Top 10 While FIFA 21 Claims Number One
Buy-berpunk
Just as the UK's physical games chart begins to get stale, something comes along to shake things up. This time, Cyberpunk 2077 re-enters the chart for the first time in ages. CD Projekt RED's latest, which has been a technical nightmare as they release enormous, bug-squashing patches, is back in the top 10 best sellers. There's no clear...
News CDPR Posts Record Sales and Revenue Thanks to Cyberpunk 2077
Corpo style
CD Projekt Red just posted a new company record for yearly sales and revenue in 2020, and it was all down to Cyberpunk 2077. Despite the game's incredibly rough launch, the open world RPG sold extremely well — mostly off the back of a massive marketing campaign and sky-high hype building. For context, revenue for 2020, with the help...
News March 2021 NPD: PS5 Is Still the Fastest-Selling Console in US History
In terms of both unit and dollar sales, during a pandemic
PlayStation 5 is the fastest-selling console in US history, after five months on the market. You may have read this headline before, but there’s an important distinction compared to February 2021’s NPD report: the next-gen format has achieved the feat in both dollar sales and unit sales,...
News Tekken 7 Breaks 7 Million Sales, Celebrates with Updated Character Artwork
Closing in on Tekken 3
Tekken 7 has reached yet another milestone in its quest to become the best selling Tekken title. The PlayStation 4 brawler has smashed its way to 7 million copies sold, which is, as always, very impressive for a fighting game these days. The last sales update that we received was in September last year, so it's taken just...
News UK Sales Charts: FIFA 21 Kicked Off the Top Spot as Outriders Falls From Top 10
Play on
It's time once again to look at the UK's physical games chart, and would you believe it, the usual roster of titles make up the top 10. FIFA 21, which retook first place last week, has been knocked off its perch by the all-powerful Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and the football sim is now in second. That's as exciting as it gets near the...
News PS5 Has Been UK's Best-Selling Console Two Months in a Row
But you still can't readily buy one
You can’t readily buy a PlayStation 5 here in the UK, but it’s been the best-selling console in the country two months in a row now. As reported earlier in the week, the system has now outsold the lifetime totals of the Nintendo Wii U, PS Vita, and SEGA Dreamcast – a not all together extraordinary feat when...
News PS5 Has Already Outsold PS Vita, Nintendo Wii U, and SEGA Dreamcast in the UK
And you can't even easily buy one
Just how well is PlayStation 5 doing in the UK? Well, it’s hard to get a read on the next-gen format’s fortunes due to it being perpetually sold out, but a Twitter post from GamesIndustry.biz’s Christopher Dring puts matters into perspective: in right around five months, the system has outsold cult consoles...
News UK Sales Charts: Physical Outriders Sales Over 50 Per Cent on PS5
Movers and shakers
Hold on, there are things to talk about with the UK's physical games chart? What is this, April Fool's Day? Right, guys? Sorry. Anyway, yes, there's finally some movement in what has been a pretty immovable chart for the last month or two. After several weeks of fluctuation, FIFA 21 finds itself back in the top spot thanks to...
News PS5 Sales Steadily Improve in Japan, As Stock Situation Steadies
Console crosses 500k milestone
Update: Just as a quick update to this article, the new Famitsu sales data for the period spanning 22nd March to 28th March has now been published. PlayStation 5 continued its excellent sales streak, shifting another 62,295 units, putting its life-to-date total at 580,211 units. Once again the Nintendo Switch...
News UK Sales Charts: Just Two PS5, PS4 Games Make the Top 10 This Week
Nintendo dominance continues
Ouch, look away now Sony — the latest UK sales chart does not make for great reading from the Japanese company's perspective. Just two PlayStation games managed to make it into the top 10 of last week's list of the best-selling physical titles across the UK. Yes, only two. Those being Minecraft: Dungeons in fifth and...
News Ghost of Tsushima Has Sold a Staggering 6.5 Million Copies
For Tsushima!
Rarely do new intellectual properties become sales sensations, but Sony has struck gold with Ghost of Tsushima. The PlayStation 4 exclusive, which launched in July 2020, has now surpassed 6.5 million copies — which is seriously impressive. Almost as impressive is the fact that the open world adventure has been completed by more than...
News UK Sales Charts: Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Takes Third in Slow Week for PlayStation
Switching it up
It's impossible to ignore at this point: the UK is absolutely loving Nintendo exclusives right now. The company's games always do well of course, but the latest chart (which only includes physical sales data, we should add) shows that six of the top 10 best-sellers can only be bought on Switch. That's a pretty impressive result...
News Excellent Roguelike Dead Cells Tops Five Million Sales
Coming back for more
Dead Cells is one of the very best roguelikes available on PlayStation 4, and the market appears to have recognised that. Developer Motion Twin has confirmed sales of the game have now surpassed five million across all platforms, with one-fifth of that impressive statistic sourced from the recent mobile port released in China...
News UK Sales Charts: Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Swings to Number One
Our hero
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales has been a mainstay of the UK's boxed games chart for many weeks now, but it's never quite made it to the top. With the latest results, though, it's finally crawled up to the number one spot, presumably driven by the PS5 stock drip-feed the country has had lately. The hardware availability has provided a...
News Stock Constrained PS5 Unit Sales Lag Behind PS4 by Less Than 1 Per Cent in USA
During a pandemic, no less
How well is the PlayStation 5 selling? Absurdly well in the United States, according to NPD data. We already know that, across its first four months on the market, it’s the fastest selling system of all-time in dollar terms – but what of units? Well, according to analyst Mat Piscatella, it’s lagging behind the PS4...
News February 2021 NPD: PS5 Is Fastest Selling System in US History
Miles Morales holding strong
Sony may be keeping things concerningly close to its chest, but make no mistake: the PlayStation 5 is a runaway freight train that’s going to be difficult to slow down. February’s NPD report, which tracks hardware and software sales in the United States, reveals that the next-gen PlayStation is now the fastest...
News 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Sales Surpass 400,000, Still Deserves More
Keep it going
Publisher Atlus has issued a second sales update for 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, now pegging the gorgeous PlayStation 4 title at just over 400,000 units across physical shipments and digital purchases. This represents an increase in sales of 100,000 compared to early January 2021. Not bad going for the latest game from Vanillaware, but it...
