The newest US gross sales charts clarify the altering state of video games, as Ghost Of Tsushima returns to number one thanks to the PC version.
Only a few years ago, almost no useful sales data was released publicly for the US. But while there’s still only a monthly chart, it now paints a much clearer picture of what games and consoles are selling well, in terms of both digital and physical.
May is never a busy month for new releases, but the surprising new number one is Ghost Of Tsushima, which shot up from number 71 in the charts to number one, purely as a result of the release of the PC version.
Consoles sales were down once again for May, but it was still relatively good news for the PlayStation 5, which was once again the best-selling console and is now outpacing the PlayStation 4 again, at the same point in its life cycle. By comparison, the Xbox Series X/S is still being outsold by the seven-year-old Switch, as its sales fell behind the pace set by the Xbox One.
May video game hardware spending was down a massive 40% compared to 2023 (which was buoyed by the launch of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom) and is down 30% for the year as a whole.
Nevertheless, PlayStation 5 sales are now tracking 8% ahead of the PlayStation 4, for its first 43 months on sale. By comparison, the Xbox Series X/S is 13% behind the Xbox One and ‘slightly’ behind the Xbox 360.
The US is by far Xbox’s greatest market however with gross sales stagnating even there, it’s unsurprising that Microsoft is in search of different avenues to promote its video games, with an elevated give attention to multiformat releases and assist for different {hardware} such because the Amazon Fire Stick.
At the identical time, the continued recognition of first get together PlayStation video games on PC will little doubt encourage extra, particularly because the success of Helldivers 2 this 12 months is primarily as a result of PC model and never the PlayStation 5 version.
It additionally looks as if excessive time a sequel to Ghost Of Tsushima needs to be introduced, however though job advertisements have made it clear it’s underway Sony has by no means talked about it in public.
However, it’s doubtless that the precise best-selling sport of the month was the remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Nintendo is considered one of only some publishers (2K is the opposite predominant one) that doesn’t report its digital gross sales, so Paper Mario’s quantity two place is due solely to bodily gross sales.
According to NPD’s Mat Piscatella, Ghost Of Tsushima was solely ‘barely’ forward of Nintendo’s sport, so as soon as digital gross sales are added in it seems like it will’ve taken the highest spot.
There have been no different new entries within the prime 10 however PC-only sport Homeworld 3 debuted at quantity 14 and F1 24 got here in at quantity 18.
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