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[yazenov]

Notable releases this month:

Hellblade 2 (PC,XBS)
V Rising (PC)
Ghost of Tsushima (PC)
Paper Mario: The THousand Year Door (Switch)

Vampire survival game V Rising emerged from Early Access and swooped to the top of the charts in the UK during May.


The PC game received strong reviews upon release, with a PS5 version due in June 11.

Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut jumps up the charts following the game's release on PC, landing at No.6. It is PlayStation Studios' second biggest PC release (behind Helldivers 2), and its biggest internally developed PC launch. After two weeks, it has narrowly sold more than 2022's Spider-Man: Remastered

The final new releases in the Top Ten is the remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for Nintendo Switch (digital data missing). It's a decent debut for the game, with physical sales above both last year's Super Mario RPG and 2020's Paper Mario: The Origami King

However, it was a slow month for game sales overall, with 1.85 million games sold, a drop of 21% compared with May 2023. Last year, the games market was boosted by the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, plus the release of Hogwarts Legacy on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Just under 65,000 games consoles were sold in the UK over May (GfK panel data), a drop of 10% on the month before and nearly 33% down on may last year. PS5 was the No.1 format again, but saw sales down 13% over April.


The biggest reason for the tough year-on-year comparison is actually Nintendo Switch, which posted impressive console sales in May 2023 following the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Switch sales are also down 9% over the month before.


Xbox Series S and X is in third spot, with sales also down 9% month-on-month.

V Rising tops UK charts in May | UK Monthly Charts

V Rising and PS5 come out top in difficult May for game sales in the UK

www.gamesindustry.biz

UK GSD May 2024 Top 10 (Digital and Physical)​

Position	Title
1	V Rising (Level Infinite)
2	EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
3	Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
4	Fallout 4 (Bethesda)
5	Helldivers 2 (Sony)
6	Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut (Sony)
7	Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
8	Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Nintendo)*
9	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
10	Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt/Bandai Namco)

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[feynoob]

Makes sense. Hellblade 2 was snooze fest game. And 5 hour is not a game.

 

[yazenov]

Makes sense. Hellblade 2 was snooze fest game. And 5 hour is not a game.

It was a slow month for game releases. You'd think the game would at least chart in the top 10. Let's see if it can manage to chart in the top 20 (if it's available later on).

 

[leo-j]

Wonder if Ghost of Tsushima has crossed 12 millon copies sold ater this.

 

[XXL]

Makes sense. Hellblade 2 was snooze fest game. And 5 hour is not a game.

Shorter games can be great.

The problem with HB2 is it's barely a game, it's super fucking boring and the voice are extremely annoying.

 

[Radical_3d]

It’s charting where it matters boys: in GP engagement UuU

 

[mckmas8808]

PS Portal doing great in the U.K. too in May.

Over in accessories, 475,429 products were sold in the UK during May, down 12.6% over April, by up 5% over May last year. The market was driven by the White (No.1) and Midnight Black (No.2) PS5 DualSense controllers, meanwhile the PlayStation Portal Remote Player has jumped back into the Top Ten at No.3.

At some point, Sony needs to actually make enough PS Portals because it's a shame they are sold out in every country all the time for months now.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Helldivers 2 at #5. What a W.

 

[tmlDan]

bought V rising, havent touched it lol

PS Portal doing great in the U.K. too in May.




At some point, Sony needs to actually make enough PS Portals because it's a shame they are sold out in every country all the time for months now.

at the very least they know there's high demand for a portable playstation, this was likely just a market test for something bigger

 

[Ozriel]

PS Portal doing great in the U.K. too in May.

At some point, Sony needs to actually make enough PS Portals because it's a shame they are sold out in every country all the time for months now.

It’s in stock on Amazon, Best Buy etc. I believe improved stock availability is what drove the jump you’re seeing

 

[Ozriel]

Ok, this is hilarious

 

[JTCx]

"Gamepass leads to more sales"

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

5	Helldivers 2 (Sony)

This game being one of this year's biggest sellers wasn't on my projections but it's great to see.

Also, seems like Sony's PC strategies are all working. Helldivers 2 is doing numbers and 4 year old Ghost of Tsushima with its shiny new PC is right there as well.

 

[gerth666]

I like the look at that v rising from the trailers. Can it be played single player, or is it a best played co op experience? Tempted to buy it for ps5

 

[DenchDeckard]

m

This is gold! Hahaha

 

[DeepEnigma]

Ok, this is hilarious

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This is gold! Hahaha

Democracy has spoken, citizen!

 

[jm89]

PlayStation Portal Remote Player has jumped back into the Top Ten at No.3.

Noice. Stock has gotten better.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Smart UK gamers playing HB2 on gamepass.

 

[Mowcno]

Number of Steam Players over the last week. Green is Hellblade 1, Red is Hellblade 2:

Hellblade 1 is currently the 249th top seller on steam and Hellblade 2 is 347th. Top sellers are sorted by revenue so yes currently Hellblade 1 is grossing more on steam than Hellblade 2.

So not really surprising it didn't make it into the top 10, shame they completely avoided talking about the release in the article at all and we didn't get any info on how it did.

 

[yazenov]

Smart UK gamers playing HB2 on gamepass.

Its strange that we didn't get any engagement tweets yet.

 

[Snowdonhoffen]

Its strange that we didn't get any engagement tweets yet.

It might not be the same, but for Hi Fi Rush they announced the 2 million player milestone like 2 months after release. So if they post anything about Hellblade 2 it would probably be around the same timeframe.

 

[PeteBull]

Its strange that we didn't get any engagement tweets yet.

Every1 stopped playing it after 2h, bro, they cant even spin this with engagement anymore =D

 

[PeteBull]

It might not be the same, but for Hi Fi Rush they announced the 2 million player milestone like 2 months after release. So if they post anything about Hellblade 2 it would probably be around the same timeframe.

What if, and here is plottwist, 2m players milestone for hellblade 2 only gets announced 3 months after realease

 

[fudgybrownie]

It was a slow month for game releases. You'd think the game would at least chart in the top 10. Let's see if it can manage to chart in the top 20 (if it's available later on).

No physical release isn't gonna help it's chances.

 

[DJ12]

Who the hell still needs to buy GTA 5.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Who the hell still needs to buy GTA 5.

Kids who were born in 2016 onward.

 

[yazenov]

Every1 stopped playing it after 2h, bro, they cant even spin this with engagement anymore =D

Our resident Xbox enthusiasts here who played it twice and said it's gets better the second time more than compensate for the players who stopped playing it halfway

 

[Dick Jones]

Our resident Xbox enthusiasts here who played it twice and said it's gets better the second time more than compensate for the players who stopped playing it halfway

Sage back?

More mental gymnastics to read from Sage. I can't wait to hear what he learned from his 18th watch of Halo: Season 1.

 

[XXL]

Number of Steam Players over the last week. Green is Hellblade 1, Red is Hellblade 2:

Hellblade 1 is currently the 249th top seller on steam and Hellblade 2 is 347th. Top sellers are sorted by revenue so yes currently Hellblade 1 is grossing more on steam than Hellblade 2.

To be fair, Hellblade 1 is on sale right now on Steam for $2 or $3.

So alot of people will just buy it and probably never play it. Lol.

But yeah, Hellblade 2 sucks (I tried to play it) and it isn't selling well at all.

I played it on PC Game Pass and I couldn't even imagine how I would feel buying this at full price.

 

[AyraSutoraifu]

PS Portal doing great in the U.K. too in May.




At some point, Sony needs to actually make enough PS Portals because it's a shame they are sold out in every country all the time for months now.

And allow for local gaming ;-)

 

[mckmas8808]

Not much competition with the Switch given the age of the Switch hardware and technical limits.

Watch what happens to the sales charts for PS and Xbox when Switch 2 shows up.

Mistake to take it dogmatically that there’s no competition from Nintendo.

Exactly! Not sure why so many people wanna act like Nintendo isn't competing with Playstation and Xbox.

Number of Steam Players over the last week. Green is Hellblade 1, Red is Hellblade 2:

Hellblade 1 is currently the 249th top seller on steam and Hellblade 2 is 347th. Top sellers are sorted by revenue so yes currently Hellblade 1 is grossing more on steam than Hellblade 2.

So not really surprising it didn't make it into the top 10, shame they completely avoided talking about the release in the article at all and we didn't get any info on how it did.

This is just sad man. Does anybody think it will sell 500k lifetime?

To be fair, Hellblade 1 is on sale right now on Steam for $2 or $3.

So alot of people will just buy it and probably never play it. Lol.

But yeah, Hellblade 2 sucks (I tried to play it) and it isn't selling well at all.

I played it on PC Game Pass and I couldn't even imagine how I would feel buying this at full price.

If that's the case then that means it's selling alot of units. It's 15x cheaper than Hellblade 2. There's just no way Hellblade 1 should be outselling HB2. No way!!!

And allow for local gaming ;-)

That's cost too much.

 

[Flabagast]

Cyberpunk holding very strong, this is all I need to know

 

[onQ123]

If Hellblade 2 is a Notable release why wasn't it noted?

 

[nemiroff]

Warriors fighting for first post. Cute.

 

[yazenov]

If Hellblade 2 is a Notable release why wasn't it noted?

I made up that part. It wasn't in the article published by Chris.

I thought it was notable since it's a 1st party game by MS.