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Revenue and Downloads for every Sony first-party game ever released on the PSN (580+ titles, as of June 2023)
- Thread starter Red Kong XIX
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Again, just digital. Uncharted 4 was at 18.6m console copies sold at the start of 2022 (so 15.5m+ physical copies unaccounted for in these numbers), while Days Gone was at 7.3m (4.5m+ physical - still very successful; the reason a sequel isn't happening is because Bend wanted to do a new IP instead).
Digital only release outside of Japan explains it.
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That's an amazing number for both games. For Ghost of Tsushima as a new IP and for The Last of Us 2 as one of the most divisive games of these years with worst leaks of all time.
Also TLoU2's number is even higher now because of PS5 version. And soon we'll have PC version too.
Honestly Demon Souls feels like Elden Ring to me. Definitely better than DS 1-3 in almost every way. Especially responsiveness.
This data puts to bed the notion that people aren't interested in emulated classics, Crash Bandicoot sitting with over 8 million in revenue.
Even the recent PS4/PS5 releases sitting at reasonably healthy numbers considering they are both on subscription and free to past purchases.
The list seems short though, only 500 titles across all platforms since the PS3 era have made sales on PSN?
Edit- ah, only Sony games.
Even the recent PS4/PS5 releases sitting at reasonably healthy numbers considering they are both on subscription and free to past purchases.
The list seems short though, only 500 titles across all platforms since the PS3 era have made sales on PSN?
Edit- ah, only Sony games.
Gotta' say, it's disappointing that Soul Sacrifice never got a sequel. Possibly the most profitable major Vita release considering they got Delta out of it as well.
Is there only the one listing for Kill Strain at the bottom? That one is missing data for sure given how it lists zero downloads for two regions. Still completely terrible performance but yeah.
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Screenshot of the Excel sheet
Removed weekly revenue and weekly download charts and sorted by total revenue.
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*16 Weekly revenue & total download as per the first image.
Yeah Good times with warhawk. A battlefield first party option but they F.. with starhawk.
Killzone 2 Warhawk and M.A.G. very fresh multi alternative beside the cod formula.
Data shows pretty clear the small games or experiments are a waste of money for playstation.
Forget the puppeeter times or even a new portable console
Did I miss something?
Revenue LTD #14
Downloads LTD #10
Nobody cares about Weekly.
The OP did or he wouldn't have shared it in his initial post which is what I was referring to with #16 before you interjected with your 2 cents. :)
There is also 12 months more of sales now and Sony games have larger legs nowadays compared to PS3 and early PS4 years.
someone remind me again what "Days gone" had to sell to get a sequel? wow.
really nice to see Nioh and Nioh2 doing so well.
really nice to see Nioh and Nioh2 doing so well.
for those interested in the total numbers, updated to March 2023, here they are:
www.installbaseforum.com
there was a thread on resetera too, but the image is broken
Sales numbers for every PS4 and PS5 era PlayStation first party games have been leaked
transcription by @Welfare All games that appear in this OP Platform Title [PS4] Bloodborne [PC] Days Gone [PS4] Days Gone [PS4] Death Stranding [PS5] Death Stranding Director's Cut [PS5] Demon's Souls [PS4] Detroit: Become Human [PS4] DRIVECLUB [PS4] Ghost of Tsushima...
www.installbaseforum.com
there was a thread on resetera too, but the image is broken
as you can see, Spiderman net sales are above $800m
You couldn't buy it as a "classic" on the US PSN store during the PS3/Vita/PS4 eras, it was only made available recently and I assume most people who played it did so via PSNow.
In addition to On the Loose 🤷🏻♂️
They're more games than ever yet humans seem to be gravitating towards fewer games if the US NPDs of last year is any indication.
Holy shit, I'm one of the 235 people who bought Echoshift.
I'll never understand why they abandoned Days Gone the way they did. Brought them a lot of revenue and sales, despite pretty much abandoning the game in terms of marketing after it came out because it didn't become a critic's darling.
For a studio that was making handheld games before, it was a very good first effort. A sequel would have done very well.
For a studio that was making handheld games before, it was a very good first effort. A sequel would have done very well.
Yet even then, that's still much better than I would've expected to be the case given Sony's disregard for the franchise and the negativity surrounding discussions of its commercial appeal around here (I went in at maximum pessimism and started from the bottom of the chart when looking for Gravity Rush).
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Not really. PS3 was still a very physical dominated era. I personally still bought everything on disk, while today I'm all digital. The only digital games I bought back then were the games that were only available on PSN, like PAIN (#85).
It's pretty simple.
Critical reception was middling at best and if you look at the other list of the Insomniac breach, the average price at which DG sold was pretty low.
And that's not surprising, as I remember the game already being sold in the store for 30 bucks after 2 months. And that never happens this quickly with most 1st party games.
And the game took 7+ years of development and also had problematic studio leadership.
Bloodborne had a similar issue (minus the critical reception and dev time, which were great). Souls games were not nearly as popular when that game came out. It sold most of its copies at 20-30 bucks (probably the GOTY edition).
So while revenue might look fine for both games, profit margins were probably very low.
Digital only, but PSVR2 comes bundled with it for the most part and these sales aren't counting those vouchers (iirc PSVR2 sold over 600k units so it couldn't possibly be counting the vouchers).
I think so, but the hardware bundle that included the game was a digital code which presumably isn't included in these figures.
Thanks. That's always the issue on seeing numbers without context, can't know if something like downloads LTD number include bundles, or just separate purchases.