These educated boffins over at Gameindustry.biz have dropped some fascinating new insights based mostly on GSD knowledge which collects nearly all of digital gross sales and all bodily recreation gross sales within the UK.
In response to the info, Helldivers 2 was simply the best-selling recreation of February right here within the UK, beating out EA Sports activities FC 24 which got here in second place. The GSD knowledge additionally revealed extra on how Helldiver 2’s gross sales have really grown: throughout its second week on sale, it rose a whopping 115%, after which one other 21% in week three. That’s extremely uncommon as a result of normally video games see their greatest spike within the first day or two after which it drops. To see a recreation persistently acquire gross sales week by week may be very uncommon certainly.
The information additionally revealed a surprisingly balanced cut up between PC and PS5 gross sales. 57% of all copies bought had been on the PlayStation 5, leaving 43% on PC.
Then the article drops an attention-grabbing tidbit of information: Helldivers 2 has bought in three weeks 28% decrease than Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 managed in the same timeframe. 28% much less is quite a bit, however Spider-Man 2 was a juggernaut IP following on from two sturdy video games and backed up by an enormous advertising and marketing marketing campaign. Helldivers 2’s solely benefit is being accessible on each console and PC, so I believe promoting three-quarters of what the Wall-Crawler managed is superb.
Nevertheless, the info is barely annoying in that it doesn’t simply outright say the numbers. We do know that Spider-Man 2 bought round 5m million copies in three weeks, however these are world numbers and I can’t discover any UK-specific numbers.
Only for enjoyable although, let’s assume Helldivers 2 has bought 28% lower than Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 globally. That will put Helldivers 2 at roughly 3.6m copies bought, which might monitor as a result of the final time we acquired stable numbers it was at roughly 3m copies. One other 600,000 sounds about proper, and in reality, I wouldn’t be shocked if it was closing in on 4m, particularly because it’s nonetheless the #1 vendor on Steam.
The excellent news for Sony continues because the PlayStation 5 was as soon as once more the best-selling console within the UK.
The Change got here in second, with the Xbox lagging behind in third. All of the consoles had been down 29% from final yr, however the GFK knowledge (which tracks console gross sales within the UK) suggests this can be as a result of in January and February final yr, gross sales spiked resulting from inventory shortages easing up. There was additionally a notable Hogwarts Legacy impact. In response to GfK, PS5 and Xbox gross sales grew 27% and 21% in February which they partially attribute to the Harry Potter spinoff.
Shifting on we have now Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League in 4th place. Warner Bros. has already acknowledged that it hasn’t met their expectations, and in keeping with the GameIndustry.biz article, the gross sales are 20% decrease than Gotham Knights and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
Nevertheless, Warner Bros. does have some excellent news as a result of Hogwarts Legacy, not content material with being final yr’s best-selling recreation, is sitting within the sixth spot. I dunno what spell it’s casting, but it surely’s very efficient.
Cranium and Bones has not completed very effectively, both, reaching simply eighth place with gross sales 75% decrease than Sea of Thieves managed in 2018. Take into accout, Sea of Thieves was an Xbox unique, whereas Cranium and Bones is on most platforms.
There’s a very huge shadow looming over all this knowledge within the type of Palworld. Apparently, Palworld shouldn’t be included within the GSD system and thus none of its gross sales numbers are accounted for. By the beginning of February, the sport had accrued an insane 19m gamers and bought 12m copies. After all, these numbers have in all probability slowed down fairly a bit, so it’s onerous to say the place it might land within the chart.
