According to the Wall Street Journal, Psyonix’s sequel to PS3 title Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, Rocket League, has made $50 million since release (around £33.5m / €45.7m). The game was available as a free download to PlayStation Plus subscribers back in July 2015, and had several paid downloadable content available too.
Court documents filed following a court proceeding in America have revealed that Gran Turismo 6 on the PS3 managed to sell just 2.37 million copies. The figures were revealed following a legal battle surrounding the unlicensed appearance of VIRAG branding in Gran Turismo’s replication of the Monza track in Italy, featured in both GT5 and GT6.
As we approach the PS4’s one year anniversary in mid-November, Sony has released their latest financial results. The report shows that Sony has sold 13.5 million PS4 consoles in just under a year globally, but the company has posted an overall loss.
Sony has revealed that a massive 3.5 million PlayStation consoles (PS4, PS3 and PS2) have been sold, but didn’t go into specifics to reveal how many of each were actually sold. When comparing it to Xbox sales over the same period, which sold 1.1 million units, PlayStation outsold its rival by 3:1. At the same time, sales of PS Vita and PSP jumped to 750,000 from 600,000 this time last year.
Ubisoft has announced that Watch_Dogs has shipped 8 million copies since the game launched worldwide on May 27th 2014. Unfortunately, Ubisoft doesn’t mention how many of those copies were actually sold, but it will definitely be in the millions. The game set the record for number of day-one sales for a Ubisoft title when it first launched.
inFamous: Second Son released on the PS4 on March 21st 2014, and in just 9 days, managed to sell a million units. Sony revealed that worldwide sales of both the Blu-ray and digital version of inFamous: Second Son exceeded 1 million units as of March 29, 2014.
Following The Last of Us and Naughty Dog’s five BAFTA awards last week, the team has more good news to share about the PS3 exclusive game. The Last of Us has now surpassed six million sales worldwide, since being released less than a year ago, in June 2013.
Sony has revealed that PS4 exclusive, Killzone: Shadow Fall, has sold an impressive 2.1 million units worldwide since launch. The game has been available for approximately 2 and a half months and has yet to launch in Japan. The sales figure was helped by the fact that the game was bundles with the PS4 in at least two varieties.
Grand Theft Auto V has been a massive success for Rockstar Games, having taken in over $1 billion in global retail sales in its first three days on sale. The game became the UK’s fastest selling game, selling 1.57 million units across all platforms. The game made $800 million on launch day on launch day alone through worldwide sales.
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House revealed the sales projections for the Playstation 4 at the company’s keynote at the Tokyo Game Show. House revealed that Sony are aiming to sell 5 million PS4 consoles worldwide by March 2014, by which date the console will be available in every major territory.
