The primary weekend of gross sales for Ghost of Yotei made it the largest first-party launch for a PlayStation recreation in Europe since Spider-Man 2.
That’s in line with GSD European Chart knowledge, as reported by The Recreation Enterprise, which discovered that Ghost of Yotei entered the chart at quantity 2 when it comes to each unit gross sales and income, behind EA Sports activities FC 26 in each respects.
In keeping with GSD’s European Chart – which counts each bodily and digital gross sales of video games throughout 24 nations together with the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Australia – Ghost of Yotei’s gross sales are roughly according to these of its predecessor Ghost of Tsushima.
GSD says Ghost of Yotei is Sony‘s greatest first-party launch since Spider-Man 2, which was the quickest promoting PlayStation Studios recreation in historical past when it launched in 2023, promoting greater than 2.5 million copies globally in its first 24 hours.
Elsewhere within the European Unit Gross sales chart – which covers the week as much as October 5 – Tremendous Mario Galaxy + Tremendous Mario Galaxy 2 entered at quantity 3, with some caveats. As famous by The Recreation Enterprise, Nintendo doesn’t present digital gross sales knowledge, so GSD’s chart solely takes into consideration bodily Change video games which are offered.
On condition that Tremendous Mario Galaxy was beforehand launched as a part of Tremendous Mario 3D All-Stars, it’s probably that quite a few gamers both purchased each video games digitally or solely purchased Tremendous Mario Galaxy 2 digitally – neither of those situations can be counted within the chart.
Steam autumn gross sales meant that older video games like Doom Everlasting, Far Cry Primal and South Park: The Fractured However Complete re-entered the Unit Gross sales chart on account of heavy reductions, knocking video games like Silent Hill F and Mario Kart World out of the highest ten. Each video games nonetheless characteristic within the Prime Ten Income chart, nevertheless, at quantity 7 and eight respectively.
VGC’s Ghost of Yotei evaluate offers the sport 5 stars and says it “delivers on the promise of Tsushima with a touching samurai epic”.
“Ghost of Yotei fufills a lot of the promise of Ghost of Tsushima, delivering a massively satisfying open-world recreation, that just about rids itself of Tsushima’s bloat,” we wrote. “Pacing points and a few underdeveloped villains apart, Yotei improves on the unique recreation in each division, and delivers best-in-class visuals and music.”
