Sony just lately revealed its high PS5 downloads of 2024 which noticed a number of reside service video games make the listing. Whereas it has been a controversial route for the PlayStation makers, it does appear to point why the corporate dedicated to a reside service push. Now, video games trade analyst Mat Piscatella shared the best-selling video games of 2024 throughout all platforms, additional validating that push.
PlayStation reside service recreation Helldivers 2 is the third best-selling recreation of 2024
In a Bluesky submit, Piscatella shared the 2024 U.S. high 20 video games ranked on greenback gross sales. This covers each bodily and full recreation digital gross sales from Nintendo eShop, PlayStation, Steam, and Xbox platforms from December 30, 2023 by means of January 4, 2025. Right here is the total listing:
- Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6
- EA Sports activities School Soccer 25
- Helldivers 2
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- NBA 2K25
- Madden NFL 25
- Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare 3
- EA Sports activities FC 25
- Elden Ring
- EA Sports activities MVP Bundle
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- WWE 2K24
- MLB: The Present 24
- Grand Theft Auto 5
- Minecraft
- Last Fantasy 7: Rebirth
- Tekken 8
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- NBA 2K24
Anybody that retains up with this knowledge all year long will know a lot of the normal suspects are current. Name of Responsibility, NBA 2K, Grand Theft Auto 5, and EA Sports activities FC (a.okay.a. FIFA) are usually within the high 20 best-selling video games yearly. Nonetheless, the inclusion of PlayStation reside service recreation Helldivers 2 is a shock, all issues thought-about. Regardless of the failures of Sony’s different reside service endeavors, it did begin sturdy with Arrowhead’s sequel.
General, this listing is full of video games that characteristic reside service parts. Eight of the highest 9 best-selling video games of 2024 embody some kind of reside service characteristic. So, though it might not be the route followers needed Sony to go together with its video games, there may be proof as to why the corporate determined to push video games as a service.
