The PS4 has been doing incredibly well, selling a staggering 4.2 million units worldwide last year. In the UK, the console has managed to sell a massive 530,000 units in just give weeks according to MCV, making it the fastest selling console in UK history. Even more surprising is that the console has outsold every other home console in 2013, despite only being around for just over a month.
DFC has confirmed that Sony’s PS4 was the biggest console launch of all time in terms of hardware unit sales, beating the two previous record holders: the Nintendo Wii and PS2. The PS4 sold more consoles in the first two weeks on sale that any other console, including Microsoft’s Xbox One.
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.
Grand Theft Auto V has become the fastest selling videogame in UK history, it has been revealed, breaking the previous record set by Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops. The chart data shows GTA V sold a massive 1.57 million units across all platforms on it’s first day, compared with Call of Duty: Black Ops’ 1.41 million sales.
Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us continues to make headlines this week, after becoming the fastest selling PS3 title of the year. The game has sold more than 3.4 million copies as of last Tuesday, which also makes it the fastest selling new software title in the entire history of PlayStation.
LittleBigPlanet has hit another huge milestone: 8 million user created levels, and still growing! The community has created more than 8 million levels in the five years since the game was released on the PS3, and later to the PS Vita. It’s taken the community just under a year to rack-up another million levels.
Telltale Games have had huge success with The Walking Dead series. The five-episode series based on the comic books of the same name has sold over 8.5 million episodes across multiple platforms, including the PS3, Xbox and iOS, since launch, generating over $40 million in revenue for the games company.
Earlier this week Sony issues a press release marking another milestone for the PS3. The press release says the PS3 has sold over 30 million units in PAL Territories, which includes Australia, New Zealand and South Africa – since March 2007.
Netflix is available on a multitude of devices, from PS Vita to tablets and PCs, but, the PS3 is the number 1 device used to stream content in the living room for the provider. The service was first launched on the console back in November 2009 and has since become a primary development platform for the Netflix streaming experience, giving PS3 owners early access to many new features that come to other platforms later.
The first week’s numbers for Call of Duty: Black Ops II are in and the news is as expected. The game has sold over 11 million units across the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in it’s first week on sale. In comparison, the game outsold the previous version by around 550,000 units, which sold over 10.5 million units in its first week.
