PlayStation Store: May 2025’s top downloads

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It's time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month's download charts. May came and went at lightning speeds as Forza Horizon 5 won the US and EU PS5 charts, and Elden Ring Nightreign had a strong showing, releasing just at the end of the month. The PS4 charts saw a strong rise in the resistance as Star Wars Battlefront II dominated, while Ghosts of Tabor and Alien: Rogue Incursion VR became PS VR2 front runners.​
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Source - PSBlog
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Wow, PS fans were THIRSTY for a non-sim racing game

Also, TDA outsold Oblivion? I thought GAF said Doom was a huge failure??
 
phant0m said:
Wow, PS fans were THIRSTY for a non-sim racing game

Also, TDA outsold Oblivion? I thought GAF said Doom was a huge failure??
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Oblivion released in April. These are not great results for TDA , especially in the EU. 80 Euros probably had something to do with it. Absolutely insane price for a 15hr game
 
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The amount of time between new GTA releases now means that whole new generations are born and grow into their teens.

A friend of mine has been playing GTA V with his son since he was like 12 and he is now finishing college and they still play it online together.

GTA VI is going to be smashing sales records on release that one else will ever achieve. GTA V was originally released on PS3 / 360 and at a time when digital downloads weren't as popular as they are today.

This is THE game that will get the people still stuck on last gen to finally come to current gen.
 
I swear GTA V must have sold a copy for every compatible console on the planet at this point.

EDIT: kind of, for Playstation - PS4 LTD sales are ~117M, PS5 so far is ~75M, (117+75=192M). GTA V LTD sales are 215M
Got every current+last-gen PlayStation covered with 23M copies leftover for PC+Xbox
 
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People don't understand positional charts and new releases.

My biggest takeaways here are

  • Lack of legs for Monster Hunter Wilds
  • Big bump for TLOU2 and TLOU Remastered
  • Crazy resurgence and social media campaign for Battlefront 2
  • Helldivers 2 not doing as well in EU
  • Underperformance of Doom the Dark Ages
  • Will be interesting to see what happens with Onimusha 2; seems to be performing poorly
 
Mibu no ookami said:
People don't understand positional charts and new releases.

My biggest takeaways here are

  • Lack of legs for Monster Hunter Wilds
  • Big bump for TLOU2 and TLOU Remastered
  • Crazy resurgence and social media campaign for Battlefront 2
  • Helldivers 2 not doing as well in EU
  • Underperformance of Doom the Dark Ages
  • Will be interesting to see what happens with Onimusha 2; seems to be performing poorly
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What is going on with Battlefront? Why is that doing so well? Is it cause jade Raymond left another studio? Do her old games get bumps
 
Lunarorbit said:
What is going on with Battlefront? Why is that doing so well? Is it cause jade Raymond left another studio? Do her old games get bumps
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First it got a slight bump with May 4th but then after Andor there's been a major social media campaign for Battlefront 3. An actor on Andor saying he was a fan and wanted BF3 and a developer making comments on it was probably enough to spark said campaign. The game is dirt cheap so there's not much of a barrier of entry to get back in. EA put the game on sale and it was going for like 4-5 dollars.

TL;DR it's the power of transmedia and social media
 
Mibu no ookami said:
People don't understand positional charts and new releases.

My biggest takeaways here are

  • Lack of legs for Monster Hunter Wilds
  • Big bump for TLOU2 and TLOU Remastered
  • Crazy resurgence and social media campaign for Battlefront 2
  • Helldivers 2 not doing as well in EU
  • Underperformance of Doom the Dark Ages
  • Will be interesting to see what happens with Onimusha 2; seems to be performing poorly
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That's a very good point about MH.

I went back to the 2018 charts and World launched in January but was out of the top 10 by April (still ended up in the 2018 top 10 overall though).
 
I see there RoadCraft and The Precint. Never heard about these games.

It's interesting to see TLOU2 Remastered and TLOU Remastered in the both NA and EU rankings, seems that the season 2 of the tv show bumped sales as also did happen with season 1.
 
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Woopah said:
That's a very good point about MH.

I went back to the 2018 charts and World launched in January but was out of the top 10 by April (still ended up in the 2018 top 10 overall though).
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I'm not really surprised by the lack of legs.

The game has always had its core audience but I thought this game was going to lengths to expand that audience. I think it has negative word of mouth. It fell off the charts in April and its not like there have been a lot of big releases since then.

I'm sure it still will rank high at the end of the year, but I think that it won't significantly outperform World at the end of the day and subsequent games might not be given much leeway.
 
hououinkyouma00 said:
Totally read that wrong. My point stands though as every time Colin goes over the top selling games on SS GTA V is still there.
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We don't really have access to sales data in most regions.

What we have access to is revenue and with GTA Online, that's a major live service game that is going to continuously generate revenue.
 
Mibu no ookami said:
I'm not really surprised by the lack of legs.

The game has always had its core audience but I thought this game was going to lengths to expand that audience. I think it has negative word of mouth. It fell off the charts in April and its not like there have been a lot of big releases since then.

I'm sure it still will rank high at the end of the year, but I think that it won't significantly outperform World at the end of the day and subsequent games might not be given much leeway.
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Which is interesting as World has had very good legs if we go by Capcom's shipment numbers.

I imagine Asia and Steam contributed a lot to World's legs, maybe it will be the same for Wilds.
 
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