DICE’s new first-person shooterBattlefield 1is the best-selling game on the latest PSN sales chart, while label-mateTitanfall 2finds itself in ninth place.
With the spookiest month of the year now having come to a close, Sony has released the October 2016 PSN sales chart (for North America). So many high profile titles were released in October, with publishers eager to capitalize on pre-Christmas present buyers, but which game got the most downloads on PS4?
Unsurprisingly, it wasBattlefield 1that took the top spot. The DICE-developer shooter, which takes on World War 1, was already a proven hit, havingoutsoldBattlefied HardlineandBattlefield 4combined in its first week.Battlefield 1players got 59 million hours of gameplayunder their belts in just under a week and people have been so eager to get online and take to the trenches that the game has reportedly been hit with several server outages since it launched on October 21.
In second place isSkyrim: Special Edition, which debuted to positive reviews on October 28. It looks as though enthusiasm for Bethesda’s fantasy world was able to combat any concerns aboutSkyrim’s audio problems and its sales also avoided being affected by a new patch that causes the game to crash. In third place is open-world gameMafia 3, which is 2K’s fastest-selling game ever, in fourth place is soccer simFIFA 17and in fifth isDragon Ball Xenoverse 2.
In sixth place isBattlefield Hardline, which may have seen a surge in popularity thanks to the series' latest entry, in seventh isNBA 2K17, in eighth isRocket League, while Respawn’s new shooterTitanfall 2finds itself in ninth place. WhileTitanfall 2launched on October 28 and therefore didn’t have much chance to rack up sales before Sony started tallying them, analysts have suggested that the game’s sales are poor in general. PublisherEA is committed to theTitanfallfranchise, though, so its lowly place on the PSN sales chart isn’t likely to impact its future too much.
Other notable titles includeMiddle-earth: Shadow of Mordorat 13th place (likely aided by itsPS4 Pro support),Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebrationin 14th place andGrand Theft Auto 5at 16th place, showing that Rockstar’s criminal caper is still popular almost two years on from its PS4 debut.
Additionally, Sony has introduced PlayStation VR sales charts too, making it one of the only ways to figure out how software on the platform is doing as many PS VR games aren’t sold at retail.Job Simulatorcame in first,Batman: Arkham VRtook second,Until Dawn: Rush of Bloodin third,PlayStation VR Worldsin fourth andHere They Liecame in fifth. Only a couple of games are coming to PS VR in November (Eagle FlightandRobinson: The Journey) so it will be interesting to see how the PSN sales chart shapes up next time around.
