Square Enix says that sales of the new IP have been lackluster.

Square Enix flatly admitted that many of the studio's recent game releases underperformed in sales. Square Enix's Outline of Results Briefing held on February 3, 2023 shared some preliminary financial results for Q1-Q3 of the current fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2023. The main focus was on the most recent quarter which ran from October 2022 through December 2022. This briefing was held just one week after the...

Big numbers all over the place making lots of executives very happy.

It was a monumental week for those of you who like hearing about the success of various video game releases. If you like seeing big numbers, this week was probably like a little Christmas for you as we saw sales milestones for games like Sons of the Forest, Hogwarts Legacy, and Elden Ring.

Let's start with the newest kid on the block, Sons of the Forest. Though it was released only into Steam Early Access...

It's time to talk about the elephant in the room.

As you are probably aware by now, Hogwarts Legacy was released into "early access" on Tuesday, February 7 for those that had pre-ordered the Deluxe Edition of the game. Priced at $70 (USD; $80 for consoles), this Deluxe Edition of Hogwarts Legacy gave players a three-day jump on their adventures and also offers some various in-game items. The standard edition of the game on PC is $60 ($70 on consoles).

As the...

PlayStation 5 had its best quarter ever.

Sony revealed that the PlayStation 5 sold like hotcakes in their Q3 2022 financial results (PDF). Their latest console saw a massive increase in both hardware sales and sales of first-party software, giving the PlayStation 5 its best sales quarter since its launch.

For the three-month period ending December 21, 2022, Over 7.1 million PlayStation 5 consoles were shipped out. For the entirety of the 2022 financial year, Sony sold...

And the hits just keep on coming.

Over the weekend, information was shared suggesting that The Callisto Protocol failed to meet sales expectations by a considerable margin. Today we have further information, this time from the NPD Group, that sheds some additional light on just how poorly this new sci-fi horror/shooter performed.

The NPD Group shared their sales information for December 2022 along with their full year 2022 details. The full year isn't all that exciting,...

The game is also reportedly having trouble recuperating development costs.

Now this story may need to be taken with a little bit of salt. There is a new report out of a Korean media outlet that offers up a little insight as to how poorly The Callisto Protocol has performed. The information shared here has only been seen in this one report and, even without any sort of translation issues, may still be inaccurate. The information coming out of Korea was also shared by MP1ST.
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Those in the UK vastly prefer digital to physical.

According to a new report by the BBC, physical game sales seem to be on the verge of being completely wiped out. Last year, the digital entertainment and retail association (ERA) says that 89.5% of all games sold in the UK were digital purchases. That leaves the remaining 10.5% as physical disc-based sales. In addition, about 30% of all total sales were for mobile apps.

The BBC continues on to say that the gaming industry...

If you want a PlayStation 5, you can probably find one to buy.

Sony says that their PlayStation 5 console sales have surpassed 30 million units. They also say that the console shortage, at least for them, is essentially done and over with.

This news come via Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan and Sony's CES conference. The 30 million units sold figure is an increase of 5 million from the last time Sony shared sales data back on November 1, 2022. Ryan says...

The best of Steam, the best of you, the best of me.

Valve has another little feature that they put together for every Steam user. You have the big Steam Winter Sale still going on. You also have your personal recaps to check out with the Steam Replay feature that went live right after Christmas. Now, you have the overall Steam "Best of 2022" to check out.

Steam's Best of 2022 is a look back at the year's overall top sellers, the most-played games, the top new...

Over 5 million copies were sold in one week.

Sony announces that God of War Ragnarök is the fastest selling first-party PlayStation title ever. This means that Ragnarök bested releases for The Last of Us, Uncharted, Horizon, and even Knack.

Revealed in a tweet, Sony says that God of War Ragnarök sold 5.1 million copies in its opening week. Though it need not be stated, Sony also notes that this milestone set a God of War franchise record as well.

The sales...

The latest financials from Embracer Group shed light on the future of many of its recent acquisitions.

Embracer Group, a company no stranger to acquiring development studios left and right, just shared their Q2 2022 financials (PDF) with the world. As part of their reporting, Embracer shared that their sales have increased by 190% compared to Q2 2021. The company says that this success is due mostly to the studios that it picked up in the previous quarter.

Organic growth...

It took just ten days.

It was only a week back that we shared news of how Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 pulled in $800 million in its first three days of sales. Already, this was a record-smashing sales figure for the franchise that has been around since 2003. Now, Activision says that Modern Warfare 2's record-setting ways are far from over.

In the ten days following its release on October 28, 2022, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has surpassed the $1 billion (USD) in...

The latest installment approached the $1 billion mark in just three days.

The latest Call of Duty game just set a sales record for the entire franchise. In its first three days since release, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 pulled in $800 million (USD) worldwide. This makes it the biggest release for the franchise that dates back to 2003.

Activision did not specify how many actual copies of Modern Warfare 2 were sold, only that the sales surpassed that $800 million figure....

The free-to-play brawler surpassed all challengers.

MultiVersus is the newly released platform fighter/brawler from WB Games and Player First Games. Despite the game being completely free-to-play for everyone, it ended up being the best-selling game of July 2022. According to the latest sales report by the NPD, the various Founder's Packs for MultiVersus propelled it to being the highest-grossing game for the past month.

To those keeping up with news on MultiVersus, this...

Another huge milestone reached by Elden Ring.

Elden Ring continues to grow its status as FromSoftware's most successful game to date. In May, we learned that Elden Ring sold 13.4 million copies just in its first month of availability. Already, that made it FromSoftware's biggest game release ever.

Today, Gematsu shared the latest sales figures on this open-world action-RPG. So far, Elden Ring has sold 16.6 million copies. This was revealed as part of Bandai Namco's latest...