Ghost of Yotei was the fourth best-selling recreation within the U.S. for September with simply three days out in the marketplace, in accordance with the newest figures from Circana. Sony’s newest open-world blockbuster seems to be doing simply wonderful regardless of an tried boycott by on-line grifters and their followers.
“With one week in market, the US sales performance of Ghost of Yotei was basically flat to that of Ghost of Tsushima,” the analysis agency’s Mat Piscatella wrote on Bluesky. “It did great. Ghost of Tsushima launched in July 2020 (if you’ll recall, stuff was happening at the time that significantly boosted gaming), and the PS4 installed base at the time was significantly higher than the PS5 is today. Like, anyone with ‘concern’ about this title should be looked at with a side eye.”
Ghost of Yotei was behind Borderlands 4, NBA 2K26, and EA Sports activities FC 26, which isn’t stunning contemplating these are multiplatform best-sellers and the samurai revenge story stays unique to PS5 proper now. Gross sales had been nonetheless sufficient to make Yotei the 18th best-seller of the yr to this point by income and the second best-selling recreation on PlayStation through the interval, simply behind NBA 2K26 however forward of Borderlands 4 which had two further weeks in the marketplace.
Ghost of Yotei has been on the receiving finish of a slow-burn reactionary backlash from on-line tradition warriors ever because it revealed its protagonist was a lady named Atsu. She’s performed by Erika Ishii who was attacked by the usual suspects for being queer and for posting about about defunding the police through the 2020 George Floyd protests. The flame battle intensified after a Sucker Punch developer posted a joke in regards to the Charlie Kirk assassination, with some calling for a boycott of Yotei even after the developer was fired for the remark. Boycott or no, it appears to have had little significant influence on Yotei‘s trajectory, at the very least at launch.
Is Borderlands 4 nonetheless a gross sales juggernaut?
The September gross sales figures have another fascinating nuggets to chew on. Borderlands 4 posted some spectacular Ws however with a number of main caveats. It was the best-selling recreation within the U.S. for the month and immediately hit quantity three for your entire yr, with 30 % increased greenback gross sales at launch than Borderlands 3. However Borderlands 3 was $60 as a substitute of $70, didn’t have a Tremendous Deluxe Version promoting for $130, and wasn’t initially obtainable on Steam, the place Borderlands 4 seems to have offered portion of its copies.
2K Video games hasn’t launched any official gross sales figures but. Borderlands 3 offered over 22 million copies and before that, Borderlands 2 hit 30 million. My guess is that Borderlands 4, a return to kind hampered considerably by PC points at launch, finally ends up monitoring someplace in-between.
In different information, the PS5 has already outsold your entire PS3 era in below 5 years. It has a few years left to beat the PS4 globally. I don’t suppose anybody’s ever beating the PS2. Not even the Nintendo Swap.
However my favourite gross sales knowledge level of all from final month is Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. It got here in ninth general, and second on Swap, which is additional spectacular once you keep in mind it’s promoting for under $50. Sq. Enix hinted at a possible sequel if it does nicely sufficient, or at the very least extra technique RPGs. I’m shopping for everybody I do know a replica for Christmas.
