The Last of Us Part II Was UK's Best-Selling Game in June, Outsold Rest of Top 10 Combined - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 August 2020 / 6,367 Views
The Last of Us Part II (PS4) was the best-selling game in the UK for the month of June, according to GfK. It sold more copies than the rest of the top 10 combined. It also helped Sony dethrone Nintendo as the month's number one publisher, with over 29 percent of all boxed games sold in the UK in June.
The next highest new game was Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (NS) in 10th place and 51 Worldwide Games (NS) in 13th place.
1.24 million games were sold in the month of June in the UK. This is nearly 44 percent more than were sold in May and is the second biggest month of 2020 after March.
Console sales are up 41 percent in June when compared to the same period last year. However, console sales were 12 percent lower than they were in May.
Year-to-date, console sales are up over 60 percent in the UK, while home console sales, the Switch, PS4 and Xbox One, are up nearly 70 percent when compared to the same period in 2019. Handheld sales are down 84 percent in 2020.
Here are the top 10 best-selling titles:
- The Last of Us Part II
- FIFA 20
- Ring Fit Adventure
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Minecraft (NS)
- The Last of Us Remastered
- Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Bravely Second: End Layer
- 51 Worldwide Games
- Luigi's Mansion 3
- Forza Horizon 4
- Just Dance 2020
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- Pokemon Sword
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Thanks GamesIndustry.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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This can't be true, the game died in its second week.
Exactly! No game ever drops 80% in the second week.
Only games that do that are complete flops like GTA V (-83%) Uncharted 4 (-78%) Dark souls 3 and Fallout 4 (-80%) etc
Had a 200% drop, all copies sold were returned.
Game of the Year.
...Let's not get ahead of ourselves...
That is pretty massive. With Sony being 29% of sales and TLOU2 outselling the combine TOP10 then TLOU2 over there must have been humongous, like 300-500k.
Much deserved, the game was a masterpiece in my opinion.
way to go UK :)
UK hates Final Fantasy lol.
Well, when you have no other major releases the whole month any other outcome would have been pathetic...
I guess TLOU2 broke the record for a Sony exclusive by the sheer lack of other games.
Scottslater, you muddy your relatively reasonable point about competition with the "pathetic" comment.
Clearly, the game benefitted from a lack of top tier competition. Common sense tells us that. But, it seems that it would have pulled off massive sales regardless. If it had only outsold the top five, rather than the top ten, that would still have been amazing. If there had been another big game, say in the number two spot, TLOU may not have been able to outsell the whole list combined. But, so what? If it sells a big number, it sells a big number. And, the game has sold a big number.
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