Astro Bot Was the 2nd Best-Selling Game in the US in Its Launch Week - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 October 2024 / 7,841 Views
Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD) Mat Psicatella via Bluesky announced Astro Bot was the second best-selling game for the week ending September 7th in the US when you combine physical and digital sales. NBA 2K25 was the best-selling game for the week.
The Astro Bot PS5 DualSense controller was also the best-selling accessory for the week.
"Don't usually talk weeklies but wanted to add some context to the UK reporting from last week," said Piscatella. "Across both physical & digital, Astro Bot ranked 2nd in unit sales in the US for w/e Sept 7th (behind only NBA 2K25), and the Astro Bot DualSense was the week's best-selling accessory. Solid week 1."
Astro Bot released for the PlayStation 5 on September 6.
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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I hope astrobot has good legs, the developers deserve it
I expect it to do well during the holidays as a family friendly game, especially if Sony releases a bundle with it.
great point!
YES! Deserves more than even that.
I wonder what the fall off is going to be to week 2 and 3
Shame it could not get number 1.
Wish great legs for it going on.
in the future this would be a great bundle, maybe 2025 holidays
And the dumb suits at sony. Literally killed all the hype or the chance to hype up and ride the rave , after the reviews hit. Instead sony immediately puts out a ps5 pro talk , and all people accross the internet only talking about the $699 price.
The dual sense controller is thr only true next gen feature, and they barely do anything with it. They had their chance to properly showcase astro and the controller. But it's swept away, just like they killed the vr2 with no games.
Seriously what was sony thinking?? Idiots.
If people prefer to talk about a $699 thing they don't need nor can pay that's on them.
That doesn't take anything from Astro's success of affects the sales, people who were going to buy the game already bought or have plans to buy the game. If you canceled those plans just because of the pro then you never were wanted to buy the game to begin with lol.
Did you even read what i wrote? Or can't you comprehend?
I think it's you that doesn't understand.
If people are not buying Astro because they are crying over a price for a console which is actually priced competitivly for what it actually delivers; then chances are they are dumb COD bros who were never buying Astro anyway.
U fit the description of a dumb cod bro. Since you even missed the point of what i said.
Except I didn't miss it, in fact I directly addressed it.
You:
"and all people accross the internet only talking about the $699 price."
Me:
"If people are not buying Astro because they are crying over a price for a console..."
Nice try at saving face though.
People are way too emotional about the Pro. It's just another option, folks. Take it or leave it, it has nothing to do with anything else.
Essay Pro