Ghost of Yotei UK Retail Launch Sales are Nearly 3 Times Higher Than Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 October 2025 / 8,658 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Sucker Punch Productions released Ghost of Yotei last week for the PlayStation 5 on October 2.
Editor-In-Chief and Co-Founder of The Game Business Christopher Dring has revealed the game had a strong launch on the UK retail charts with it debuting in first place, which is impressive as this is the second week for EA Sports FC 26, one of the biggest selling franchises every year.
Ghost of Yotei also sold nearly three times more than Mario Galaxy 1 + 2.
"The UK boxed launch for Ghost of Yotei is really, really good," said Dring. "It is No.1, which means it beat the second week of EA Sports FC 26 (!) and sold almost 3x what Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 on Switch did."
Launch sales are down about 40 percent compared to Ghost of Tsushima, however, digital sales are a higher percent of overall sales than in 2020.
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40% down compared to Tsushima is the only metric that means something, but it needs that digital ratio indeed as pointed in the article, digital sales are a lot bigger nowdays compared to 2020.
Maybe it sold close to Tsushima in total units? Don't think digital ratio will make up for 40% less physical sales, but I could see it making a half of that difference.
I think by about 30 million or so more consoles had been sold.
Wow. Then yeah... that might be the main reason for it. I thought it was higher, but not THAT much higher lol
That's probably the only reason I don't have Ghost of Yotei yet. It's anecdotal, of course, but it's also something. I want a PS5, but Sony's pricing is making it incredible unattractive to actually get one - especially when I probably just wait for a few years for this to come to PC, where new hardware also makes old games better instead of maybe runs them or not.
That’s the lifetime sales difference.
The actual time-aligned comparison is an approximately 3.21 million units difference in favour of the PS4.
Tsushima came out in July of 2020. The PS4 was sitting around 110 million to 113 million units sold. The PS5 is a WAYS off from that.
Yes, but that doesnt tell you much. Attachrates behave strongly anti linear to a linear growth in systems sold. So those closing the gap of these 30 million more systems being sold (or around x1,375 times) would only lead to a fraction that in additional game sales.
Maybe +10% +/- more units if PS5 were to be at the same install base as the ps4, but still noticably lower than GoT. I like to approximate this as follows.
software sales at higher install base =
software sales at lower install base x sqrt ( higher install base / lower install base )
I’d imagine the bigger recent for the smaller launch has to do with the COVID gaming boom, as well as GoY dropping around the same time as several other heavy hitters (Silksong, Silent Hill F, Hades II, Final Fantasy Tactics, Pokémon Z-A, etc.) when prices are only going up.
Tsushima was fresh but not an established franchise, so Yotei underperforming so hard is a bit unusual.
Oh my stars a anticipated sequel does better than ports of 20 year old games! Who would have thunk it!
Many in the forum thinks mario gonne outsell it by a lot soo yea
A new Mario game will
And the Back Street Boys outsold Nirvana.
Back Street Boys are awesome, thats why
One Direction was better.
We will agree to disagree
I didn't agree to that!
So you not agreeing with that means you agreed to my previous post :)
Y'all need better taste in music.
80s and 90s music > anything today
Correct, 80 & 90 > 70 & 2000 > What is popular the last years.
A lot of people likely picked up Galaxy 1 as part of 3D All-Stars, so I can imagine they just bought the digital stand-alone version of Galaxy 2.
What an odd comparisons.
I really really want Sony to do more own IPs and singleplayer games. I enjoyed every big game they ported to the pc and am eagerly waiting for AstroBot, the Uncharted series and InFamous!!
And how many times more than Concord...?
