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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, PS VR, and free-to-play games topped the download charts last month. New release blockbusters and vintage fan favorites are included in January’s PS5 list with Tekken 8 and Grand Theft Auto V both breaking the top five. The PS VR2 list saw Beat Saber rock and roll to the top of the list with the most downloads in both US and EU regions.

Check out the full listings below.

PS5 Games​

US/Canada	EU
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III	Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V	EA SPORTS FC 24
Madden NFL 24	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
TEKKEN 8	Hogwarts Legacy
NBA 2K24	TEKKEN 8
Baldur's Gate 3	Baldur's Gate 3
EA SPORTS FC 24	Gran Turismo 7
Hogwarts Legacy	Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Gran Turismo 7	Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Marvel's Spider-Man 2	The Last of Us Part II
The Last of Us Part II Remastered	UFC 5
Hell Let Loose	It Takes Two
UFC 5	Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth	NBA 2K24
Mortal Kombat 1	ARK: Survival Ascended
God of War Ragnarök	Cyberpunk 2077
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora	The Crew Motorfest
Granblue Fantasy: Relink	ELDEN RING
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown	Need For Speed Unbound
ARK: Survival Ascended	Assassin's Creed Mirage

*Naming of products may differ between regions
*Upgrades not included

PS4 Games​

US/Canada	EU
Minecraft	EA SPORTS FC 24
Red Dead Redemption 2	Minecraft
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III	Need for Speed Heat
Need for Speed Heat	Red Dead Redemption 2
Batman: Arkham Knight	A Way Out
Grand Theft Auto V	Grand Theft Auto V
theHunter: Call of the Wild	Hogwarts Legacy
Mortal Kombat X	Need for Speed Payback
EA SPORTS FC 24	Batman: Arkham Knight
NBA 2K24	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
A Way Out	theHunter: Call of the Wild
Injustice 2	Mortal Kombat X
Gang Beasts	CarX Drift Racing Online
Hogwarts Legacy	Battlefield V
Overcooked! 2	Gang Beasts
Call of Duty: Black Ops III	WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship
God of War III Remastered	LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
Resident Evil 6	Goat Simulator
God of War	STAR WARS Battlefront II
CarX Drift Racing Online	Resident Evil 6

*Naming of products may differ between regions

PS VR2 Games*​

US/Canada	EU
Beat Saber	Beat Saber
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2	Among Us VR
Among Us VR	Pavlov
Job Simulator	Horizon Call of the Mountain
Pavlov	Moss: Book II
Moss: Book II	Ultrawings 2
Horizon Call of the Mountain	Job Simulator
Vertigo 2	Kayak VR: Mirage
Ultrawings 2	Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2
Arizona Sunshine 2	Arizona Sunshine 2

*PS Store purchases only. Game upgrades or games bundled with hardware not included

PSVR Games​

US/Canada	EU
ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission	Job Simulator
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR	ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission
SUPERHOT VR	Beat Saber
Beat Saber	SUPERHOT VR
Job Simulator	Batman: Arkham VR
Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality	Moss: Book II
Arizona Sunshine	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
Borderlands 2 VR	VR Ping Pong Pro
Fruit Ninja VR	Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
Dead Land VR	Titanic VR

Free to Play (PS5 + PS4)​

US/Canada	EU
Roblox	Fortnite
Fortnite	Roblox
THE FINALS	Call of Duty: Warzone
Call of Duty: Warzone	THE FINALS
Apex Legends	Rocket League
Fall Guys	Fall Guys
Rocket League	Fortnite Battle Royale
The Sims 4	The Sims 4
War Thunder	Apex Legends
LEGO Fortnite	eFootball 2024

PlayStation Store: January 2024’s top downloads

Blockbusters from 2023 and 2024 scored big in January's game charts.

blog.playstation.com

 

[Mercenary09]

TLOU 2 Remastered doing well without those who upgraded being counted. Wonder where it would chart if those upgrades were counted. Good to see GT7, BG3, and Spider-Man 2 still killing it.

 

[thismeinteil]

TLOU 2 Remastered doing well without those who upgraded being counted. Wonder where it would chart if those upgrades were counted. Good to see GT7, BG3, and Spider-Man 2 still killing it.

Pretty sure these are downloads, not just new sales, so those should be included.

Edit: Oh, whoops. Missed the asterisk. Wonder why they wouldn't be included if these are downloads.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Is Arkham Knight getting a boost because Suicide Squad is going through the wringer?

 

[Mercenary09]

Pretty sure these are downloads, not just new sales, so those should be included.

Edit: Oh, whoops. Missed the asterisk. Wonder why they wouldn't be included if these are downloads.

Jfc with these comments. I'm so tired of telling people month after month these are SALES charts, not downloads. These charts don't show what people are downloading from their library. It's just like NPD charts. New purchases for the month only.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Pretty sure these are downloads, not just new sales, so those should be included.

Edit: Oh, whoops. Missed the asterisk. Wonder why they wouldn't be included if these are downloads.

So these charts are a combination of both Sales (premium titles sold digitally on PSN) and Downloads (F2P titles). And yeah, upgrades don't count for these charts as they are labeled as DLC.

Edit: Now I'm curious to see if NPD(Circana) will count the TLOU2 upgrades since their charts are based on revenue and not units sold.

 

[tommib]

GT7 is a crystallised evergreen for Sony at this point. Game is constantly charting.

 

[Fake]

Good sales overall.

TLOU 2 Remastered doing well without those who upgraded being counted. Wonder where it would chart if those upgrades were counted. Good to see GT7, BG3, and Spider-Man 2 still killing it.

I don't think being at 11º is what we call 'doing well', but anw. Sure legs will tell another story.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Gran Turismo 7 doing numbers i see

 

[AJUMP23]

Who does not own GTAV at this point.

 

[EverydayBeast]

People will cozy up to old games like black ops 3 and Arkham knight because today they’re abandoning good game making practices.

 

[tommib]

Also, Baldur’s Gate 3 must be doing quite some numbers on PS5 alone.

 

[Mercenary09]

Who does not own GTAV at this point.

I mean Take Two keeps reporting how much it sells every quarter. Think it was at 195 million last week

 

[DForce]

Good sales overall.


I don't think being at 11º is what we call 'doing well', but anw. Sure legs will tell another story.

Considering you're always in threads downplaying TLOU 2 sales, you're always going to think it's not doing well.

 

[ReBurn]

Jfc with these comments. I'm so tired of telling people month after month these are SALES charts, not downloads. These charts don't show what people are downloading from their library. It's just like NPD charts. New purchases for the month only.

Has Sony ever clarified whether these are only sales? I don't doubt that it is driven by sales but I don't think I've ever seen where it is exclusively sales, especially when the blog post explicitly says it includes free to play games. It's ambiguous. Tossing a link to that clarifying information would probably go farther than exasperation.

 

[DForce]

Has Sony ever clarified whether these are only sales? I don't doubt that it is driven by sales but I don't think I've ever seen where it is exclusively sales, especially when the blog post explicitly says it includes free to play games. It's ambiguous. Tossing a link to that clarifying information would probably go farther than exasperation.

It was called top sales charts years ago. I'm sure it's called "downloads" because it includes FTP games now.

 

[Heisenberg007]

GT7 is a crystallised evergreen for Sony at this point. Game is constantly charting.

Well deserved, too! The best car racing game on consoles right now.

 

[ReBurn]

It was called top sales charts years ago. I'm sure it's called "downloads" because it includes FTP games now.

How does that mean that this is only sales and not just the sorted list by number of downloads? If Sony wanted to provide a list of the top selling games on their store they could do just that and call it top selling games.

 

[AJUMP23]

I mean Take Two keeps reporting how much it sells every quarter. Think it was at 195 million last week

That is more people than on the planet.

 

[hemo memo]

Grand Theft Auto V

 

[Mercenary09]

How does that mean that this is only sales and not just the sorted list by number of downloads? If Sony wanted to provide a list of the top selling games on their store they could do just that and call it top selling games.

I'm not doing this again. People have clarified this to people like you time after time. Like it was stated these charts were called "Top Sellers" in the past and Sony changed the name at one point but nothing changed about how they are counted. There is no value in showing what people are downloading in their libraries month after month. They even have this right in the post *PS Store purchases only. Game upgrades or games bundled with hardware not included

 

[thismeinteil]

Jfc with these comments. I'm so tired of telling people month after month these are SALES charts, not downloads. These charts don't show what people are downloading from their library. It's just like NPD charts. New purchases for the month only.

If that were the case, why label them downloads and not sales? Or point out that PSVR titles are sales?

 

[Dacvak]

Dude no wonder Rockstar doesn’t care when GTA6 comes out, they’re still topping the charts 10 years later lmao

 

[kazuyamishima]

The Charts include sales only, any upgrades are counted towards DLC/MTX for Sony.

And Yes, Part II remastered is doing good despite a lot of people saying is not.

 

[Mr. Mean]

It's amazing that GTA V for PS5 is still selling so incredibly well. We're lucky Rockstar even bothered to make a new GTA game when they're still making so much money on an 10+ year old game