PlayStation Store Sales Charts: FIFA 21 Dominates Both Europe and the US

Hard to believe there’s still anyone left that don’t already own GTA and Minecraft haha

@TheWolfofPGH I’m afraid I actually bought the PS4 port of GTA V last month. I already own it on PC and PS3 but my mum wanted to play it and it’s easiest for her to play the PS4 version. I’m adding to the problem but I don’t mean to 😂

You will be more surprised when you know that 99% of fifa players don't consider lootboxes to be bad or addiction and they bloat about them to their friends when they buy them

@OthmaneAD Yeah that lootbox crap has to stop. Had some experience in the EA Sports NHL game. Never again.

@TheWolfofPGH The only people who are vocal about it are those who don't play fifa, but those who play them are fine with them and are always excited when new packs arrive, also if the US bans them I would be extremely surprised as that would fundemantally change the industry for the best but it's extremely unlikely. Also if you think belgium fifa players are happy you would be wrong as banning the packs just made the ultimate team mode harder to compete with players with other countries and they would rather want it, the matter is the people who actually play the game are happy with them because addiction

I want to slap each and every person who owns FIFA, like how Molly slaps Sherlock.

@nessisonett shocking behaviour, then again I own it on PS3 and PS4 but recently bought the PC version 😆

The problem with the sports games is not the lootboxes, its that they dont improve. The games dont get better. Its insane. People complain about Cod, but Cod has nothing on Sports games.

Nice to see Miles Morales (PS5) and Demon's Souls Remake (PS5) doing well in the digital charts.

A real shame that a dirty, corrupt organisation like FIFA is still making fortunes from gamers.

@TheWolfofPGH Me.
Never got the appeal of Minecraft and I've never got on with GTA.

Wow, Demon's Souls in tenth.....that would sound great if Jimbo didn't just murder the studio that largely brought about the original and Bluepoint's remake, and behind basically all Bluepoint remakes.....

GTAV #1.....seriously....WTF is it with that game...how can a mediocre PC game be topping the charts post PS5? It's surreal. Literally hundreds of better games have released since then. HOW is that still selling?

@Coltaine22..... You are correct both FIFA and PES don't change but reiterate some features then remove them and add them yearly.

I must admit I am also part of that football sports crowd. I suppose it's the love and addiction to the actual sports and the replayability of both games. A lot of game do boast about replayability and fun and hours of game play, but no game come anywhere near close Fifa and Pes in term of replayability and hour spent on a game, a can bet a rough estimate that eash user of FIFA or Pes spends 500+ hours on these game per year.

@NEStalgia...... I think above all or most games it has the most relaxed easy go lucky feel in that you can quickly play it for 5 minutes or be immersed for hours. So it's easy to dip in and out cause it takes seconds to see something interesting in the games' world.

It is almost like the Fifa or Pes of open world games in terms of quick pick up and play bar it's loading times of course.

No Mans Sky is #17 amazing turn around. Grats to Hello Games.

@GREGORIAN That probably hits the nail on the head right there. I can't quite "get" it - it's not that I don't want pick-up-and-play experiences, but to me that means Monster Hunter on Switch more than any of the above, and firing up the PS or XB calls for a big experience. But yeah the ultra-casual crowd, I can see that being the western equivalent to those Japanese board games for mobile.

@NEStalgia... 100% correct. And Yep GTA online is more suited for a mobile on the go console like the switch where you can dip for the few minutes you get while traveling on a bus or taxi or train or while trying to kill time on the road. But yep the casual western crowd like it for home consoles.

Talking about board games. One thing I would like is if CDPR releases a fully fledged open world Gwent game, where there is an open world game with npc's and they stories and you interact with the world but the whole point of the game being the Gwent card game. It would be my most played game.

Monster Hunter is also an incredible game that the west audience has slept on in my opinion.

@JohnKarnes...... Now if Hello game can add a serious story to the game, something to work towards too, almost like a current open world game hand holding, cause the universe in NMS is too vast for just wondering around planet to planet as after a while it get boring and tedious.

Also the universe is too non-civilised, as it would be nice to find a colonized world that has already been terratormed with communities living instead of each planet being a varion of the Dinosaur Era on earth, it really get boring quick as you explore for no purpose and the immersion is broken by each world being barren. I mean it's universe of advance spaceships yet no has terraform any world like the humans have the earth yet the humans tech is less advanced than the tech of the space ship and other tools, it totally breaks immersion.

@TheWolfofPGH Haven’t played one since 3!

@GREGORIAN I think I'll never understand the causal gamer... Still, though, that game is 2 gens old. You'd think they'd have all moved on to animal crossing or Dreams by now..... Or fortnite. On second thought maybe gtav isn't do bad after all...

". One thing I would like is if CDPR releases a fully fledged open world Gwent game, where there is an open world game with npc's and they stories and you interact with the world but the whole point of the game being the Gwent card game. It would be my most played game."

So basically a western, m rated FFIX?

Definitely agreed about MH. I thought World was going to be the big breakout, and it kind of was, but it only went so far. I'm only a "filthy casual" MH fan, but I'm partial to the traditional serious... It's more packed with stuff. The pick up and play changes to Rise have me really looking forward to it.

Also agreed on nms. I can't get into games that you wander just to wander rather than finding things that have purpose to find.

@NEStalgia You’re way out there, Japan studio role in the original Demon Souls was akin to a studio exec telling the director(from soft) lots of stupid ***** that they ignored and made a great game anyway.

Sony openly admit they thought demons souls was rubbish and refused to publish it outside of Japan.

Probably no game highlights Japan Studios deficiencies as much as Demon Souls.

@Dekutheevilclown That wasn't Japan Studio that did that, though, that was SCE WW, and namely Shu Yoshida. We all love him but he had it wrong on that one, as well as the GoW reboot. But that wasn't a Japan issue but rather a Sony-as-a-publisher issue, and I'm not sure sidelining Yoshida amounts to more than choosing a fall guy. They haven't fixed the core problem. The problem back then was "never change the formula that works", but then that formula stopped working and this new formula is working. But you can see the same mentality internally persist: never change the formula that's working. Honestly it's part of Sony corporate culture that goes beyond PlayStation, it carries over into their hardware lines as well.

Regardless, Japan Studio isn't responsible for that set of issues, SCE the publisher is. Japan Studio was also involved in the remaster that everyone seems to think it's the best thing ever....

@GREGORIAN
In No Mans Sky the story is about YOU and your journey and discovery. Tera-forming a whole planet 🌏 is way beyond a advanced space ship. There is no doubt Hello Games has done
good by making and improving the game all for free! That's what I posted about. People Love and Hate every game and that's fine.

@Hyperluminal why?

@JohnKarnes.... No I am not nocking your comment down.

I was just implying that the free work Hello have done since the dismally launch deserves to be enjoyed by the masses, but the game in its current state will not get or be able to build a huge gamers community/ large following.

The initial survival premise of the game is very nice, but after the 3rd planet were all you do is mine minerals to build advance tech or fuel, it feels like you have seen the entire game as that is exactly what you will be doing on the 4th planet, the 5th and so on, so it basically becomes a fuel minung/grinding game with the point being how far your space craft can go before you run out of fuel and need to mine again for some.

That is pretty boring, generic and repetitive.

Also the game has a narrive error / or its logic does not make sense, as you have very advance tech, yet all you do is to go plane to planet mining basic minerals, after a while the exploration becomes pointless and the game play become tedious and tiring.

I think a game such as Eve Online does a better job for a space exploration /simulation game.

Surely some advance civilisation built the tech you are using, so where are they? Cause surely they would have been able to colonize some star system and terraform the planets.

This is just advanced space ship exploring Dinosaur Era planets, literally all planets have pre-historic or pre-civilisation or pre-humanity life forms, yet the tech suggest a human type of intelligence yet its totally absent from the entire universe.

Hence the game needs a serious story to tell as its Wonderer/ Explore premise just does not cut it at the moment.

@GREGORIAN
I last played No Mans sky 117 days ago I have put 2317 hrs into it. I dont need to mine anything I have more than I will ever use of everything. What about collecting ships I have 6 S class ships all with max slot and weapons with a living ship. I want the best carrier so I worked to get a Capital ship with max slots even built a base on it. I have bases on a few very nice planets with portals to them and a portal at my home base and capital ship. I got the platinum trophy long ago. I made every item you can cooked all the foods. set up farms to get items from creatures at my base planet. Got full rep with factions.Did mission to derelict ship and on planets for quicksilver. Bought most of the items on the anomaly. Plan to revisit No mans Sky to hatch a egg for the new creature pets you can now do. I have found a lot of things to do in No Mans Sky long after the very start of the game.

I also loved Elite dangerous thats based on our own solar system. have not played it in a long time My ship is in our galaxy (SOL system) so I can fly around earth. I know millions of people hated the game, but I just love space games.