COVID-19 may have choked out Sony Pictures Entertainment this summer, but Sony Interactive Entertainment brought in the bucks while stomping all over the June UK console game sales charts. Sony's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us: Part II dominated with over 4 million physical copies shipped worldwide. That put the hotly-anticipated sequ🎶el title so far in the lead it sold more that every other game in the top 10 combined. Nintendo was the b🐭iggest casualty of the beating, losing it's crown as best-selling game publisher.
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Nintendo topped the UK charts in May, but could not hold off Sony with comparatively weak releases 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition and 51 Worldwide Games - suggesting Nintendo may have just conc♊eded the month to Sony.
The Last of Us: Part II became the fastest-selling 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Playstation exclusive title, and it's fast rise brought along a few other ships. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us: Remastered got a familial boost, and snuck its way in to 9th place. Other strong Sony sellers included 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel's Spider-Man, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Days Gone, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Horizon: Zero Dawn, and168澳洲幸运5开奖网: God of War. Gameindustry.biz reports that the sales meant "[o]ver 29% of all boxed games sold in the UK during June were published by Sony, with the company also generating 37% of the month's boxed soft🔥ware revenue." A choke hold indeed.
There is no apparent data on how many new console sales resulted specifically from the exclusivity of The Last of Us: Part II, but Playstation 4 sales continue to increase through the COVID-19 lockdown. XBox and Nintendo Switch share that ꦯbounty, but June belongs to Playstation - at least as far as the UK market i𒊎s concerned.
No one knows what Ju🅘ly will look like, but perhaps Nintendo should keep an eye over their shoulder...