So far we may not have seen a very powerful catalog from Sony for this 2023, but it is a fact that the PlayStation company has taken over the sales throne in our country. While Week 7 didn’t have anything particularly noteworthy in terms of sales (more on that below), we found Week 8 that had some very important news to show. And against all odds, since the outlook wasn’t very rosy, the PlayStation 5’s newest peripheral, the PS VR2 virtual reality headset, had a more than decent start to its lifecycle, winning over 8,000 users when it was first released. launch week.
PS VR2 arrives in Spain
In the week 8 of 2023, from February 20 to 26Today was marked by the Sony peripheral which requires a PlayStation 5 to operate. And although the number of consoles installed still did not cover the demand needs, there were 8,000 users which were made with PS VR2 at launch, with 5,500 of them enjoying the bundle with a digital copy of Horizon Call of the Mountain. This is something notable, considering that it is an expense of 650 euros, and 600 in the case of the “naked” device.
Software: Kirby dominates but does not touch the table
It seems that after Hogwarts Legacy got off to a very strong start in week 6, any release is now going to feel like something minor to us, but we have to recognize Kirby: Return to Dream Land Deluxe is more than 5,500 copies Released as a Switch exclusive, extra merit as this is a review of a Wii game. Also released was Octopath Traveler II, the sequel from Square Enix which added 6,000 units among all its releases, with 5,000 just in the Nintendo hybrid. Hogwarts Legacy needs a mana potion, but it remains on the podium with another 5,000 units long, almost all of it on PlayStation 5.
Atomic Heart and Like a Dragon: Ishin! They had more low-key beginnings, but even so, the prequel to the Yakuza series manages to place 2,500 units, a thousand and a half on PlayStation 5, while Atomic Heart hits two thousand, 1,500 of them on the PlayStation 5. Sony consoles. Souldiers sells a thousand, almost all of them on Switch, and Digimon almost hits the top with its thousand sales.
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Top 10 Sales Week 8: February 20-26, 2023
- Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe for Switch
- Octopath Traveler II for Switch
- Hogwarts Legacy for PS5
- FIFA 23 for PS4
- FIFA 23 Legacy Edition for Switch
- Atomic Heart for PS5
- Like a dragon: were! before PS5
- Pokémon Scarlet and Purple for Switch
- Nintendo Switch Sports for Switch
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Switch
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(File): In week 7 2023 the releases were discontinued a bit
We don’t forget to talk about the previous sales week, but what we bring you is not really good. Its outstanding releases went rather unnoticed, being Tales of Symphonia Remastered the one that came out the best, with 2,000 copies sold, including 1,500 on Nintendo Switch. Wild Hearts’ monster hunt has barely scratched the surface 500 units.
Hardware: PS5 just overtook Switch in consoles sold in 2023
We had already alerted to the change in trend in console sales at the start of the year, and now we can accompany it with figures. The end of the Nintendo Switch hegemony is over and the PlayStation 5 can now proudly say that it is the best-selling console in Spain today. Although in week 7 he placed 8,000 units, this week he had to settle for 7,500, but added to the previous ones, he ranks first in material, bordering on the 68,000 since the first of January. With that, there was a surprise from Sony to Nintendo in nearly 2,000 machines.
Nintendo Switch also loses some strength with 3,000 consoles new (it came from 4,000 last week), and the Xbox Series reached the thousandafter selling 1,500 the previous week.
Next week we’re hoping to see more of a shift in the numbers than a truly groundbreaking premiere, and we’ll see if the PS VR2 trend continues or if this early life was a flash in the pan.