The Last of Us 2is nearly a year old now. It feels like not that long ago that the Internet was going crazy overthe controversialLast of Us 2leaksjust two months before the game released in June 2020.
Now, Naughty Dog’s follow up to the critically acclaimedThe Last of Usfor the PS3 continues to sell very well. Following a massive sales weekend for PlayStation, as well as a severe drop in retail price,The Last of Us Part 2has soared up the UK physical sales chart, earning the number three best-selling slot behind games likeSpider-Man: Miles Morales.
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The sales report comes by way of GamesIndustry.biz, which reported huge sales increases forSpider-Man: Miles MoralesandDemon’s Soulsthanks to a surge in PS5 stock. Reportedly,Spider-Man: Miles Moralesfor the PS5saw a 172 percent increase in boxed sales, moving from the number seven spot all the way up to number two. Additionally, TheLast of Us 2saw an incredible increase in sales, increasing by a staggering 3992 percent thanks to discounted prices. The game wasn’t breaking the Top 10 before last week, but after the surge in sales,The Last of Us 2is sitting nicely underMiles MoralesandSuper Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury.
However,The Last of Us 2selling well isn’t in-and-of-itself all that surprising, considering itbroke Sony’s PS4 sales recordsshortly after release. What is surprising is the fact that it was able to break through to the Top 10 even after almost an entire year. ThoughThe Last of Us 2polarized the gaming industry as a whole for a variety of reasons, it’s undeniable that it’s a landmark title for the PlayStation ecosystem. That’s only become abundantly clearer following this massive increase in sales.
Aside fromThe Last of Us 2,Miles Morales, and3D World + Bowser’s Fury, the rest of the Top 10 UK best-sellers list makes sense.FIFA 21takes the number four spot, followed byPersona 5 StrikersandMario Kart 8 Deluxe, which continuously breaks its own sales records.Animal Crossing: New HorizonsfollowsMario Kart 8 Deluxe, earning the number seven spot. At number eight,Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warmoves down a few slots on the list, but maintains a place in the Top 10 all the same.
Finally, the last two slots of the Top 10 should come as no surprise to those who have been following game sales week-by-week. Number nine and ten are filled byGrand Theft Auto 5andMinecrafton Switch, respectively, both of which continuously sell well. It’s natural to see multiplayer titles place in the Top 10, but it’s unusual to see older single-player titles make such meteoric rises in sales.The Last of Us 2still has multiplayeron the way, so it just may see another increase in sales before too long.
The Last of Us 2is available now for PS4.
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