Rare made its PlayStation debut last month with the arrival of Sea Of Thieves on PS5, and it sounds like its pirate adventure is doing quite well on the platform so far. As revealed by Sony in the company's latest PlayStation Blog sales post, Sea of Thieves was the best-selling game in Europe during the month of April.
What's perhaps even more impressive about this feat is that the game released on literally the last day of the month - April 30th. Sea of Thieves was of course up for pre-order for a good while before that date, but it's only been fully released on the platform since April 30. Congrats to Rare on this one!
The hype coming from Sea of Thieves launching on PS5 seemingly had an effect on existing versions too. A couple of weeks before the game's PlayStation launch, Rare announced that Sea of Thieves had gathered 40 million total players across Xbox consoles and PC - including Game Pass users of course.
In terms of how the game is shaping up on PS5 from a technical perspective, it sounds like things have gone down well on the Sony system. In fact, the tech experts at Digital Foundry actually deemed the PS5 port to be slightly superior to the Xbox version, so it's certainly a good place to now enjoy Rare's ongoing pirate adventure!
Are you one of these new Sea of Thieves players on PS5? Tell us if you're still playing Rare's most-recent release down below.
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But I taught Xbox has no good games just Sony?
Great.
Woo.
Hoo.
With this and fallout 4 doing amazing in the UK in April there is no way on gods earth Microsoft won’t do more games.
Welcome to Microsoft Games.
@Ricky-Spanish
Give it up Spanish, it’s not Xbox.
It’s Microsoft Games 😂😂😂
@Ricky-Spanish
I said that in a certain blue site the other day and got a "that's an old meme" as a response. How convenient.
This is a great example of how the internet warps perception. All the non stop hype about Stellar Blade and Sea of Thieves of all things outsold it. Not ripping on Stellar Blade, but based on all the online hype you'd of thought it was gonna do insane numbers.
If Starfield isn’t on PS5 by end of March 2025
I will attempt to eat my PS5 Digital Slim 😂😂😂
Just to acknowledge I want another Xbox home console for next generation.
The series x and definitely the controller and some of the clever features, overall are still all the best out of all 3.
Even if we get Microsoft day one games on all consoles it will still be a great option to have an Xbox home console.
However, PushSquare state that Fallout 4 was the best selling game of April (in the UK) - the top 10 was as follows:-
1. Fallout 4
2. EA Sports FC 24
3. Helldivers 2
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
5. Grand Theft Auto V
6. Hogwarts Legacy
7. Red Dead Redemption 2
8. Fallout: New Vegas
9. Fallout 76
10. WWE 2K24
Which would make sense that a game released on the last day (although did have some 'Early Access' options too) wasn't the 'best' selling game over the whole month.
I know EU and UK are not the same, but it does seem odd. Maybe its 'cherry' picked info - the 'most' downloaded game on Playstation in April as Physical sales of other games reduced the need to download - and games like Fallout 4 are 'cheap' Physically or already downloaded in readiness for the Free update...
@BAMozzy I think SoT tops the PS5-only chart. Fallout 4 is classed as a PS4 game
@OldGamer999 I hate stupid rebranding nothing wrong with the name Xbox id rather they went the prince route use a symbol and say the consoles formerly known as Xbox not Microsoft gaming 🤮
@BAMozzy PushSquare did an article yesterday on the US and Europe charts where it lists Sea of Thieves as being the top seller in Europe which ties up with this article.
PS Store Sales Charts - Europe (April 2024)
Sea of Thieves
Grand Theft Auto 5
Helldivers 2
Stellar Blade
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
EA Sports FC 24
TopSpin 2K25
Grounded
It Takes Two
Fallout 4
Dragon's Dogma 2
WWE 2K24
Need for Speed Unbound
Hogwarts Legacy
Cyberpunk 2077
NBA 2K24
Resident Evil 4
Gran Turismo 7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Rise of the Ronin
@Lup Don't listen to that it's nice sometimes to throw back into peoples faces the stupid stuff they said before my misses does to me all the time haha
@Ricky-Spanish
Nothing wrong with Xbox name for me.
Sea of Thieves > Hell Divers 2
@Kevw2006 @Kezelpaso Cherry picking certain criteria to suit the Narrative - best selling PS5 'only' game bought through PS Store - not including all the other games sold for other platforms (inc PS4/Xbox/PC/Switch) or by other retailers (Game, Amazon)
@BAMozzy what 😅. This article is literally about the game doing well on the PS5 charts, it's right there in the heading.
@Ricky-Spanish Only rabid PlayStation fanboys said that just like only Xbox fanboys said PlayStation has no games just interactive movies. Long story short don't be a fanboy for a multi billion or Trillion dollar company that wouldn't even use your face as a door mat 🤷
@Tecinthehead I couldn't care less about any fanboy stuff every system has great games!
Great news for Rare! Hope Philly S doesn’t decide to random close them regardless…
I wonder if anyone important is paying attention to how well these modestly priced coop games are doing?
Seems to be a sweet spot, along with a good game and stuff sells
Ahem EA.......Battlefield....
3 Wishes...
Wish #1 - I hope that exclusives disappear on all platforms going forward. I like to play great games and every platform has games you can only play on specific platforms day one.
Wish #2 - Consoles get a Hardware/Firmware/OS standard that all the vendors ship. Whether it is Sony, MS, or Nintendo standard hardware would reduce the cost of development and allow developers to focus on the standard.
Wish #3 - I wish fanboyism would completely disappear. Fanboys are toxic to gaming.
I primarily play on XB, but I also own a PC, iPad, iPhone, XSX, PS5, Switch, and Asus ROG Ally. I could save buying at least two devices ($800) if I only had to buy one console brand to play all console games which I could re-direct to buying more games.
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