Guerrilla Games’ new Aloy adventure follows a trend we’ve been seeing in recent years.
Menudo month of February that we videogame fans are carrying, with Hidetaka Miyazaki’s adventure through the Elden Ring Midlands and a trip to the Forbidden West from Guerrilla Games, which is already the second best PS5 release in the UK market, second only to our favorite wall-crawler in Spider-Man Miles Morales.
One of the figures that managed to catch our attention with the first sales data of Horizon: Forbidden West in the UK, was the. decline in physical copies sold relative to 2017’s Horizon: Zero Dawn, seeing. reduced by 35%.. It was Gamesindustry that provided us with the missing piece of the sales puzzle, finding a remarkable increase in digital sales of the game.
We are talking about almost half of sales of the new PS4 and PS5 video game were made through the PlayStation Network. This 49% of sales in digital format represents an increase of more than double that achieved by Horizon: Zero Dawn, a figure that perfectly portrays the speed with which the consumer trend toward digital shopping in recent years.
Horizon Forbidden West has sold twice as many digital copies as Zero Dawn.Although these are UK data, we could also see them reflected in the US market, accompanied by a decline in the sale of physical copies that we could also see in the launch of Horizon: Forbidden West in Japan. About sales on the different PlayStation platforms, 67% belong to the PS5 version on PSN.a very similar percentage to what we saw in the sales of physical copies.
Horizon: Forbidden West has also been the best-selling digital game on GSD during the week of its release, beating FIFA 22 and Total War: Warhammer 3, which also arrived on PC that same week to close the strategy trilogy of the Games Workshop universe.
Remember that if you want to find out more about the new adventure of Aloy for PlayStation consoles, we at 3DJuegos tell you why the latest game from Guerrilla Games is a firm favourite. GOTY 2022 candidate in the Horizon: Forbidden West review.
