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🚨 XBOX acaba de dejar un RECADO a PlayStation con Gears of War 👀💿 🇪🇸 De las 3.685 unidades vendidas en España, ¡3.635 fueron en FÍSICO! Hablamos de aproximadamente un 98,6% de las ventas. Y eso en un ecosistema que muchos asocian cada vez más con lo digital. ¿De verdad tiene sentido que PlayStation quiera alejarse de los discos? 🤔

An update regarding God of War Laufey's release date.

Bloodborne has sold 10.4M copies, generating $317M in revenue (@alineaanalytics estimates). Even THIS YEAR, Bloodborne has sold 251K copies. And of the nearly 500K people who played Bloodborne this month so far, 12% also played Elden Ring this month, while 6% also played Dark Souls 3 and 5% also played Sekiro. There’s a cohort of gamers who are always bouncing between different From games. Can’t blame them, especially with this one. Bloodborne, to me, is among the best games of all time, and I play it every Halloween. It’s hands-down my favourite souls-like (I count Sekiro as an action game, though, for the record). There’s a bunch of reasons for my Bloodborne obsession: - A big part is the atmosphere – a festering marriage of gothic and cosmic horror. It’s a perfect Halloween game for me, vibes-wise. And some of those jump scares, man. - The interconnectedness of Yharnam feels dense, claustrophobic, and masterfully looped together. I adore Elden Ring, don’t get me wrong, but I’d love From to return to a more linear and tightly-packed map. They’re just too great at it. - Piecing together the tragic history of the Healing Church, the Old Blood, and the Great Ones (cheers for the help there, @VaatiVidya) was an experience I’ll always cherish. Environmental storytelling and scouring through item descriptions can be a pain in the arse, but it’s rewarding. - And it doesn’t hurt that Bloodborne’s combat is fucking superb, too. More than Souls games, it rewards risk and punishes hesitation. Now, if only we could get an official 60 FPS patch or a remake. Alright, back to Yharnam for me.

God of War Ragnarok has sold 21.6M copies, as per @alineaanalytics estimates. It's sold 20.1M on PlayStation (75.2% via PS5) and 1.6M on Steam. It's another PlayStation evergreen seller, too. This year, Ragnarok has already sold 1.1M copies, generating nearly $60M (68% on PlayStation), outperforming new 2026 titles like Gears of War E-Day and Saros. Overall, Ragnarok has been accessed by 6.7M PlayStation Plus players (it was added to the Extra tier about two years ago). So it's performed that well this year DESPITE subscription cannibalisation. That's the pull of God of War IP. That Bautista Series on Amazon is going to be massive - bigger than Fallout, I reckon. As mentioned yesterday, God of War Ragnarok has generated $1.4B, making it the top-grossing first-party PlayStation game of this console generation. Later this week, we'll be publishing a free Substack on this generation's top-grossing PlayStation Studios games (among other things). Subscribe to get that in your inbox when it's ready, directly from the source.

Gran Turismo 7, which launched in March 2022, has sold 12.7M copies (@alineaanalytics estimates) This amounts to $840M in revenue, second only to Spider-Man 2’s $1.3B – if we’re talking PlayStation first-party for this generation. Games like Ghost of Yotei, Helldivers 2, Astro Bot, and Wolverine (2.7M now, by the way) hit the headlines for us core gamers, but GT7 has outearned them all life-to-date on ONE platform (yes, even Helldivers 2). Gran Turismo 7 still brings in around 3M players every month (and between 400K and 700K active players per day). It’s also an evergreen seller every year. Looking at its post-launch years, Gran Turismo 7 generated: - $189.7M in 2023 via 2.9M copies - $161.3M in 2024 via 2.7M copies - $119.1M in 2025 via 1.7M copies This year, Gran Turismo 7 has already sold 1.3M copies, generating $74.7M. Every December is comfortably GT7’s biggest month of the year (except launch), and the gap is widening there. December generated 2.1x a normal month in 2023, and by 2025 that had grown to 2.8x. As the typical months cool off with age, Christmas always holds strong, so the holiday period is becoming a bigger slice of Gran Turismo 7 yearly revenue. For Gran Turismo 7, the week around Christmas does 3x to 5x a typical week – three years running: - Christmas week 2023: $14.7M (4.6x the year’s median week) - Christmas week 2024: $9.3M (3.3x) - Christmas week 2025: $8.5M (4.6x) These Christmas peaks happened at the full $59.99 (Gran Turismo 7 wasn’t discounted at all in December 2023 or December 2025). And although there was a discount late in December 2024, GT7’s peak week that year still happened at full price. You can really see why Sony hasn’t added this one to PlayStation Plus, eh? Say it after me: Subscriptions cannibalise premium revenue. More on Substack!

In Q1, XBOX revenue declined 2% YoY, compared with a 10% decline a quarter ago, while our accountability margin improved. Minecraft and WoW Forever set records, Call of Duty had its most acclaimed release in more than a decade, and our PC platform revenue grew double digits. Console sales remain constrained by supply, with more demand than consoles available. We’re working to get more consoles into players’ hands, including through our expanded refurbishment program. We’re making progress, with a lot more work ahead.

The Verge: Gears of War: E-Day has sold more than 400K copies across Xbox and PC ➡️ theverge.com/tech/1022023/mi… #GearsofWarEDay #Xbox

🚨 XBOX VUELVE A CAER: LAS VENTAS DE CONSOLAS SE DESPLOMAN UN 35 % Los resultados estimados del primer trimestre fiscal de 2027 de Microsoft dejan cifras preocupantes para Xbox: 🔹 Ingresos totales: 5.379 millones de dólares (-2 %). 🔹 Contenido y servicios: 5.049 millones (-2 %). 🔹 Hardware: 330 millones en ingresos (-14 %). 🔹 Envíos de Xbox Series X|S: unas 510.000 consolas (-35 %) (estimación Welfare) Aunque los envíos superarían los de los dos trimestres anteriores, que rondaron las 400.000-450.000 unidades, la caída interanual sigue siendo brutal.

A source tells Kotaku that Gears of War: E-Day cost over $500 million to make. Sales estimates have been weak despite earning the highest Metacritic score since the original trilogy. If it was never going to recoup its expenses, maybe it could achieve more as an Xbox console exclusive kotaku.com/the-case-for-excl…

USA in Video Games | September 2026 Report ▪️Year-on-year total spend dropped -1% to $4.8B for the month ▪️Video game content spending declined -2% to $4.1B ▪️Hardware spend increased YoY by +12% ▪️Marvel's Wolverine was the best selling game of September, debuting as the 11th best-selling game of the year ▪️Marvel’s Wolverine generated the highest launch month sales revenue for a Sony published title since Helldivers II in February 2024 ▪️PS5 was the best-selling console in both units and revenue, followed by Switch 2 ▪️PS5 consoles sold increased +22% vs Sept 2025, revenue grew +43% ▪️Sony’s dollar share of the video game hardware market reached its highest point in a month since May 2025 ▪️Xbox unit sales fell -27% vs Sept 2025, revenue decreased -2% ▪️Xbox console sales fell to an all-time September low (previous record low was a year ago) ▪️Switch 2 unit sales dropped -14% YoY, revenue decreased -12% ▪️NBA 2K27 surpassed Resident Evil: Requiem to become the best-selling game of 2026 YTD ▪️Total August 2026 video game hardware unit sales fell -15% vs a year ago to 559K units, the lowest total for an August month since 2013 (423K units) ▪️Spending on new physical software increased +5% YTD due to a 631% increase in spend on Switch 2 Game Key Cards, offsetting -3% drop across all other new physical media ▪️Accessories spending jumped +10% YoY ▪️Limited Edition Wolverine DualSense was September’s best-selling accessory in both units and dollars Via: Mat Piscatella/Circana (formerly NPD) #PlayStation #Xbox #Nintendo

J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que Phantom Blade Zero aura bien droit à une sortie physique sur PS5, avec 3 éditions : Standard, Deluxe et Ultimate Collector, avec des visuels bien bien classes. 👻 youtu.be/_uOnR81rZOQ?si=0gTx…

🚨 O SWITCH 2 RODA RESIDENT EVIL 4 MAIS LISO QUE O PS4! A Digital Foundry testou: com DLSS, o Switch 2 entrega a imagem mais estável que a versão de PS4. E em vários pontos a textura é MELHOR que a do PS4. Num portátil, cara. A até 60 FPS. Quem chamava de "PS4 portátil" vai chamar de quê agora?

Almost half of PS5 No Disc No Buy backlash came from fake accounts, new study finds Nearly 1,000 fake profiles were identified, generating over 1 million views and 100K shares