Sony has introduced that the open-world samurai journey sequel Ghost of Yotei has outsold Ghost of Tsushima throughout the comparable launch interval and “considerably” contributed to the corporate’s newest monetary outcomes.
The corporate did not present an up to date gross sales determine for Sucker Punch Productions’ newest action-adventure recreation, however throughout an earnings name that was transcribed by VGC, Sony confirmed that Ghost of Yotei has “exceeded the gross sales of the earlier title in the identical time frame.” In its first three days, Tsushima bought over 2.4 million models. About 4 months after its July 2020 launch on PlayStation 4, Tsushima then went on to surpass 5 million sales, making it one in every of PlayStation’s fastest-selling new IPs shortly.
By comparability, Yotei bought 3.3 million copies one month after its October 2025 launch on PlayStation 5. If Sony is saying that the sequel “exceeded” the gross sales of the unique recreation in the identical time interval, then it is secure to imagine that Yotei has dashed previous Tsushima’s 5 million-sales milestone. It stays to be confirmed if Yotei will attain the identical gross sales determine as Tsushima, which has surpassed 8 million copies as of January 2022.
Within the wake of those gross sales figures, the corporate can also be combating an (unlikely, for now) PlayStation 5 value hike. Sony mentioned that regardless of the continued reminiscence chip scarcity points, that are impacting the whole lot from the Steam Machine to TVs to Nvidia GPUs, it is doing the whole lot it could possibly to barter with suppliers and safe sufficient inventory to satisfy the demand for PlayStation 5s.
On the horizon for the corporate is the potential PlayStation 6, which can not come out till after 2028 as Sony extends the PlayStation 5’s life and screens Grand Theft Auto 6’s launch.