Astro Bot’s Total Launch Week Sales in the UK Are 21 Percent Higher Than Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Astro Bot has enjoyed widespread critical acclaim since its launch earlier in the month, to the point of becoming the best-reviewed game of 2024 so far, and it seems that’s resulting in solid sales for the 3D platformer. Though initial physical-only sales data from the UK suggested that the game had got off to a worse start than Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart – the last major platformer that PlayStation published before Astro Bot – fresh data suggests otherwise.
As per Christopher Dring of GamesIndustry on Twitter, accounting for both physical and digital sales, Astro Bot has got off to a “solid” start in the UK, seeing 21 percent higher sales in its first week than the aforementioned Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. The Team Asobi platformer has apparently seen a 55 percent share of digital sales so far, as opposed to Ratchet and Clank, which leaned 55 percent in physical’s favour.
As per Dring, Astro Bot was the second-best selling game in the UK last week, with Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 coming in at No. 1. Space Marine 2 has, in fat, also become the fastest-selling Warhammer game in the UK to date, surpassing Sega and Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer 3.
Publisher Focus Entertainment recently announced that Space Marine 2 had surpassed 2 million players promptly after its release. You can read our review of the gamethrough here. You can also read our review of Astro Bot through here.
Astro Bot's UK launch is solid. First week sales are 21% higher than the debut of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in 2021. Astro was No.2 last week behind Space Marine 2, which is the UK's fastest-selling Warhammer game (beating Total War: Warhammer 3). More in the next GI Microcast
It's different for these games. For R&C it was 55% physical. For Astro, it is 55% digital.
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