![]() ![]() Out this week on PC and PlayStation 5, Deathloop drops players into the amnesiac boots of Captain Colt Vahn, former security head for the AEON Project, a group of self-described luminaries who’ve stumbled onto the ultimate golden ticket to an eternity of endless debauchery: a time anomaly centred on a mysterious island, which allows them to subject themselves, and their followers, to the ostensible pleasures of a single, endlessly looping day. The fact that the studio’s latest entry, Deathloop, still sometimes succumbs to the Groundhog Day doldrums, in spite of both its ambitious ideas, and the obvious raw talent it brings to bear, suggests that the premise might have been doomed from the start. If anyone could pull it off, it might be Arkane Lyon Studios, the team whose Dishonored series of sneak-and-stab infiltration games feature some of the most beautiful and mind-bending locales in all of gaming, intricate puzzle boxes whose multiple routes of attack invite gleeful return visits from dedicated players. Is it possible to make a game about repetition that doesn’t, itself, end up feeling bogged down and repetitive? BTW - prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. ![]() Mario Kart 8: Deluxe at No.3 rose 10% in sales, Minecraft on Switch at No.5 increased by the same, while Animal Crossing: New Horizons at No.7 rose 11%.At Kotaku, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. Nintendo Switch games saw an increase in sales week-on-week, in part thanks to a slight £20 price drop on Nintendo Switch consoles. And last week's No.3, NBA 2K22 drops to No.10 after a 41% sales slide. Last week's No.2, Tales of Arise, is down to No.14 after a 70% sales drop. Last week's No.1, Wario Ware: Get It Together, drops to No.8 after a 51% sales fall. There was one other new release in the charts this week, the Nintendo Switch arcade racer Cruis'n Blast, which just about makes it over the line at No.37. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart re-entered the charts at No.4 after a 630% sales spike, while Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut is up 13 places to No.6 after a 233% sales rise. Spider-Man: Miles Morales jumped 223% in sales, rising from No.13 to No.2. Overall, it was a big week for PS5, driven by an influx of new hardware coming to retailers. It's also worth noting that Deathloop was not released on Xbox platforms, and that its primary console is still in its first year, so it's install base remains low. ![]() Bethesda currently does not share digital download data with the charts companies. However, these are only boxed sales, and digital downloading has increased rapidly over the last four years (particularly during the pandemic), so it's highly likely that the game's performance is significantly higher. In terms of physical sales, it's the weakest selling Arkane game in the developer's history, narrowly behind the performance of 2017's Prey (sales are 5.6% lower). Bethesda's Deathloop is comfortably the best-selling boxed game of the week, according to the latest GfK data.ĩ9% of the game's boxed sales were on PS5 (the remaining 1% on PC). ![]()
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