The Last of Us Sales Surged in January on PS4 & PS5

The Last of Us‘ HBO present has seemingly had an impact on gross sales of the video games inside the collection. Judging by a number of lately launched metrics, a couple of of its completely different entries have shot up throughout varied gross sales charts.

According to the monthly NPD figures for the United States, The Last of Us Part I, the latest PlayStation 5 remake of the unique, was the eleventh best-selling recreation in January. It was beforehand the thirty sixth best-selling recreation in December 2022.

These figures observe with what Sony lately revealed, too. The PS5 remake was the eighth best-selling PS5 recreation on the PlayStation Store in January in the United States and Canada after coming in twentieth the month prior. Even The Last of Us Remastered, the PS4 remaster of the unique that launched in 2014, got here in at thirteenth place on the PS4 charts after not charting the earlier month. The Last of Us Part II completed in seventh place, which was the identical spot it held on that very same chart in December 2022. Both The Last of Us Part I and Part II have been additionally half of Sony’s vacation sale that spanned throughout December 2022 and January 2023.

The stats for the United Kingdom’s downloads are a bit completely different, as The Last of Us Part I and The Last of Us Remastered got here in on the tenth and fifteenth spot, respectively, after not charting the month prior. The Last of Us Part II, nonetheless, fell two spots from fifth place to seventh from December 2022 to January 2023.

The United Kingdom gross sales that got here out in late January previewed this bump. As famous by GamesIndustry.biz, boxed gross sales for The Last of Us Part I jumped 238% in January after its premiere, whereas the PS4 remaster re-entered the charts at and claimed the thirty second spot with a 322% spike in gross sales. Sales also continued to grow for each later that month in the U.K.