Red Dead Redemption 2: Second most successful game of the year in British retail sector

Last Friday Red Dead Redemption 2 was released for Playstation 4 and Xbox One. According to the latest news, the new Rockstar Games title is already the second most successful title in British retail, which of course only counts physical sales and no digital versions.

It's no surprise to most players that the new Red Dead Redemption 2 from Rockstar Games is also a huge success in retail sales of physical copies. The new title has already achieved the second best sales launch of the previous year in Great Britain - only the football simulation FIFA 19 was even more successful.

RDR2: More successful than Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Somewhat strange is that there are no exact figures on actual sales, only comparisons with other games. Red Dead Redemption 2 is said to have sold twice as much in retail as its 2010 predecessor. This is remarkable because digital sales play a much bigger role today than they did eight years ago.

In addition, Red Dead Redemption 2 is said to have achieved the best start of a game for Playstation 4 and Xbox One that is not a FIFA or Call of Duty title. But Call of Duty: WW2 and the new Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 are said to have been beaten anyway. Only to the largest success from own house Red Dead Redemption 2 does not come near, because Grand Theft Auto 5 was bought in the first week directly two million times in the retail trade. According to Eurogamer, RDR2 is far away from this.

Even if the actual sales figures of Red Dead Redemption 2 cannot be determined in this way, Eurogamer still announces that 68 percent of all sales are accounted for by the Playstation 4 version. But since the Sony console was probably sold twice as often as the Xbox One, this distribution is not really surprising.