Ghost of Tsushima breaks PlayStation sales record in Japan

Ghost of Tsushima recorded the best launch week sales of any first-party PlayStation 4 game in Japan to date.

It sold 221,915 copies in its first week, comfortably surpassing the record previously held by Death Stranding, Famitsu reports.

According to Game Data Library, a site which collates Famitsu sales data, Death Stranding sold 185,909 copies in its launch week, ahead of Gran Turismo Sport (139,357), Marvel’s Spider-Man (132,520), and Days Gone (114,319).

Ghost of Tsushima also comfortably outsold last week’s other major release, Paper Mario Origami King for Switch, which moved 100,909 copies.

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Sony said this week that Ghost of Tsushima had exceeded sales expectations in Japan and warned consumers of potential stock shortages.

Sucker Punch’s open-world title is only the third Western-developed game to receive a perfect 40/40 score from Japan’s Famitsu magazine (the others were Grand Theft Auto V and Elder Scrolls IV: Skyrim).

In VGC’s Ghost of Tsushima review, our critic said the “Kurosawa homage forges its own identity, but is weighed down by the genre’s more perfunctory tropes”.

The game is available to purchase at Amazon, Best Buy and Game, among other retailers.

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