As ever, January was a relatively quiet month for new releases, so the charts were dominated by a mix of end-of-year blockbusters and older titles benefiting from discounted prices. Let’s have a look how everything lined up:
Full PS3 game downloads:
Saints Row: The Third took the top spot by a whisker thanks to some nice savings in our January sale. New releases DmC Devil May Cry and Demon’s Souls didn’t quite make the top 10, though both were released at the end of the month.
- Saints Row: The Third (Re-entry)
- Just Cause 2 (5)
- Sports Champions 2 (RE)
- Far Cry 3 (1)
- PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (RE)
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution (RE)
- Lord of the Rings: War in the North (New)
- Borderlands 2 (RE)
- Red Dead Redemption (RE)
- Max Payne 3 (RE)
PSN games:
Journey rocketed back to the top spot, buoyed by its appearance in a number of Game of the Year lists. Elsewhere, Double Fine’s eccentric subterranean adventure The Cave entered in second place, and The Walking Dead showed great legs at five.
- Journey (6)
- The Cave (New)
- Sonic Adventure 2 (RE)
- The Walking Dead – Season Pass (4)
- Mass Effect (1)
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD (5)
- Okami HD (7)
- TOKYO JUNGLE (3)
- Hydrophobia Prophecy (RE)
- Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection (RE)
PS Vita games:
It was a second month of chart domination for Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD on the PS Vita chart. Congratulations to the team at Just Add Water. Retro City Rampage put in a strong showing to debut in second place, while Table Top Tanks and Table Ice Hockey popped up courtesy of price cuts.
- Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD (1)
- Retro City Rampage (New)
- Table Top Tanks (RE)
- Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified (3)
- Table Ice Hockey (RE)
- MotorStorm RC (10)
- Uncharted: Fight for Fortune (2)
- Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation (5)
- Plants vs. Zombies (RE)
- LittleBigPlanet PS Vita (7)
PS Classics:
No surprises here – GTA: San Andreas continued its reign at the top of the Classics chart. Will Vice City dethrone it this month? Elsewhere, Final Fantasy titles put in a good showing courtesy of recent discounts on the series.
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (1)
- Final Fantasy IX (RE)
- Final Fantasy VII (7)
- Final Fantasy VIII (10)
- Crash Bandicoot (3)
- Spyro The Dragon Trilogy (2)
- CTR: Crash Team Racing (4)
- Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped (5)
- Final Fantasy VI (RE)
- Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (6)
Head on over to the US PlayStation Blog to find out how things differed across the pond.
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Posted on 8 February, 2013 at 5:33 pm by Sicmay
But they are still going to offer Germany an alternative and they already turned one down as being below par, so why not offer choice.
Yes the easy thing would be to offer the cut version. I doubt hitman will be offered as it has no dlc and is too recent. If they did offer it I’m sure lots of non-German users would be annoyed.
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Posted on 8 February, 2013 at 5:59 pm by Golwar
Well there is just 3 months between the release of Hitman Absolution and Sleeping Dogs and they are both of the same quality (both got 83% ratings at Metacritic). Purely logical, Hitman is by far the fairest replacement option that remains from SquareEnix’ library.
And some people will be annoyed anyways, as we’ve even seen some who would have prefered Gotham City Imposters over Mortal Kombat, so …
But SquareEnix wouldn’t agree to that anyway. I’d guess that it’s their fault that we didn’t receive SD cut, so my trust into their motivation is near 0.
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Posted on 9 February, 2013 at 1:14 am by Sicmay
There may be 3 months between hitman and sleeping dogs but hitman is also less than 3 months old, so it’s still a ‘chart’ game. Like I said before its also lacking significant dlc that would entice square to give it for free
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Posted on 9 February, 2013 at 9:02 am by TheAlchemist420
Hey is there any chance at all of seeing rogue galaxy. Ff12. Suikoden 1-5 and viewtiful Joe on psn??? There seems to be an influx of games no one is interested in and no love to the classics that everyone wants. Thanks
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Posted on 14 February, 2013 at 5:07 pm by mestremanjador
@Fred Some people just don’t know when to stop, yeah?
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Posted on 7 February, 2013 at 9:53 am by Fred Dutton
Hmmm… are we reading the same charts? Every title with an (RE) next to it charted by virtue of a price discount, and most of the titles that climbed the lists did so due to being on sale. I’d say that’s the majority of the charts this month.
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Posted on 8 February, 2013 at 10:09 am by Fred Dutton
Hey there. I know it’s fun to look for conspiracies but there really isn’t one here.
Sorry you didn’t find anything to your liking in our recent sales. Hopefully we’ll have something for you next time.
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