The Last of Us: Part I has topped the UK gross sales charts – however the £69.99 remake-cum-remaster will not be precisely pulling up bushes. Naughty Dog’s luxurious return to Joel and Ellie’s inaugural outing offered about half of what Saints Row managed throughout its launch week – though it’s essential to underline that, in each situations, this solely refers to bodily copies.

We know that increasingly gamers are selecting to buy titles digitally nowadays, and subsequently this might not be a very significant information level within the grand scheme of issues. It’s additionally value stressing that Saints Row launched on a number of techniques – together with last-gen codecs – and loved 5 days of monitoring, in comparison with The Last of Us’ two.

However, contemplating it’s such a critically acclaimed model, there may be the slimmest of solutions that the PS5 remake might not be off to the most well liked of begins. That value level is, after all, a sickener – particularly contemplating the looming value of residing disaster, which seems set to hit particularly onerous on British shores. In our ballot, about 54 per cent of our readers stated they had been not sure or unlikely to purchase the title.

Of course, Sony might be pondering longer-term with this launch anyway. The title remains to be as a consequence of launch on PC at a later date – and the upcoming HBO present is for certain to catapult curiosity within the franchise total. Don’t rule out this model having lengthy legs, then – and it’s value reiterating as soon as extra that bodily gross sales shouldn’t be thought of the barometer for a launch’s success anymore.