Confidential data of Sony Corporation became public as a result of the hacker attack carried out by the Rhysida group. Attackers stole and made public more than 1.3 million files from Sony-owned video game development studio Insomniac Games. forum Reddit.
The data set included, among other information, tables with domestic sales figures for Sony video games as of early 2022, which were not previously disclosed by the company.
According to this information, the best-selling game on the SonyPlaystaion platform in the 2021 fiscal year was the adventure platform game Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart with sales of 2.34 million copies. Second place was taken by baseball simulator MLB The Show 21 with 1.6 million copies, while the extended version of the samurai action movie Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut closed the top three with 1.49 million copies.
Also at the top are the dual collections of psychological thriller about survival on the hostile planet Returnal (866 thousand copies) and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (329 thousand copies), about the adventurous adventures of treasure hunter Nathan Drake in the third-person action genre took place. .
The published files also contained information on total sales of Sony games released before fiscal 2020; Accordingly, the publisher’s most financially successful game was Spider-Man, released by Insomniac Games in 2018. The superhero action movie sold 22.1 million copies. In second place is the reboot of the God of War series about Kratos, the conqueror of the gods, with 20.8 million copies, while in third place is the post-apocalyptic open-world adventure game Horizon Zero Dawn (19.2 million copies).
In addition, thanks to the leak, it was possible to learn that the sales of the cult gothic action movie Bloodborne reached 7.46 million copies, while Sony had previously reported that the company managed to sell “more than 1 million copies of the game.”
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