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Now that our June issue and the E3 2019 conferences are out of the way, we can resume our regular programme, starting with catching up with the monthly UK physical charts for May – and while we weren’t looking Sony’s Days Gone made it to No.1 for the second consecutive month. Sales for the PS4 exclusive only decreased 21 per cent month-on-month.
Warner Bros’ Mortal Kombat 11 had to settle for No.2 once again and sold 30 per cent less copies than predecessor Mortal Kombat X during its second month in the charts.
Meanwhile, Rage 2 debuted at No.4 in the May physical charts, with 58 per cent of the copies going to PS4 against 38 per cent to Xbox One.
Team Sonic Racing, having debuted at the top of its weekly charts a few weeks back, entered the monthly charts at No.7, with the Switch version selling particularly well: 39 per cent of the copies shifted went to Nintendo’s hybrid console, against 40 per cent for PS4 and 21 per cent for Xbox One.
Further down the charts, Asobo Studio and Focus Home Interactive’s A Plague Tale: Innocence debuted at No.38.
Here’s the Top Ten for the period from April 28th to May 25th 2019 (data courtesy of GfK/Ukie):
| Rank | Title | Publisher |
| 1 | Days Gone | Sony |
| 2 | Mortal Kombat 11 | Warner Bros |
| 3 | FIFA 19 | EA |
| 4 | Rage 2 – NEW | Bethesda |
| 5 | Red Dead Redemption 2 | Rockstar |
| 6 | Grand Theft Auto V | Rockstar |
| 7 | Team Sonic Racing – NEW | Sega |
| 8 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | Nintendo |
| 9 | The Division 2 | Ubisoft |
| 10 | New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe | Nintendo |
Nintendo and Sony battled it out in the publishers’ charts for May, with Nintendo ending up taking 15 per cent of the market in units, versus 13.9 per cent for Sony. The difference was even narrower in value, with 17.6 per cent of the market revenue going to Nintendo against 17.5 per cent for Sony.
Sony should win that battle in June though, as PSVR exclusive Blood & Truth has been enjoying a good launch, topping the UK weekly charts two weeks ago and confirming its good performance earlier this week, making it to No.5 in the weekly charts released on Monday (June 10th), with sales only decreasing 51 per cent week-on-week.
Sony’s Days of Play sale also massively boosted the publisher in this week’s charts, pushing FIFA 19 back to No.1. Days Gone’s sales went up 39 per cent week-on-week, charting at No.2, while Marvel’s Spider-Man gained 12 spots to No.3 following a 57 per cent rise in sales.
GfK also noted that price drops on the PSVR Starter Pack and the PSVR Mega Pack rocketed sales for PlayStation VR Worlds (+176 per cent week-on-week) and Astro Bot Rescue Mission (+193 per cent week-on-week), which means they were both back in the Top 40 this week.
Here’s the Top Ten for the week ending June 8th 2019 (data courtesy of GfK/Ukie):
| Rank | Title | Publisher |
| 1 | FIFA 19 | EA |
| 2 | Days Gone | Sony |
| 3 | Marvel’s Spider-Man | Sony |
| 4 | Red Dead Redemption 2 | Rockstar |
| 5 | Blood & Truth | Sony |
| 6 | Grand Theft Auto V | Rockstar |
| 7 | Team Sonic Racing | Sega |
| 8 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | Nintendo |
| 9 | Mortal Kombat 11 | Warner Bros |
| 10 | PlayStation VR Worlds | Sony |
