What is the #1 Best Selling PS5 Game?

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It would make sense to think is GTA but it's basically imposible to say because neither T2, Activision/MS nor Sony have said exact numbers.

Also that's not fun, what is fun is to think about the games that were actually from this generation. Indie devs use a rule to calculate the projection of the number of reviews that they will get based on sales, this number is important because the algorithm of digital stores starts promoting your game after a number of positive reviews, between 1 to 3% of people who buy a digital game will leave a review so the number of reviews of a game multiplied by 100, 50 or 33 is an approximation of the number of copies sold. Currently Spider-Man 2 is this generation's game among all the listed in the pool with the most reviews with an approximation of more than 9M to 26M copies sold only digital. Then it comes the part about physical sales, I know people want to believe it's 50-50 but in most cases physical represents a third or less of the total of copies sold so you would be talking about more than 13M to 39M copies sold (No PC sales included for obvious reasons, also it sold 1.7M on PC). Then you also have to take into consideration what you said about people not necessarily buying the game because it is available on PS+ and the fact that the review culture on PS isn't as prominent as it is on PC, most of the people who buy a Spider-Man game to have fun after work don't give a damn about reviews.

Then let's talk a little about GTA. GTA has the most reviews among all those games in general the problem is that the way the PS Store works when a new version of a game is released it takes the place of the original version and inherits the reviews so the number isn't only from the PS5 version it also carries the reviews from the PS4 version. The same happens with COD if you go to the store you are going to see most CODs from this gen have around 740k reviews but that's because 6 COD games are being sold in the store as a package and those reviews is the number combined of the 6 of them.

All those considerations basically to get the conclusion that is safe to say Spider-Man 2 is the game from this generation that has sold the most on PS5. And yes that was fun lol.