Resident Evil 8 Village becomes the best launch of a PS5 game in Spain

RE: 8 Village became the best-selling game this week on PS5 with 9200 units, becoming the best launch in Spain of a PS5 title, surpassing other PS5 releases such as the 6800 units of Spider-Man Miles Morales, the 5200 of Demon's Souls or the 3250 units of Returnal

So that you can compare this premiere with the latest installments in the saga, Resident Evil 2 Remake (2019) sold 33,000 units on PS4 at launch, and Resident Evil 3 Remake (2020) 10,400 units on PS4.

Top Software 03/05/2021 - 09/05/2021

1. Resident Evil Village (PS5) 9200 units
   
2. Resident Evil Village (PS4) 7850 units
   
3. Grand Theft Auto V (PS4) 5850 units
   
4. New Pokémon Snap (Switch) 3900 units
   
5. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch)
   
6. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch)
   
7. FIFA 21 (PS4)
   
8. Minecraft (Switch)
   
9. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch)
   
10. Resident Evil Village (Xbox) 2200 units

Out of top 10:

1. Returnal (PS5) 1000 units

Top Hardware 03/05/2021 - 09/05/2021

1. Switch 5800 units
2. PS4 1200 units
3. PS5 1000 units (no split specified)
   
4. Xbox Series 750 units (no split specified)
5. Xbox One 200 units

Source: Vandal

Wait, so the week with the best PS5 launch, the PS4 beats the PS5 in sales? The supply is much worse than I thought...

GTA V will never stop surprise me.

There wasnt even a huge influx of new Playstation systems sold this week, and still the game sold almost 6k units at retail.

I mean every single week the PS5 is not doubling PS4's numbers is sign of horrible supply. Software releases essentially mean nothing, probably won't do until the fall/autumn 

Sony didn't even send extra supply for a big launch? I wouldn't say this is a good strategy.

I wonder how's that going to affect the sales of new releases. With such a hardware bottleneck, I imagine many will delay their release to wait for a bigger launch. That or keep releasing them crossgen, but at that point why bother with a PS5/XBox XS version at all?

Because they outsell last-gen versions by a comfortable margin. Without that PS5/Series X label, these games will have a lot less hype. Being on next gen automatically makes the small but highly active userbase more likely to try the titles out. 

But unlike the 7th to 8th gen transition, this gen is actually backwards compatible. They can be played on modern hardware without any problem. Hell, they are probably cheaper.

Sure, but far fewer people are buying last gen software. The best example is Miles Morales, where last week in the UK 80% of its sales were for PS5. Plenty of people on last gen hardware are dialing down their spending, meanwhile on the new platforms people are eager to buy games that take advantage of the PS5, even if its maybe not something they'd usually get day 1. So all in all developers are definitely expanding their audience and marketing reach by putting games on PS5 vs just keeping it to the PS4. 

The real story this week is GTA5.  It outsold every title but RE8.  The game is like 8 years old.  Maybe this is why the PS4 outsold the PS5 this week.  People don't care about new games in Spain.  They care about GTA5.  You don't need a PS5 for that.