PS5 Top 40: Star Wars Outlaws debuts as Black Myth Wukong dominates

In the PS5 Top 40 this week, we're looking at Star Wars Outlaws' debut on PS5. How well did it do? Well, certainly not as well as Black Myth Wukong!

Kes Eylers-Stephenson

Published 02 Sep 2024

In the PS5 Top 40 this week, Star Wars Outlaws' debut on PS5 has come from a galaxy far, far away to our PlayStation Chart. Using our representative sample of 3.1 million active PSN accounts (not just TrueTrophies accounts, courtesy of GameInsights) — Ubisoft's latest PS5 open-world game isn't quite pulling off Black Myth Wukong levels of success!

Star Wars Outlaws was the 25th most popular PS5 game last week

Lee's written our Star Wars Outlaws review, you've seen the trailers, and you've also likely seen the pretty polarizing reaction to the game at launch. Well, something in the cultural zeitgeist hasn't quite light sped Ubisoft's open-world take on the sci-fi franchise to stardom. Star Wars Outlaws was only the #25 most popular PS5 game in its debut week.

That's not bad by any stretch, Star Wars Outlaws has probably sold a fair few copies. However, #25 is just below the middle of the chart and it sits behind pretty much every major and middling live service game in terms of popularity right now. Normally, these are the early 20s spots where PS Plus' indie games debut — not new AAA open-world games.

I think this middling popularity among our sample is stark when compared to the beastly Chinese mega-hit Black Myth Wukong. Sitting in #4 once again after its debut last week, Black Myth Wukong's remarkable PS5 player count helped it qualify as the fourth-biggest single-player game of 2024 — though second in real terms when you exclude Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree expansion and The Last of Us Part II Remastered's cheap upgrade for PS5.

We've also got to acknowledge the horror show that is Concord. I don't know that I've ever seen an AAA game flop this hard since I've started writing these every Monday. Last week, it was in a dreary #147. Now Concord is the #180 most popular PS5 game.

From our sample, Concord lost of its 19.1% of its already miserly player count from its debut week. It's starting to take a long time to find games in matchmaking and the developers have been suspiciously quiet. The future looks bleak for Concord and it never even had a present to live in.

In any case, you can check out the best PS5 games on this here website if you want great popular games to play! Let us know what you think of the top 40 in the comment below, TrueTrophy analysts! Here are the top 40 PS5 and PS4 games for the week ending Sunday, September 1, 2024.

Most popular PS5 and PS4 games (week ending, Sunday, September 1, 2024)

Position	Game	Publisher	Last week
1	Fortnite	Epic Games	1
2	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II	Activision	3
3	EA SPORTS FC 24	Electronic Arts	2
4	Black Myth: Wukong	Game Science Studio	4
5	Grand Theft Auto V	Rockstar Games	5
6	Roblox	Roblox	6
7	Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition (2)	Mojang Studios	7
8	Rocket League	Psyonix	8
9	Overwatch 2	Blizzard Entertainment	9
10	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	Ubisoft	11
11	EA SPORTS College Football 25	Electronic Arts	12
12	Elden Ring	FromSoftware	10
13	Apex Legends	Electronic Arts	13
14	Genshin Impact	Cognosphere	19
15	VALORANT	Riot Games	14
16	Destiny 2	Bungie	15
17	Astro's Playroom	Sony Interactive Entertainment	33
18	The First Descendant	NEXON	16
19	NBA 2K24	2K Games	17
20	Red Dead Redemption 2	Rockstar Games	18
21	Dead by Daylight 1/2	Behaviour Interactive	23
22	Gran Turismo 7	Sony Interactive Entertainment	20
23	Fall Guys	Epic Games	22
24	HELLDIVERS 2	Sony Interactive Entertainment	21
25	Star Wars Outlaws	Ubisoft	-
26	LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga	Warner Bros. Games	24
27	Zenless Zone Zero	miHoYo	25
28	Call of Duty: Black Ops III	Activision	28
29	Diablo IV	Blizzard Entertainment	26
30	Cult of the Lamb	Devolver Digital	27
31	Marvel's Spider-Man 2	Sony Interactive Entertainment	30
32	Ghost of Tsushima	Sony Interactive Entertainment	31
33	EA SPORTS Madden NFL 25	Electronic Arts	29
34	Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War	Activision	36
35	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	CD Projekt	32
36	Baldur's Gate 3	Spike Chunsoft	34
37	TEKKEN 8	Bandai Namco Entertainment	39
38	Warframe	Digital Extremes	38
39	Borderlands 3	2K Games	37
40	Vampire Survivors	poncle	-

Chart compiled using gameplay data from over 3.1 million active PlayStation accounts (not just TrueTrophies accounts). Chart information is copyright GameInsights. Regarding this data:

When an account opens a game, this is registered as a game being played. Accounts can only register a game once per week.
Our data is good for suggesting general trends — we represent this using percentages, not numbers.

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Written by Kes Eylers-Stephenson

Editor-in-Chief Kes is our resident expert in PlayStation and Sony news. He writes about PS5 games like The Witcher IV, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and Kingdom Come Deliverance II using experience from years of PlayStation gaming. He also covers PS Plus news and some of the best PS5 games — Uncharted, God of War, and The Last of Us — before an evening swim.