Red Dead Redemption port misses top 40 most popular PlayStation games

Red Dead Redemption's new PS4 port hasn't got off to the most popular start on the PlayStation Chart of the top 40 most-played PS5 and PS4 games of last week.

Kes Eylers-Stephenson

Published 21 Aug 2023

That new list of Red Dead Redemption trophies has left our sample of 3.2 million PSN players cold, it seems! That's right, the wild west remains out of the top 40 games in our PlayStation Chart this week, suggesting that even the best PS3 games can fail to impress when handled poorly!

Port of PS3 classic fails to entice PS4 gamers

Red Dead Redemption's 'all-new' PS4 port leads the charge on our topics this week, but it certainly isn't leading any player count numbers in our sample. As soon as that first trailer was revealed after rumors of remakes and upgrades, it became clear just how many fans were unhappy that this was just a plain port to the PS4. So now it ends up in 81st place on our chart — that's right, it couldn't make it into the top 40. Interestingly, Red Dead Redemption 2 moved up a place suggesting that anybody interested in Red Dead Redemption is probably there right now.

Let's move on to our biggest decrease this week — it's last week's headline free-to-play RPG. Players had been nabbing Tower of Fantasy trophies in droves last week and we were wondering if it could maintain 15th place. It couldn't. Week-on-week, the total player count is down by 38% on PS5 and PS4. That drops Tower of Fantasy to 29th, making it one of the biggest drops of the week.

We have a double billing of bonus games to talk about. Firstly, players trying to (eventually) get all those Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege trophies after its latest update have helped Ubisoft's tactical shooter into the top ten for the first time in a long time as it hits ninth. Then we should probably note Madden NFL 24, which had landed in at 28th in its first appearance on the chart. Our data is slightly skewed towards Europe, so that just goes to show the mighty stir its caused this year on the chart.

Well, that all leaves us thinking that this is one of the strangest player counts for a game this year since we realized the Bloodborne player count for July 2023! What do you think of it all? Here are the top 40 most popular PS5 and PS4 games on the PlayStation Chart for the week ending Sunday, August 20, 2023.

Top 40 most popular PS5 and PS4 games of the week (ending Sunday, August 20, 2023)

Position	Game	Publisher	Last week
1	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II	Activision	1
2	Fortnite	Epic Games	2
3	FIFA 23	Electronic Arts	3
4	Grand Theft Auto V	Rockstar Games	4
5	Rocket League	Psyonix	6
6	Overwatch 2	Blizzard Entertainment	5
7	Apex Legends	Electronic Arts	7
8	Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition	Mojang Studios	8
9	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	Ubisoft	11
10	NBA 2K23	2K Sports	10
11	Diablo IV	Blizzard Entertainment	9
12	Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War	Activision	12
13	Fall Guys	Epic Games	14
14	FINAL FANTASY XVI	Square Enix	13
15	Red Dead Redemption 2	Rockstar Games	16
16	Destiny 2	Bungie	20
17	Genshin Impact	Cognosphere	26
18	Dead by Daylight	Behaviour Interactive	18
19	Gran Turismo 7	Sony Interactive Entertainment	19
20	PGA TOUR 2K23	2K Sports	17
21	Call of Duty: Black Ops III	Activision	21
22	FIFA 22	Electronic Arts	25
23	Mortal Kombat 11	Warner Bros. Games	24
24	EA SPORTS UFC 4	Electronic Arts	28
25	Elden Ring	FromSoftware	27
26	Remnant II	H2 Interactive	22
27	Street Fighter 6	Capcom Entertainment	23
28	Madden NFL 24	Electronic Arts	-
29	Tower of Fantasy	Perfect World Games	15
30	Battlefield 2042	Electronic Arts	31
31	Ghost of Tsushima	Sony Interactive Entertainment	30
32	Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales	Sony Interactive Entertainment	29
33	God of War Ragnarök	Sony Interactive Entertainment	33
34	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	Activision	39
35	Madden NFL 23	Electronic Arts	34
36	It Takes Two	Electronic Arts	35
37	Brawlhalla	Blue Mammoth Games	37
38	Hogwarts Legacy	Warner Bros. Games	38
39	Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered	Sony Interactive Entertainment	40
40	Death's Door	Devolver Digital	32

Chart compiled using gameplay data from over 3.2 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 sample data has more European accounts than PSN average.
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 Kes is our resident expert in PlayStation and other gaming news. He writes about PS5 exclusives like The Last of Us and Horizon, PS Plus news, and his favorite games — The Witcher, Assassin’s Creed, and God of War — before an evening swim.