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God of War: Ragnarok Tops PlayStation Studios Sales Estimates for the PS5 Era

Vince MaglayaPublished 3m ago3 min readBased on 7 sources
God of War: Ragnarok Tops PlayStation Studios Sales Estimates for the PS5 Era
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God of War: Ragnarok is the best-selling and highest-earning PlayStation Studios game of the current PlayStation generation, according to estimates reported by Eurogamer on 9 November 2026. PlayStation Studios is the group of studios that Sony owns, or works with, to make and publish games for its PlayStation consoles.

The estimates come from Alinea Analytics, a firm that tracks games sales. Eurogamer reports that the game sold just over 20 million copies and brought in about $1.4 billion in revenue. Revenue is the money taken in from sales. It is not profit, because development costs and the cut taken by online stores come out of it.

Eurogamer also reports that about 27.5 percent of the 15 million console copies came from physical editions, the discs and boxed copies sold in shops.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is second on the ranking, with an estimated $1.3 billion from 19.1 million copies across PS5 and PC. Sony first announced on 8 June 2023 that the game would be a PS5 exclusive, arriving on 20 October of that year. The PlayStation Blog then announced on 18 October 2024 that it would come to PC in January 2025.

The rest of the top 10 follows in order of estimated revenue:

  • Gran Turismo 7: $841 million
  • Helldivers 2: $786 million
  • Horizon Forbidden West: $485 million
  • Ghost of Yotei: $410 million
  • The Last of Us Part 1: $341 million
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: $334 million
  • Stellar Blade: $316 million
  • Astro Bot: $292 million

Two of these games were made by studios outside PlayStation. Helldivers 2 and Stellar Blade were developed by other studios but published by PlayStation. A publisher funds, markets and sells a game, even when another company builds it.

Platform matters to these numbers too. In an April 2026 report, The Game Business newsletter noted that God of War Ragnarok drew 300,000 players on PC in its launch month. Its PS5 and PS4 launch drew 6.9 million players. Alinea's estimates put roughly three quarters of the game's PlayStation copies on PS5, with the rest on Steam, the PC storefront run by Valve.

Alinea published its ranking, titled "This gen's top 10 PlayStation Studios games", on 6 November 2026.

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