{"id":68748,"date":"2014-09-16T06:59:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T04:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68748"},"modified":"2014-09-16T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T05:03:10","slug":"best-selling-pc-ps-xbox-games-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/68748-best-selling-pc-ps-xbox-games-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Best-selling PC, PS, Xbox games in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time again to take a look at the bestselling games across the major platforms in South Africa.<\/p>\n

Market research company GfK recently sent us their sales hit list for SA retail, which reveals the top 5 bestselling games for PC and console for July 2014. This includes both pre-orders and post-launch sales.<\/p>\n

See which titles proved most popular in the table, below.<\/p>\n

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Bestselling games in SA – July 2014<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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PC<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nThe Sims 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nBattlefield 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nAge of Empires 3: Age of Discovery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nAge of Empires 2: Gold<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nZoo Tycoon 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
PlayStation 4<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nSniper Elite 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nFifa 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nWatch Dogs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSniper Elite 3 (Bundled)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nThe Last of Us: Remastered<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
PlayStation 3<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nMinecraft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nFifa World Cup Brazil 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nFifa 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nGrand Theft Auto 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nCall of Duty: Black Ops 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
Xbox 360<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nMinecraft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nFifa World Cup Brazil 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nCall of Duty: Black Ops 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nGrand Theft Auto 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nFifa 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
PS Vita<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nNeed for Speed: Most Wanted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nFifa 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nLego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nUncharted: Golden Abyss<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nInjustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
Wii U<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nMario Kart 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nSuper Mario 3D World<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nNintendo Land<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nCall of Duty: Black Ops 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nFifa 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

GfK says it covers around 90% of the SA gaming retail market, and 95% of the SA gaming consoles retail market.<\/p>\n

GfK also tracks online retailers, as well as both the physical and online sales of the retailers which have physical and online outlets.<\/p>\n

The stats presented are gathered on a monthly basis from the retailers with whom GfK is in partnership.<\/p>\n

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The stats are in for July 2014 – let’s see which games made bank in SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":68754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[12828,4356,21],"class_list":["post-68748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-bestselling-games-in-sa","tag-gfk","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68764,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68748\/revisions\/68764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}