{"id":107304,"date":"2020-01-14T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/356669"},"modified":"2020-01-14T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T21:44:00","slug":"call-of-duty-beat-saber-and-apex-legends-led-playstation-downloads-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/14\/call-of-duty-beat-saber-and-apex-legends-led-playstation-downloads-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty, Beat Saber, and Apex Legends led PlayStation downloads in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at PlayStation have put together a handful of rankings for digital game sales throughout the PlayStation store, breaking down 2019\u2019s top premium, PS VR, and free-to-play games as well as the most-downloaded expansions.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, each list avoids mentioning exactly how many downloads each title received, but even without specifics the list still offers an interesting look at the platform\u2019s top performers for last year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare<\/em> walked away as the most downloaded digital title of the year followed by Rockstar\u2019s unstoppable 2013 release <em>Grand Theft Auto V<\/em>. Another mainstay, <em>Minecraft<\/em>, claimed the number three slot, followed by<em> NBA 2K20<\/em> and <em>NBA 2K19<\/em> as the foruth&nbsp;and fifth most downloaded PlayStation 4 games of the year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Beat Saber <\/em>was named the most downloaded PlayStation VR game ahead of<em> Superhot VR <\/em>and <em>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR<\/em>, while <em>Apex Legends<\/em> beat out both <em>Fortnite<\/em> and <em>Dauntless<\/em> as the most downloaded free-to-play game of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2020\/01\/09\/playstation-store-2019s-top-downloads\/\">the&nbsp;blog post<\/a> for the full top 25 or top 10 list for each category, as well as a look at popular favorites in the entirely <em>Fortnite<\/em> dominated DLC and expansions category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at PlayStation have put together a handful of rankings for digital game sales throughout the PlayStation store, breaking down 2019\u2019s top premium, PS VR, and free-to-play games as well as the most-downloaded expansions. Unfortunately, each list avoids mentioning exactly how many downloads each title received, but even without specifics the list still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}