Death Stranding is PlayStation's second-biggest exclusive this year

Hideo Kojima's PlayStation 4 timed-exclusive Death Stranding entered the UK boxed games chart in second place, behind a dominant Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

Death Stranding sits behind Days Gone as the second biggest PlayStation-published game of 2019. Sony Bend's not-zombie killer sold around a third more copies during its UK launch week.

Amongst other PlayStation-published games - and, certainly, Sony invested heavily in Death Stranding's development - Kojima's new opus ranks in sales similar to The Order 1866 and Bloodborne. Each shifted similar amounts to Death Stranding during their first weeks on sale - all within 3000 copies of each other.

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