Securing placement on several Game of the Year lists, as well as receiving accolades for its gameplay, music, and delivery on a truly breakthrough experience, Journey returns to the top of these charts in a fitting good-bye to 2012.
Other notable PS3 entries include the original Mass Effect, which debuted on the PS3 for the first time earlier in December. New release Guardians of Middle Earth cracked the top ten, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale continued to delight gamers, while other Game of the Year favorite The Walking Dead made its mark on the chart.
2012 was quite a year for the PlayStation Network, which offered the best in download only games like Journey, or The Unfinished Swan, as well as new-release AAA titles like Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed 3. We’re excited to bring you more great content in 2013, so keep your eye on these charts to see what next year’s shakers and movers will be!
Top 20 PSN and PS3 Full Games
- Journey
- Mass Effect
- Far Cry 3
- PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
- The Walking Dead – Episode 5: No Time Left
- Sonic Adventure 2
- Assassin’s Creed III
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Guardians of Middle-earth
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- The Walking Dead – Episode 4: Around Every Corner
- TOKYO JUNGLE
- Okami HD
- Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault
- GUILTY GEAR XX ΛCORE PLUS
- Two Worlds II: VELVET Game of the Year Edition
- I Am Alive
- Crazy Taxi
- Portal 2
- The Walking Dead – Episode 3: Long Road Ahead
Top 10 PS Vita Games
- LittleBigPlanet PS Vita
- Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD
- Assassin’s Creed III Liberation
- Persona 4 Golden
- UNCHARTED: Fight for Fortune
- PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale PS Vita
- METAL GEAR SOLID: HD COLLECTION PS Vita
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified
- Plants vs. Zombies PS Vita
- Unit 13
Top 5 PS3 Add-Ons
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Season Pass
- Need for Speed Most Wanted Ultimate Speed Pack
- Assassin’s Creed III The Hidden Secrets Pack
- Borderlands 2 – Mechromancer Pack
- Borderlands 2 Collector’s Edition Pack
Top 5 PS2 Classics
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Bully
- Grand Theft Auto 3
- Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition Remix
- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES
Top 5 PS one Classics
- FINAL FANTASY VII (PS3/PSP/PS Vita)
- FINAL FANTASY IX (PS3/PSP/PS Vita)
- LEGEND OF DRAGOON (PS3/PSP)
- FINAL FANTASY VIII (PS3/PSP/PS Vita)
- Crash Bandicoot (PS3/PSP)
Top 5 PSP Games
- UNO PSP
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- NBA 2K13 PSP
- Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
- Star Wars: Battlefront II
Top 5 PS Minis
- Jetpack Joyride
- Monopoly
- The Impossible Game
- Zombie Racers
- PAC-MAN Championship Edition
Xenogears needs to be in that PS One Classics top five. ;)
I hope it was at least there when it first was able to be downloaded.
Really surprised Journey won out over Mass Effect.
Congratz! to Journey once again, the price for it on the Holiday sales for Plus service was amazing & i would still pay it’s original price for an awesome experience.
As well as I AM ALIVE, game was EPIC & i wish they’d make a Horror game like that.
And last but not least, PASBR, been enjoying that game on both systems since its release & cannot wait on Kat/Emmett Update.
Morgan, not related to the post, but can you make people at Sony watch this video?
youtube.com/watch?v=dDTFhDHFtZU
Its a channel of EpicNameBro, a veteran in Dark Souls with a lot of respect and followers.
This video is about Soul Sacrifice and the big chance to make Vita big, Sony cant go wrong this time.
Can you give a reply on this, please?
If only sony us Marketing team were smart enough they would create a LBP vita 30 seconds tv spot ASAP with just gameplay video and sackboy’s charming charisma at the end of the video with a $199.99 price tag and the system will start selling at a faster rate or better yet how about an entertainment on the go tv spot? featuring Lbp, Uncharted, resistance or call of duty, gravity, sonic&all stars, sound shapes, playstation all stars, need for speed and all the awesome psvita games for the non hardcore playstation fans to see?
Looks like PSASBR is seeing some heafth digital sales.I hope this game does well.. I still have not played Journey nor Demon Souls yet. Demon Souls will be mine in the near future.
@55, I can agree with that idea. I love my Vita. SFxTekken, Wipeout, Uncharted, Dokuro, Gravity Rush Sunflowers and LBP are some of my favorite games on the system. The Vita is selling well and will continue to, but the real problem is with software pricing. Handheld games need to be priced better. $19.99- $29.99 should be standard for big games and keep minis/ps1/ps Mobile pricing as is. I think the handheld market would take off with comfortable pricing…..Keep on Gaming.
where is dissidia 012 -_-
Bought and downloded Journey and I have to say it was a waste of money. I basically threw away $7.49. This game is not for everyone and especially not for me. I is the most boring and dumb game I have every played.
Why aren’t the Star Wars games for PSP playable on the Vita? :( I just saw that Battlefront II was listed and I got super excited only to find out that it can’t be played on the Vita :( PLEASE fix this because I want to buy all the PSP Star Wars games for my Vita ASAP! PLEASE!!!!
@NickMulder Battlefront II is playable on vita but you have to copy it over from a PS3
please morgan release the original silent hill on psvita
because I dont have a ps3
Hi Morgan, hope your having a great start this year and happy holidays to everyone at Sony.! I was hoping you might know if there is any discount being applied again to Journey.? My fiance and I spent the week in the hospital for an emergency and I was not able to download Journey at the discount price of $7 and we really wanted to buy it. Is there anything we can do to maybe get that deal? Thanks, and here’s to a new great year of PS Plus..!!
Also just taking a minute to say Thanks for the memories to THQ…. We will miss them.
Does anyone know if they are gonna put patapon 3 on the vita anytime soon?