It doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Japan has more of a love affair with Zombies and so this always looked like it would be big in Japan. God of War may not of had the same appeal, based on western (Norse in this case) mythology and Detroit may also be a bit too 'western' and not gel with the Japanese love of Technology. Last Guardian, whilst I am a little surprised this has been eclipsed, that may well be a product of its 'timing' - both because it took so long to come out from its PS3 reveal and that more consoles are now in more homes.

The UK sales are not unsurprising either - look at the top 10 and very few games are 'new' and those that are - like MK11 - is just another Fighter after a long list of fighting games released in the past year. It doesn't take a lot of sales at this time of year to be number 1 and stay there for a month or more. The amount of sales in one month in the UK can be 1 day's sales in the UK for the big annual franchises like Fifa or CoD.

I am not belittling the sales of Days Gone but at some points in the year, what this game has sold in 3weeks in the UK wouldn't be enough to be the number 1 game at all - may only be good enough for 2nd or even 3rd. Its down to timing and the competition, especially with 'new' multi-platform AAA releases.

I of course would hope that Day's Gone doesn't end up as a 1 off. If any game could benefit from a new generation hardware, Days Gone certainly should. There is plenty of room to improve - not just in areas that better hardware could enable. In some ways it seems ambition was too much for Sony Bend but with the experience and what they have learned, a Sequel has plenty of areas that could be improved.