August 2021 NPD: Ghost of Tsushima returns to dominate August game sales

This is good evidence for why native PS5 versions of games can be important even when there is a PS5 patch for the PS4 version. A lot of people who played the PS4 version with the PS5 patch allowing for 60 fps seemed to think a native PS5 release was pointless because the PS4 version ran so well via BC. But there are plenty of people who won’t understand what a patch will do but will understand that the PS5 version is better. Obviously a lot of those people bought the game last month.