1.74 million video video games had been bought within the UK throughout August, a slight drop of 1.5% over the yr earlier than (GSD information).
It was a quiet month for video games total (observe, UK market information for August ends August twenty fourth, so would not embody Star Wars Outlaws). Take-Two had a really sturdy month, with Rockstar’s GTA 5 at No.1 and GTA On-line at No.4, In the meantime, its 2K Video games label additionally carried out properly, with Borderlands, Mafia and WWE within the High Ten.
Borderlands returns to the charts following some promotional exercise, which might have tied in with the Borderlands film and the reveal of Borderlands 4. Borderlands 3 is at No.3, New Tales From The Borderlands is at No.6, whereas the unique Borderlands is at No.12.
General, 75% of video games bought within the UK final month by main video games publishers had been bought digitally, which is a ten% improve in contrast with August 2023.
By way of new releases, the best-selling new sport was Madden NFL 25 at No.41. After two weeks on sale, the sport is 31.5% down on the earlier title. This yr’s sport does face competitors from EA’s personal School Soccer title, which was launched in July.
The previous TimeSplitters video games had been additionally delivered to PlayStation with further trophy help. These aren’t remasters, however they did return to the charts with TimeSplitters 2 at No.218, TimeSplitters: Future Excellent coming in at No.229 and the unique TimeSplitters at No.326.
Additionally new was remasters of Doom and Doom 2. These video games got here in at No.241, though it is value noting earlier homeowners of these video games bought upgraded at no cost. Notable PlayStation flop Harmony was the 261st best-selling sport of August. That sport has since been pulled from sale.
Consoles proceed to undergo a sluggish summer time
Just below 75,000 video games consoles had been bought within the UK throughout August, a slight drop of three% over the month earlier than and 45% down over the earlier yr (GfK figures)
PS5 noticed just a few extra gross sales in August (up 4%) than July, however it’s down 57% over the identical interval final yr.
Change gross sales had been down 10% in August over July and down 30% over this time final yr.
In the meantime, the Xbox Sequence household of consoles bought virtually precisely the identical quantity in August as July, however gross sales had been down 22% over final August. The Microsoft console was barely forward of Change in August. Each consoles have been alternating between No.2 and No.3 all yr.
By way of equipment, 516,774 controllers and different gadgets had been bought within the UK throughout August, down 4.5% over July and down 9.6% over August final yr.
The DualSense controllers stay the highest promoting gadgets, as they’ve completed all yr. The DualSense White is the best-selling accent of the yr to this point, adopted by the Midnight Black selection.
Nonetheless, with regards to income, the pricier PlayStation Portal is No.1 for the yr. This week the streaming handheld machine is at No.6 by way of items.
UK GSD August 2024 High 10 (Digital and Bodily)
Place | Title |
1 | Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar) |
2 | Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros) |
3 | Borderlands 3 (2K Video games) |
4 | Grand Theft Auto On-line (Rockstar) |
5 | EA Sports activities FC 24 (EA) |
6 | New Tales From The Borderlands (2K Video games) |
7 | Elden Ring (Bandai Namco) |
8 | Titanfall 2 (EA) |
9 | Mafia Trilogy (2K Video games) |
10 | WWE 2K24 (2K Video games) |
GSD digital information consists of video games from taking part corporations bought by way of PC digital shops, Xbox Dwell, PlayStation Community, Nintendo Eshop. Main taking part corporations are Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Capcom, CD Projekt, Codemasters, Digital Arts, Embracer Group (together with Gearbox, Koch Media, Sabre Interactive), Focus Leisure, Kepler, Konami, Marvellous Video games, Microids, Microsoft (together with Bethesda), Milestone, Nacon, Paradox Interactive, Quantic Dream, Sega, Sony, Sq. Enix, Take-Two, Tencent, Ubisoft and Warner Bros. Nintendo and 505 Video games are the notable absentees, alongside smaller studios.