11.8 million console and PC video games had been offered throughout Europe in August, an increase of seven% over the yr earlier than.
That is in response to the most recent figures from GSD, which tracks digital gross sales from most main publishers and bodily gross sales in all main European markets.
The bounce in gross sales in August was resulting from reductions and promotions round legacy video games, together with August’s No.1 recreation: Grand Theft Auto 5 (gross sales up 5.7% year-on-year). Plus the launch of Star Wars Outlaws, which was the second best-selling recreation of August.
Observe: Black Fable: Wukong, which was the opposite large launch of August, is essentially absent from the charts as the sport’s digital gross sales are lacking from the information (the bodily model reached No.68).
It was a disappointing launch for Ubisoft’s large Star Wars recreation. The primary week’s gross sales had been lower than half of what EA’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor managed to attain again in 2023. It did, nevertheless, promote higher than 2020’s house fight recreation Star Wars Squadrons (additionally by EA).
Different video games that jumped up the charts this week embrace Kingdom Come Deliverance, which is at No.4 after the sport fell beneath £3 on Steam. In the meantime, Borderlands 3 bounces up the charts following the discharge of the film and the announcement of Borderlands 4.
One of the vital talked about video games of August was Sony’s Harmony launch, which did not discover an viewers and was subsequently pulled from sale. The sport charted at No.347 throughout Europe for August. It was the thirteenth best-selling new recreation of August, behind Nintendo’s Emio: The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Membership. Observe: Nintendo video games don’t embrace digital gross sales.
When it comes to {hardware}, simply over 300,000 video games consoles had been offered throughout tracked European markets, which is a drop of 42% over August final yr however 12% up over July.
PS5 is comfortably the No.1 console, regardless of gross sales falling by greater than 50% year-on-year, whereas Nintendo Change is No.2 (gross sales down 25% over August final yr). For throughout tracked markets, total console gross sales are down 29% year-to-date.
Over in equipment, 1.1 million objects had been offered throughout tracked markets, a drop of over 17% year-on-year.
European GSD August 2024 Prime 10 (Digital + Bodily)
Place | Title |
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1 | Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar) |
2 | Star Wars Outlaws (Ubisoft) |
3 | Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros) |
4 | Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Deep Silver) |
5 | EA Sports activities FC 24 (EA) |
6 | Borderlands 3 (2K Video games)
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7 | Purple Useless Redemption 2 (Rockstar) |
8 | Grand Theft Auto On-line (Rockstar)
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9 | Titanfall 2 (EA) |
10 | It Takes Two (EA) |
GSD digital information consists of video games from taking part firms offered by way of Steam, Xbox Stay, PlayStation Community, Nintendo Eshop. Main taking part firms are Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Codemasters, Digital Arts, Embracer Group (together with Gearbox, Koch Media, Sabre Interactive), Focus Leisure, 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.
Digital information consists of video games offered in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Eire, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and United Kingdom.
Bodily information consists of all video games, however solely these offered in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
Console {hardware} gross sales cowl Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Equipment gross sales cowl the identical markets, however does not embrace Switzerland.