European Month-to-month Charts – April 2024

April was a significant step again for the video games business in Europe, with general gross sales falling nicely wanting final yr’s mark by 6.2%. In whole, 10.5 million video games had been offered with the downward pattern exemplified by the weak slate of recent launch titles.

One sport, the Sony PlayStation unique Stellar Blade, positioned within the prime ten, and even then, it was at No. 9. Final yr April noticed the discharge of two extremely anticipated sequels, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Useless Island 2. With no main launch for a whole month, an almost 10-year-old title claimed the highest spot.

As with different territories, Fallout 4 was the highest vendor for the month because of renewed curiosity from the tv sequence on Amazon. Over half of the sport’s gross sales had been on PC, however on each platform it skilled a drastic low cost. Fallout 76 at No. 7 and Fallout: New Vegas at No. 10 joined the newest mainline entry on the prime of the chart.

EA Sports activities FC 24 barely edged out one other PlayStation unique, Helldivers 2, for the second spot. Grand Theft Auto 5, Crimson Useless Redemption 2, Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare 3, and Hogwarts Legacy rounded out the highest ten.

Delicate gross sales weren’t restricted to solely video games, as console gross sales fell closely by 47% year-to-year. Each console was down considerably, as final yr, the Nintendo Change had a brand new SKU launch and the approaching arrival of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. As well as, each PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Collection consoles lacked main new releases for the month, diminishing curiosity, even when solely briefly.

With {hardware} gross sales down, accent gross sales additionally slumped, receding by 17% from 2023. But, the PlayStation 5 Twin Sense controller gained .08% over final month to regain the highest spot on the accent chart.