The newest GSD information present that in March, Europe bought a complete of 13.6 million PC and console video games, which is a slight decline of 4% in comparison with the identical interval in 2022. For the primary quarter of the 12 months, 39 million video games had been bought, representing an 11% drop from the earlier 12 months.
The report contains bodily sport gross sales in main European markets and digital downloads from most main sport publishers. The perfect-selling sport for the quarter was Hogwarts Legacy, which can also be the fastest-selling sport in Europe, excluding the FIFA franchise, because the GSD charts started in 2017.
Nonetheless, final 12 months noticed the discharge of a number of main titles, together with Elden Ring, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Horizon: Forbidden West, and Gran Turismo 7, which resulted in a bigger variety of huge releases than this 12 months. In March, Resident Evil 4 claimed the highest spot, with first two-week gross sales throughout Europe 19% decrease than 2021’s Resident Evil Village, however up 57% in comparison with the remake of Resident Evil 3 in 2020, and 149% greater than the remake of Lifeless House launched in January.
When it comes to console {hardware} gross sales, 570,000 items had been bought throughout chosen European international locations in March, a 67% enhance, primarily pushed by the large gross sales of PlayStation 5. PS5 gross sales are up by 5 instances in March 2023 in comparison with the 12 months earlier than, offsetting declines in Swap gross sales, that are down 19%, and Xbox Sequence S and X gross sales, down 13%. The PS5 is main the market with a 369% Yr over 12 months gross sales enhance, adopted by the Swap (down 18%) and Xbox Sequence S and X (down 10%).
4.7 million equipment had been bought, up 5% from final 12 months, although once more, the PlayStation 5 DualShock is the large winner. Level playing cards and wallets, as with video games, dropped with just one.9 million bought, a 1.9% lower from this time final 12 months.
1. Resident Evil 42. Hogwarts Legacy3. FIFA 234. Grand Theft Auto 55. Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 26. Pink Lifeless Redemption 27. WWE 2K238. F1 229. NBA 2K2310. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
