Greatest-selling video video games in Europe in December 2023

In December, Europe noticed over 26 million video video games offered all through the area throughout PC and console platforms. This can be a slight enhance of round 3% when measured with the figures from the earlier yr and highlights one other profitable yr for the gaming trade.

It comes as no shock that EA Sports activities FC 24 was the No.1 sport throughout Europe in December. The favored soccer sim – formally referred to as FIFA – has ended the yr because the No.1 online game in Europe for almost all of the previous decade. With that being mentioned although, in comparison with FIFA 23, complete gross sales of the title dropped by virtually 12% this yr, however this had been attributed to the franchise rebrand and that 2022 was a World Cup yr.

The sport that ended the yr within the No.2 spot in Europe was Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare 3. That is additionally not a lot of a shock, as despite the fact that MW3 was met with a considerable amount of criticism from followers and critics, it has all the time been a vastly profitable sport when it comes to gross sales in Europe, and 2023 was no totally different.

The favored first-person shooter franchise developed by Activision Blizzard managed to edge out the Hogwarts Legacy to the second-place place, regardless of the Harry Potter title having fun with vital success and ending within the No.2 spot in nations such because the UK.

Plainly 2023 was an awesome yr for long-established franchises, as Tremendous Mario Bros Marvel was one other title that ended the yr within the prime 5. Regardless that gross sales of the sport dipped considerably in December, since its launch in October the Nintendo Swap unique has been the largest promoting title for the platform.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, was the opposite new IP to enter the highest 10, alongside Hogwarts Legacy. The open-world journey sport, primarily based on the Avatar movie collection, ended December at No.6. Nevertheless, as the sport was solely launched in December, its general gross sales success will stay to be seen in 2024.

All the opposite titles occupying the remainder of the highest 10 had been additionally pre-existing franchises corresponding to GTA V, Pink Useless Redemption 2, Spider Man 2, Murderer’s Creed Mirage, and Mario Kart 8: Deluxe. This reveals that regardless of the monetary success of gaming in 2023, the trade itself is general sorely missing in artistic new concepts and recent titles.

When it comes to console gross sales for December, over 1.25 million models had been reported to be offered all through the tracked European markets. Total, this is a rise of over 15% in comparison with the figures from December 2022.

With a gross sales progress of over 65% from final yr, the vast majority of this got here from gross sales of the PlayStation 5. This was the one console to get pleasure from a rise in gross sales in 2023, as gross sales on each the Nintendo Swap – which took the No.2 spot – and the Xbox Collection X/S are down 7% and 19% respectively.

Lastly, gross sales of equipment and add-ons additionally loved a very profitable yr, with over 3.5 million objects being bought in December throughout tracked European markets. This is a rise of simply over 10% in comparison with December 2022, proving as soon as once more that gaming equipment are a extremely profitable marketplace for gaming corporations.