High 20 best-selling video video games in Europe – Yr 2022

GSD knowledge for 2022 is now out there, giving insights into the state of the European gaming trade, which was principally good for the previous 12 months with 159 million video games offered, digitally and bodily. The entire breaks right down to 82.5 million digital downloads and 76.6 million bodily recreation gross sales. Tempering the general gross sales numbers is when in comparison with 2021, it’s a 7.1% drop from final 12 months.

New recreation gross sales, which means titles launched in 2022, have been up 16% over new releases from 2021. FIFA 23 completed the 12 months at 3% above FIFA 22, whereas Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare 2 was up considerably, 73%, in comparison with Name of Obligation: Vanguard.

The twin-game launch of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, sixteenth and 14th respectively within the general prime 20, doesn’t inform the entire story, if the gross sales have been mixed, the title can be in sixth place. Nintendo doesn’t share digital gross sales knowledge making all of the Change video games seem to have offered lower than they really did this 12 months. That is related as 7 Nintendo Change exclusives positioned within the prime 20, essentially the most of any main console.

FIFA 23 was the highest vendor throughout most of Europe, there are just a few exceptions, adopted by Fashionable Warfare 2 after which Elden Ring. Grand Theft Auto 5 and FIFA 22 have been the top-performing titles from earlier years, whereas the underside a part of the highest 10 is dominated by PlayStation Exclusives: God of Warfare Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, and Gran Turismo 7 within the tenth spot.

By way of international locations, the U.Okay. stays the #1 market in Europe, even with a 6% lower year-to-year, with Germany a detailed second although gross sales dropped 13%. France was down solely 3% in third place, whereas Spain and Italy noticed features of 1% and a pair of% respectively.

5.3 million consoles have been offered, not counting the U.Okay. or Germany, which is a 25% drop from 2021, with solely the Xbox Collection consoles seeing a acquire of 4.4%. Regardless of that acquire, Microsoft’s console was in third place for the 12 months, trailing the Nintendo Change (down 15%) and PlayStation 5 (down 35%). The Change was the highest vendor in most international locations, with solely Denmark and Sweden, the place the PlayStation 5 was on prime, and Norway, which offered essentially the most Xbox consoles, as exceptions.
Accent gross sales have been down 105 with 18 million offered throughout all tracked markets, led once more by the PlayStation 5 DualSense (a 12% enhance), adopted carefully by the PlayStation 4 DualSense (down 3.2%). Nintendo Change Pleasure-cons, down 23.7%, and Xbox Collection Wi-fi Controllers, a 32.2% lower, rounded out the highest accent sellers for the 12 months.

For non-controllers, the Sony PlayStation 5 Pulse 3D Headset was the highest vendor although it dropped 3.6% from 2021. 22.4 million level and pockets playing cards have been offered, an 8% drop from final 12 months.