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 improve of round 3% when measured with the figures from the earlier 12 months and highlights one other profitable 12 months for the gaming business.

It comes as no shock that EA Sports activities FC 24 was the No.1 recreation throughout Europe in December. The favored soccer sim – formally often known as FIFA – has ended the 12 months 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 nearly 12% this 12 months, however this had been attributed to the franchise rebrand and that 2022 was a World Cup 12 months.

The sport that ended the 12 months within the No.2 spot in Europe was Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 3. That is additionally not a lot of a shock, as though MW3 was met with a considerable amount of criticism from followers and critics, it has at all times been a vastly profitable recreation by way of gross sales in Europe, and 2023 was no completely 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 essential success and ending within the No.2 spot in nations such because the UK.

It appears that evidently 2023 was a fantastic 12 months for long-established franchises, as Tremendous Mario Bros Surprise was one other title that ended the 12 months within the high 5. Though gross sales of the sport dipped considerably in December, since its launch in October the Nintendo Change 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 recreation, primarily based on the Avatar movie collection, ended December at No.6. Nonetheless, as the sport was solely launched in December, its total gross sales success will stay to be seen in 2024.

All the opposite titles occupying the remainder of the highest 10 have been additionally pre-existing franchises similar to GTA V, Purple 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 business itself is total sorely missing in inventive new concepts and recent titles.

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

With a gross sales development of over 65% from final 12 months, nearly all of this got here from gross sales of the PlayStation 5. This was the one console to take pleasure in a rise in gross sales in 2023, as gross sales on each the Nintendo Change – which took the No.2 spot – and the Xbox Sequence X/S are down 7% and 19% respectively.

Lastly, gross sales of equipment and add-ons additionally loved a very profitable 12 months, with over 3.5 million gadgets 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.