Sales in European markets tracked on the May 2024 European chart were weak, with software and hardware sales falling roughly 17% and 40% year-over-year, respectively. This is in line with GSD’s knowledge reported through GamesIndustry.
It was followed by EA Sports FC 24, the best-selling game in Europe in the markets, followed by Grand Theft Auto V in second place.
F1 2024 the best-selling novelty, starting in 3rd place. Sales are down 35% from last year.
Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut climbed to the fourth position on the charts thanks to the release of the PC version.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door debuted at number five. Sales were down 8% from the first two weeks of 2023’s Super Mario RPG and 8. 5% from 2020’s Paper Mario: The Origami King.
In May, 11. 6 million video games were sold in Europe, a year-on-year drop of approximately 17%.
It was another weak month for hardware sales, with total sales down 40% year-on-year to 311,000 devices in the markets analyzed. However, it should be noted that the UK, Germany, and some smaller European markets are absent from the hardware. Figures.
All consoles have experienced a sharp drop year after year. However, Nintendo Switch experienced the biggest drop until May 2023, with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and the limited edition Zelda Switch OLED being released last year.
Sales of accessories and other complementary products fell 25% year-over-year. The PS5 DualSense controller is the best-selling accessory, with sales higher than the previous year.
The 10 best games in Europe in May 2024, according to GSD (Digital Physical):
* Numerical knowledge available.
GSD’s virtual knowledge includes games from attractive corporations selling Steam, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and Nintendo Eshop. The main attractive corporations are Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Embracer Group (including Gearbox, Koch Media, Sabre Interactive). ), Focus Entertainment, Konami, Marvelous Games, Microids, Microsoft (including Bethesda), Milestone, Nacon, Paradox Interactive, Quantic Dream, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Take-Two, Tencent, Ubisoft, and Warner Bros. Nintendo, and 505 Games. they are the great absentees, along with the small studios.
Number knowledge includes games sold in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Physical knowledge includes all games, although only those sold in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Console hardware sales cover Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Accessory sales cover the same markets, but come with Switzerland.
William D’Angelo, an avid lifelong gamer, first discovered VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was recruited in 2010 as a junior analyst and then promoted to senior analyst in 2012 and took over hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming network by generating content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can tap on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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