Europe’s top-selling games for first half of 2023, Hogwart’s Legacy tops the list

[Unchained]

Hogwarts Legacy and Diablo 4 lead Europe's half year games charts

Diablo 4 is already the year's second biggest game

www.gamesindustry.biz

76.1 million console and PC games were sold across Europe during the first half of the year, which is marginally up over the same period in 2022.

The UK was the biggest European market for game sales, representing 15.3 million games sold, a rise of 5.5% over the same period in 2022. This is followed by Germany with 14 million games sold (down 11%) and then France with 11.1 million sales (up 8%). Spain delivered 5.4 million game sales (up 6.8%), while Italy is just behind with 4.9 million (up 2.7%).

European GSD H1 2023 Top 20 (Digital + Physical)​

Position	Title
1	Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
2	Diablo 4 (Activision Blizzard)
3	FIFA 23 (EA)
4	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo)*
5	Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
6	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)
7	Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
8	Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (EA)
9	NBA 2K23 (2K Games)
10	Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)
11	God of War Ragnarok (Sony)
12	Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)*
13	Dead Island 2 (Deep Silver)
14	The Last of Us: Part 2 (Sony)
15	Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft)
16	Final Fantasy 16 (Square Enix)
17	Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)
18	Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo)*
19	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft)
20	Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar)

 

[Remember_Spinal]

TLOU2 at 14

 

[Swift_Star]

FFXVI was two weeks old at this list's time.
Era and InstallBase in shambles right now. The flop narrative isn't sticking.

 

[ethomaz]

Diablo really put the chart on fire... less than a month and it is only behind Hogwarts.

 

[KnittedKnight]

It also puts the idea that Activision is only COD to rest, specially the strength of the WRPG audience.

Solid list. If we assume Fornite and Warzone are #1/2 respectively it's still a nice list with variety.

 

[ethomaz]

It should be nice to know who is the real first place... Hogwarts or Zelda... Zelda data doesn't have digital accounted that screw the chart.
Zelda launched in May... Horgwarts in Feb.

 

[Dabaus]

No Redfall?

 

[Cool hand luke]

It should be nice to know who is the real first place... Hogwarts or Zelda... Zelda data doesn't have digital accounted that screw the chart.
Zelda launched in May... Horgwarts in Feb.

If they don't release sales, we can only guess. The Switch handheld will have a lower digital share than consoles.

That, for the most part, is a great list of games. Europeans have refined taste confirmed.

 

[Kokoloko]

TLOU2 at 14

Surprised TLOU1 remake didnt make the list after the HBO show

 

[Remember_Spinal]

Surprised TLOU1 remake didnt make the list after the HBO show

Yeah, maybe in the low 20’s. It was definitely charting a lot during the first half of the year. Have to assume the remaster cut into it’s sales.

 

[ethomaz]

Surprised TLOU1 remake didnt make the list after the HBO show

I think after the end of the HBO show TLOU2 should be more affected than TLOU because people will try to find what happen next... nataurally will look to play TLOU2.

 

[Deleted member 782]

If they don't release sales, we can only guess. The Switch handheld will have a lower digital share than consoles.

That, for the most part, is a great list of games. Europeans have refined taste confirmed.

Zelda TOTK's physical and digital split during launch was 50/50 in Japan, which is around 1.1 million units of digital sales in 3 days. It's wild to assume that the EU digital split will be lower than Japan for TOTK.

 

[Cool hand luke]

Zelda TOTK's physical and digital split during launch was 50/50 in Japan, which is around 1.1 million units of digital sales in 3 days. It's wild to assume that the EU digital split will be lower than Japan for TOTK.

Wild based on..? Previous splits? High speed internet coverage? Special circumstances?

 

[Deleted member 782]

Wild based on..? Previous splits? High speed internet coverage? Special circumstances?

Based on Nintendo's financial report, digital sales made up 56.1% of total packaged software sales in FY2022. Some people in 2023 are still believing that Nintendo games have very low digital sales lol.

 

[SLB1904]

TLOU2 at 14

Shout for the haters at the back.

 

[SLB1904]

Surprised TLOU1 remake didnt make the list after the HBO show

Not surprising really. Loads of people are buying tlous 2 after finding out their favourite youtuber was full of shit

 

[Frozone]

Well deserved for Potter. It's a really fun game.

 

[Cool hand luke]

Based on Nintendo's financial report, digital sales made up 56.1% of total packaged software sales in FY2022. Some people in 2023 are still believing that Nintendo games have very low digital sales lol.

Compared to the industry average? Yes they do.

 

[Kokoloko]

Not surprising really. Loads of people are buying tlous 2 after finding out their favourite youtuber was full of shit

Whats the story with this?

 

[SLB1904]

Whats the story with this?

The leaks + youtubers claiming the game is no good because Joel dies. Abby us trans almost the misinformation. Now years later people are finding out it wasn't true and us a awesome video game hence the legs