GSD European sales October 2023 - PS5#1(+143%) NSW#2(-20%) XBS#3(-52%) / EA FC24 #1, AC Mirage#2, SM2#3

[Unchained]

Assassin's Creed, Spider-Man, Mario and PS5 boost sales in Europe during October | European Monthly Charts

Big sales for Assassin's Creed Mirage, Spider-Man 2, Super Mario Bros Wonder and PS5 helped overcome the lack of Call o…

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The sales increase may seem small, but it's impressive when you consider that Call of Duty launched in the October sales window last year, but this year's CoD came out in November. That means Europe achieved this growth even without Activision's hugely popular first person shooter.

EA Sports FC 24 was comfortably the best-selling game of the month. Sales of EA's football title were 10% lower than last year's FIFA 23, although some of that can be explained by the brand name change and the fact there was a winter World Cup last year to help generate excitement around the sport.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Mirage is No.2, beating Spider-Man 2 by a very narrow margin (and Assassin's Creed Mirage was on sale for two weeks longer). Mirage's first four weeks on the market are over 49% lower than what Assassin's Creed Valhalla managed. Mirage is billed as a smaller, more classical take on the series and so there was no expectation that it would compete with Valhalla. Compared with older Assassin's Creed games, Mirage sales are 22% higher than 2018's Odyssey and 6% higher than 2017's Assassin's Creed Origins.

Onto Spider-Man 2, and the PS5 game's launch was strong, with the first two weeks up nearly 30% compared with 2018's Spider-Man, and almost three times higher than 2020's Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Compared with last year's big PlayStation game, God of War Ragnarok, the first two weeks of sales for Spider-Man 2 are 28% lower. However, that's because God of War was also released on PS4. If we focus on just PS5 sales, Spider-Man 2 outsold Ragnarok by 8% after two weeks.

Over in console hardware, PS5 is comfortably the No.1 console in Europe (across tracked markets, UK and Germany not included). PS5 sales are up 143% over October last year, driven by the availability of stock this time around. Nintendo Switch is at No.2 despite a 20% drop in sales compared with last October, while Xbox Series S and X sales continue to struggle in Europe, down 52% year-on-year.

In total, 481,000 consoles were sold across the tracked markets in October.

 

[Satoru]

Over in console hardware, PS5 is comfortably the No.1 console in Europe (across tracked markets, UK and Germany not included). PS5 sales are up 143% over October last year, driven by the availability of stock this time around. Nintendo Switch is at No.2 despite a 20% drop in sales compared with last October, while Xbox Series S and X sales continue to struggle in Europe, down 52% year-on-year.

 

[Loy310]

Damn

 

[Evilms]

 

[Box]

So the Xbox sold less after Starfield was released, Brutal.....

It's OVER for XboxCels!

 

[Luffy123]

Starfield most disappointing game of the last decade at this rate, some sad fuckin shit. Serious questions need answering about Xbox and it’s Studios

 

[Johnic]

 

[historia]

Hmm so Europe are Sonyland, US is the battlefiel(PS having the edge), and Japan is Nintendoland.


Don't see green moss growing anywhere, seem like Sony are doing great job to terminate those dirty moss.

 

[On Demand]

Because of the Game Of The Generation Starfield……Xbox sales are still loading in. Give it time. Lots of time.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

You just wait until Next Year. CoD alone is going to save Xbox and kill Play Station for good. You just wait, I am telling you!!!! you will see and you will be the ones crying!!!


real video of lord cognito:

 

[Jim Ryan]

Xbox series Done-zo.

 

[Danja1187]

Selling 50k consoles a month after Starfield is absolutely brutal... Considering PS5 did over 300k

A complete mess.

 

[Dabaus]

"We just spent 80 billion on acquisitions and gamepass deals for our nintendo (Sir its xbox), how is our market share and growth Pheel?"- Satya, probably

 

[AshHunter216]

Looks like MS are the ones with the future off of their own hardware rather than Nintendo.

 

[voke]

Microsoft should buy SEGA and Ubisoft. Cleary what they need to do to bring healthy competition to this industry. They just need all of the publishers and everything will be fine.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Forza Motorsport debuts at number 42 with digital sales included. Starfield disappeared from the charts and console sales down 52%

Customers keep rejecting that brand over and over again. When are you going to understand Phil?

 

[Entropi]

The word on the street is that Xbox is dominating Playstation. Must be the street where the psych ward is.

 

[voke]

Forza Motorsport debuts at number 42 with digital sales included. Starfield disappeared from the charts and console sales down 52%

Customers keep rejecting that brand over and over again. When are you going to understand Phil?

The aftermath of ABK and Bethesda not being able to reach their limits being an Xbox platform will be satisfying to watch. They simply don't have the install base to make use of $80 billion dollars of content work out for them. It's 3rd party after this gen, I'm almost certain of this.

 

[Bryank75]

Holy shit, those Xbox numbers are dire.

 

[PropellerEar]

Congratulations to us shareholders!