UK Sales Jan 2024 (GSD) : PS5#1(-17%) X/S#2 (-7%) NSW#3 (-31%) / EA FC 24#1 TLOU2R#2 MW3#3

[Evilms]

UK Sales January 2024

2.47 million games were sold in January in the UK, a drop of 3% over the same period last year.

This is based on GSD data, which tracks all physical game sales, and all digital sales from most major third-party publishers.

The sales were led by EA Sports FC 24. EA's previous football game, FIFA 23, also led the charts in January 2023, and EA Sports FC 24 actually had a better January than its predecessor.

Last year there wasn't a huge number of new releases (Dead Space Remake was the highest charting new release at No.4). However, there were a couple of new titles this time around.

The highest charting new release, at No.2, was The Last of Us Part 2: Remastered, which did very well and benefitted from a £10 upgrade offer (owners of the PS4 version could get the PS5 version for £10).

For its opening two weeks on the market, the game sold two and a half times more copies than The Last of Us Part 1, which launched in September 2022.

Also new in the charts is Tekken 8, which makes No.7. The data doesn't stretch back far enough to compare it to Tekken 7, but compared to last year's Street Fighter 6, Tekken's launch is over a third higher. Interestingly, the vast majority of Street Fighter 6's sales came via digital channels, whereas Tekken 8 still has a strong audience that prefers physical (at least by comparison).

Outside of the Top Ten, Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is at No.15, and Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth comes in at No.23.

Console sales fall due to tough year-on-year comparisons

Nearly 111,000 games consoles were sold in January in the UK, GfK panel data shows.

This is a drop of 19% over last January, with all three main console platforms posting a drop in sales year-on-year. Xbox Series S and X sales were down 7%, PS5 sales were down 17% while Nintendo Switch sales were down 31%.

This year was always going to look tough in terms of comparisons, because last year saw PS5 and Xbox Series S and X become fully available in stores after a period of shortages, which caused a spike in numbers throughout last year. Meanwhile, Nintendo Switch is now approaching its seventh anniversary, which is around the time we'd typically hear about a replacement...

In terms of accessories, 687,000 peripherals and add-on products were sold in January (GfK data), which is a rise of nearly 10% over the year before. The market was led by controllers for both Xbox and PlayStation consoles, potentially due to the number of hardware sold over the Christmas period.

Software

Hardware
(Last Year)

+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|UK 2023|    PS5    |    X/S    |    NSW    |
+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|  JAN  |    63.000 |    31.000 |    41.000 |
|  FEB  |    80.000 |    37.000 |    35.000 |
|  MAR  |    62.000 |    27.000 |    28.000 |
|  APR  |    51.000 |    23.000 |    44.000 |
|  MAY  |    39.000 |    21.000 |    42.000 |
|  JUN  |    45.000 |    21.000 |    27.000 |
|  JUL  |    56.000 |    24.000 |    29.000 |
|  AUG  |    82.000 |    26.000 |    27.000 |
|  SEP  |   102.000 |    61.000 |    32.000 |
|  OCT  |    98.000 |    41.000 |    37.000 |
|  NOV  |   240.000 |   130.000 |   112.000 |
|  DEC  |   192.000 |   138.000 |   156.000 |
+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| TOTAL | 1.110.000 |   580.000 |   610.000 |
+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+

Jan 2024

1. PS5 : ~52.3k (-17%)
2. X/S : ~28.8k (-7%)
3. NSW : ~28.3k (-31%)

Total : ~110k

EA Sports FC and The Last of Us Part 2 impress in tough January | UK Monthly Charts

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[Luffy123]

Not bad at all

 

[Bryank75]

I mean, PS5 was around 61K last year so...

52.3 isn't that bad at all when considering it was mostly unsatisfied Christmas demand that pushed it up last year.

Now, in light of this, I can't see Sony cutting production by half. As mentioned in the other thread... Sounds very strange.

 

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[Kokoloko]

TLOU2 at number 2. Nice

 

[Nhomnhom]

Not ideal, they need to be more aggressive pushing the PS5, right now is the window to attempt to push it significantly above the PS4.

 

[shrike0fth0rns]

Xbox barely beating the switch in its final and th year while Xbox is just starting its 4th is sad considering they’ve announced games. I wonder how badly they will do after next week.

 

[Gamernyc78]

 

[ethomaz]

TLOU2 will gone to crush these original 17 million way before reaches 5 years lol
Now I'm even more convicted TLOU2 will never fall below TLOU launch aligned.
After all TLOU were heavy helped by a year late port in a console without backward compability.

 

[Danja1187]

Well PS5 will be down YoY for most of this year so I fully expected this anyways. They will definitely have a hard time thus year, hope they have plans in place to finally start working to make people go rush out and buy the console...

 

[Satoru]

TLOU2 will gone to crush these original 17 million way before reaches 5 years lol
Now I'm even more convicted TLOU2 will never fall below TLOU launch aligned.
After all TLOU were heavy helped by a year late port in a console without backward compability.

Yeah, there's no chance it will sell less than TLOU launch aligned.