Best-selling video games in the UK in year 2022

Regardless of AAA titles delivering, annual studies present general sport gross sales dropped 6% in 2022. Console gross sales are additionally down 29% from the earlier yr.

In 2022, online game, console, and accent gross sales have all decreased from the earlier yr. Continued shortages in inventory and lack of blockbuster titles have been cited as the 2 main causes.

Experiences from the GSD (Sport Gross sales Knowledge) present that simply over 34 million video games had been bought this yr, a 6% lower from 2021. For these not acquainted, the GSD is chargeable for monitoring sport gross sales (digital and bodily) from all the highest publishers worldwide.

Solely 14 million video games had been bought from bodily retail shops, whereas the opposite 20 million copies had been obtained from digital shops, proving as soon as extra that digital buy is the popular technique for avid gamers lately.

The market knowledge additionally exhibits that round 14 million of general gross sales had been from new releases, which is definitely a 20% enhance when in comparison with final yr.

One stunning element to return out of the report was that despite the fact that avid gamers most well-liked to purchase their video games digitally these days, digital downloads had been truly significantly decrease within the UK in comparison with 2021.

The worldwide COVID-19 lockdowns almost definitely helped the substantial progress in digital downloads throughout 2020 and 2021.

As anticipated, the top-selling video games for 2022 had been as soon as once more FIFA and Name of Responsibility franchises. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga completed the yr in third place simply forward of FromSoftware’s Elden Ring.

Another titles to make it onto the highest 20 checklist had been God of Conflict Ragnarok, Horizon: Forbidden West, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Grand Theft Auto V and Purple Lifeless Redemption 2 additionally positioned sturdy once more this yr.

The Nintendo sport that bought probably the most this yr was Nintendo Change Sports activities, though if the gross sales from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are mixed, the 2 video games technically bought extra.

Relating to console gross sales, the GSD market knowledge confirmed that solely 2 million gaming methods had been bought within the UK throughout 2022, which is a 29% drop in comparison with final yr.

That is largely because of a giant drop in PS5 and Nintendo Change console gross sales specifically. It’s been nicely documented that Sony’s PS5 gross sales had been impaired by inventory shortages for almost all of the yr. Gross sales of Nintendo Change additionally dropped dramatically, regardless of this the hand held console nonetheless completed the yr as the preferred console general.

Xbox Sequence S and X once more see themselves ending in third place for the yr. Similar to the PS5 although, the Xbox Sequence X additionally noticed gross sales endure as a consequence of a scarcity of provide.

In the long run, there have been lower than 60,000 models separating the three consoles in whole gross sales, making 2022 one of many closest years in latest reminiscence.

So far as accent gross sales had been involved, over 9 million controllers, headphones, and different equipment had been bought in the UK in 2022, which can be a lower in comparison with the yr earlier than.

Under are the best-selling video video games (each boxed and digital) within the UK throughout yr 2022: