Top 20 best-selling video games in Europe – September 2022

FIFA 23, EA’s newest entry within the long-running franchise ended the month of September with general gross sales 6% increased than the earlier entry, FIFA 22. After FIFA 23 on the prime of the chart, there’s a giant hole earlier than reaching the remainder of the entries. Regardless of FIFA’s stellar efficiency the remainder of the market is down in comparison with September 2021.

Recreation gross sales totaled 14.4 million, together with bodily and digital gross sales, a ten% drop from the earlier September. Breaking this determine down doesn’t make the lower any simpler as digital gross sales have been 8.57 million, a lower of 13.8% and bodily gross sales have been 5.82 million, a decline of three.7%.

Coming in second place was the sometimes American-centric NBA 2K23 as basketball continues to develop in recognition. NBA 2K23 ended the month up 10.5% from the primary month’s gross sales of NBA 2K22. Additionally positioned within the prime 3 is Splatoon 3, persevering with a stellar run for Nintendo this month.

A lot of the listing is comprised of titles which have been promoting effectively all yr, resembling Bandai Namco’s Elden Ring and Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 5/Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 pairing which have been within the prime 20 gross sales since launch. Current releases together with The Final of Us: Half 1, a PS5 unique, and the Saints Row remake by Deep Silver positioned within the prime 10 however symbolize a pointy decline from the Swap-heavy September 2021 prime 10.

The general damaging efficiency isn’t confined simply to gross sales of latest video games, new consoles have been down 20% in comparison with this time final yr. Gaming equipment weren’t spared from the market downturn with a year-over-year decline of seven%, promoting 1.44 million throughout September. In comparison with August, 1.44 million represents a achieve of twenty-two%.

Nintendo Swap was the top-selling console with 394,000 items bought throughout Europe. Gross sales of the Swap console have been up 11% from August, possible given a lift by the recognition of Swap-exclusive Splatoon 3. PS5 and Xbox additionally carried out effectively, with the previous up 28% from August whereas Xbox noticed the most important rise by promoting nearly 100% extra consoles in comparison with August.

The highest accent for the month was once more the PS5 Dualsense controller with the PS4 Dualsense in second place. The very best non-controller was the PS5 Pulse 3D Headset in fifth place. Factors playing cards have been up in comparison with August by 8.5% however continued the pattern of being down in comparison with the earlier September with a 6.1% lower.