2023 ended sturdy, with December’s 6.9 million sport gross sales exceeding 2022 by 2%. It’s particularly spectacular contemplating the shortage of main blockbuster titles in the course of the Vacation season, after Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare 3 launched on November 8 there’s been no Triple-A launch.
Talking of Fashionable Warfare 3, it dropped from No. 1 final month to No. 2 in December, with EA Sports activities FC 24 re-claiming the highest spot, boosted by Vacation gross sales. The remainder of the highest 5 additionally noticed vital boosts because of the Vacation, with Hogwarts Legacy, Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise, and Grand Theft Auto 5 rounding out the highest of the chart.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is the one new launch to crack the highest ten, coming in at No. 8. Notable is the shortage of Xbox exclusives, with Spider-Man 2 representing the PlayStation 5 joined by the Nintendo Change exclusives Mario Kart 8: Deluxe and Nintendo Change Sports activities.
That development continued with console gross sales for the month, with the PlayStation 5 once more claiming the highest spot, regardless of a 19% drop in gross sales from November. Nintendo Change was second with a acquire of 39% in comparison with the earlier month, whereas the Microsoft Xbox Collection consoles had a smaller acquire of 6%.
500,000 complete consoles have been offered in the course of the month of December, up 2% from November and seven% from the earlier December.
The biggest space of enchancment from final 12 months got here with equipment, a shocking 63% acquire from November and 10% over 2022, representing 2.07 million add-on merchandise. Sony dominated once more, with gross sales of the DualShock 5 in white and midnight black coming in on the prime 2 spots, with a shock look by the PlayStation 4 DualShock coming in at #7.
All instructed, 2023 completed as a robust 12 months for online game gross sales, coming in barely above 2022 and establishing the trade for an equally sturdy 2024.
1. EA Sports activities FC 24
2. Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare 3
3. Hogwarts Legacy
4. Tremendous Mario Bros Surprise*
5. Grand Theft Auto 5
6. Spider-Man 2
7. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe*
8. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
9. Crimson Useless Redemption 2
10. Nintendo Change Sports activities*