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Europe Monthly Charts - October 2023: PS5 is up 143% yoy in October , Switch is 20% down yoy while Xbox is down 52% yoy

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From the linked gibiz article:
10.21 million PC and console games were sold across Europe according to GSD, a slight drop of 2.3% year-on-year.

This data covers all games sold digitally by most major games publishers across the Eurozone (for UK market analysis, click here), and physical game sales in all major Eurozone markets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In fourth place is Super Mario Bros Wonder, although the Nintendo game may have charted higher as this data does not include download figures (Nintendo doesn't share digital numbers with the charts company). Launch sales of Wonder are double that of 2017's Super Mario Odyssey (when the Nintendo Switch install base was much, much smaller), nearly 59% bigger than 2020's Super Mario 3D All-Stars and nearly 53% bigger than 2021's Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. Nintendo has announced that Super Mario Bros Wonder is the fastest selling Super Mario game in Europe.
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Also new in the charts for October are Lords of the Fallen (No.5), Metal Gear Sold: Master Collection Volume 1 (No.16), EA Sports UFC 5 (No.17), Detective Pikachu Returns (No.32), Sonic Superstars (No.33) and Forza Motorsport (No.42).
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In terms of individual countries, EA Sports FC 24 was No.1 in most markets, but things differ in terms of the second position. The second best-selling game of October in France is Super Mario Bros Wonder, in Germany it is Assassin's Creed: Mirage, while in Italy and Spain it is Spider-Man 2.
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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.
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Compared with September, overall market sales are up nearly 16%, PS5 sales are up 11%, Switch sales are up 10% and Xbox sales are down just under 20%. Please note: Xbox's big exclusive of the year (Starfield) launched in September, while PlayStation and Nintendo's big games (Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario Bros Wonder) launched in October.

In terms of peripherals and accessories, 1.14 million products were sold across tracked markets (down 3.6% year-on-year), while wallet/point card sales are down 4% to 969,818 units sold.
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European GSD October 2023 Top 10 (Digital + Physical)​

PositionTitle
1EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
2Assassin's Creed Mirage (Ubisoft)
3Spider-Man 2 (Sony)
4Super Mario Bros Wonder (Nintendo)*
5Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
6Lords of the Fallen 2023 (CI Games)
7Battlefield 2042 (EA)
8Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
9Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
10It Takes Two (EA)
 
hepfom

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-52% is shocking. i wonder how much they sold the previous year? Did they sell alot last October for some reason?
 
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crazy that the 6 year old switch is in a gentle decline, while the 3-year-old xbox is crashing and burning
Ms might as well start getting ready for the next xbox launch and try to take a year or 2 advantage over the ps6 and better have better justification for its existance than the xsx and xss have
 
GHG

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MrA said:
crazy that the 6 year old switch is in a gentle decline, while the 3-year-old xbox is crashing and burning
Ms might as well start getting ready for the next xbox launch and try to take a year or 2 advantage over the ps6 and better have better justification for its existance than the xsx and xss have
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Adding another product to the stack would only further complicate things for them.

But considering their decision making process of late it seems like exactly the type of thing they would do.
 
Woopah

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  • Strong results for Spiderman and Mario, but Assassin's Creed is the biggest surprise for me. Big over performance.
  • PS5's growth continues to be crazy. I don't know if we'll ever see these YoY %s again for a console
  • I know Switch is in its 7th year, but I was expecting Mario and the bundles to have more impact. 20% is a bit disappointing.
  • Xbox is dire. Might do worse in its third holiday than its 1st or 2nd holiday
 
FrankWza

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MrA said:
Ms might as well start getting ready for the next xbox launch and try to take a year or 2 advantage over the ps6 and better have better justification for its existance than the xsx and xss have
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Now that they've set a precedent for the low spec console at launch are they going to continue to do this going forward? I would say yes. They seem to be convinced it's been successful for them. Will that console be enough of a boost over the PS5 Pro? So far, leaving last gen behind wasn't the great advantage it was speculated to be in terms of graphics awe.
 
Horseganador

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The situation of Xbox is critical in Europe, even with Forza and Starfield recently released they have sold less than half of last year, PS5 on the other hand has sold more than double and Spiderman 2 30% than the first.
 
Woopah

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FrankWza said:
Now that they've set a precedent for the low spec console at launch are they going to continue to do this going forward? I would say yes. They seem to be convinced it's been successful for them. Will that console be enough of a boost over the PS5 Pro? So far, leaving last gen behind wasn't the great advantage it was speculated to be in terms of graphics awe.
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I think that the idea of competing with PS5 with a cheaper model does make some sense (that's what Switch us doing right now).

Buy it only works if you have a powerful brand and software, and Xbox doesn't.
 
Gaelyon

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Europe doesn't hate xbox, but love Nintendo and Sony consoles/games, since the 90's. Even during PS360 gen, PS3 was above X360 in Europe, except UK.
Now I don't know why X-box is crashing so hard but the delta with its rivals is unprecedented.
 
FrankWza

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Woopah said:
I think that the idea of competing with PS5 with a cheaper model does make some sense (that's what Switch us doing right now).

Buy it only works if you have a powerful brand and software, and Xbox doesn't.
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The difference between a new S and a PS5 Pro in that scenario defeats the purpose of getting a headstart on next gen though.
 
DForce

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Microsoft tried to go with price and performance with the Xbox Series X and S.
They even offered payment plans for the consoles and put their first-party games on Game Pass.

With all of this, the Xbox Series S is selling worse than the Don Mattrick era with the Xbox One console.

Makes you wonder what's going to happen if we don't see any improvements with all of ABK games going on Game Pass. 2024 is going to be a tough year to sell consoles with a new Nintendo Console and the PlayStation 5 Pro.
 
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Given Xbox has actually had some decent releases this year (HiFi Rush, Starfield, Forza etc) it is boggling that the month and the year to date is so far down.

Looking forwards to next year HellBlade, Avowed etc don't the cache to move the needle either.
 
StereoVsn

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Flabagast said:
Nice Starfield effect Phil.

This game was an utter failure and did not move the needle at all

In terms of economic payback it must be really ugly numbers
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That’s ok, have you seen the Starfield player and engagement numbers though? Through the roof! (*according to numerous Xbox accounts on X).

That was totally worth losing about $700mil revenue by yanking it away from PS5. Also, this way Microsoft is showing its support for success of independent studios as demonstrated by allowing BG3 to shine.

So Engagement, Support for Great Independent Studios, Amazing “Game Started” numbers and even received Best Xbox Game of the Year award!

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Thirty7ven

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Lemme see

Down Up = down
Up Down = down
Up Up = Up
Down Down = Up

So only Switch is down, Xbox Series and PS5 are killing it carrying the market the twin queens
 
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chilichote

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GHG said:
"Their people" are their own worst enemy and as a business they would be in much better shape if they stopped pandering to them.

Last time I checked, concerning yourself about what tribalistic morons have to say and think has never been a great business strategy.
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That's so true, if the XBox friends would finally demand quality instead of celebrating everything Microsoft puts out, things would definitely be better.
 
Tiago Rodrigues

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Over 50% decrease...like...how?

I really think everyone underestimated how much PS5's stock issues were giving Xbox extra sales. The more PS5 units there are out there, the less units are sold for Xbox.

At this point if PS5 sells 25M this fiscal year, they might sell around the same as Xbox Series for the entire generation (over 3 years) which would be catastrophic for MS.
 
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