Analysis of the software sales based on the data included in this 2023 UK report provided by
enpleinjour from Installbase:
Physical vs Digital
- Console Full Game revenue: 40% Physical : 60% Digital
- 34% Physical including PC
Console vs PC
- Full game revenue : 84% console, 16% PC
- Gaming hardware access. : 81% console, 19% PC
- 1.4M PS accessories
- 1M XB accessories
ERA 2022 | PC (1,000s) | Total (1,000s) | PC ratio |
Elden Ring | 181 | 865 | 0.21 |
GTAV | 101 | 816 | 0.12 |
RDR | 100 | 355 | 0.28 |
LEGO | 69 | 817 | 0.08 |
ERA 2023 | | | |
Hogwarts | 225 | 1,921 | 0.12 |
Diablo 4 | 224 | 443 | 0.51 |
Jedi S | 57 | 553 | 0.10 |
COD MW3 | 161 | 1,239 | 0.13 |
GTAV | 135 | 616 | 0.22 |
RDR2 | 108 | 412 | 0.26 |
EAFC 24 | 61 | 2,396 | 0.03 |
PC ratios continue to be really low. New releases like Jedi having just 10% of sales on PC, EA, the biggest UK game only 3%. Hogwarts only 12%.
Even that Diablo split seems a bit surprising, would have expected 60-70% on PC.
UK is just not a big market for PC.
Software
- COD continues its decline, this year is a -36% decline. MW3 console sales are close with Vanguard, lowest COD sales since 2008
- EA likely had one of its best years in history, Top 20 sales are ~4M, not that far from ATVI+Nintendo+SONY combined!
- ATVI can't stop the COD bleed but D4 did very well.
- UBI still down in the dumps with a lack of output and big sellers
- Nintendo should be closer to last year, a lot of competition this year so the Top 20 misses part of their usual evergreens
- SONY had a drop of output, GOWR legs are very good, expected SM2 to do more and outsell the original considerably, but the installbase seems like a real factor there.
1st Calendar Year sales:
[2017] Assassin's Creed II - 920,910
[2017] Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - 880,775
[2017] Assassin's Creed Origins - 679,965 (20.4% digital)
[2018] Assassin's Creed Odyssey - 305,937***
[2020] Assassin's Creed Valhalla - 693,367 (40.1% digital)
[2023] Assassin's Creed Mirage - 352,228 (51.3% digital)
Resident Evil Village - 331,252
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - 354,257
Resident Evil 4 Remake - 321,117
Elden Ring - 865,262
LEGO SS - 817,299
Hogwarts - 1,921,143
FF15 - <250,000 (phy only)
TR:SoTR - 226,125 (phy only)
Avengers - 380,596 (33.8%)
FF7R - < 320,000
GoTG - 192,576 (27.4%)
FF16 - <142,000
Skyrim - 1,138,000
Fallout 4 - 1,126,000
Starfield - 142,000