PS5 Best-Selling Console in Europe in January 2023, FIFA 23 Best-Selling Game - Sales

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FIFA 23 took first place on the Europe charts for January 2023, according to GSD data reported by GamesIndustry.

Grand Theft Auto V was the second best-selling game, followed by Red Dead Redemption 2 in third, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II in fourth, and God of War Ragnarök in fourth. All these games sold well for the month.

The remake of Dead Space debuted in sixth place, however, another similar game, The Callisto Protocol, had a better launch despite not including digital sales.

The PlayStation 5 console exclusive, Forspoken, debuted in 11th place with sales just ahead of Fire Emblem Engage. However, Fire Emblem Engage figures don't include digital sales.

There were a total of 12.1 million games sold in January across Europe, which is a decrease of 19 percent year-on-year. The main reason for the drop is due to the launch of Pokémon Legends: Arceus last year.

There were 493,000 video game consoles sold across Europe in January in the tracked markets. It should be noted the hardware charts exclude two major European countries - the UK and Germany, as well as some smaller markets.

Console sales were up 15.5 percent compared to January 2022. The PS5 saw a massive increase in sales, while Switch and Xbox Series X|S sales declined.

The PS5 was the best-selling console of the month with sales up 202 percent year-on-year. It was noted the PS5 was in short suppled last year.

The Nintendo Switch was second best-selling console with sales down 11 percent compared to January 2022. The Xbox Series X|S came in third place with sales down 32 percent.

There were more than 1.76 million accessories sold in Europe, which is down 2.1 percent compared to the month before. The PS5 DualSense controller was the best-selling accessory.

Top 20 Games in Europe in January 2023, according to GSD (Digital + Physical):

* Digital data unavailable

GSD digital data includes games from participating companies sold via Steam, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo Eshop. Major participating companies are Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Embracer Group (including Gearbox, Koch Media, Sabre Interactive), Focus Entertainment, Konami, Marvellous Games, Microids, Microsoft (including Bethesda), Milestone, Nacon, Paradox Interactive, Quantic Dream, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Take-Two, Ubisoft and Warner Bros. Nintendo and 505 Games are the notable absentees, alongside smaller studios.

Digital data includes games sold in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and United Kingdom.

Physical data includes all games, but only those sold in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

Console hardware sales cover Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Accessories sales cover the same markets, but doesn't include Switzerland.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

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Doctor_MG (on 14 February 2023)

I think it's crazy a console soon to be in it's seventh year is down less YoY than a console that just entered it's third year.

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Garrus Doctor_MG (on 14 February 2023)

xbox is floundering... they should take the Radeon 7600 XT with RDNA3 and stick it in a Series S style console imo. Faster than Series X but all digital, $350.

Sony's "less GPU cores, higher clock speed" approach is winning out right now.

The PS5 digital is going to wreck Xbox all year long if Xbox doesn't do something about it.

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xgamerx Garrus (on 14 February 2023)

or just make more series x and stop making the S...

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Garrus xgamerx (on 15 February 2023)

the problem is people prefer the S's design, but they don't have enough power

the X is powerful, but the design is not good, they can lower the price by $150 if they use a new smaller chip at a higher frequency with a new node, and remove the optical drive

obviously $350 is more competitive than $500, and they'd get real ray tracing support with RDNA3

32 GPU cores with RDNA3 should be close to the 52 older cores in the Series X

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Garrus xgamerx (on 15 February 2023)

we'll know for sure when the Radeon 7600M XT releases next week, it should beat the 6700 XT easily enough

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Teno Garrus (on 15 February 2023)

It's not a question of pricing. Series X is already 50€ cheaper in Europe than the Digital PS5 and still most sold PS5 console are the standard version selling for more than 600€. It's just the games and people upgrading that makes it difficult for Xbox to compete in mainland Europe.

Edit: And because Xbox is so PC friendly with it's own studios most will prefer a gaming PC and add a Nintendo or Sony platform to their household and no xbox.

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Garrus Teno (on 15 February 2023)

Microsoft makes good hardware, if that is their strength, they can take advantage of it, it is much harder to fix software issues

personally I think every Xbox should come with a copy of Windows, that would make it competitive

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scrapking Teno (on 15 February 2023)

For your "most" statement to be accurate, Microsoft's games would have to have higher engagement on PC than on Xbox. Is there any suggestion that it's true? Like, does Forza, Gears, Halo, etc., have more PC players than Xbox players? I don't recall seeing anything that suggests that.

If you like Microsoft's games, an Xbox is a hell of a lot cheaper than a gaming PC.

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SanAndreasX Doctor_MG (on 15 February 2023)

The Switch has an awesome library.

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mjk45 (on 14 February 2023)

Who ever those people are who continue to keep GTA V high up in the charts stop it, while we know GTA6 is a thing this isn't helping in prioritising the game.

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2zosteven (on 16 February 2023)

GTA5 still at the top!

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