PS5 Best-Selling Console in the US in October, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Debuts in 1st - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 15 November 2023 / 8,685 Views
The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console in the US in October 2023 in terms of units sold and dollar sales, according to figures from Circana (formerly The NPD Group). Circana includes the dates for the four week period of October 1 to 28.
The Nintendo Switch was second best-selling console in terms of units sold, but came in third place in terms of dollar sales. The Xbox Series X|S was third best-selling console in terms of units sold, but came in second place in terms of dollar sales.
All three consoles saw double-digit percentage declines in terms of dollar sales year-over-year.
2023 year-to-date the PlayStation 5 is the best-selling console in terms of both units sold and dollar sales. The Nintendo Switch comes in second place in both units sold and dollar sales, while the Xbox Series X|S comes in third place.
Overall spending on video games in October was up five percent year-on-year from $4.27 billion to $4.04 billion. Spending on video game content decreased four percent from $3.69 billion to $3.56 billion, while video game hardware sales dropped 23 percent from $426 million to $327 million.
Overall spending on video games in 2023 year-to-date is up two percent from $42.70 billion to $43.42 billion. Spending on video game content is up one percent from $37.18 billion to $37.64 billion, while video game hardware sales is up six percent from $3.79 billion to $4.03 billion.
"U.S. consumer spending on video game content, hardware and accessories fell 5% vs YA, to $4.0B," said Circana Executive Director and Video Game Industry Analyst Mat Piscatella. "Declines were experienced across all categories of spend. The dip was partially driven by Call of Duty shifting release months."
Piscatella added, "Spending on video game content in October fell 4% when compared to a year ago, to $3.6 billion. Growth in physical console software and mobile spending was offset by declines in other areas, particularly digital premium downloads driven by the release date shift of Call of Duty."
There were nine new releases in the top 20 best-selling games. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 debuted in first place and is already the fourth best-selling game of 2023. Launch month dollar sales are higher than 2018's Marvel’s Spider-Man by double-digit percentage.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder debuted in second place and is the 21st best-selling game of 2023. It should be noted Nintendo does not share digital sales for its games.
Assassin's Creed Mirage debuted in third place, UFC 5 debuted in seventh place, NHL 24 debuted in eighth place, Sonic Superstars debuted in ninth place, Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 debuted in 12th place, Forza Motorsport (2023) debuted in 17th place, and Lords of the Fallen (2023) debuted in 20th place.
Madden NFL 24 remained in fourth place, EA Sports FC 24 dropped two spots to fifth place, and Mortal Kombat 1 fell four spots to sixth place.
Here are the top 20 best-selling games in terms of dollars for October 2023:
Here are the top 20 best-selling games in 2023 year-to-date:
Here are the top 20 games played on the PlayStation 5 ranked by monthly active users:
Here are the top 20 games played on the Xbox Series X|S ranked by monthly active users:
Here are the top 20 games played on Steam ranked by monthly active users:
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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PS5 and Spidy have absolutely crushed it.
Insane couple of months ahead for Sony.
i saw more hype videos for that spiderman game than any other game in years
Interesting. We know that Spider-man 2 sold 5M (worldwide) in October and we see here that it is considerably ahead of Starfield in the market that concentrates the majority of sales for Xbox and Bethesda. Would it be fair to conclude that Starfield is well below 5M, perhaps even below 4M?
I understand the ranking is based on revenue, and not units sold. That said, considering that the games have similar prices, wouldn't this also be reflected in the proportion of units sold?
ToTK not being in the top 20 anymore... yikes.
Doesn't anyone else find it odd that SMW isn't listed in the top games of 2023. What exactly is the disparity between first and second place in October?
Super Mario Wonder is 21st for the 2023 according to the full data on Twitter.
I mean, Spiderman sold 5M in 11 days and Super Mario Wonder sold 4.3M in 14 days. These are worldwide numbers and only 8 of those days are actually counted in this NPD however. Then take into account that Super Mario Wonder sold 800k in Japan in that time period whereas Spiderman 2 sold 90k in Japan and you begin to see it. Spiderman 2 sold more copies in less time and it was concentrated in two main territories (Europe and North America) instead of three (Europe, North America, and Japan).
no surprise
I really hope the Xbox has a good holiday in November and December. Sales until October are not very good. I hope that with the addition of Activision games to gamepass and more releases from xbox studios they will put it back above the xbox one
mabey xbox will shut down more studios!
no surprise here
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