PS5 Sales Up 143% in Europe in October 2023, Assassin's Creed, Spider-Man 2, and Mario Debut - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 November 2023 / 7,549 Views
EA Sports FC 24 remained in first place on the Europe charts for October 2023, according to GSD data reported by GamesIndustry.
Sales for the rebranded FIFA series from EA remained strong, however, they are down 10 percent compared to last year's FIFA 23.
Assassin's Creed Mirage debuted in second place with sales narrowly ahead of Marvel's Spider-Man 2. Though Assassin's Creed was available for two weeks longer. The first four weeks of Assassin's Creed Mirage are over 49 percent lower than Assassin's Creed Valhalla, but are 22 percent higher than Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and six percent higher than Assassin's Creed: Origins.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 debuted in third place with the first two week of sales up nearly 30 percent compared with 2018's Marvel's Spider-Man and nearly three times higher than 2020's Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
Comparing Marvel's Spider-Man 2 with 2022's God of War: Ragnarök, sales are 22 percent lower after two weeks. However, Ragnarök was also available on PS4. If we just use PS5 sales, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 had a bigger launch than Ragnarök by eight percent.
Super Mario Bros Wonder debuted in fourth place despite Nintendo not sharing digital sales of its games. Launch sales are double 2017's Super Mario Odyssey, nearly 59 percent higher than 2020's Super Mario 3D All-Stars, and nearly 53% higher than 2021's Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury.
Lords of the Fallen debuted in fifth place, Metal Gear Sold: Master Collection Volume 1 debuted in 16th place, EA Sports UFC 5 debuted in 17th place, Detective Pikachu Returns debuted in 32nd place, Sonic Superstars debuted in 33rd place, and Forza Motorsport debuted in 42nd place.
Video game sales in Europe were down 2.3 percent year-on-year to 10.21 million games sold. The small decrease is impressive as Call of Duty launched in the October in 2023.
Console sales in the tracked European markets for October are up 16 percent month-on-month to 481,000 consoles sold. It should be noted console sales in the UK, Germany, and some Eastern European countries are not included.
The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console with sales up 143 percent year-on-year. However, last year sales were rather weak for PS5 due to stock shortages. Sales for the PS5 are also up 11 percent compared to September.
The Nintendo Switch came in second place with sales down 20 percent year-on-year and up 10 percent month-on-month. The Xbox Series X|S came in third place with sales down 52 percent year-on-year and down 20 percent month-on-month.
Top 20 Games in Europe in October 2023, according to GSD (Digital + Physical):
| Position | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | EA Sports FC 24 (EA) |
| 2 | Assassin's Creed Mirage (Ubisoft) |
| 3 | Spider-Man 2 (Sony) |
| 4 | Super Mario Bros Wonder (Nintendo)* |
| 5 | Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar) |
| 6 | Lords of the Fallen 2023 (CI Games) |
| 7 | Battlefield 2042 (EA) |
| 8 | Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros) |
| 9 | Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar) |
| 10 | It Takes Two (EA) |
* 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 and Ukraine.
Physical data includes all games, but only those sold in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
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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As a reminder this Europe report does NOT include the UK, Germany, and some smaller Eastern European countries. Just looking at our estimates for the covered markets we are looking at ~325K for PS5, ~102K for NS, and ~48K for XS. Then you add in the missing markets to get all of Europe.
I am working on our estimates for all of Europe right now. It should be out within the next hour or 2.
Microsoft's strategy seems to be tanking Xbox hardware into the ground. The question now is how this will influence their overall gaming strategy going forward. The software business is healthy, the hardware business is crashing. With their biggest game now launching on PlayStation and Nintendo we may in the future see a time when "console exclusive" is not in MS's vocabulary anymore.
What sense is their in sacrificing software sales by making them exclusive to push hardware sales when this is the result?
They are. Taking a further loss on console hardware when the situation in Europe is this bad would be to throw money away. And they already have a console that’s significantly cheaper than the PS5 (in Sweden). They should put their focus on making their games top tier and betting more on PC in Europe.
Exactly Microsoft has nothing to lose because they can get sales from there monoploy on windows.
Europe is truly Sonyland again. I can't see them losing a month until the next Nintendo system's launch and depending on the month that might even be a close call.
PS5 up 11% from September would mean it sold a bit more than 700K, pretty insane
Not exactly. The September report from GamesIndustry only covered 4 weeks (we had to extrapolate to get 5 weeks for September) and it doesn't cover the UK, Germany, and some smaller Eastern European countries. So just taking our Europe estimates for September and adding 11% likely won't get to where our estimates will be. Though I haven't run all the Europe numbers yet. I should have the Europe estimates for October up in the next couple of hours.
Edit. For example, in the UK report it said PS5 sales were down 4% compared to September.
Article should read. Playstation will set prices for the market going forward.
MS have nothing to launch off of at the start of next gen. If people are adopting the ps ecosystem at a rate of 7:1 there will be nothing ms can do to get all those people to drop their ps library and migrate over to xbox next gen. Xbox seems officially dead.
Down 4% in UK and up 11% in majority of Europe over last month. Should atleast be flat compared to last month.
Sales keep tanking and they keep promoting the people who are responsable, microsoft being third party seems the future if this keeps going on.
Even if Sony playstation are a bunch of greedy scumbags the people still want their console becoz of the "exclusive",
They want options!
