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PS5 Best-Selling Console in Europe in 2023, 182 Million Games Sold

PS5 Best-Selling Console in Europe in 2023, 182 Million Games Sold - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 January 2024 / 11,422 Views

EA Sports FC 24 was the best-selling game in Europe in 2023, according to GSD data reported by GamesIndustry.

Sales for EA Sports FC 24 are down nine percent compared to 2022's FIFA 23. This is a decent result when you factor in the rebrand from FIFA to EA Sports FC, as well as the World Cup in December 2022.

Hogwarts Legacy was the second best-selling game in Europe in 2023. This is the best-selling non-EA football game in a calendar year in Europe since these charts began in 2017.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the fourth best-selling game with sales down 32 percent compared to 2022's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. It should be noted, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 did launch a little earlier in the year.

Two Nintendo exclusives - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Super Mario Bros. Wonder - came in seventh and ninth place. It should be noted, Nintendo does not share digital sales of its games. If we look at just the retail chart, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom came in third and Super Mario Bros. Wonder came in fourth.

FIFA 23 came in third place, Grand Theft Auto V came in fifth place with sales down just one percent year-on-year, Diablo IV came in sixth place. Red Dead Redemption 2 came in eighth place with sales up 19 percent year-on-year.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor came in 11th place, Assassin's Creed Mirage took 12th place, F1 23 came in 15th place, and the remake of Resident Evil 4 took 17th place.

34 percent of all games sold in 2023 were from new releases, which is down from 35 percent in 2022.

In terms of games sold, PC was the top platform for the year, followed by the PS5. The Switch came in third, the PS4 in fourth, and the Xbox Series X|S in fifth. PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S all saw an increase in games sold when compared to 2022.

The biggest European market in 2023 remains the UK, followed by Germany in second, France in third, Spain in fourth, and Italy in fifth.

There were 182million video games sold in Europe in 2023, which up 1.7 percent year-on-year.

Console sales in the tracked European markets for 2023 are up nearly 42 percent year-on-year to 7.4 million 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 177 percent year-on-year. The Nintendo Switch was the second best-selling console with sales down nearly 10 percent year-on-year. The Xbox Series X|S came in third place with sales down nearly 18 percent year-on-year. 

The PlayStation 4 saw sales jump 671 percent compared to 2022. There was very little PS4 stock available in 2022.

There were also 20.5 million peripherals sold in Europe in 2023, which is up nine percent year-on-year. The PS5 DualSense controller was the best-selling peripheral, followed by the Xbox Series X|S controller.

Top 10 Games in Europe in 2023, according to GSD (Digital + Physical):

Position Title
1 EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
2 Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
3 FIFA 23 (EA)
4 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
5 Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
6 Diablo IV (Activision Blizzard)
7 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo)*
8 Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
9 Super Mario Bros Wonder (Nintendo)*
10 Spider-Man 2 (Sony)
11 Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (EA)
12 Assassin's Creed Mirage (Ubisoft)
13 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)*
14 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision)
15 F1 23 (EA/Codemasters)
16 Nintendo Switch Sports* (Nintendo)
17 Resident Evil 4 Remake (Capcom)
18 God of War Ragnarok (Sony)
19 NBA 2K23 (2K Games)
20 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, 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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25 Comments
Signalstar (on 16 January 2024)

PS4 selling more software than current Gen Xbox. Yeesh. No wonder so many companies are still releasing cross gen titles

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Manlytears Signalstar (on 16 January 2024)

Imho, Gamepass effect. A great deal of Xbox gamers don't buy games, they just pay for Gamepass.

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smroadkill15 Signalstar (on 16 January 2024)

Considering the install base of both, it's not weird ps4 still sells more software.

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Tamak30 smroadkill15 (on 16 January 2024)

I don't know why you get dislike because what you say is true.

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Shtinamin_ (on 16 January 2024)

Estimates
PS5 +177%: 9.54M units
Switch -10%: 4.49M units
Xbox Series X/S -18%: 1.85M units

Wow PS5 is doing spectacular, no wonder it reached 50M in December! Very Impressive. The last time a console sold that much in Europe was the DS in 2009.

Switch for its 7th year is doing amazing and showing a 10% drop is very successful given its peak was in 2020.

Xbox Series X/S are feeling like a 2nd class console.

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Random_Matt (on 16 January 2024)

I did say the UK still likes Xbox. Europe on the other hand. Ouch.

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DekutheEvilClown (on 16 January 2024)

Some additional software positions not included:

Within the Top 100, there's Dead Space Remake (No.30), Final Fantasy 16 (No.32), NBA 2K24 (No.33), Dead Island 2 (No.35), Starfield (No.37), The Crew Motorfest (No.38), WWE 2K23 (No.42), Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (No.48), Mortal Kombat 1 (No.53), Just Dance 2024 (No.82), EA Sports UFC 5 (No.97) and Street Fighter 6 (No.98).

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Manlytears DekutheEvilClown (on 16 January 2024)

Starfield floped in EU. These numbers are bad for such hyped game.

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pikashoe Manlytears (on 16 January 2024)

It's on gamepass lol

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Hardstuck-Platinum pikashoe (on 16 January 2024)

Means they will be forced to negate the losses by putting it on ps5 though. FO4 sold less than Skyrim and starfield sold less FO4 and there is no way that is sustainable.

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Tamak30 Hardstuck-Platinum (on 16 January 2024)

Starfield earned over $200 million on Steam, while it was available on gamepass. I don't know what loss you're talking about.

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Esparadrapo Tamak30 (on 16 January 2024)

"Starfield is at 4.49m sales according to VG Insights, again this seems highly dubious right off the bat. Playtracker has it 1.54m sales, which makes more sense. They had about 1M sales during the “early access” and then sales dropped off dramatically, which seems to mirror the general perception of the game’s success."

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/459620/baldurs-gate-3-hogwarts-legacy-and-starfield-lead-the-top-grossing-steam-games-in-2023/

1/3 of Starfield's reviews come from a key. So around 1/3 is either a cheaper key or a key from a graphics card.

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Tamak30 Esparadrapo (on 16 January 2024)

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BestOf2023
Starfield is one of the games with the highest gross revenues.

"1/3 of Starfield's reviews come from a key. So around 1/3 is either a cheaper key or a key from a graphics card."

I'd like to know the source of this information.

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Esparadrapo Tamak30 (on 16 January 2024)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1716740/Starfield/

140k total 92k bought on Steam 49k keys = 35% reviews from keys

The user that posted that was concerned about VG Insights numbers as a whole, not only Starfield's. The revenue is also a product of those sales by the price which is absurd out of regional pricing alone.

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UnderwaterFunktown (on 16 January 2024)

Good results for the year for both PS5 and Switch, and TotK and Wonder taking 3rd and 4th in retail sales is another great result for Nintendo.

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pikashoe (on 16 January 2024)

Does this list include bundled sales for games like spiderman 2

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DekutheEvilClown pikashoe (on 16 January 2024)

For reference I have never seen a single copy of the Spider-man bundle on sale in the UK. I think it might have been available at some point for like a week.

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Mars2001 (on 16 January 2024)

140M Switch until December.Best ever in Japan and second best ever in Ameeicas Surpass Ps2.Mario Kart 2014 more units than disneys Spiderman with new console ps5 bundles

(User Banned)

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xl-klaudkil Mars2001 (on 16 January 2024)

Oke? So..?

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DekutheEvilClown Mars2001 (on 16 January 2024)

The America’s part is a straight-up lie that this dude is bizarrely obsessed with spreading.

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Chicho DekutheEvilClown (on 16 January 2024)

I thought that was his prediction. I seems like he is saying that by December of this year the Switch will be at 140m Will be best in Japan and 2nd best in the Americas. None of those things have happened yet but is not December and looks like is a prediction so you can't say is a lie.

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DekutheEvilClown Chicho (on 17 January 2024)

The switch is 6M behind the PS2 in North America. We don’t know the Americas number but PS2 is 6M ahead in the rest of the world category. So it’s incredibly unlikely that such a statement would be true if there was actual data to prove it.

Secondly he’s been claiming this already happened for about 3 months. He’s posted it about 10+ times and it’s been explained to him that it’s not correct.

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Hardstuck-Platinum Mars2001 (on 16 January 2024)

Another user on here trying to convince people Sony is failing when they just had one of their best years ever.

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CosmicSex Mars2001 (on 16 January 2024)

I remember when fan competition was about comparing facts. Now its about seeing who can say the most patently false lie with straight face. Its about constantly affirming your own untruths. Its very Trump-esque.

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hellobion2 CosmicSex (on 16 January 2024)

Very true

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