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PS5 Best-Seller in Europe in February 2024, Helldivers 2 Debuts in 1st

PS5 Best-Seller in Europe in February 2024, Helldivers 2 Debuts in 1st - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 March 2024 / 7,559 Views

Helldivers 2 has debuted in first place on the Europe charts for February 2024, according to GSD data reported by GamesIndustry.

Over 56 percent of Helldivers 2 sales were on the PC, while the remaining sales were on the PlayStation 5. Sales for the game increased 70 percent in its second week and over three percent in its third week. Sales fell 28 percent in its fourth week. This is a strong performance as most games drops 60 to 80 percent in week two. Helldivers 2 sales are so far tracking just five percent behind PS5's biggest exclusive in 2023, Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth debuted in third place. The double pack, which includes Final Fantasy VII Remake, debuted in 39th place. Opening sales for the second part of the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy are down 23 percent compared to the first part. Sales for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are tracking four percent higher than 2023's Final Fantasy XVI.

Ubisoft's Skull and Bones debuted in ninth place with sales 30 percent lower than 2018's Sea of Thieves.

Warner Bros' Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League debuted in 12th place with sales 33 percent lower than 2022's Gotham Knights, and 61 percent lower than 2021's Guardians of the Galaxy.

Mario vs Donkey Kong debuted in 15th place and Pacific Drive debuted in 18th place.

There were 16.74 million video games sold in Europe in February, which is up 21.2 percent year-on-year. However, February 2024 is a five week period, while it was four weeks a year. When you compared to the same five weeks, sales down 0.1 percent year-on-year.

Console sales in the tracked European markets for February are down 14 percent year-on-year to nearly 474,469 consoles sold when you compare the same five weeks. 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 down two percent. The Nintendo Switch was the second best-selling console with sales down 17 percent, followed by the Xbox Series X|S in third with sales down 47 percent.

There were also 1.6 million accessories and other add-on products sold in February. It was led by the PS5 DualSense and Xbox Wireless controllers.

Top 10 Games in Europe in February 2024, according to GSD (Digital + Physical):

Position Title
1 Helldivers 2 (Sony)
2 EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
3 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
4 Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
5 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
6 Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
7 Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
8 It Takes Two (EA)
9 Skull and Bones (Ubisoft)
10 Need for Speed: Heat (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, Tencent, 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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31 Comments
Manlytears (on 18 March 2024)

Playstation almost flat is a great result If you consider the massive numbers of 2023.

Switch is doing good for such old system.

Xbox is dead. Like, there's a huge red flag for green team to handle.

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Zeltaz13 (on 18 March 2024)

Playstation pretty much flat, but wtf is happening to xbox, down 47% is gigantic

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chakkra Zeltaz13 (on 18 March 2024)

The remaining X1 owners, who have not upgraded yet, basically got told "Hey, it's okay, you can get a Playstation this time around, you will be able to play all of our games there eventually". I'm actually baffled that people did not see this one coming.

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CosmicSex chakkra (on 18 March 2024)

This seems backwards. You make it sound like sales of Xbox Series haven't been plummeting for the last couple of years. And I hate to break it to you but sales were only going to continue to go down. Microsoft made the right decision.

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chakkra CosmicSex (on 18 March 2024)

Please show me the link when was the last time that its sales dropped 47% in a month. And btw, Xbox was THE ONLY console that had a double digit increase on NPD last month; let's see how this month is gonna be.

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Hardstuck-Platinum chakkra (on 18 March 2024)

I think that was cos of Palworld though so could be an anomaly

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chakkra Hardstuck-Platinum (on 18 March 2024)

December was also up YoY, and not only that but Matt Piscatella literally said this: "Xbox Series set a new lifetime high in U.S. unit sales during the month of December. The previous unit sales high for Xbox Series was set in December 2021."

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Esparadrapo chakkra (on 20 March 2024)

December was up because there was a fire sale with the Series X up to $200 off and the Series S +$100 off.

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method114 (on 18 March 2024)

Down 47%? Wow that is massive.

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CosmicSex method114 (on 18 March 2024)

It kills me when people act surprised about putting games on PlayStation. Like... what do you expect them to do. Microsoft is gonna follow the money.

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method114 CosmicSex (on 18 March 2024)

It's still surprising but yea like you said looking at the data it's not surprising.

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Geralt99 (on 18 March 2024)

PS5- down 2% YOY
Switch- down 17% YOY
Xbox- down 47% YOY

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firebush03 Geralt99 (on 18 March 2024)

These figures are yet annother example of just how important games are to sales figures. PlayStation dropped two big titles in February and, as a result, maintained pace with their massive February from last year. Similarly, Switch is a console built on quality exclusives, giving it strong numbers even in its eighth year. Meanwhile Xbox…announced four major exclusives getting moved to third-party. And nothing new for their system during the month. :/

-47% YoY is catastrophic for Xbox. At this point, the only thing keeping them alive is NA.

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Random_Matt (on 18 March 2024)

"Xbox Series X|S in third with sales down 47 percent"

MS certainly needs to release games on all platforms.

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Manlytears Random_Matt (on 18 March 2024)

Yup. As things are now, Series X/S is going to end under X1. Losing market, that's not good at all, especially for someone that needs to deliver a +$70 Bi. In Return on investment (ROI).

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chakkra Random_Matt (on 18 March 2024)

I would argue that this result is precisely BECAUSE Xbox is releasing their games on other platforms. I mean, the remaining X1 owners just had to sit there and watch Microsoft releasing Hi-Fi Rush to PS5 (and Switch!). Why exactly would an X1 owner feel compelled to upgrade to a Series X after that?.

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Shtinamin_ (on 18 March 2024)

Feb 2024 Estimates
PS5: 417,810 (-2% of 426,336)
Switch: 162,271 (-17% of 195,507)
Xbox Series: 62,177 (-47% of 117,314)

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/456569/europe-hardware-february-2023/

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trunkswd Shtinamin_ (on 18 March 2024)

That likely won't add up perfectly as the Europe report from GamesIndustry is missing the UK, Germany, and some other smaller countries in Europe. Plus comparing 4 weeks for VGC Feb 2023 vs 5 weeks for the EU report for Feb 2024. And VGC Feb 2024 estimates are for 4 weeks as we follow the dates from NPD/Circana.

In the UK, PS5 sales are down 28% YoY, while Switch barely outsold XS with both consoles being down. No % drop was given for NS or XS in that report.

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/460229/ps5-best-seller-in-the-uk-in-february-helldivers-2-is-a-hit-on-ps5-and-pc/

I'm working on the Europe estimates for VGChartz, but want to wait for Machina to double check my math.

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BonfiresDown (on 18 March 2024)

Stick a fork in it.

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Hardstuck-Platinum (on 18 March 2024)

The "February third party rumours furore" on twitter I think was as destructive to Xbox sales as the 2013 DRM stuff. Where, the damage was so bad it was being outsold 100-1 on amazon by the PS4. Third party rumours really was the final nail

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hellobion2 (on 18 March 2024)

Helldivers 2 is still up there

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jvmkdg (on 18 March 2024)

This is a great result for the Playstation, soon the PS5 will surpass the global sales of the Xbox One.

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chakkra (on 18 March 2024)

I'm actually happy with this Xbox results, as MS will be forced to do either of two things:
a) If they plan to continue on the console market they will be forced to drop this "games for everyone" c*p as soon as possible.
b) If they plan to go 3rd party, then they will be forced to speed up the process.

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Esparadrapo chakkra (on 18 March 2024)

"a)" isn't really an option. They can't hold the burden of making ABK games exclusive when they are already in literal hell withstanding Zenimax losses.

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Hardstuck-Platinum chakkra (on 18 March 2024)

Once you've made the agreements and signed the contracts there's not really any going back, no matter how big the backlash is.

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firebush03 chakkra (on 18 March 2024)

lmao Microsoft doesn’t understand games anymore. All they see are profits, and profits come from making your exclusives go third-party. If anything, Microsoft would sooner drop out the market and act as a major third-party developer, than ever improve the Xbox. They’ve been down since 2014, and nothing has improved.

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SanAndreasX firebush03 (on 20 March 2024)

Microsoft NEVER understood games. This is the company that thought they could just buy their way to the top by flying to Kyoto, opening up their checkbook, and Yamauchi would be falling to his knees in submission, instead of them getting laughed all the way back to the plane to Seattle by a bunch of scornful Nintendo execs.

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Hardstuck-Platinum (on 18 March 2024)

They paid 7 billion USD for a 30fps Bethesda games PR disaster, buggy broken game in Redfall and BGS worst game they've ever made in Starfield (currently has 38% rating on steam recent reviews). Not sure I've ever seen a worse investment then that. Helldivers 2 comes along, barely costing Sony anything and makes better ROI then Bethesda

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They paid $350 million for a farm in Twycross, England and a blue-and-gold "R" logo.

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