Console Sales Drop 24% in Europe in June 2024, FC 24 Top-Seller - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 July 2024 / 7,303 Views
Sales in the tracked Europe markets for the Europe chart for June 2024 dropped compared to a year ago. This is according to GSD data reported by GamesIndustry.
There were 11.3 million video games sold in Europe in June, which is down 19 percent year-on-year. Last year saw the release of Diablo IV and Final Fantasy XVI, while there were no big launches this year.
EA Sports FC 24 was the best-selling game in Europe in the tracked markets with sales seven percent higher than FIFA 24 a year ago. This year's game will have been given a boost due to the European Championships.
Elden Ring was the second best-selling game of the game with sales up 454 percent month-on-month due to the release of the Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree expansion.
Luigi's Mansion 2 HD was the best-selling new release with it debuting in seventh place. It was the second fastest selling Nintendo Switch game of 2024 with sales just 4,000 lower than Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
There were just under 80 million games sold in Europe in the first half of 2024. That is a drop of 1.6 percent compared to the same period a year ago.
There were two new games in the top 10 best-selling games of 2024 through June. This is Helldivers 2 in second place and The Last of Us Part II Remastered in 10th place. It should be noted Palworld sales data is missing from this chart.
Hardware sales for the month of June dropped 24 percent year-on-year to just over 300,000.
All three consoles are down compared to a year ago with the PlayStation 5 dropping 10 percent, while the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X|S fell by a higher percent.
There were 2.2 million consoles sold in the first half of 2024, which is down 24 percent compared to the same period in 2023. PS5 sales are down 16 percent, Switch sales are down 32 percent, and Xbox Series X|S sales are down 37%.
Sales for accessories and other add-on products dropped 7.3 percent year-over-year to 1.1 million units. The PS5 DualSense Controller was the best-selling accessory.
For the first half of 2024, there were eight million accessories and other add-on products sold, which is down 8.4 percent year-on-year.
Top 10 Games in Europe in June 2024, according to GSD (Digital + Physical):
| Position | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | EA Sports FC 24 (EA) |
| 2 | Elden Ring (Bandai Namco) |
| 3 | Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar) |
| 4 | Sid Meier's Civilization VI (2K Games) |
| 5 | Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar) |
| 6 | Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros) |
| 7 | Luigi's Mansion 2 HD (Nintendo)* |
| 8 | F1 24 (EA) |
| 9 | Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar) |
| 10 | NBA 2K24 (2K Games) |
Top 10 Games in Europe in the first half of 2024, according to GSD (Digital + Physical):
| Position | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | EA Sports FC 24 (EA) |
| 2 | Helldivers 2 (Sony) |
| 3 | Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar) |
| 4 | Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros) |
| 5 | Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar) |
| 6 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard) |
| 7 | Fallout 4 (Bethesda) |
| 8 | It Takes Two (EA) |
| 9 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft) |
| 10 | The Last of Us Part 2: Remastered (Sony) |
* 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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PS2 : 55,2M / XBX : 5,5M (10:1)
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Pulling the cord on X/S soon that thing is barely breathing lol
To be honest.... the console market is stagnant or falling.
People are preferring to buy a gaming PC that has the possibility of subscribing to various services, there are several stores with much more affordable prices than consoles, you don't have to pay to play online, there is the possibility of playing on a laptop with better performance than any console.... currently, I only see advantages on the PC.
Consoles of this generation will not be able to surpass the previous generation, especially when cloud gaming technology is increasingly consolidated.
Yea....lol
Xbox is the only one failing. Oh, the rtx 3060 is still the most popular discrete GPU. Yeah, loads of people are buying RTX 4000. LOL.
There are a lot of people who still use the RTX 20xx or 30xx, which I don't consider bad cards in any way. If I'm not mistaken, the PS5 and XBox series X are equivalent to an RTX 2070.
Pc hardcore will fail as time goes on hardware is not the future and the console market is stagnant I don't even need a console my tv streams everything
Won't even need pc hardware is not the future either just smart TVs phones streaming on devices pc will
Be a tiny niche market as hardware will fail to besides hardcore pc ppl which is small
Sony themselves believe that PS5 sales peaked this past fiscal year. So they expect for sales to gradually go down every year going forward. PS5 Pro isn't going to do anything either. Pro models have always been enthusiast level devices and do no move consoles en masse. Just look at PS4 sales vs PS4 Pro sales. Not to mention, prices are only going up compared to previous gens. The only thing that could help propel that "second spring" would be GTA 6. We've already seen the effects of console sales from the casual market through NCAA 25, so I can't imagine what a GTA 6 would do.
Overall, the console market is healthy but all platform players for over 2 decades now have shared the same player pool. Which is why they're branching out to different platforms. Although Nintendo seems to be the only one pulling back on those ambitions with no more releases in the mobile space, but tbh, they're probably the only ones that can afford to.
How can you say "PS5 globally is on par or slightly surpassing PS4 numbers" when we know that isn't true. We know the PS5 sold less than the PS4 in the same timeframe and it's falling further behind each month.
