PS5 Pro Accounts for 26% of PS5 Sales in the UK in November, Black Ops 6 Remains in 1st - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 December 2024 / 9,243 Views
The PlayStation 5 Pro accounted for 26 percent of all PS5 console sold in the UK in November, according to GfK Entertainment data reported by GamesIndustry.
Overall, there were nearly 270,000 video game consoles sold (Nielsen GfK panel data) in the UK in November 2024. This is up 85 percent compared to October, but is down a massive 45 percent drop year-on-year.
It should be noted November data for this report does not include Black Friday data, which is why sales are down as much as they are compared to last year. GfK did reveal PS5 sales are up during Black Friday compared to last year.
GSD data shows there were three million games sold in November 2024, which is down 33 percent year-on-year. Like with the hardware data, this does not include Black Friday sales, and Call of Duty released in November last year, while it released in October this year.
GSD did share that 1.53 million games were sold during Black Friday week, which is a drop of over eight percent compared to Black Friday 2023.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 in its second month remained the best-selling game in the UK, followed by EA Sports FC 25 in second. Sales for EA Sports FC 25 are down 22 percent compared to last year's entry and sales during Black Friday week dropped 20 percent year-on-year.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard was the best-selling new release as it debuted in third place. After four weeks it is the 12th fastest-selling game of 2024. It is behind Astro Bot by 9.6 percent, Star Wars Outlaws by 15 percent, Dragon's Dogma 2 by 21 percent, and Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero by 28 percent. However, it is ahead of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth by 1.5 percent.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership debuted in 11th place. Sales are 16 percent lower than Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and 19 percent behind Super Mario RPG. It should be noted this is only for physical sales as Nintendo does not share digital sales.
There were 1.05 million accessories and add-on products sold in the UK in November, which is up nearly 58 percent month-on-month., but is down 18 percent year-on-year. Again, Black Friday data isn't included.
The White DualSense controller was the best-selling accessory, followed by the Midnight Black DualSense controller. The 30th Anniversary Limited Edition DualSense controller debuted in fourth place.
Here are the top 10 best-selling games in the UK (Digital + Physical):
| Position | Title |
| 1 | Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Activision Blizzard) |
| 2 | EA Sports FC 25 (EA) |
| 3 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard (EA) |
| 4 | Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros) |
| 5 | Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar) |
| 6 | Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo)* |
| 7 | Horizon: Zero Dawn Remastered (Sony) |
| 8 | Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo)* |
| 9 | Super Mario Bros Wonder (Nintendo)* |
| 10 | Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)* |
*Digital data unavailable
GSD digital data includes games from participating companies sold via PC digital stores, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo Eshop. Major participating companies are Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Capcom, CD Projekt, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Embracer Group (including Gearbox, Koch Media, Sabre Interactive), Focus Entertainment, Kepler, 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.
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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if not including the last week why even bother to put a data " for november " then ? GSD or GFK or whatever .. what a joke
I agree. That means the first week for the December report for the UK will be the week ending November 30. Which has ZERO days in December. This does make the UK estimates for our November, which does include Back Friday week, that much harder to do as we have less data than usual.
this is the source from which you took the data ? what a catastrophe.. I didn't realize that this will be the official november data .. last year was something similar, but not as much, november was till 25th, cuz from 26th onwards was december. Can't you put old school estimates numbers to cover the last week as well ? just like when the estimates were updated every week ? and if needed after the december data is out, adjustment can be made ?
Luckily, this isn't the only way we do our estimates. But yes, for Black Friday week we will have to use the older methods only this time around and do any necessary adjustments once the December report is released in January.
The report does mention PS5 is up YoY for Black Friday, which most likely means NS and XS are down YoY for that week.
The PS5 being up YoY for Black Friday is not as meaningful as it sounds as the PS5 was basically sold out the entire UK by actual Black Friday last year, it sold out at the start of the BF week sales and didn’t get replenished until the Slim Goup model was released like a week later.
wow nintendo 40% of top 10 games list
man...Astro was supposed to have strong holiday numbers. Maybe just not in the UK? I mean, it's not even beating Mario Wonder nor MK8D physical sales...
The game sold 1,5 million in 2 months. Its not expected to do wonders. But not beating a 7+ years old WiiU port is kinda poor.
Correction: not beating even the physical sales alone of a 7+ years old WiiU port is kinda poor.
I genuinely wonder if Sony might consider port Astro to Nintendo’s next system, as opposed to PC? They would certain get some solid sales figures with the Nintendo base. Idk why Sony platformers fail to sell well. Not even manic acclaim and GotY wins is enough to send this bot past the physical sales of a 7yo WiiU game. :/
🤫🤫🤫🤫 Stop! You could upset the Sonybase here!! If Horizon did not happen, i would call this a crazy prediction. But as we got (Lego) Horizon i seriously would not 100% exclude this possibility now. But i guess we could start counting fanboy suicides per day like we where counting covid numbers some years ago if that really was to happen.🤣😂A PC port is extremly likley, a Switch (Up/2) port not impossible...
I already had the feeling that something fishy is going to be happening with the last two sales reports for this year.
My logical understanding can't cope with this contradiction. I'd really like to know the reasoning behind.
But luckily, adjustments can be made.
Will black Friday sales be included eventually?
Not surprising, but what a sad day to see such a poorly priced product do so well.
Had no competition. Sony had no reason to lower it.
No competition, and clearly there's demand even at such a price.
What this tells me is 26% of UK users double dipped for a Pro in November.
It does not really grow the base but it does look good on a sales report.
That’s a massive leap…
It grows the userbase by allowing people to buy used regular units at a discounted price from friends, family, and facebook marketplace.
