GSD, by way of GamesIndustry.biz, has shared the newest gross sales knowledge for the online game market throughout Europe in Could 2024, and it seems to have been a quiet month. So quiet, in truth, that all the prime ten did not promote as many copies as Could 2023’s highly-anticipated The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Throughout bodily and digital knowledge from the key European markets (excluding Nintendo which does not share digital figures), Sport gross sales dropped 17% in Could 2024, in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months. That is nonetheless 11.6 million recreation gross sales.
EA Sports activities FC 24 was the largest vendor of the month, adopted by Grand Theft Auto V. By way of new releases, F1 24 is the highest-placing recreation, coming in third, Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Reduce’s PC launch noticed it are available fourth, whereas Paper Mario: The Thousand-12 months Door landed in fifth (even with out digital gross sales).
Whereas precise figures are unavailable, GSD knowledge does spotlight that Thousand-12 months Door, which is a remake of a 2004 GameCube recreation, is down 8% on Tremendous Mario RPG’s opening two weeks, and eight.5% decrease than the final Paper Mario recreation, The Origami King.
We have listed the highest ten in full for you beneath from GSD:
Console gross sales, nonetheless, have seen it worse. Could 2024 noticed a drop of 40% for recreation consoles, with 311,000 items promoting. The Change noticed the largest drop of the key consoles, as soon as once more due to the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom and that particular version Change OLED. It is a related story for equipment resembling controllers, too, with gross sales on these dropping 25%.
Primarily, Could 2024 was a fairly quiet month on the online game entrance by way of large names — even with two Nintendo titles in Thousand-12 months Door and Countless Ocean Luminous. The drop, particularly when in comparison with Tears of the Kingdom, certainly one of 2023’s best-selling video video games, should not be too shocking. At the very least we have now a fairly fleshed-out remainder of the 12 months for the Change going ahead.