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Circana April 2024: #1 Stellar Blade #4 Sea of Thieves #5 Fallout 4 #8 Fallout 76; PS5 #1 Units + Rev, Switch #2 Units Xbox #2 Rev

Thick Thighs Save Lives

NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
State of the market

Projected total US spending on video game hardware, content and accessories fell 3% in April 2024 vs YA, to $4.1B. A 2% increase in content spending could not offset a 43% drop in hardware and a 4% dip in accessories.

The content spending growth was led by mobile, with gains from this segment offsetting a 24% year-on-year dip in content spending on Console platforms (Mobile spending totals provided by Sensor Tower).

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US Video Game Projected Total Market Consumer Spending - 13 month rolling consumer spending by month and change versus prior year. Note: January 2024 was a 5-week tracking period, while January 2023 was a 4-week tracking period.

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Hardware
April video game hardware spending fell 43% when compared to a year ago, to $208 million. All current console hardware platforms fell a minimum of 26% year-on-year, with Switch showing the strongest year-on-year decline (-69%).

PlayStation 5 again led the month’s hardware market in unit and dollar sales. Nintendo Switch once again finished 2nd in unit sales, while Xbox Series ranked 2nd in dollars.

Software
Stellar Blade debuted as the best-selling premium game of April, and the #16 best-selling game of 2024 year-to-date. Stellar Blade was the only new release in April to rank among the month’s top 20 best-selling premium video games.

Helldivers II held to its #2 ranking despite April dollar sales falling by more than 70% when compared to March.

Sea of Thieves was the 4th best-selling game of April, following its launch on PlayStation platforms during the month. The title ranked 55th on the March best-selling titles chart. Sea of Thieves was the #3 best-selling game on PlayStation platforms in April.

Another title that saw a strong gain on the charts thanks to its release on PlayStation platforms was Grounded, which jumped from #167 on the March best-selling titles chat to #12 in April. Grounded was the 9th best-selling game on PlayStation platforms during April.

Fallout games also performed strongly in April, following the debut of the Fallout television series. Fallout 4 ranked 5th on the April charts, after finishing March at #87, while Fallout 76 jumped from 159th in March to #8 in April.

Mobile
Sensor Tower reports the top 10 games by U.S. consumer spend in April and the rank change from March as: MONOPOLY GO!, Royal Match, Candy Crush Saga (+1), Roblox (-1), Last War: Survival (+2), Coin Master (-1), Whiteout Survival (-1), Township (+1), Evony (+5) and Clash of Clans.

“While US consumer spend declined 6% from March 2024, the YoY growth trend continues, with April 2024 US consumer spend up 12% from April 2023,” said Samuel Aune of Sensor Tower. “Comparing April to last year, Casino is the biggest winner, with... MONOPOLY GO! driving the genre."

“Last War: Survival has continued to climb the rankings and is now a top 5 game by US consumer spend. It was one of only three games in the top 10 that saw revenue growth MoM, with Candy Crush Saga and Evony being the other two. Each drove 16-18% revenue growth,” said Aune.

Accessories
April spending on Accessories fell 4% when compared to a year ago to $152M, driven by a 9% year-on-year decline in Gamepad spending.

The PlayStation Portal was the best-selling accessory in dollar sales for both April and 2024 year-to-date.

Software Charts
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Year to Date
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PlayStation Platforms
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Xbox Platforms
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Nintendo Platforms
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Monthly Active User Engagement
Top 10 Games Played on PlayStation 5 Ranked by Monthly Active Users (US)

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Top 10 Games Played on Xbox Series Ranked by Monthly Active Users (US)
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Top 10 Games Played on Steam Ranked by Monthly Active Users (US)
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Rankings
Units: PS5 > NSW > XBS
Revenue: PS5 > XBS > NSW

Thanks Mat Piscatella and Welfare from installbase forum!

HW sales estimates from Welfare over on IB:
  • PS5: 250K
  • NSW: 140K
  • XBS: 105K
 
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Thick Thighs Save Lives

NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Are those hardware rankings? If so, shouldn't XBS be second in revenue?

"PlayStation 5 again led the month’s hardware market in unit and dollar sales. Nintendo Switch once again finished 2nd in unit sales, while Xbox Series ranked 2nd in dollars."
Good eye. I'm going to edit that part and correct it.
 
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Švejk

Banned
Not sure if I find it funny or sad that Fallout is getting so much recognition again simply because of a TV show. Goes to show that people watch allot of damn TV. People always have, just I never had a movie or show make me want to play a game, nor a game make me want to watch a show/movie. *shrug
 

yazenov

Member
A quarter of the top 20 are first party Sony games, very good year for them so far.


It's not too surprising Xbox is still below, as Switch sold the most units in April/May 2023 due to TOTK.

True, but being outsold by an 8-year-old console on its deathbed is still awful.
 

TheDarkPhantom

Gold Member
Congrats to Phil Spencer! All he had to do to make Xbox games financially successful was release them on PlayStation where we actually buy games 👌

Nice to see Stellar Bladed at the top, deserves the success, Ronin doing well too which makes me happy, HD2 continues to be a beast, PlayStation having a hell of year so far, we stay winning.
 

Woopah

Member
True, but being outsold by an 8-year-old console on its deathbed is still awful.
Its still bad for Xbox don't get me wrong.

I just don't think that it being behind Switch in April and May will is worse than the previous 2024 months, even if the Switch YoY drops are much bigger.
 
April 2024 est.

PS5: 250K
NSW: 140K
XBS: 105K

Estimations for 2024

MonthPS5XBSNSW
January425,000210,000250,000
February410,000195,000220,000
March525,000205,000235,000
April250,000105,000140,000
Total1,610,000715,000845,000
Lifetime20,290,00014,265,00045,025,000

Full Estimations for 2023

MonthPS5XBSNSW
January430,000200,000280,000
February560,000240,000290,000
March660,000280,000340,000
April340,000170,000420,000
May270,000160,000450,000
June430,000240,000350,000
July270,000160,000240,000
August400,000210,000200,000
September480,000300,000200,000
October360,000200,000210,000
November1,050,000580,000560,000
December1,520,0001,110,0001,230,000
Total6,780,0003,850,0004,770,000
Lifetime18,680,00013,550,00044,180,000

1995 to 2022 is official NPD data, 2023 and 2024 are estimations from IB. * 2024 numbers are as of April.

Current Platforms


YearPS5PS5 TotalXBSXBS TotalNSWNSW Total
2024*1,610,00020,290,000710,00014,260,000840,00045,020,000
20236,780,00018,680,0003,850,00013,550,0004,770,00044,180,000
20225,660,00011,900,0004,480,0009,700,0005,830,00039,410,000
20214,280,0006,240,0003,730,0005,220,0007,610,00033,580,000
20201,960,0001,960,0001,490,0001,490,0008,980,00025,970,000
2019--6,480,00016,990,000
2018--5,640,00010,510,000
2017--4,870,0004,870,000

Legacy Platforms

YearPS4 - 34,760,000XBO - 29,000,000Wii U - 5,510,0003DS - 23,390,000PSV - 2,440,000
202250,000----
2021600,00010,000---
20202,000,0001,460,000-200,000-
20193,830,0003,040,000-560,000-
20185,290,0004,360,000-1,470,000-
20175,420,0004,280,000-2,180,000-
20165,100,0004,730,000510,0002,490,00060,000
20155,720,0004,930,0001,340,00002,400,000280,000
20144,680,0004,370,0001,560,0002,570,000320,000
20132,000,0001,820,0001,210,0003,810,000500,000
2012--890,0003,630,0001,280,000
2011---4,080,000-


YearPS3 - 26,870,000X360 - 43,220,000Wii - 41,780,000DS - 53,530,000PSP - 19,990,000
201710,00020,000---
2016190,000250,000---
2015360,000570,00040,000--
2014750,0001,330,000240,00010,00020,000
20132,180,0003,070,000810,000520,000130,000
20123,410,0005,300,0001,960,0001,980,000240,000
20114,520,0007,280,0004,530,0003,840,0001,120,000
20104,330,0006,760,0007,070,0008,580,0001,660,000
20094,330,0004,770,0009,590,00011,190,0002,490,000
20083,540,0004,740,00010,170,0009,950,0003,820,000
20072,560,0004,620,0006,290,0008,430,0003,830,000
2006690,0003,900,0001,080,0005,320,0003,050,000
2005-610,000-2,580,0003,630,000
2004---1,230,000-


YearPS2 - 46,340,000Xbox - 14,500,000GCN - 11,810,000DC - 4,010,000GBA - 35,700,000
201250,000----
2011290,000----
2010750,000----
20091,800,000----
20082,500,000---420,000
20073,940,000-10,000-1,120,000
20064,840,000400,0001,120,000-3,240,000
20055,510,0002,420,0001,560,000-4,370,000
20044,680,0004,010,0002,290,0000-7,080,000
20036,310,0003,100,0003,270,000-7,780,000
20028,390,0003,170,0002,260,0001,250,0006,940,000
20016,180,0001,400,0001,210,0001,280,0004,750,000
20001,100,000--1,480,000-
1999-----


YearPS1 - 30,180,000N64 - 17,990,000Saturn - 1,360,000GBC - 17,270,000
200540,000---
2004710,000---
20031,150,00010,000--
20022,200,000150,000-60,000
20012,240,0001,160,000-2,950,000
20003,230,0002,530,000-6,820,000
19995,850,0003,540,000-6,450,000
19987,110,0004,140,00050,000990,000
19975,050,0004,490,000240,000-
19961,990,0001,970,000780,000-
1995600,000-290,000-
 
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