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European GSD September 2024: PS5 #1 (-17%), NSW #2 (+1.5%), XBS #3 (-58%) | EA FC 25 #1, The Crew 2 #2, Space Marine 2 #3, Astro Bot #4

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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17.6 million PC and console games were sold across Europe last month, according to the latest GSD figures.

It's a big month, with game sales up by more than 20% compared with September 2023.

Unsurprisingly, EA Sports FC 25 took the top spot. It is a slightly softer launch this year than it was last year, with the game's first two weeks on sale coming in 2% lower than last year's version.
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However, if we just look at the higher priced premium version (which players had to buy if they wanted access during that first week), and sales of that version were nearly 10% higher than the year before. So overall, it appears to be a strong performance from EA's latest football title.

Racing into second place is The Crew 2 from Ubisoft. The 2018 game was treated to an aggressive promotion where the publisher effectively gave the game away for free (users simply had to pay the €1 platform fee).

That means the big surprise hit of the month had to settle for third place. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has been a real breakout hit, and just like in the UK, it is currently 2024's third best-selling new game after just a few weeks on sale, ahead of the likes of Dragon's Dogma 2, The Last of Us Part 2: Remastered and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
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It is comfortably the fastest-selling Warhammer game so far. In fact, after four weeks it is on the brink of becoming the best-selling Warhammer game across Europe of all time, eclipsing the sales of the Total War: Warhammer titles.

Also new in September is Astro Bot from PlayStation. It's a decent launch for the 3D platform game. Compared to recent AAA 3D platform efforts, Astro's sales after four weeks are 34% bigger than 2022's Sonic Frontiers and 52% up over 2020's Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.

Sales are also 7.5% higher than what platform shooter Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart managed over a similar period in 2021, which was also a PS5 exclusive aimed at a slighter wider audience.
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New at No.6 this week is NBA 2K25. It's a marginally better opening for NBA this year, with launch sales up 1% over 2K24.

Another new game in the charts is The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom at No.8. The game had been on sale for a week by the time this chart was compiled, and its position is based only on physical sales as Nintendo does not share its own digital figures with the charts company.

In terms of physical sales, Echoes of Wisdom's sales are 15% below that of 2019's Link's Awakening remake (which uses the same art style as Echoes of Wisdom). Of course, without digital it's difficult to know exactly how things compared as downloading has accelerated significantly since 2019..
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Finally rounding off the Top Ten is the return of the Test Drive series, with Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown coming in at No.10.

Elsewhere, Microsoft's Age of Mythology Retold comes in at No.12. And sticking with PC releases, God of War Regnarok returns at No.15 and Final Fantasy XVI is back at No.27 after both games arrived on PC last month
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Harry Potter Quidditch Champions had a pretty slow launch, debuting at No.28. The game was available as part of the PlayStation Plus subscription service, and the Nintendo Switch version isn't out until November.

Finally, the remaster of Dead Rising comes in at No.48, while a new version of Disney's Epic Mickey lands at No.83.
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In terms of hardware, across tracked markets 335,000 games consoles were sold, a drop of 18% over September last year.

PS5 remains comfortably No.1 across all markets, although sales are down 17% over this time last year. Nintendo Switch is in second place and actually saw sales increase 1.5% over the year before, potentially helped by the new Zelda Switch Lite console.
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Xbox Series S and X remain in third position with sales down 58% over this time last year. September 2023 saw the release of a major new Xbox title in Starfield, which will partially explain the big drop year-on-year.

Over in accessories, nearly 1.1 million items were sold across tracked markets, a drop of 2.4% over September last year. The PS5 DualSense remains the leading controller, potentially boosted last month by the new Astro Bot special edition variant.
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European GSD September 2024 Top 10 (Digital + Physical)​

PositionTitle
1EA Sports FC 25 (EA)
2The Crew 2 (Ubisoft)
3Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Pullup Entertainment)
4Astro Bot (Sony)
5Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
6NBA 2K25 (2K Games)
7Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
8The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo)*
9The Crew Motorfest (Ubisoft)
10Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown (Big Ben)



HW estimations from Installbase:
  1. PS5 - 240K
  2. NSW - 66K
  3. XBS - 26K
September 2023:
  1. PS5 (+175%)
  2. NSW (-28%)
  3. XBS (-35%)

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jm89

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Xbox dropped by -35% yoy last September.... 🤐

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Sales-Age - GSD European video game and hardware sales for September 2023 - PS5#1 (+175%) NSW#2 (-25%) XBS#3 (-35%) | EA FC 24#1 Starfield#2 MK1#3

Video game sales across Europe were down in September compared with the year before, according to the latest figures from GSD. September 2022 was a five-week month, and as a result the numbers appear down 16% over September 2023. But this year was a four-week month. And so if we compare week 36...
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Woopah

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Hookshot said:
How is Switch selling more this year than last? If it had a price drop it would make sense but it needs to stop selling so we can move on.
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There was the new Zelda Switch Lite, plus some new bundles.

Still pretty surprising.
Cyberpunkd said:
Is he implying people bought Xbox for Starfield?

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It's weird as Xbox Series was down 35% YoY in September 2023.
 
yazenov

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jm89 said:
Xbox dropped by -35% yoy last September.... 🤐

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Sales-Age - GSD European video game and hardware sales for September 2023 - PS5#1 (+175%) NSW#2 (-25%) XBS#3 (-35%) | EA FC 24#1 Starfield#2 MK1#3

Video game sales across Europe were down in September compared with the year before, according to the latest figures from GSD. September 2022 was a five-week month, and as a result the numbers appear down 16% over September 2023. But this year was a four-week month. And so if we compare week 36...
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Good drop for PS5 . Last year PS5 (+175%) , so -17% YoY from that is very good.
 
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coachmcguirk91

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Mibu no ookami said:
Hilarious that TLOU P2 Remastered is doing so well, yet people will continue to claim no one is asking for these remasters.
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People don't seem to realize that Sony is remastering games that have tv shows or movies in the works. TLOU2R is selling like crazy because the HBO show is a huge hit. It probably will sell even more when S2 drops in January. Until Dawn just finished filming and they got a remake as well. Horizon Zero Dawn got remade because it has a show in the works at Netflix. Now, there are rumors of a God of War original trilogy remaster because a tv show has been greenlit at Amazon

There is a lot of money to be made with tv viewers who are also casual gamers. Most these remasters need just a handful of people working on it full time. It's not depleting a ton of resources, and the upside is so high when a tv show hits like TLOU or Fallout

Fallout 4 got a massive boost from the tv show, but I guarantee you Bethesda missed out on 100+ million in sales if they just updated the game to Starfields graphics to coincide with the release
 
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Mibu no ookami

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coachmcguirk91 said:
People don't seem to realize that Sony is remastering games that have tv shows or movies in the works. TLOU2R is selling like crazy because the HBO show is a huge hit. It probably will sell even more when S2 drops in January. Until Dawn just finished filming and they got a remake as well. Horizon Zero Dawn got remade because it has a show in the works at Netflix. Now, there are rumors of a God of War original trilogy remaster because a tv show has been greenlit at Amazon
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Horizon is canceled.

coachmcguirk91 said:
There is a lot of money to be made with tv viewers who are also casual gamers. Most these remasters need just a handful of people working on it full time. It's not a depleting a ton of resources, and the upside is so high when a tv show hits like TLOU or Fallout

Fallout 4 got a massive boost from the tv show, but I guarantee you Bethesda missed out on 100+ million in sales if they just updated the game to Starfields graphics to coincide with the release
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They missed out on more than 100 million for sure. People buying 5 dollar copies of Fallout 4 instead of like a 50 dollar game or more...
 
coachmcguirk91

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Mibu no ookami said:
Horizon is canceled.



They missed out on more than 100 million for sure. People buying 5 dollar copies of Fallout 4 instead of like a 50 dollar game or more...
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It wasn't canceled, AFAIK. It just lost its Showrunner, who got canceled for sexual harrassment. But, it doesn't change the notion that Sony is only remaking IP it has tied to movies and tv.
 
EDMIX

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Thick Thighs Save Lives said:
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Read the full OP to get all context about the sales:

Racing into second place is The Crew 2 from Ubisoft. The 2018 game was treated to an aggressive promotion where the publisher effectively gave the game away for free (users simply had to pay the €1 platform fee).
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Yet more people wanted to buy a game from 2018 then Space Marine 2 aka generic space shooter number 214522144 remixed.
 
Thick Thighs Save Lives

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EDMIX said:
Yet more people wanted to buy a game from 2018 then Space Marine 2 aka generic space shooter number 214522144 remixed.
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OK? The Crew 2 was practically given away for free, since it was sold for €1, while the cheapest Space Marine 2 SKU was €60; plus a bunch of people paid for the more expensive editions, which are €90 and €100, to play it early.

Don't understand 1) the laugh emojis 2) you downplaying Space Marine 2 when all the evidence points to game selling very well.

Again from the OP which you clearly didn't bother to read:

That means the big surprise hit of the month had to settle for third place. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has been a real breakout hit, and just like in the UK, it is currently 2024's third best-selling new game after just a few weeks on sale, ahead of the likes of Dragon's Dogma 2, The Last of Us Part 2: Remastered and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
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