12.8 million games were sold across European markets*, a rise of nearly 30% compared with the same period in 2021, and more than 52% up over May 2022.
4.73 million of those games were physical boxed editions (up 24% year-on-year, and 36% up month-on-month), while 8.1 million were via digital download stores (up 33% year-on-year, and 65% month-on-month). May was a particularly quiet month for new game releases.
The No.1 game of June was EA's F1 2022, a feat it achieved after just one week on shelves. The racing game was particularly popular in the UK and Germany. It was a big launch for the new F1 game, with opening week sales up 23% compared with last year's F1 2021 (which launched in July).
FIFA 22 holds second place, just ahead of another football game in Mario Strikers: Battle League Football. The game may have charted higher, but Nintendo does not share digital sales with the charts company. Mario Strikers was the best-selling boxed game of the month.
Mario Strikers was a particularly big hit in France, with sales in that country representing over 40% of the game's entire European sales.
In just three weeks, the game has already outsold last year's Mario sports title: Mario Golf: Super Rush. But it's got some way to go before it competes with 2018's Mario Tennis Aces. There is a football World Cup at the end of the year, which may be another opportunity for Nintendo to promote Mario Strikers: Battle League.
Also new in the charts this week is The Quarry from 2K Games and Supermassive Games, which debuts at No.8. The horror game's sales are 19% higher than Supermassive's last title: The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes, which was released in October last year.
