UK Annual Sales 2023 #1 PS5 (+55% YoY), #2 Nintendo Switch (-16.7% YoY), #3 Xbox (-14.2%YoY) #1 EA Sports FC 24 #3 COD MW3

[Gizmo_Duck]

38 million video games were sold in the UK during 2023, the latest GSD figures reveal.

It's a slight increase of 2.6% over the year before, with EA Sports FC 24 continuing where FIFA left off as the UK's best-selling video game.

Sales for the rebranded series are down 8.4% over the year before to 2.39 million units sold. It's worth noting that FIFA 23 benefitted from the FIFA World Cup, which ran over December 2022.

At No.3 in the charts is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Although it was billed as a full sequel to 2022's Modern Warfare 2, fans felt it was more like an expansion, which may explain why its sales are nearly 39% lower compared with the previous year's game. Modern Warfare 2 was also on sale a little longer, having launched in October, whereas Modern Warfare 3 arrived in November.

2.38 million games consoles were sold during the year in the UK, according to GfK panel data. That's a rise of 9.4% over the year before.

PS5 was the driver behind this. Sony's console saw sales rise 55.2% over 2022, making it the biggest year yet for new PlayStation. It's actually the best year for a PlayStation machine since 2014.

The other console to post year-on-year growth was, interestingly, PS4. Sales of PS4 were up 633% year-on-year. Like with PS5, this is due to severe console shortages that plagued PlayStation consoles throughout the year prior.

Elsewhere, Nintendo Switch ended the year as the No.2 console, but sales are down 16.7% over the year before. This is the Switch's seventh year on the market and a decline was expected.

Narrowly behind Switch is the Xbox Series S and X, which saw sales drop 14.2% over the year before.

Over in accessories, nine million products were sold at UK retail in 2023, a drop of 4.5% over the year before, despite improved console sales.

UK GSD 2023 Top 20 (Digital and Physical)​

Position	Title
1	EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
2	Hogwarts Legacy
3	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
4	FIFA 23 (EA)
5	Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
6	Spider-Man 2 (Sony)
7	Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (EA)
8	Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
9	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo)*
10	Diablo 4 (Activision Blizzard)
11	Super Mario Bros Wonder (Nintendo)*
12	Hogwarts Legacy
13	Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)*
14	Assassin's Creed Mirage (Ubisoft)
15	Resident Evil 4 Remake (Capcom)
16	NBA 2K23 (2K Games)
17	LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Warner Bros)
18	WWE 2K23 (2K Games)
19	F1 23 (EA/Codemasters)
20	Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar)

UK PC and console sales grew 2.6% in 2023 | UK Annual Report

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[Black Mamba]

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[levitate]

Yeah, they gotta go multiplat.

Folks in here were acting like $80+ billion was for charity or something.

MS intends to eventually make a profit off of those big ass assets.

And they can only do that by ensuring that their most beloved franchise are played on PS and Nintendo.

Folks in here get mad when you call out the obvious as if the broader MS hasn’t been a platform-agnostic service provider for well over a decade.

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Hogwarts saved WB Games. Mario Kart is a juggernaut. GTA still in the top 5 after a decade of mad.

 

[Ciggavelli]

Do you live in the UK? You’re always posting UK shyt. The US is a bigger market and more relevant.

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Do you live in the UK? You’re always posting UK shyt. The US is a bigger market and more relevant.

Every single time UK numbers are put up, this comes up. Not everybody on TheColi is from the US.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Do you live in the UK? You’re always posting UK shyt. The US is a bigger market and more relevant.

NPD gets posted every month:

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/circana-npd-us-sales-november-2023-ps5-1-for-both-xbs-2-for-both-nsw-3-mw3-1-sm2-2-maden-24-4.1009796/

The only other relevant console market for all 3 platforms is the UK. The US pretty much mirrors the UK as you can see above

 

[Koba St]

Everything makes sense now

 

[Grand Conde]

The US is a bigger market and more relevant.

Old "the sky is blue" ass motherfukker.

 

[winb83]

UK GSD 2023 Top 20 (Digital and Physical)​

Position	Title
1	EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
2	Hogwarts Legacy
3	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
4	FIFA 23 (EA)
5	Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
6	Spider-Man 2 (Sony)
7	Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (EA)
8	Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
9	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo)*
10	Diablo 4 (Activision Blizzard)
11	Super Mario Bros Wonder (Nintendo)*
12	Hogwarts Legacy
13	Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)*
14	Assassin's Creed Mirage (Ubisoft)
15	Resident Evil 4 Remake (Capcom)
16	NBA 2K23 (2K Games)
17	LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Warner Bros)
18	WWE 2K23 (2K Games)
19	F1 23 (EA/Codemasters)
20	Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar)

UK PC and console sales grew 2.6% in 2023 | UK Annual Report

38 million video games were sold in the UK during 2023, the latest GSD figures reveal. It's a slight increase of 2.6% o…

www.gamesindustry.biz

What a boring list. There is not a single original title in that list. It's all liscened games and sequels.

 

[daze23]

Hogwarts on the list twice

 

[daze23]

Every single time UK numbers are put up, this comes up. Not everybody on TheColi is from the US.

and I'm sure Gizmo posted this in good faith because he wants to make sure Coli posters are informed about the sales data in their region

 

[Grand Conde]

Hogwarts on the list twice

Current and last gen versions. Or Switch version which released later.

 

[Koba St]

and I'm sure Gizmo posted this in good faith because he wants to make sure Coli posters are informed about the sales data in their region

And I’m sure if Xbox had game of the generation starfield as number one and the xbox seeing 500% growth, bots would be here celebrating in good faith