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Helldivers 2 and Ps5 continue to remain strong
Circana Feb 2024: Spending +2% in Feb vs YA, to $4.7B. +17% in Mobile content spending vs YA helped offset +, -30% in hardware. PS5#1, Helldivers #1
Helldivers 2 and Ps5 continue to remain strong
That’s kinda unfair to compare the two like that, Hogwarts has a much larger audience demographic(s) and history, or you could even say legacy
Yes also Helldivers 2 is borderline AA and on one console platform compared to Hogwarts
A good game is a good game. Game could look like Minecraft and among us and still do great. Word of mouth helps, in this case the power of friendship
Famitsu Sales: 3/11/24 – 3/17/24 - Unicorn Overlord remains the week's top seller
www.gematsu.com
Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software data for Japan for the week of March 11, 2024 to March 17, 2024.
Unicorn Overlord for Switch remained the top selling game following its debut the previous week with an additional 16,012 retail copies sold, followed by Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for PlayStation 5 with an additional 11,497 copies sold.
The Switch version of MACROSS Shooting Insight was the only new game release to chart in the top 10, moving 6,961 retail units.
On the hardware side, the Switch family sold 42,883 units, the PlayStation 5 family sold 26,516 units, the Xbox Series family sold 1,496 units, and the PlayStation 4 family sold 588 units.
Get the full sales charts below.
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
[NSW] Unicorn Overlord (ATLUS, 03/08/24) – 16,012 (56,003)
[PS5] Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix, 02/29/24) – 11,497 (298,635)
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 9,031 (5,748,900)
[NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 8,257 (1,787,466)
[NSW] Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 02/16/24) – 7,680 (124,441)
[NSW] Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku: Isshoni Exercise (Imagineer, 03/07/24) – 7,011 (21,139)
[NSW] MACROSS Shooting Insight (Bushiroad Games, 03/14/24) – 6,961 (New)
[NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 5,947 (1,011,957)
[NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/1
– 5,872 (3,470,376)
[NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 5,626 (4,251,794)
Rankings 11 to 30 will be announced on March 22.
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch OLED Model – 30,753 (6,868,972)
PlayStation 5 – 22,665 (4,570,547)
Switch Lite – 7,337 (5,777,577)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,851 (740,382)
Switch – 4,793 (19,743,487)
Xbox Series X – 817 (250,77
Xbox Series S – 679 (305,606)
PlayStation 4 – 588 (7,924,410)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 12 (1,192,891)
Famitsu Sales: 3/11/24 – 3/17/24
Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software data for Japan for the week of March 11, 2024 to March 17, 2024.
www.gematsu.com
Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software data for Japan for the week of March 11, 2024 to March 17, 2024.
Unicorn Overlord for Switch remained the top selling game following its debut the previous week with an additional 16,012 retail copies sold, followed by Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for PlayStation 5 with an additional 11,497 copies sold.
The Switch version of MACROSS Shooting Insight was the only new game release to chart in the top 10, moving 6,961 retail units.
On the hardware side, the Switch family sold 42,883 units, the PlayStation 5 family sold 26,516 units, the Xbox Series family sold 1,496 units, and the PlayStation 4 family sold 588 units.
Get the full sales charts below.
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
[NSW] Unicorn Overlord (ATLUS, 03/08/24) – 16,012 (56,003)
[PS5] Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix, 02/29/24) – 11,497 (298,635)
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 9,031 (5,748,900)
[NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 8,257 (1,787,466)
[NSW] Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 02/16/24) – 7,680 (124,441)
[NSW] Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku: Isshoni Exercise (Imagineer, 03/07/24) – 7,011 (21,139)
[NSW] MACROSS Shooting Insight (Bushiroad Games, 03/14/24) – 6,961 (New)
[NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 5,947 (1,011,957)
[NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/1
– 5,872 (3,470,376)[NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 5,626 (4,251,794)
Rankings 11 to 30 will be announced on March 22.
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch OLED Model – 30,753 (6,868,972)
PlayStation 5 – 22,665 (4,570,547)
Switch Lite – 7,337 (5,777,577)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,851 (740,382)
Switch – 4,793 (19,743,487)
Xbox Series X – 817 (250,77
Xbox Series S – 679 (305,606)
PlayStation 4 – 588 (7,924,410)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 12 (1,192,891)
With Xbox being such a shooter oriented box, I think it would do great there too.
France 2023 VG Market: PS5 saves the day, PC tanks
After two years of shortage, the arrival of substantial stocks of PlayStation 5 consoles boosted French purchases significantly, reaching 6.1 billion euros. However, clouds are looming on the horizon.
"There is a real disconnect between the video game market and the state of the industry," notes James Rebours, president of the Syndicate of Video Game Publishers (Sell). The figures, revealed on Wednesday, regarding French spending in 2023 on games, consoles, controllers, gaming PCs, virtual currencies from mobile games, and other headsets for online gaming, indeed contrast with the waves of layoffs hitting publishers and production studios worldwide. With a 9.9% growth, nearly reaching pre-Covid levels, the French video game market now stands at 6.1 billion euros. The 5-billion-euro mark was surpassed in 2020.
This figure has little in common with the stagnation of the American market (+1% according to Circana) or the modest growth in the United Kingdom (+2.9%). But it can be explained in one word: PlayStation 5. The first two years of the Sony console's life, released at the end of 2020, were marked by insufficient production capacity to meet gamers' strong demand. The Japanese company therefore prioritized its stocks towards the strategic Anglo-Saxon markets at the expense of Europe, where consumers had to show cunning and patience to get their hands on the device.
It wasn't until 2023 that the situation returned to normal in France, where the catch-up effect was spectacular: according to Sell, console purchases soared by 72% in one year, reaching 1 billion euros. It takes us back to 2007, during Nintendo's Wii phenomenon, to find such a level of spending. This growth is almost exclusively due to the PlayStation 5, whose price was exceptionally lowered from 549 to 429 euros during Black Friday to convince the remaining undecided buyers...
The market was also boosted by video game purchases on consoles and PCs, reaching 1.5 billion euros compared to 1.2 billion in 2022 (+25%). The effect is particularly striking on purchases from digital stores integrated into consoles (+46%, reaching 737 million euros), while physical sales in large retail stores resist, a French exception (-1%, at 614 million euros).
After two years of shortage, the arrival of substantial stocks of PlayStation 5 consoles boosted French purchases significantly, reaching 6.1 billion euros. However, clouds are looming on the horizon.
"There is a real disconnect between the video game market and the state of the industry," notes James Rebours, president of the Syndicate of Video Game Publishers (Sell). The figures, revealed on Wednesday, regarding French spending in 2023 on games, consoles, controllers, gaming PCs, virtual currencies from mobile games, and other headsets for online gaming, indeed contrast with the waves of layoffs hitting publishers and production studios worldwide. With a 9.9% growth, nearly reaching pre-Covid levels, the French video game market now stands at 6.1 billion euros. The 5-billion-euro mark was surpassed in 2020.
This figure has little in common with the stagnation of the American market (+1% according to Circana) or the modest growth in the United Kingdom (+2.9%). But it can be explained in one word: PlayStation 5. The first two years of the Sony console's life, released at the end of 2020, were marked by insufficient production capacity to meet gamers' strong demand. The Japanese company therefore prioritized its stocks towards the strategic Anglo-Saxon markets at the expense of Europe, where consumers had to show cunning and patience to get their hands on the device.
It wasn't until 2023 that the situation returned to normal in France, where the catch-up effect was spectacular: according to Sell, console purchases soared by 72% in one year, reaching 1 billion euros. It takes us back to 2007, during Nintendo's Wii phenomenon, to find such a level of spending. This growth is almost exclusively due to the PlayStation 5, whose price was exceptionally lowered from 549 to 429 euros during Black Friday to convince the remaining undecided buyers...
The market was also boosted by video game purchases on consoles and PCs, reaching 1.5 billion euros compared to 1.2 billion in 2022 (+25%). The effect is particularly striking on purchases from digital stores integrated into consoles (+46%, reaching 737 million euros), while physical sales in large retail stores resist, a French exception (-1%, at 614 million euros).
#yeahright
Because it's not really news? PC has a much larger base I'm surprised it's not double that.
UK was about 50/50 as well for the PS5/PC split.
Considering there is like hundreds of millions of PCs out there vs the 50 million of PS5, that's a pretty respectable number there in terms of ratio.
The rumour is Helldivers has now sold over 7-8 million , so 3.5-4 million Ps5 sales for a AA game and counting globally.
It was those $700 Spongebob xbox series x consoles that boosted them lol.