Xbox Series S and X are in third position, with sales down 16% over May last year. PS5 had to settle for No.2, but it remains a strong force across Europe, and sales for PS5 are up 81% compared with May 2022. Switch sales across Europe are up over 39% compared with May last year.
Nintendo Switch overtook PS5 in May to become Europe's No.1 console once again, driven by the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Switch reclaims top spot from PlayStation as hardware jumps 40% The only other new releases in the Top 20 is Lego 2K Drive, which is down at No.19. The remainder were on current generation systems and PC. For May, 71.5% of Hogwarts sales were on PS4, and 11.7% came on Xbox One. The second-placed game is Hogwarts Legacy, which posted a 321% jump in sales month-on-month due to the release of the PS4 and Xbox One version of the game. If we look purely at physical retail sales, Zelda is already the No.1 game of the year across European markets. It's worth noting that Nintendo does not share digital download data with the charts, whereas EA and Warner Bros, do. It's a 33% jump in sales over the same period in May 2022, and that's almost entirely down The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which is the runaway success of the month, selling more than 2.5x the second placed game: Hogwarts Legacy.Īfter just three weeks on sale, Zelda is already the third best-selling game of the year across Europe, behind EA's FIFA 23 and Warner Bros' Hogwarts Legacy.
This covers all retail games released in major European markets, plus digital games from most AAA publishers in all European territories. Nearly 10.6 million digital and physical games were sold across Europe last month, the latest GSD data reveals. Sales of video games, hardware and accessories surged across Europe last month, driven by the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
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