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GSD European sales February 2023- PS5#1 NSW#2 XBS#3 (PS5 sales up 5X in Europe, doubling the sales of Switch) / FIFA23#2 GTA5#3

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Hogwarts Legacy is Europe’s fastest-selling game (that isn’t FIFA) for a generation | European Monthly Charts

PS5 sales up five-fold across Europe
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Yet despite the runaway success of Warner Bros title, game sales in February across Europe are down 10% compared with last February, with 12.9 million games sold.

This data is from GSD and includes physical game sales across most major European markets (including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and more). It also includes digital game sales from most major publishers across all European markets. Full details are at the bottom of the article.

The decline in game sales is due to fewer releases in February than the year before, which saw multiple big new titles including Elden Ring, Horizon: Forbidden West, Dying Light 2 and Total War: Warhammer 3. There was also strong second month sales for Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
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Also, legacy titles didn't perform as strongly this year. GTA 5 sales are down 35% compared with February 2021, and Mario Kart 8: Deluxe sales are down 39%. Red Dead Redemption 2 is the notable exception, with sales up 6% over the year before.

The next highest-charting new release is war shooter Atomic Heart at No.9.

Elsewhere, The Last of Us Part 2 and The Last of Us Remastered both jumped up the charts, boosted by the HBO TV series based on the games. Part 2 sales were up 317% over February last year, while Remastered sales are up 285%.

Not all of February's big console and PC titles are included in this chart. Nintendo is the one major AAA games publisher that doesn't share its digital data, so its Metroid Prime Remastered game (which surprise launched on Nintendo Eshop in the middle of the month) is missing. Also, games from most smaller publishers are currently not included, so the much talked about survival game Sons of the Forest is also absent.
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PS5 and Xbox see stronger February sales

In terms of consoles, PS5 saw a huge spike in sales across Europe last month, with sales up five times over February last year. The start of last year was extremely slow for PS5, due to severe stock shortages worldwide.

The hardware data from GSD covers multiple European markets, but it is missing two of the biggest territories: the UK and Germany. You can read the UK hardware report over here.

PS5 was comfortably the best-selling console across tracked European markets, with sales more than double Nintendo Switch in second place. Switch sales are down 28% across Europe, mirroring a similar decline in the UK. Nintendo's next big push around Switch is in the second quarter of the year, with activity planned around the new Zelda game and Mario movie.
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Xbox Series S and X is in No.3 spot across Europe, but Microsoft saw a 13% sales increase compared with February last year.

Over in accessories, 1.27 million items were sold across European markets last month, a slight drop of 0.2%. This area has been boosted by the console market, with the PS5 DualSense controller continuing to see strong sales.

In terms of points and wallet sales, 1.15 million of these cards were sold across Europe, a drop of 8% year-on-year.
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Buuugy

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I love the description of the sales, as if doubling a console that still sells very well after 6 years is incredible...
 
MrTired

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Wow, goes to show how supply constraint the PS5 was. It will be interesting to see whether Sony can hit their air revised forecast.

With these numbers available do we think that the forecast will be hit?
 

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If Factions comes out soonish, it can honestly blow up massively. Even just a beta could gather a lot of hype off the back of the show
 

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Stock has improved considerably in Spain this month. You can now buy a PS5 with Ragnarok on Amazon.
 

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Looks like a great month. Hopefully supply in some of those countries is finally fixed.
 

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Imagine them showing a preview for Last of Us Factions after the season finale…
 
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Bulbidavid said:
I love the description of the sales, as if doubling a console that still sells very well after 6 years is incredible...
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If you refer to the tweet where it was mentioned, I don't think it's presented as something extraordinary but rather to give perspective of the sales discrepancy between the platforms. Also, the Switch was the highest selling console for the past few years, so i think it's worth mentioning that a shift is clearly happening. Like you said, the Switch is 6 years and it's only normal that it sees sales decline, with PS5 the one growing now that stock levels have improved greatly, but still.
 
oRuin

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Wow, PS5 selling extremely well.
Looks like supply issues are now under control
 
AEF1907

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So Pokemon is also missing in the EU Top 20 already. Wonder how the legs of that game will be.
 
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Bulbidavid said:
I love the description of the sales, as if doubling a console that still sells very well after 6 years is incredible...
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Looking at this a difference way, Switches sale were down 28%, and they were also down %15 in February 2022. For sales now to be more than double, the PS5 has to have sold more this month than Switch did in February 2022 or 2021. That sounds like a lot.
 
SuperBanana

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There are adults out there who were 8 years old when GTA5 came out and it's still the 3rd highest selling game of the year. Insanity.
 
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I'm the most surprised about Assassins Creed Valhalla here, seen it come up in the top 20 the past few months too
 
B.O.O.M.

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dat TLOU bump. Love to see it.

PS5 with decent supply is a completely different beast too. I am very curious to see how Spidey 2 will do later this year.
 
CenaToon

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The last of us remastered charting is kinda weird since the game is free for ps plus collection for ps5 users. All those sales must be from PS4 users.
 
nDesh

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So the wizard game must be the greatest asset o this console generation yet eh
 
Marus

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The PS5 is in beast mode and I don't see it slowing down. There are so many quality titles releasing in the next few months.

Also the Wizard game probably is pushing a lot of consoles.
 
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Cool, glad to see everyone can get a PS5 now. I'm ready for phase 2 software Sony!
 
Fularu

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HL beeing the biggest european launch sincw tracking started is pretty nuts. I will have to revise my sales expectations for the game. I'm inclined to believe it will sell beyond 40 million copies now.
 
Kolx

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HL selling this much makes zero sense to me. I know the HP license is huge but this is something else.
 
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Jawbreaker said:
I dunno, it seemed like a foregone conclusion as long as the reviews were good. That fanbase has been starving for a critically acclaimed, big budget title.
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Its reaching much more people than just the fans though. PS/Xbox in general has embraced the game as the first current gen only (at launch) must have.
 
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