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UK sales February 2024 - PS5#1(-28%) NSW#2(down YOY) XBS#3(down YOY) / Helldivers 2#1 EA FC 24#2 MW3#3

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Helldivers 2 is a major hit in the UK | UK February Charts

2.77 million video games were sold in the UK during February, a drop of 5.5% over the year before.This is based on data…
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2.77 million video games were sold in the UK during February, a drop of 5.5% over the year before.

This is based on data from GSD, which tracks digital game sales from most major publishers, and all physical sales. The notable absent game from the charts is Palworld, because the game's developer isn't included in the GSD system.

The 5.5% drop last month is actually an impressive result, because last year saw the blockbuster launch of Hogwarts Legacy, which was one of the biggest game releases of the year.
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The reason for the relatively small drop? Helldivers 2, which was comfortably the No.1 game of February 2024.

The Sony game achieved the rare feat of seeing its sales grow week-over-week. During its second week on sale, sales were up nearly 115%, and then it grew again by nearly 21% during its third week.

It's also a real hit on both PC and PS5, with 57% of sales coming on the PlayStation, and the rest on PC.
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t's a hugely impressive performance for a relatively unknown franchise. To put its success into context, the game's first three weeks on sale is only 28% lower than what Sony's Spider-Man 2 achieved during its first three weeks on sale last year.

The next new release in the charts is Warner Bros' Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League at No.4. The game has performed below the publisher's expectations, and its first four weeks on sale is 20% lower than what both 2022's Gotham Knights and 2021's Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy managed.

Also new at No.8 is Skull and Bones. Again, it's not a huge launch for the pirate game, with its opening two weeks 75% lower than what Sea of Thieves managed way back in March 2018.
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Elsewhere, Persona 3 Reload debuts at No.10, Mario vs Donkey Kong lands at No.16 and new IP Pacific Drift slides in at No.18.

Over in consoles, 95,855 games consoles were sold in the UK during February, a drop of 33% over the year before, and down 13% over the previous month.

This is according to GfK panel data, which tracks console sales in the UK.
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PS5 was the leading platform by a large margin, but sales were down 2% month-on-month and 28% year-on-year.

Nintendo Switch just about takes second spot, with Xbox Series S and X in third position. Both platforms saw big drops over the same period in 2023. Currently, the entire console business is 29% down in the UK year-to-date.
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This is partially due to the sudden arrival of console stock this time last year after a period of low supply. There was also a Hogwarts Legacy effect on the market. According to GfK, PS5 and Xbox sales grew 27% and 21% in February compared with January, boosted by the launch of Warner Bros' Harry Potter spin-off.

Plus, Nintendo Switch has been on the market for some time, and it's natural to see sales fall in its seventh year.
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Over in accessories, 609,425 add-on products were sold during February, which is down 12% over January but up 16% over the same period in 2023.

The white DualSense PS5 controller leads the market again, while the Robot White Wireless Xbox controller comes in second place.

There was also a strong debut for Sony's Pulse Elite Premium Headset in the final week of February – it debuted at No.15 by volume and No.4 by revenue, and in terms of just gaming headsets was No.4 by volume and No.1 by revenue – all after just one week on sale.
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UK GSD February 2024 Top 10 (Digital and Physical)

PositionTitle
1 Helldivers 2 (Sony)
2 EA Sports FC 24 (EA)
3 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
4Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League (Warner Bros)
5 Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
6Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
7Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
8Skull and Bones (Ubisoft)
9The Last of Us Part 2: Remastered (Sony)
10Persona 3 Reload (Sega)
 
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Incredible performance from Helldivers 2. It's showing the same sales trend as the USA where sales increase week on week.
 
Lacrimosis

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57% of Helldivers in PS5. PC is probably a bigger factor in countries like germany if EU slightly favor PC.
 
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The ps5 share may have been bigger, physical versions of helldivers 2 were hard to find.

We know UK is a big physical market from the recent uk gaming market 2023 report.

Obviously that's assuming alot people who couldn't get it physically didn't go for digital and waited. Considering FOMO and WOM that this game generated, alot of people may have just gone for digital.
 
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Great result for Helldivers 2. No one would have predicted it doing as well as it has.
 
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Jammerz said:
The ps5 share may have been bigger, physical versions of helldivers 2 were hard to find.

We know UK is a big physical market from the recent uk gaming market 2023 report.

Obviously that's assuming alot people who couldn't get it physically didn't go for digital and waited. Considering FOMO and WOM that this game generated, alot of people may have just gone for digital.
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Amazon UK is showing 1-2 months dispatch for the game.
 
EagleClaw

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What is sales grow ?
Is it inverted decline ?
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Helldivers 2 is really a surprise hit.
Congratulations to Arrowhead.
 

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How do GSD track digital sales for all of the titles, I didn't think publishers shared that data?
 
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dose said:
How do GSD track digital sales for all of the titles, I didn't think publishers shared that data?
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Nintendo don't share digital data but a lot of the major publishers do. There are exemptions like Epic and of course Larian didn't share their sales data for Baldur's Gate 3.
 
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dose said:
How do GSD track digital sales for all of the titles, I didn't think publishers shared that data?
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Ostrav said:
I didn't even know Helldivers 2 released physical.
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GSD digital data includes games from participating companies sold via PC digital stores, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo Eshop. Major participating companies are Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Embracer Group (including Gearbox, Koch Media, Sabre Interactive), Focus Entertainment, Kepler, Konami, Marvellous Games, Microids, Microsoft (including Bethesda), Milestone, Nacon, Paradox Interactive, Quantic Dream, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Take-Two, Tencent, Ubisoft and Warner Bros. Nintendo and 505 Games are the notable absentees, alongside smaller studios.
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Nintendo Switch just about takes second spot, with Xbox Series S and X in third position. Both platforms saw big drops over the same period in 2023. Currently, the entire console business is 29% down in the UK year-to-date.
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So it means Palword hasn't really had a notable impact on Xbox hardware sales?
 

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-28% for the PS5 YoY... actually seems pretty good? Considering February last year was still very much in the "massive sales as supply finally services the pent up demand" period.
 
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EagleClaw said:
What is sales grow ?
Is it inverted decline ?
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Ara63 said:
-28% for the PS5 YoY... actually seems pretty good? Considering February last year was still very much in the "massive sales as supply finally services the pent up demand" period.
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Also the elephant in the room about a certain game that launched last year.
 

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Patitoloco said:
Nah, drops is because last February Hogwarts Legacy came out and blew the market away, not much more.
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not just that, q1 2023 was the period PS resolved their stock issues and had a record breaking 6m consoles sale WW (more than 2x the average Q1).
That will largely affect the YOY comparision in Europe, but also a bit in UK (where the stock issues were less severe by that time, but still there)
 
Jammerz

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Unless there is a permanent price drop expect YOY drops from all regions.

Doesn't mean consoles are dying, just that you can't go 3 + years without a price drop(unless your nintendo).

Even worse price has increased in some regions since launch.....
 
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Saty said:
So it means Palword hasn't really had a notable impact on Xbox hardware sales?
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Not in the UK it seems. Could be the case in other countries tho
dose said:
How do GSD track digital sales for all of the titles, I didn't think publishers shared that data?
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The Information how they get the data is literally on the report. Yes companies share their data.
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If that's what you want to believe.
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I want to believe.
 
Jeffram

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I honestly thought Sony was making a big mistake by not putting helldivers on ps+.

I couldn't have been more wrong.
 
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dose said:
How do GSD track digital sales for all of the titles, I didn't think publishers shared that data?
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GSD actually is an initiative from the major publishers themselves, the ones that are members of the association and are open to sharing their digital sales data. I reckon Nintendo is part of the association as well, but does not share digital data. Many more publishers, mainly PC focused ones, are not part of the association and thus don't share any digital data either.
 
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I though final fantasy rebirth and gran blue fantasy would be oart of the top 10
 
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Nintendo Switch just about takes second spot, with Xbox Series S and X in third position. Both platforms saw big drops over the same period in 2023. Currently, the entire console business is 29% down in the UK year-to-date.
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Switch is at the end of its lifecycle, so will probably be revitalized by their next hardware release, but big drops for Xbox in one of its strongest markets at this point in its lifecycle isn't promising. Hard to see how they could turn that around, especially when porting their first party titles to other formats.
 
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Super said:
This does not make sense at all.
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Sure it does, the sum total of units being sold this gen doesn't look like it's outstripping last gen at all. New players are picking pc or mobile/tablet platforms

I don't mean that there's literally 0 people buying year on year but the majority of people who are buying consoles from Xbox and PlayStation imo are people who were already buying Xbox and PlayStation
 
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T0kenAussie said:
Sure it does, the sum total of units being sold this gen doesn't look like it's outstripping last gen at all. New players are picking pc or mobile/tablet platforms

I don't mean that there's literally 0 people buying year on year but the majority of people who are buying consoles from Xbox and PlayStation imo are people who were already buying Xbox and PlayStation
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Wait till GTA 6 comes out next year.
 
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