GSD & GfK: The UK gaming market grew by 3.2% YoY in October 2024
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is leading the chart, but there are a lot of newcomers.
GSD is reporting only the fact sales numbers were received from partners. There are partners (like Nintendo), who are not sharing the digital sales numbers, which might affect the overall picture.
Game Sales
2.9 million copies of games were sold in the country in October. It’s 3.2% higher than a year earlier.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 holds a solid first place. Sales in the UK are 11% worse than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III due to the game’s appearance on Game Pass. However, considering only PlayStation systems, the game is selling 24% better than its predecessor when comparing initial sales. 75% of all sales are on PlayStation; 15% on PC; 10% on Xbox.
EA Sports FC 25 is in second place. Sales dynamics in October are 14% worse compared to the previous part.
Dragon Ball: Sparkling! Zero in the UK is 80% higher than Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot for the same period. DBZ: Kakarot set a series record for sales in the first 4 weeks in 2020.
Undisputed - a boxing simulator from independent Steel City Interactive - is in 4th place. It’s the second best-selling sports game in the UK this year (surpassing F1 24; NBA 2K25; EA Sports College Football 25), and it sold better than Tekken 8. The most surprising thing is that this is the studio’s first game, and the founders had no previous experience in game development.
The Silent Hill 2 remake sold 32% worse than the Dead Space remake and 62% worse than the Resident Evil 4 remake.
Among other new releases - Mario Party Jamboree (9th place); Sonic X Shadows Generations (10th place) - initial sales are 150% better than Sonic Superstars but 21% worse than Sonic Frontiers. One of the Game of the Year candidates - Metaphor: Refantazio - debuted at 12th place.
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Hardware and Accessories Sales
Console sales increased by 14% compared to last month - up to 144k systems sold. But this is still 18% less than in October last year.
PlayStation 5 grew by 27% compared to last month, a decrease of 18% compared to last year. Nintendo Switch sales increased by 13% compared to last month, a decrease of 18% compared to last year. Xbox Series is doing worse - the console sold 7% worse in October than the previous month and 17% worse than the previous year.
681 thousand accessories were sold in the UK last month, which is 16% more than last year. The leader is DualSense.