Newzoo: Top-selling PC/Console Games in the USA and UK in 2023
All best-sellers are based on the established IPs.
In terms of the number of copies sold, the top three leaders are Hogwarts Legacy, Diablo IV, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. Grand Theft Auto V, an evergreen, is in 9th place.
Newzoo provides interesting statistics on the revenue dynamics of the top five best-selling games. It can be seen that NBA 2K24 started slightly worse than its competitors, but its tale sales are better.
It is important to note that Newzoo aggregates revenue data for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III together with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0 due to the consolidation of all games in the series into one distribution.
Sports games sell differently in the USA and the UK. In the USA, the 5th and 6th places in sales belong to NBA 2K24 and Madden NFL 24. In the UK, however, EA Sports FC 24 topped the sales chart.
Only one console exclusive made it into the top 10 in both the USA and the UK. This was achieved by The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Fortnite became the largest game in the USA and UK in terms of revenue from microtransactions. Following were Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, FIFA 23, NBA 2K23, and EA Sports FC 24. Moreover, Fortnite earned 39% more than FIFA 23 in these markets.
The Sims 4 became the leader in revenue from DLC in the mentioned markets.
I'm surprised of the sales numbers of CoD taking in count how shitty this las game is, it just gives a picture of the huge umbrella Activision has with CoD and they are burning it with mediocre releases, until gamers get tired and when they make an actual good game, it won't attract as much people.