European video game sales in June jump 20% thanks to Diablo 4 | European Monthly Charts
15.5 million games were sold across Europe last month, according to the latest GSD data.
This data covers digital games from most major AAA games publishers, and physical retail games from the big European countries. Full list below.
Five million games were sold via physical retail, with the remaining 10.5 million via digital download stores.
It's a 20% sales improvement over June last year, driven by a number of major new releases.
Diablo 4 was comfortably the best-selling game of the month and it's the second fastest-selling game of the year behind Hogwarts Legacy. Zelda is the third fastest-selling game, but that game is missing its digital download data (Nintendo doesn't share this information), so it's possible Diablo 4 is really No.3 in terms of the list of fastest selling games of the year.
Diablo 4 is the biggest video game launch in June since the GSD charts began in 2017.
Over 66% of Diablo 4 sales were on PC, with over 21% on PS5 and just under 9% on Xbox Series S and X. The remaining 4% was on PS4.
In second place is Square Enix's Final Fantasy 16. The game's launch is 24% down compared with the last major Final Fantasy game: 2020's Final Fantasy 7: Remake. Final Fantasy 16 is a slightly different take on the series, and the 2020 game was released near the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns (and when the console install base was higher), which may explain the drop.
The next biggest new release is F1 23 from EA. It's a disappointing launch for the official racing game, with sales down almost 47% compared with what F1 22 managed over the same period.
Just under 65% of F1 23's sales were on PS5, with just over 22.5% on Xbox Series S and X and 12.5% on PS5. PC accounted for just 0.3% of sales.
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