Lego, Switch and PS5 top April Charts | European Monthly Report
Christopher Dring
Head of Games B2B
Monday 16th May 2022
Nearly 290,000 games consoles, over one million accessories and 10.8 million games were sold across European markets last month, according to the latest GSD data.
But it was a marked decline over the sales recorded in March and during April 2021.
289,000 games consoles were sold across Europe in April, a drop of 15% over March.
The data covers selected European markets. The biggest territories not covered are Germany and UK. You can check out the UK data here.
Nintendo Switch was the leading platform for a seventh consecutive month. PS5 is in second position, followed by Xbox Series S and X.
All three platforms are suffering from stock challenges, although the situation is particularly challenging for Microsoft and Sony.
It was the best month of the year so far for PS5.
Over 1.08 million accessories and add-on products were sold across Europe last month. That's 19% down over March.
The PS5 DualSense was comfortably No.1, reflecting a sharp rise in PS5 console sales. Meawhile, the PS5 DualShock controller holds second place.
In terms of wallets and points cards, 1.48 million of these were sold across Europe last month, a drop of 24% month-on-month.
10.8 million tracked digital and physical games were sold across Europe during April 2022. It's a drop of 24% over March, which saw a number of big releases, plus continued strong sales of Elden Ring.
Digital unit sales declined 29% among the 30 tracked countries and retail units declined by 18% among the 16 tracked countries.
It is also down 16% compared with the same period last year. However, April 2021 was a five-week sales month (this year, it covers just four weeks), and if we compare like-for-like weeks, game sales were flat.
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