Q1 PC and console game sales down 11% across Europe | European Monthly Charts
13.6 million PC and console games were sold in March across Europe, a slight drop of 4% compared with the same period in 2022.
That means for the first quarter of the year, 39 million games have been sold, which is a drop of 11% over last year.
This is according to the latest GSD data, which tracks physical games across major European markets, plus digital downloads from most major games publishers (full list at the bottom of the story).
Hogwarts Legacy is comfortably the best-selling game of the quarter and it is the fastest selling game in Europe (outside of the FIFA franchise) since the GSD charts started in 2017.
Despite this, last year featured a larger number of big releases, including Elden Ring, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Horizon: Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7.
Hogwarts may be the biggest game of the quarter, but it was Resident Evil 4 that claimed No.1 in March. Capcom's horror remake grabbed the top spot after just two weeks on sale.
Resident Evil 4's first two week sales across Europe was 19% lower than 2021's Resident Evil Village and 11% lower than 2019's Resident Evil 2 remake. But it's up 57% compared with the remake of Resident Evil 3 in 2020.
Looking at a more recent horror game, Resident Evil 4's first two weeks are up 149% compared with the remake of Dead Space, which was released in January.
Also new in March was WWE 2K23, which makes No.8. The game's opening sales (first three weeks) are down 28% compared with WWE 2K22. Last year's game followed a lengthy gap for the series, which may have benefitted its launch due to additional pent-up demand.
There is no Nintendo game in the Top Ten for March. The highest charting title was actually Metroid Prime Remastered at No.11. It's impossible to
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