Starfield Was The Best-Selling Game In The US Last Month, PS5 Remained Top Console

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Video game analyst group Circana has released its September 2023 U.S. video game market highlights and in it, the company reveals that developer Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield was the best-selling game last month, which is the month it launched. And after just six weeks on the market, Starfield is already the seventh best-selling game of the year. February's Hogwarts Legacy remains in the top spot. 

Starfield hit Xbox and PC on September 6 and while its Xbox Game Pass release surely helped it become the biggest launch ever for a Bethesda game with more than 6 million players, Circana's data tracks dollar sales. This means Starfield was the best-selling game of September despite Xbox Game Pass. Circana executive director Mat Piscatella says on Twitter that, «Starfield ranked as the best-selling title of the month across both Xbox and PC, with PC being its lead sales platform.» 

Other big September releases, like Mortal Kombat 1, EA Sports FC 24, Payday 3, NBA 2K24, and The Crew: Motorfest also make appearances on Circana's list of the 20 best-selling games of last month. 

Here are the top 10 best-selling games of September 2023:

And here are the top 10 best-selling games of 2023, year-to-date:

You can check out the full top 20 for September 2023 here and the full top 20 for the entire year here. 

Piscatella says Mortal Kombat 1 was the best selling game of September on PlayStation platforms, placing in second on Xbox and PC, which is where Starfield came in first. Mortal Kombat 1 ranked third on Switch, even with the game's disastrous launch state on the platform.

Elsewhere in Circana's report, U.S. spending on video game content, hardware, and accessories grew 10% compared to a year ago, for a total of $4.5 billion.