Xbox and Elden Ring top the charts in busy March | UK Monthy Report
Christopher Dring
Head of Games B2B
Wednesday 13th April 2022
Over 112,000 games consoles, nearly 2.8 million games and over 700,000 accessories were sold in the UK last month.
That's according to the latest hardware and accessories data from GfK, and digital and physical game information from GSD.
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XBOX IS TOP CONSOLE FOR MARCH
The 112,000 games consoles sold in the UK last month is a rise of 21% over February. However, so far this year console sales are down 46%, driven by continued stock shortages for PlayStation and Xbox devices.
Xbox Series X and S saw the biggest increase in sales during March, up 61% compared with February. Microsoft's family of consoles were the best-selling devices in March, which was helped by the arrival of more Series X stock.
Nintendo Switch sales fell 21% month-on-month but it is still the second best-selling console for March. The Nintendo platform remains the No.1 selling games machine of the year so far.
PS5 is still in third place as the console continues to suffer from shortages. However, Sony's latest machine did see a 45% rise in stock compared with the month before.
ELDEN RING, GT7 AND WWE ENJOY BIG SALES
2.77 million games were sold in the UK last month, a minor rise of 0.6% over March 2021, according to GSD.
Downloads accounted for 1.94 million of those sales, which is up 9.6% over the same period in 2021. Physical sales were 835,000, which is down 15.5%.
Last month the market was driven by a handful of very big sellers. Elden Ring was comfortably No.1 for a second month in a row, driven by strong digital sales on Steam, Xbox Live and PSN.
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