EA Sports FC 24 was Europe’s best-selling game in September ahead of fellow new release Starfield.
Sales ofEA’s new football brand, which launched in the last third of the month, were down 10% compared with last year’s particularly strongFIFA 23launch.
That’s according to GSD data published onGamesIndustry.biz, which covers physical game sales from major European markets and digital sales from most leading publishers, excludingNintendoand505 Games.
Starfield, which was released in early September and was also available on Game Pass at launch, was last month’s second best-selling title.
TheXbox Series X/SandPCrelease failed to toppleForza Horizon 5asMicrosoft‘s biggest game launch this generation, although the racing title was also released forXbox One, meaning it had a significantly larger potential userbase.
New releases took the next three places on the monthly chart, with NBA2K24 at No.3, The Crew Motorfest at No.4, andMortal Kombat 1at No.5. Of these titles, only The Crew Motorfest outperformed its predecessor’s launch sales.
On the hardware front,PS5continued to dominate sales across European markets tracked by GSD, which exclude the UK and Germany.
Sales ofSony‘s console were up 175% over the same period last year, when there were still significant stock shortages.
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Nintendo Switchsales were down 28% compared with last September, while Xbox Series X/S sales were down 35%.
Starfield was thebest-selling game in the US in September, ahead of Mortal Kombat 1 andEA Sports FC 24, market research firm Circana reported on Wednesday.
