

The decline in game sales is due to fewer releases in February than the year before, which saw multiple big new titles including Elden Ring, Horizon: Forbidden West, Dying Light 2 and Total War: Warhammer 3. Full details are at the bottom of the article. It also includes digital game sales from most major publishers across all European markets. This data is from GSD and includes physical game sales across most major European markets (including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and more). Yet despite the runaway success of Warner Bros title, game sales in February across Europe are down 10% compared with last February, with 12.9 million games sold. That means Hogwarts Legacy had a bigger launch than every Call of Duty game released since 2017, plus other breakout hits such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring.Īfter just three weeks on sale, Hogwarts Legacy is already the fifth best-selling game of the last 12 months, behind FIFA 23, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Grand Theft Auto 5 and Elden Ring. The only games ahead of it are FIFA titles.

Hogwarts Legacy had the sixth biggest launch for a video game since the European charts started six years ago.
