January 2023 – Europe’s best-selling games

The latest market statistics from GSD has shown which video games were the most popular purchases in Europe during the month of January.

In addition to that, we have expertise in the field of hardware sales. A year-over-year drop of 19 percent can be seen in Europe’s game sales, which totaled 12.1 million units in the most recent month. The month of January 2022 saw a significant uptick in sales for Pokemon Legends: Arceus. However, the previous month did not see anything like to this, which led to a decrease.

Fire Emblem Engage made its debut at position #12, and that’s before taking into account digital statistics. The Nintendo game that ranked the highest was Nintendo Switch Sports, which reached position #8.

Hardware

In terms of hardware, the monitored European markets saw the sale of 493,000 consoles during the month of January. Have in mind, however, that these statistics do not cover the UK or Germany. The PlayStation 5 was the most popular gaming system, but the Nintendo Switch was not far behind it in terms of sales. The number of platforms sold by Nintendo did fall by 11 percent as compared to the previous year.

Europe’s best-selling games

In conclusion, here is a rundown of the top-selling video games in Europe for the month of January 2023:

1. FIFA 23 (EA)
2. Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
3. Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)
5. God of War Ragnarok (Sony)
6. Dead Space (EA)
7. Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo)
8. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)
9. NBA 2K23 (2K Games)
10. Elden Ring (Bandai Namco)
11. Forspoken (Square Enix)
12. Fire Emblem Engage (Nintendo)
13. Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (2K Games)
14. Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar)
15. Pokémon Violet (Nintendo)
16. One Piece Odyssey (Bandai Namco)
17. God of War (Sony)
18. Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Mojang/Nintendo)
19. It Takes Two (EA)
20. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft)