Analytical company Gfk shared information on the best-selling physical games of 2023 across Europe. For ease of perception, the countries of the continent are marked with different colors.
Despite the cancellation of the event in 2023 European Football Championship 2023, aroused the greatest interest among European players FIFA 21… It was the sports game from Electronic Arts that became the best-selling game on the continent in the last 12 months.… If we individually consider different territories, then it can be noted that the last numbered FIFA became the leader of the charts in 16 out of 19 European countries represented in the Gfk chart…
The second position in Europe as a whole remained with the life simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons (exclusive Nintendo Switch hit the TOP-3 annual charts in almost half of 19 countries, and in France he managed to bypass even the multi-platform FIFA 21), while the third place was taken by the arcade racing Mario kart 8 deluxe (it climbed to the top of 2023 in seven regions, despite the fact that it came out back in 2017)…
As for Russia, the best-selling game of last year on physical media was The Last of Us Part II from the studio Naughty dog… In addition, the Sony Interactive Entertainment exclusive has become one of the top three bestsellers in Finland, Sweden, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Long-playing hits in the face Gta v and Minecraft continue to interest gamers in Europe. If a crime thriller from Rockstar Games has successfully proved itself in Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Czech, Hungary), as well as in Denmark and Portugal, then the blocky sandbox especially attracted players from Southern Europe (Italy, Portugal, Spain) And Finland (in the northern country, it even became the absolute bestseller in 2023).
Note: Infographic shows retail data from 19 European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Sweden, Slovakia, Spain, Czech Republic and Hungary… Other countries were not included.
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