Next generation console Playstation 5 ranked # 1 in UK sales for May 2023. GamesIndustry.biz with a link to tracker data GSD… Sony shipped a large new batch of systems, which had a positive effect on sales of key games like Spider-Man: Miles Morales…
Sales Xbox series x and Xbox series s also grew thanks to new shipments – Microsoft consoles took second place in the monthly standings… Nintendo Switch this time became the third, but was slightly behind the closest competitor.
GamesIndustry.biz notes that Switch sold worse in the UK in May 2023 than in May 2023, which was expected given its lack of a tier hit this year. Animal Crossing: New Horizonsthat blew up iron sales amid the locklaun in the first months of the pandemic. That being said, Switch is selling 60% better this year than in 2019.
Horror is the leader of the May overall gaming chart based on retail and digital store sales. Resident evil village… 43% of its circulation was on PlayStation 5, 15% on PlayStation 4 and 11% on PC. The rest was bought by the owners of the Xbox consoles.
The compilation debuted in second place with a 50% lag behind the flagship Capcom Mass Effect: Legendary Edition…
In total, 2.1 million copies of games were sold in the UK in May (excluding digital versions of Nintendo games) – 39% less than in the same period a year earlier. 1.2 million accounts for digital stores, 885 thousand for retail.
PlayStation 5 sci-fi action movie Returnal, released at the end of April, was not included in the May TOP-30…
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