The Nintendo Switch has formally handed the PlayStation 2 to grow to be the second best-selling gaming {hardware} in the United States, now trailing solely the Nintendo DS.
This comes from Circana’s November online game gross sales report, which states that lifetime unit gross sales of the Nintendo Switch at the moment are at 46.6 million (we have requested for up to date totals on the Nintendo DS).
However Switch gross sales are nonetheless slowing down. Per evaluation from Circana’s Mat Piscatella, it was solely the second best-selling console for November, following the PS5 in each unit and greenback gross sales, with Xbox Sequence consoles in third. Total {hardware} spending was flat, with 15% year-over-year progress for PlayStation {hardware} off-setting a 29% drop in Xbox Sequence gross sales and three% drop on Switch.
PS5 gross sales had been pushed in half by the launch of the PS5 Professional, which accounted for 19% of all PS5 unit gross sales final month and 28% of all greenback gross sales. Notably, launch month greenback gross sales of the PS5 Professional had been over 50% increased than launch month gross sales of the PS4 Professional, however unit gross sales had been 12% decrease. This is not stunning, and is roughly in line with analyst expectations, on condition that the PS4 Professional launched at $399 and the PS5 Professional launched at $699.
Spending on video games general was down 7% year-over-year to $5.8 billion, and general software program spending was down 9% year-over-year to $4.5 billion. Each of those drops had been in massive half merely due to Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6’s launch timing in contrast to Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 3 final yr. Black Ops 6 launched in October this yr, elevating gross sales that month, whereas Trendy Warfare 3’s November launch final yr pumped that month’s numbers and made for a more durable comparable this yr as Black Ops 6 gross sales quiet down a bit.
Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 was nonetheless the best-selling sport this month, nonetheless, and is the second best-selling sport of the yr so far. It trails solely EA Sports activities School Soccer 25, which is now the best-selling sports activities sport in U.S. historical past by greenback gross sales, and ranks amongst the 50 best-selling video games of all time by the similar metric.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership debuted at No.7 for the month, proper behind Tremendous Mario Get together Jamboree at No.6. Each video games’ place on the chart solely displays bodily gross sales, nonetheless, so it is attainable the inclusion of digital gross sales may have pushed both increased.
A couple of different massive new video games this month aren’t mirrored on the best-seller charts for numerous causes. S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chernobyl launched on Sport Go, which suggests lots of people performed it for “free.” However it debuted at No.6 on Circana’s Participant Engagement Tracker Xbox Month-to-month Lively Customers chart, and it ranked No.9 for Steam MAUs, indicating it is doing all proper for itself. In an analogous state of affairs, free-to-play Genshin Influence launched on Xbox in November, and debuted at No.10 for Xbox MAUs.
And over on cell, Pokemon TCG Pocket was the second best-selling cell sport by income worldwide in November, beating out the extremely fashionable Monopoly GO. It was the sixth best-selling cell sport in the States for the month.
The highest 20 best-selling video games in the U.S. for the month of October, based mostly on greenback gross sales:
- Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6
- Madden NFL 25
- EA Sports activities FC 25
- EA Sports activities School Soccer 25
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- Tremendous Mario Get together Jamboree*
- Mario & Luigi: Brothership*
- Sonic X Shadow Generations
- NBA 2K25*
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Dragon Quest 3
- Astro Bot
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Silent Hill 2 (2024)
- Undisputed
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Minecraft*
- My Sims: Cozy Bundle
- Marvel vs. Capcom Combating Assortment: Arcade Classics
* Signifies that some or all digital gross sales will not be included in Circana’s knowledge. Some publishers, together with Nintendo and Take-Two, don’t share sure digital knowledge for this report.
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