EA Sports activities FC 25 was the best-selling sport within the UK in September, which included the discharge of a handful of high-profile titles.
EA‘s soccer sport comfortably topped the month-to-month chart, regardless of a 4.6% decline in comparison with the launch gross sales for EA Sports activities FC 24.
That’s in line with GSD knowledge printed by GamesIndustry.biz, which covers bodily sport gross sales from main markets and digital gross sales from most main publishers, excluding Nintendo and 505 Video games.
Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2, which debuted at No.2 on the chart, is already the third best-selling new sport launched in 2024, trailing solely EA Sports activities FC 25 and February’s Helldivers 2.
Developer Saber Interactive has stated it plans to discover the potential for Area Marine 2 story DLC, and a full sequel, after the sport’s early success.
Ubisoft’s 2018 racing sport The Crew 2 charted at No.3 within the UK final month after being discounted to underneath £1.
After its first full month of gross sales, Star Wars Outlaws is now monitoring barely behind the launch of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, which was additionally developed Ubisoft Large and launched in December 2023.
Ubisoft has stated it’s engaged on a collection of updates designed to get the sport into higher form in time for the vacation season, after “preliminary gross sales proved softer than anticipated” following its launch in August.
PS5 unique Astro Bot debuted at No.4 within the UK final month, whereas NBA 2K25 entered at No.8, with gross sales of the basketball sport monitoring 14% behind final yr’s collection entry.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge charted at No.10, a feat achieved based mostly on one week of bodily gross sales alone given its launch in the direction of the tip of the month and the truth that Nintendo doesn’t share digital knowledge.
Virtually 3.9 million console and PC titles had been offered final month, which was up 8% in comparison with September 2023.
PS5 was comfortably the top-selling console once more final month, pushed by gross sales of the All-Digital version, which had its second greatest month thus far behind December 2023.
Xbox Collection X/S got here in forward of Change, and Nintendo’s console has now dropped to No.3 for the yr. Throughout the first three quarters of 2024, console gross sales had been down 32% in comparison with 2023.
