Video crippled expert radical Circana has released its October 2023 U.S. Video Game Market Highlights report and successful it, the institution reveals that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was the best-selling crippled of the month. The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console of the month, too.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 taking the apical slot past period isn't astonishing – it's the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios crippled ever and sold done 5 cardinal copies successful conscionable 11 days.
Behind Marvel's Spider-Man 2 connected October 2023's best-selling database is Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the latest Switch exclusive from Nintendo at-the-time, and Assassin's Creed Mirage, the shorter throwback rubric from Ubisoft starring Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Basim. Last month's best-selling game, Starfield, the latest RPG from Bethesda, dropped to 14th spot successful October.
Other caller releases successful Circana's October 2023 study see EA's UFC 5, which debuted successful 7th spot past month, EA's NHL 24 down it successful 8th place, and Sega's Sonic Superstars successful 9th place.
Here are the apical 10 best-selling games of October 2023:
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Assassin's Creed Mirage
- Madden NFL 24
- EA Sports FC 24
- Mortal Kombat 1
- UFC 5
- NHL 24
- Sonic Superstars
- Hogwarts Legacy
And present are the apical 10 best-selling games of 2023, year-to-date:
- Hogwarts Legacy
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Madden NFL 24
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2
- Diablo IV
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Starfield
- Resident Evil 4 (2023)
You tin cheque retired the afloat apical 20 for October 2023 here and the afloat apical 20 for the full twelvemonth here. It's important to enactment that these lists and results bash not see integer income for Nintendo-published titles.
Circana enforcement manager Mat Piscatella writes connected Twitter that spending connected video crippled contented fell 4 percent successful October compared to October 2022, to $3.6 billion. He adds that "growth successful carnal consoles bundle and mobile spending was offset by declines successful different areas, peculiarly integer premium downloads driven by the merchandise day displacement of Call of Duty."
Roblox deed PlayStation platforms past period and ranked 4th crossed each titles connected the PS5 successful presumption of monthly progressive users successful the U.S. It was down Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Fortnite, and Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
The PS5 was the best-selling hardware level successful some portion income and dollar income for October 2023. The Xbox Series X/S came successful 2nd spot for dollar income portion the Switch came successful 2nd for portion sales. Year-to-date hardware spending was 6 percent higher compared to the aforesaid play successful 2022, astatine $4 billion. Overall video crippled hardware spending, however, fell 23 percent compared to a twelvemonth ago, down to $327 million. Piscatella says, "All existent procreation consoles experienced a double-digit percent diminution successful dollar income compared to a twelvemonth ago."
The PS5 DualSense controller – specifically the Midnight Black mentation – was past month's best-selling accessory. Overall accessory spending fell 2 percent compared to October 2022.
For each U.S. video crippled spending, it's up 2 percent year-to-date astatine $43.4 billion.
For more, read Game Informer's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review and past read Game Informer's Super Mario Bros. Wonder review. After that, read Game Informer's Assassin's Creed Mirage review and past cheque retired the September 2023 video crippled spending results.
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