Compiled GSD ranking Best selling games in Europe per month August 2022. According to shared data, GTA 5 was the best-selling game, while Nintendo Switch was once again confirmed as the most popular console of the old continent.
Below are the 20 best-selling games in Europe in August. While ranking is based on retail and digital sales, only physical copies were considered for star-marked Nintendo games.
- GTA 5
- Order of Saints
- 22
- F1 22
- Gran Turismo 7
- Spider-Man Remastered
- Nintendo Switch Sports *
- Mario Kart 8: Deluxe *
- Horizon Forbidden West
- LEGO Star Wars The Legend of Skywalker
- Distant Scream 6
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Sims 4
- Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition
- dishonourable
- Two Point Campus
- Hand Ring
- GTA Online
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 *
- Mario Strikers: Battle League Football *
According to the information provided by GamesIndustry, 7.7 million copies were sold in Europe last month, a decrease of 12.4% compared to August 2021. As can be seen from the ranking GTA 5 Despite new releases like Saints Row, Two Point Campus, and Spider-Man Remastered for PC, it’s the first. GTA 5 was also the best-selling game in digital format, while Nintendo Switch Sports was the game with more retail copies.
However, Dishonored’s presence in the fifteenth rank remains unexplained, even surpassing Elden Ring, Two Point Campus, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. A completely unexpected conclusion for a 2012 game, and it belongs to a relatively niche genre. Therefore, we consider that he is the protagonist of a particularly advantageous offer in August, or that his presence in the top 20 is just a mistake.
As for hardware, according to GSD data Nintendo Switch It became Europe’s best-selling console in August 2022, followed by the PS5, which benefited from an increase in stocks. In total, 310,000 consoles were purchased, down 19% from August 2021. However, it should be noted that this estimation does not take into account the German and UK markets.
Source: Multiplayer
