Modern Warfare 3 tops November sales, natch | Circana November 2023

Name of Responsibility virtually all the time gobbles up year-end gross sales, and Trendy Warfare 3 isn’t any exception, based on industry-tracking agency Circana. The sport topped the record of best-sellers for November, and is the fifth title within the Name of Responsibility collection to take action. Nonetheless, recreation and {hardware} gross sales have been in decline total for the month, dropping 7% from 2022. {Hardware} gross sales, specifically, dropped 24% year-over-year.

“November online game content material spending dropped 3% when in comparison with a yr in the past, to $4.6 billion,” stated Mat Piscatella, Circana’s government producer for video games studies. “An 11% decline in Console & Moveable Content material spending was partially offset by 3% development throughout every of the Cellular, Subscription, and ‘PC, Cloud & Non-Console VR’ Content material segments.”

As we famous in October, gaming {hardware} gross sales have been dropping steadily all yr, with that month’s gross sales having probably the most precipitous fall of 23%. Now November seems poised to proceed this pattern, with a 24% drop in contrast with 2022. This truly brings the entire variety of {hardware} gross sales for 2023 down -1% in contrast with the year-to-date interval in 2022 — it was 6% in October

Piscatella added, “A main driver of the year-on-year decline in Console & Moveable Content material was the comparable power of the brand new launch slate. November 2022 featured the launches of each God of Conflict: Ragnarök and Pokémon: Scarlet/Violet.”

Circana November 2023: Prime 20 best-selling video games within the U.S.

An uncommon function of November’s chart is that a number of titles have jumped into the Prime 20 from a lot decrease on the gross sales charts. Simply Dance 2024 and God of Conflict Ragnarok moved up partly because of vacation gross sales. Equally, Hogwarts Legacy moved again as much as the Prime 5 because of its launch on Nintendo Swap, and Spider-Man: Miles Morales probably noticed a spike because of the latest launch of Spider-Man 2.

November’s releases: What’s there and what’s not there

Out of November’s releases, Trendy Warfare 3 and Tremendous Mario RPG are the one two that made it into the Prime 10. Different additions embrace Naruto x Boruto: Final Ninja Storm Connections, which admittedly acquired relatively blended evaluations on launch; and Star Ocean: The Second Story R, a rerelease of the primary recreation within the Star Ocean collection, initially launched for the PlayStation in 1998.

Piscatella famous that one among October’s late releases hasn’t appeared on the November charts. Alan Wake 2, which lately received a number of awards at The Sport Awards (together with Finest Sport Course), didn’t seem on the October chart attributable to falling after that chart’s reporting interval. Nonetheless, it’s additionally lacking from the November lists. Piscatella notes this could possibly be as a result of Circana doesn’t report on gross sales information from the Epic Video games Retailer, and the sport’s lack of a bodily launch on consoles.

Circana November 2023: Finest-selling video games of the yr up to now

The year-to-date rating hints at a attainable upset for the tip of 2023: It’s attainable, and even probably that Hogwarts Legacy could possibly be the best-selling recreation of 2023. This might be the primary time in 15 years that the yr’s best-selling recreation hasn’t been both a Name of Responsibility title or a Rockstar recreation, based on Piscatella’s latest interview with IGN. It’s nonetheless attainable that Trendy Warfare III may lap Hogwarts Legacy by the tip of the yr.