The Independent Federation of the European Video Game Industry (aka ISFE, aka simply Video Games Europe), presented a report on the state of the PC and console games market in the region for the first six months of 2023.
Let’s go through the main figures:
In total, 76.1 million copies of video games were sold in Europe (important: excluding digital versions of Nintendo, which does not share sales data with ISFE);
▫️29.1 million copies of the game sold on physical media (9% less than a year ago);
4747 million copies of games sold as digital versions (7% more than a year earlier);
The largest video game market in Europe is the United Kingdom, where 15.3 million copies of the game were sold in six months (an annual growth of 5.5%);
Germany is in second place in terms of sales with 14 million games sold (an annual drop of 11%);
▫️The third largest market is France, where 11.1 million games were played in six months (an increase of 8%);
Hogwarts Legacy became the best-selling game of the first half of the year in Europe (and its sales are 69% more than Elden Ring sales for the same period last year);
▫️in second place in sales is Diablo 4, and in third place is FIFA 23;
As for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, it is only in fourth place in sales (but the nuance is that there is no data on its digital sales, only about physical ones).