Fashionable Warfare 3 tops November gross sales, natch | Circana November 2023

Name of Responsibility nearly at all times gobbles up year-end gross sales, and Fashionable Warfare 3 isn’t any exception, in accordance with industry-tracking agency Circana. The sport topped the record of best-sellers for November, and is the fifth title within the Name of Responsibility sequence to take action. Nonetheless, sport and {hardware} gross sales have been in decline total for the month, dropping 7% from 2022. {Hardware} gross sales, particularly, 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,” mentioned Mat Piscatella, Circana’s govt producer for video games studies. “An 11% decline in Console & Moveable Content material spending was partially offset by 3% progress 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 development, with a 24% drop in contrast with 2022. This really brings the overall 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 energy of the brand new launch slate. November 2022 featured the launches of each God of Struggle: 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 Struggle Ragnarok moved up partially 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 possible noticed a spike because of the current launch of Spider-Man 2.

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

Out of November’s releases, Fashionable Warfare 3 and Tremendous Mario RPG are the one two that made it into the Prime 10. Different additions embody Naruto x Boruto: Final Ninja Storm Connections, which admittedly obtained slightly combined critiques on launch; and Star Ocean: The Second Story R, a rerelease of the primary sport within the Star Ocean sequence, initially launched for the PlayStation in 1998.

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

Circana November 2023: Greatest-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 possible that Hogwarts Legacy might be the best-selling sport of 2023. This might be the primary time in 25 years that the yr’s best-selling sport hasn’t been both a Name of Responsibility title or a Rockstar sport, in accordance with Piscatella’s current interview with IGN. It’s nonetheless attainable that Fashionable Warfare III might lap Hogwarts Legacy by the tip of the yr.