2020 | Europe, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy & Australia.

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Europe - 2020 - Digital & Retail - GSD

GSD Annual 2020 Top 20 Video Games (Digital + Physical)
PositionTitle

1. FIFA 21 (EA)
2. Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
3. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)*
4. FIFA 20 (EA)
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision Blizzard)
6. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)*
7. The Last of Us Part 2 (Sony)
8. Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)
9. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
10. Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
11. NBA 2K20 (2K Games)
12. Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo)*
13. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft)
14. Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt)*
15. Minecraft: Switch Edition (Nintendo/Microsoft)*
16. Ghost of Tsushima (Sony)
17. Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft)
18. Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo)
19. Just Dance 2020
20. Super Mario Party (Nintendo)

*Ventas Digitales No incluidas.

Europe (excluding UK) - 2020 - Digital - GSD

GSD European Digital 2020 Top 10 Video Games (excluding UK)
PositionTitle

1. FIFA 21 (EA)
2. Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
3. FIFA 20 (EA)
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision Blizzard)
5. NBA 2K20 (2K Games)
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
7. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft)
8. Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
9. Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft)
10. Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)

Europa (excluding UK) - 2020 - Retail - GSD

GSD European Physical 2020 Top 10 Video Games (excluding UK)
PositionTitle

1. FIFA 21 (EA)
2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
3. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)
4. The Last of Us: Part 2 (Sony)
5. Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo)
6. Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
7. Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)
8. FIFA 20 (EA)
9. Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt)
10. Minecraft: Switch Edition (Nintendo)

Digital downloads jumped 47% across Europe in 2020 | European Annual Report

211.9 million games were sold across UK & Ireland, mainland Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in 2020, according to…

www.gamesindustry.biz

Europe - 2020 - Retail - GFK

GfK Entertainment - "FIFA 21" war Europas Games-Bestseller 2020

21.01.2021 | Schon in den letzten Jahren kam der jeweils aktuelle "FIFA"-Teil europaweit am besten an... 21.01.2021 Obwohl keine Europameisterschaft stattfand und Partien zumeist vor leeren Rängen ausgetragen wurden, hat sich eine Sache im Fußball-Jahr 2020 nicht verändert: Die Simulationsre...

www.gfk-entertainment.com

UK - 2020 - Digital & Retail - GSD


01. FIFA 21 - 2.182.694 units
02. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - 1.420.353
03. Grand Theft Auto V - 1.127.222
04. FIFA 20 - 903.810
05. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
06. Animal Crossing: New Horizons* - 810.462
07. Assassin's Creed Valhalla - 665.815
08. The Last of Us: Part II
09. NBA 2K20 - 481.507
10. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - 436.957

UK video game revenues exceeded £4bn for the first time in 2020 - MCV/DEVELOP

Video games generated £4.2bn in revenues in the UK in 2020, the first time it has breached the £4bn threshold.

www.mcvuk.com

UK - 2020 -Digital & Retail - GSD

Hardware



Hardware sales
NSW - 1.5m
PS5 - 450k
PS4 - 450k
XBS - 310k
XBO ~290k

Software:

PS5 and Xbox Series sold 800,000 consoles in the UK last year

More than three million games consoles were sold in the UK last year, including over 450,000 PS5 machines, 310,000 Xbox…

www.gamesindustry.biz

Germany - 2020 - Digital & Retail - GSD





Germany - 2020 - Retail - GFK

PC
1. The Sims 4
2. Anno 1800
3. Farming Simulator 19

PlayStation 5
1. Assassin's Creed Valhalla
2. Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
3. Demon's Souls

PlayStation 4
1. FIFA 21
2. The Last of Us: Part II
3. Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Xbox Series
1. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
2. Immortals Fenyx Rising
3. Gears Tactics

Xbox One
1. FIFA 21
2. Assassin's Creed Valhalla
3. Cyberpunk 2077

Nintendo Switch
1. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
2. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
3. Super Mario 3D All-Stars

Nintendo 3DS
1. Animal Crossing: New Leaf
2. Luigi's Mansion 2
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D


France - 2020 - Retail - GSD


France - 2020 - Digital & Retail - GSD




Ranking







Ranking (LTD)

https://www.sell.fr/sites/default/files/essentiel-jeu-video/ejv_mars_21_web.pdf

 

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Spain- 2020 - Retail - Vandal/GSD

Los 10 juegos más vendidos en España en formato físico en 2020 son estos:

1. Grand Theft Auto V (PS4): 358.650 (1.400.000 LTD)
2. Animal Crossing (Switch): 343.100
3. FIFA 21 (PS4): 326.300
4. The Last of Us Part 2 (PS4): 188.700
5. Minecraft (Switch): 164.400
6. Mario Kart 8 DX (Switch): 163.450
7. Pokemon Espada y Escudo (Switch): 143.250
8. Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Switch): 135.050
9. Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4): 130.350 (117.000 in 2019)
10. FIFA 20 (PS4): 125.850 (573.000 LTD)

HARDWARE


Nintendo Switch: 519.050 unidades
PS4: 243.350 unidades
PS5: 78.400 unidades
Xbox Series X/S: 30.850 unidades
Xbox One: 24.500 unidades


España - Año 2020 - Ventas Físicas - GSD / AEVI

http://www.aevi.org.es/web/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AEVI_Anuario_2020.pdf

Italy - 2020 - Digital & Retail - GSD / GTD

*Datos digitales de Nintendo y Bethesda no están incluidos

Australia - 2020 - Digital & Retail - GSD

1 Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)*
2 Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
3 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision Blizzard)
4 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
5 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)*
6 FIFA 21 (EA)
7 Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)
8 The Last of Us Part 2 (Sony)
9 NBA 2K20 (2K Games)
10 NBA 2K21 (2K Games)
11 Ghost of Tsushima (Sony)
12 Just Dance 2020 (Ubisoft)
13 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft)
14 FIFA 20 (EA)
15 Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
16 Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo)*
17 Cyberpunk 2077 (Bandai Namco/CD Projekt)*
18 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 (Activision)
19 Minecraft: Switch edition (Mojang)*
20 Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo)*

*Digital data not available

Australia - 2020 - Retail - GSD

1 Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
2 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe (Nintendo)
3 The Last of Us Part 2 (Sony)
4 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision Blizzard)
5 Assassin's Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)
6 Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo)
7 Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt/Bandai Namco)
8 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Activision)
9 Minecraft: Switch Edition (Mojang)
10 Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo)

Australia - 2020 - Digital - GSD

1 Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
2 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision)
3 NBA 2K20 (2K Games)
4 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
5 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft)
6 Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
7 NBA 2K21 (2K Games)
8 FIFA 21 (EA)
9 Uno (Ubisoft)
10 FIFA 20 (EA)

Nintendo and GTA 5 come top in big year for Australia game sales | Australia Annual Report

Sales of video games in Australia surged 35% during the pandemic year. 15.8 million boxed and digital video games were …

www.gamesindustry.biz

 

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Ventas en Europa 2020 | Resumen - EJDE Gaming

Los datos digitales de GSD incluyen las ventas digitales a través de Steam, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo eShop, realizadas a las siguientes compañías: Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Big Ben Interactive, Capcom, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Focus Home Interactive, Koch Media...

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[Lelouch0612]

Excellent work @acezam !

 

[Yep]

Great report!

 

[Ken]

Fantastic work on the thread.

 

[acezam]

IIDEA and Censis published an interesting report about Italian videogame market (2020), taking into consideration its global numbers but also its possible potential interest for Italian economy, occupation and social/cultural behaviours

In terms of sales (the main focus of this message board) these are the main take aways:

THE MARKET

Global spending generated by the videogame market in Italy 2020:
- €2,2 billions
- + 21,9% compared to 2019
- more that double compared to 2016 (€1 billion)


Hardware (consoles + accessories) generated spending 2020:
- €395 millions
- +10,3% compared to 2019)

Software generated spending 2020:
- €1,8 billions
- +24,8% compared to 2019


THE INDUSTRY

N° of Italian based companies active on the territory: 160 (up from the 120 that were active in 2018)
Global turnover: €90 millions (26% of the companies has a turnover >€500.000 - up from the 17% of 2018)
N° of active job profiles in the territory > 1.600 people (+45% compared to 2018)
Average age of employees: 79% of people is younger than 36YO
Major markets for Italian videogame products: 94% of the turnover generated by Italian videogame companies is "international" (vs domestic): 60% from other European countries/25% from the US

THE CHARTS
These numbers comes from another IIDEA report (March 21), about the sales of the Italian market (2020)
The sources of this report are the following:
Interactive Software Federation of Europe, ISFE - including data from various sources like:
- GSD (Games Sales Data) for retail data (physical)
- GSD (Games Sales Data) and GameTrack for digital products/Sales
- App Annie and Game Track for mobile segment

The main data have been published on my website back in March:
Switchitalia

Global chart (all platforms, physical + digital)
- 1st place: FIFA 21
- 2nd place: Grand Theft Auto V
- 3rd place: FIFA 20

Best seller genres
Consoles:
- Action Games
- Sports Games
- Adventure Games

PC:
- Action Games
- Adventure Games
- Strategy Games

Home consoles vs Portable consoles market share

Videogamers demographics and playing behaviours

Thanks to @Aostia82