UK April 2023: PS5 No. 1 (-35%); Switch No. 2 (+26%/ZOLED); XBSX No. 3 (-32%); Jedi: Survivor No. 1

[Himura Kenshin]

From GI.biz,

PS5 was the No.1 console of the month once again, followed by Nintendo Switch and then Xbox Series S and X.

PS5 sales fell 35% over March, but is up 15% compared with April last year. Meawhile, Xbox Series S and X sales are down 32% over March, but up 8% over the same period the year before.

However, the big winner of the month was the Nintendo Switch, which was up 26% over March and 30% up over April 2022. This was mostly due to the new Zelda edition of the console, which was released right at the end of the month (and two weeks before the game), but it still managed to account for 29% of all Switch consoles sold last month.

The best-selling game was comfortably Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which shot to No.1 after just a week on sale. It's a strong start, with launch sales up 31% over its 2019 predecessor: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Fallen Order's digital sales accounted for 36% of its total sales, while Survivor's digital sales accounted for 66% -- another clear indicator on how digital has accelerated from pre-pandemic to post-pandemic.

Dead Island 2 makes No.2 with a strong launch, although the data doesn't go far enough back to compare to the original, which came out in 2011.

UK GSD April 2023 Top 10 (Digital + Physical)​

Position	Title
1	Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (EA)
2	Dead Island 2 (Deep Silver)
3	FIFA 23 (EA)
4	Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
5	Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
6	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)
7	Resident Evil 4 Remake (Capcom)
8	Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
9	WWE 2K23 (2K Games)
10	NBA 2K23 (2K Games)

* Digital data unavailable

GSD digital data includes games from participating companies sold via Steam, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo Eshop. Major participating companies are Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Embracer Group (including Gearbox, Koch Media, Sabre Interactive), Focus Entertainment, Kepler, Konami, Marvellous Games, Microids, Microsoft (including Bethesda), Milestone, Nacon, Paradox Interactive, Quantic Dream, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Take-Two, Ubisoft and Warner Bros. Nintendo and 505 Games are the notable absentees, alongside smaller studios.

 

[Lelouch0612]

From last year, 2022:

April: >92,000 units (flat YoY, down 18% MoM)
PS5 #1 (up 59% MoM)
Switch #2 (down MoM)
Xbox Series #3 (down 59% MoM)
PS5 stock improves and Lego Star Wars breaks records in April | UK Monthly Charts

 

[kimbo99]

No first party games in the top 10, but no Switch digital either.

Also, Xbox needs to strap up. It should be taking the top 2 spot moving forward. I wonder what's going on? Any stock issues?

 

[Welfare]

What I estimate

PS5: ~47K
NSW: ~41K
XBS: ~21K

From the Amazon thread

For UK sales, we'll know what Amazon's market share is. All of this is past month

Series X Forza: +1K
Series S: +1K
Series S Gilded: +500
Series X: +100
Total: +2.6K

PS5: +1K
PS5 DE: +800
PS5 GOW: +200
PS5 DE GOW: +100
Total: +2.1K

Amazon XBS market share: >12%. I'd say ~15% accounting for how close the +1K SKU are to 1K or 2K.
Amazon PS5 market share: >4%. I'd say ~7% accounting for how close the +1K SKU are to 1K or 2K.

 

[fiendcode]

Why does T2 allow GSD to include digital but not Circana?

 

[Josh5890]

Good to see all consoles up YOY.

 

[Ghostsonplanets]

Surprised to see Switch still holding strong. Probably a combination of Mario movie + Zelda OLED. Given the appeal of limited editions, I wonder if Nintendo plans to release limited OLED editions for all their upcoming software and maybe some 3rd-parties.

 

[Aostia82]

not bad for the ZOLED

 

[storres]

Switch keeps swinging! Wonder how long they can keep it up

 

[Luminoth 4545]

Like i observed from the Japanese and Spanish numbers we get, it is impossible for the PS5 to replicate those January to March sales. The PS5 will not hit another 6.3 million outside of a holiday quarter although it is still doing much better than April 2022. Probably looking at 4.5 million for PS5 this quarter which is still very high.

Also due to Zelda releasing this month and the Mario Bros movie bounce i think this is the only quarter this FY that can match the equivalent quarter last FY, 3.43 million was what Switch sold last April to June.

 

[Xevross]

Great month for Switch.

What I estimate

PS5: ~47K
NSW: ~41K
XBS: ~21K

From the Amazon thread



Amazon XBS market share: >12%. I'd say ~15% accounting for how close the +1K SKU are to 1K or 2K.
Amazon PS5 market share: >4%. I'd say ~7% accounting for how close the +1K SKU are to 1K or 2K.

So ZOLED sold ~12k, that's pretty good for the first two days of sales.

Interesting the disparity on market share for the two but I think it's still heavily dependent on stock. Amazon UK is currently out of regular PS5 and PS5 DE, GOWR bundles only. That might have happened in April too and caused Amazon PS5 share to drop. Also may be that they had stock of X while others didn't so that share was higher.

 

[ikaben]

And here I thought the Switch HW bump was because of the movie.

 

[salesguy]

No exclusives in the top 10 just throwing it out there.

 

[BTB123]

One of the more boring top 10s. Not a bad hold for RE4.