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

Name of Responsibility virtually at all times gobbles up year-end gross sales, and Fashionable Warfare 3 isn’t any exception, in keeping with industry-tracking agency Circana. The sport topped the listing 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 had 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 govt producer for video games reviews. “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 essentially 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 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 partly due to vacation gross sales. Equally, Hogwarts Legacy moved again as much as the Prime 5 due to its launch on Nintendo Swap, and Spider-Man: Miles Morales probably noticed a spike due to the latest 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 somewhat 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 considered one of October’s late releases hasn’t appeared on the November charts. Alan Wake 2, which just lately gained a number of awards at The Recreation Awards (together with Greatest Recreation Path), 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: Greatest-selling video games of the yr to this point

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