Full list of 2024’s best-selling games is brutally depressing reading
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EA Sports FC 25 is the best-selling game of 2024 in the UK, but the majority of the top 10 consists of games from previous years. Gaming has been dominated by Call Of Duty and sports games for decades in the West, but this year’s list of best-sellers paint a particularly bleak picture for the industry at large.
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There’s already data to show live service games like Fortnite and Roblox are limiting the time people spend playing new games, and it seems that is partly impacting, in certain territories at least, the overall sales of new games in 2024. According to figures compiled by Nielsen from December 31, 2023 to December 7, 2024, there are only four new games released in 2024 in the UK’s top 10 best-selling games of the year – and two of those are from established yearly franchises.
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Unsurprisingly, EA Sports FC 25 was the best-selling game of 2024 on these shores, with the only other new games in the top 10 being Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 at number three, The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom at nine, and Super Mario Party Jamboree at ten.
The rest, meanwhile, is made up of games from previous years, including Hogwarts Legacy, EA Sports FC 24, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Minecraft, and Nintendo Switch Sports. According to GamesIndustry.biz editor Christopher Dring, it was a similar picture across the whole of Europe. ‘Overall, video game sales across Europe were relatively robust in 2024,’ he wrote on X. ‘But it was a brutal year for new releases.’.
