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

Name of Obligation virtually all the time gobbles up year-end gross sales, and Trendy Warfare 3 is not any exception, in accordance with industry-tracking agency Circana. The sport topped the listing of best-sellers for November, and is the fifth title within the Name of Obligation collection to take action. Nonetheless, sport and {hardware} gross sales have 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,” mentioned Mat Piscatella, Circana’s govt producer for video games reviews. “An 11% decline in Console & Transportable 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 really brings the full 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 & Transportable Content material was the comparable power of the brand new launch slate. November 2022 featured the launches of each God of Battle: 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 Battle Ragnarok moved up partially 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 possible noticed a spike due to the current launch of Spider-Man 2.

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

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

Piscatella famous that certainly 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 Sport Awards (together with Finest Sport Path), didn’t seem on the October chart resulting from 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: Finest-selling video games of the yr thus far

The year-to-date rating hints at a doable upset for the top of 2023: It’s doable, and even possible that Hogwarts Legacy might be the best-selling sport of 2023. This might be the primary time in 15 years that the yr’s best-selling sport hasn’t been both a Name of Obligation title or a Rockstar sport, in accordance with Piscatella’s current interview with IGN. It’s nonetheless doable that Trendy Warfare III may lap Hogwarts Legacy by the top of the yr.