Madden NFL 25 was the top-selling recreation in August, nevertheless it was not a very fruitful month for online game {hardware}, in response to industry-tracking agency Circana. That is the second time in a row {that a} soccer title from Digital Arts has topped the month’s bestseller charts — in July, it was EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25. Nonetheless, the numbers weren’t so good for different elements of the {industry} — particularly, August’s {hardware} gross sales.
| August 2024 Greenback Gross sales, Hundreds of thousands | Aug 2023 | Aug 2024 | Change |
| Complete Video Recreation Gross sales | $4,435 | $4,120 | -7% |
| Video Recreation Content material (Bodily & Digital Full Recreation, DLC/MTX and Subscription client spending throughout Console, Cloud, Cell*, Transportable, PC and VR platforms) | $3,933 | $3,739 | -5% |
| Video Recreation {Hardware} | $324 | $208 | -36% |
| Video Recreation Equipment | $178 | $173 | -3% |
Regardless of an uptick in numbers for July — which have been possible pushed by the aforementioned Faculty Soccer title — {hardware} gross sales in August are again down by a whopping 36% year-over-year. Mat Piscatella, Circana’s govt producer for video games studies, mentioned in an announcement, “All present era console {hardware} platforms declined by a minimum of 34% when in comparison with a 12 months in the past, with Change displaying the sharpest year-on-year fall (-41%).”
Piscatella added that spending on equipment is down. “Development within the Distant Play Machine section (PlayStation Portal), was offset by a ten% year-on-year decline in Gamepad spending.” General spending for the 12 months up to now is up 1% YoY, however {hardware} gross sales normally proceed their decline by 28% year-over-year. It stays to be seen if the PlayStation 5 Professional will juice up the getting older console cycle.
Circana August 2024: High 20 best-selling video games within the U.S.
| Rank | Final Month Rank | Title | Writer |
| 1 | NEW | Madden NFL 25 | Digital Arts |
| 2 | 1 | EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 | Digital Arts |
| 3 | NEW | Star Wars: Outlaws | Ubisoft |
| 4 | 2 | EA Sports activities MVP Bundle | Digital Arts |
| 5 | 3 | Elden Ring | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 6 | 7 | Hogwarts Legacy | Warner Bros. Video games |
| 7 | 5 | Minecraft^^ | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 8 | 4 | Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare III (2023) | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 9 | 10 | Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 | Sony (Corp) |
| 10 | NEW | Visions of Mana | Sq. Enix Inc (Corp) |
| 11 | NEW | Gundam Breaker 4 | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 12 | 34 | The Elder Scrolls: On-line | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 13 | 13 | Helldivers II | Sony (Corp) |
| 14 | 12 | Mario Kart 8* | Nintendo |
| 15 | 20 | Ghost of Tsushima | Sony (Corp) |
| 16 | 16 | Sea of Thieves | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 17 | 8 | MLB: The Present 24^ | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 18 | 29 | Forza Horizon 5 | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 19 | 27 | Gran Turismo 7 | Sony (Corp) |
| 20 | 9 | EA Sports activities FC 24 | Digital Arts |
^Digital gross sales on Nintendo and Xbox platforms not included
^^Digital gross sales on Nintendo platforms not included
The truth that Madden has topped the charts for its launch month is not any shock, because it’s the twenty fifth consecutive 12 months it’s executed so. It’s additionally value noting that the EA Sports activities MVP Bundle, which was the second-best-selling title of July, is a bundle that features each EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 and Madden NFL 25. The latter additionally topped the platform-specific best-selling record for PlayStation and Xbox platforms, and was the ninth most-played recreation on PlayStation in August.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson mentioned throughout the corporate’s latest Investor Day presentation that it goals to extend its viewers to over 1 billion individuals worldwide by 2029, and EA Sports activities president Cam Webber mentioned on the identical occasion that Madden and the corporate’s different sports activities franchises supply a various group of expertise for a rising viewers of sports activities followers: “Tons of of thousands and thousands have joined our participant community and our FC ecosystem already, and we’re assembly them with totally different experiences on totally different platforms, throughout geographies, throughout totally different enterprise fashions, with Madden, NFL and school soccer.”
A number of video games made a resurgence to the best-seller record from additional down — notably Elder Scrolls On-line, which jumped up from thirty fourth place to twelfth. That is possible as a consequence of Sq. Enix providing a free-play occasion for the sport in August to rejoice QuakeCon. Forza Horizon 5, which jumped from twenty ninth place to 18th, had a significant replace in August; whereas Gran Turismo 7 additionally acquired a big patch in late July.
The place are the remainder of August’s releases?
Surprisingly, Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws takes third place on August’s charts, regardless of the corporate itself admitting it bought far under expectations. The sport itself seems to have been the catalyst for Ubisoft’s revision of its monetary targets for the fiscal 12 months, and the delay of Murderer’s Creed Shadows. That mentioned, it bought higher than most of August’s different releases (or a minimum of these whose publishers provided data to Circana).
The opposite two video games on the record are Ouka Studios’ Visions of Mana and Gundam Breaker 4. The foremost launch that didn’t make the record is Recreation Science’s Black Delusion: Wukong, which Piscatella confirmed on Bluesky is as a result of Circana doesn’t have digital gross sales knowledge for the title. He additionally added that the sport rated #12 for month-to-month lively customers on PS5 in August, and #15 on Steam for a similar time interval.
Circana August 2024: 20 best-selling video games of 2024 up to now
| Rank | Final Month Rank | Title | Writer |
| 1 | 1 | EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 | Digital Arts |
| 2 | 2 | Helldivers II | Sony (Corp) |
| 3 | 3 | Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare III (2023) | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 4 | 5 | EA Sports activities MVP Bundle | Digital Arts |
| 5 | 6 | Elden Ring | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 6 | 4 | Dragon’s Dogma II | Capcom USA |
| 7 | 7 | MLB: The Present 24^ | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 8 | 8 | WWE 2K24** | Take-Two Interactive (Corp) |
| 9 | 9 | Last Fantasy VII: Rebirth | Sq. Enix Inc (Corp) |
| 10 | 11 | Hogwarts Legacy | Warner Bros. Video games |
| 11 | 10 | Tekken 8 | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 12 | NEW | Madden NFL 25 | Digital Arts |
| 13 | 12 | NBA 2K24** | Take-Two Interactive (Corp) |
| 14 | 13 | Madden NFL 24 | Digital Arts |
| 15 | 14 | Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League | Warner Bros. Video games |
| 16 | 18 | Minecraft^^ | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 17 | 15 | Grand Theft Auto V** | Take-Two Interactive (Corp) |
| 18 | 16 | EA Sports activities FC 24 | Digital Arts |
| 19 | 17 | P3: Persona 3: Reload | Sega |
| 20 | 20 | Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 | Sony (Corp) |
**Jun-Aug Digital gross sales not included
^^Digital gross sales on Nintendo platforms not included
As soon as once more, the brand new Madden recreation proves to be essentially the most potent August launch, as it’s the just one that’s made it on the 12 months’s bestsellers-so-far. It’s maybe a testomony to the model’s endurance that it’s solely two locations above its predecessor, Madden NFL 24. The remainder of the record stays comparatively unchanged since July.
