Madden NFL 25 was the top-selling recreation in August, but it surely was not a very fruitful month for online game {hardware}, in keeping with 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 components of the {industry} — specifically, August’s {hardware} gross sales.
| August 2024 Greenback Gross sales, Thousands and thousands | Aug 2023 | Aug 2024 | Change |
| Whole Video Recreation Gross sales | $4,435 | $4,120 | -7% |
| Video Recreation Content material (Bodily & Digital Full Recreation, DLC/MTX and Subscription shopper 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 probably 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 experiences, stated in an announcement, “All present technology console {hardware} platforms declined by not less than 34% when in comparison with a 12 months in the past, with Change exhibiting the sharpest year-on-year fall (-41%).”
Piscatella added that spending on equipment is down. “Progress within the Distant Play Gadget phase (PlayStation Portal), was offset by a ten% year-on-year decline in Gamepad spending.” General spending for the 12 months thus far is up 1% YoY, however {hardware} gross sales basically proceed their decline by 28% year-over-year. It stays to be seen if the PlayStation 5 Professional will juice up the growing older console cycle.
Circana August 2024: Prime 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: Trendy 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 finished 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 checklist for PlayStation and Xbox platforms, and was the ninth most-played recreation on PlayStation in August.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson stated through the firm’s latest Investor Day presentation that it goals to extend its viewers to over 1 billion folks worldwide by 2029, and EA Sports activities president Cam Webber stated on the identical occasion that Madden and the corporate’s different sports activities franchises provide a various group of expertise for a rising viewers of sports activities followers: “Lots of of hundreds of 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 checklist from additional down — notably Elder Scrolls On-line, which jumped up from thirty fourth place to twelfth. That is probably because of Sq. Enix providing a free-play occasion for the sport in August to have fun QuakeCon. Forza Horizon 5, which jumped from twenty ninth place to 18th, had a serious replace in August; whereas Gran Turismo 7 additionally obtained 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 beneath 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 stated, it bought higher than most of August’s different releases (or not less than these whose publishers provided info to Circana).
The opposite two video games on the checklist are Ouka Studios’ Visions of Mana and Gundam Breaker 4. The foremost launch that didn’t make the checklist is Recreation Science’s Black Fantasy: Wukong, which Piscatella confirmed on Bluesky is as a result of Circana doesn’t have digital gross sales information for the title. He additionally added that the sport rated #12 for month-to-month energetic customers on PS5 in August, and #15 on Steam for a similar time interval.
Circana August 2024: 20 best-selling video games of 2024 thus far
| 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: Trendy 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 | Ultimate 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 checklist stays comparatively unchanged since July.
