Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare III, is surprisingly not on the high of the gross sales charts for video games gross sales in 2023. This isn’t the primary time Name of Obligation has been bumped from the number-one spot in sport gross sales for the 12 months. However it’s uncommon that Activision’s first-person shooter isn’t the best-selling sport. Over the franchise’s historical past, there have been only a few events the place it wasn’t on this place. In 2013 and in 2018.
These two years had been in the course of the releases of Name of Obligation: Ghosts, and Name of Obligation: Black Ops IV. Each of which had been universally panned by gamers. In the identical 12 months, in addition they confronted stiff competitors. Grand Theft Auto V was launched in 2013 and in 2018 Rockstar launched Crimson Useless Redemption 2. Every of these video games was extensively accepted as an distinctive launch. And that paired with the lukewarm reception for the Name of Obligation titles launched in these years most likely made it a bit simpler to dethrone Activision’s behemoth franchise.
The truth is, outdoors of these two years, Name of Obligation has been the best-selling sport yearly since 2009’s Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare 2. That 12 months NPD Group (now Circana) reported MW2 had gross sales of 11.86 million copies worldwide.
Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare III gross sales topped by Hogwarts Legacy
As reported by Engadget and initially reported by Circana’s Mat Piscatella, Hogwarts Legacy was the number-one-selling sport for 2023. These are based mostly on worldwide charts and on greenback gross sales for each bodily and digital gross sales. Nevertheless, not each sport has digital gross sales counted as a result of digital gross sales of these titles have but to be reported. For instance, Nintendo hasn’t reported digital gross sales of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for the final 4 months of 2023.
These 4 months embody vacation gross sales numbers. Which might assist push TotK to the primary spot when all is claimed and accomplished. It at the moment sits at quantity 5 with 19.5 million copies bought. And that’s solely a stone’s throw away from the 22 million of Hogwarts Legacy.
