European hardware/software sales for July 2023 revealed

The latest gaming sales data for Europe have come in, and it gives us a look at how things went down in July of 2023. Let’s kick things off with the top 20 software sales of the month.

Please note that Nintendo titles mentioned in the top 20 do not include digital sales, while other titles do.

We also have some general info on hardware and industry-wide sales for the month as well.

• 11.6 million console and PC games were sold, up 34% over the same period in 2022
• digital downloads represented nearly 7.9 million of that (up 60%)
• physical sales were 3.75 million (up 0.2%)
• the highest charting new game was Pikmin 4 at No.11 (please note, Nintendo first-party games do not include digital download figures)
• 493,000 games consoles were sold across tracked European countries, up 62.5% over 2022
• Switch finished the month in second place, with sales down 9% compared with July 2022
• year-to-date, Switch sales are flat compared with 2022