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[Bruno MB]

The latest issue of GamesMarkt magazine features a report about the European video game software sales during the first half of the year.

Top 20 All Formats (Value) January - June 2015
(All SKU's, normal and special editions)

Top 10 Publisher
Software Market Share - Value

01 (01) Electronic Arts - 15,05% (18,58%)
02 (03) Nintendo - 12,57% (12,32%)
03 (06) Take-Two Interactive - 10,79% (5,77%)
04 (10) Bandai Namco Entertainment - 9,52% (3,18%)
05 (07) Warner Bros. Interactive - 9,35% (5,26%)
06 (02) Ubisoft - 8,67% (15,07%)
07 (04) Activision Blizzard - 8,19% (9,76%)
08 (05) Sony Computer Entertainment - 7,62% (7,54%)
09 (09) Microsoft - 3,08% (3,59%)
10 (__) Bethesda Softworks - 2,50%

Source: GfK Entertainment

The data here takes into account video games sold from retail outlets in 20 European countries. Those countries include: Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, UK, Ireland, Finland, Norway, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Greece. Digital sales are not included.
The current report is compiled by using data of each participating country, fully extrapolated by each country manager to 100 per cent of local market coverage.

 

[ZhugeEX]

I love you bruno

Spoiler

No I'm not drunk

lol at Minecraft outselling Call of Duty

Also look at Nintendo! Number 2 in Europe and Number 3 in the US. Amazing!

 

[Reset]

I'm surprised to see The Order as number 12.
Edit:Oh only 350k sales, that seems a lot more worse.

 

[Mysterious]

Are those totals LTD or YTD (as of June 2015)?

 

[jmaine_ph]

Bloodborne Top 10. Praise the moon.

 

[ZhugeEX]

Are those totals LTD or YTD (as of June 2015)?

YTD

 

[Zalman]

It's funny how Minecraft has to be there twice.

 

[hagege_s]

GTA V is unstoppable.

 

[Xando]

Suprised to see no witcher 3.


Thanks for posting this, Bruno.

 

[viHuGi]

Are those totals LTD or YTD (as of June 2015)?

YTD

Keep going Bloodborne and Order you are doing great!

 

[KillerMan91]

Bloodborne having the highest average selling price. Dat loyal hardcore Souls fanbase.

 

[Acquiescence]

Maybe The Order wasn't quite the flop I thought it was.

It still flopped tho.

 

[Jucksalbe]

What exactly is this sorted by?

 

[oldmario]

how are these supposed to be ordered? minecraft SCE has 900k sales but is placed inbetween 400-500k

 

[Hasney]

Suprised to see no witcher 3.

Eh, a lot of digital there. plus it'd have less than a month and when you see a lot of end of 2014 games there, it'll probably pop up during the second half if it does at all.

 

[BlackBuzzard]

Maybe The Order wasn't quite the flop I thought it was.

It still flopped tho.

Its probably at like 600-700K LTD

 

[Bruno MB]

When I was transcribing the list I had to check several times to see if I had overlooked The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but no, it's not included on the list ?

 

[astrogamer]

Interesting how Nintendo's marketshare increased despite fewer heavy hitters

 

[Springy]

I'd be amazed if it was, considering it wasn't out in June.

May, dude.

 

[Usobuko]

Extra bomba Evole.

 

[SquirrelSoup]

how are these supposed to be ordered? minecraft SCE has 900k sales but is placed inbetween 400-500k

Sales value. Count the two minecraftses together.

 

[Vitor711]

Maybe The Order wasn't quite the flop I thought it was.

It still flopped tho.

I dunno - it's not far behind Bloodborne, although, to be fair, Bloodborne did have a month or two less....

Still, there's hope for those of us who'd like a sequel someday.

 

[Wickerbasket]

What exactly is this sorted by?

It appears to be sorted by Sales Value if you add the Minecraft values together.

 

[Svartafaran]

Only 460K for MKX? WOW, was expecting a million at minimum lol such a shame, game was amazing.

 

[Hasney]

May, dude.

Yeah, I was confused as hell. Thought it was July for some reason.

 

[bombshell]

Suprised to see no witcher 3.

That is definitely weird. Error?

 

[Kenzodielocke]

Eh, a lot of digital there. plus it'd have less than a month and when you see a lot of end of 2014 games there, it'll probably pop up during the second half if it does at all.

Could say the same about Arkham Knight.

 

[Interfectum]

Where's Witcher 3?

 

[oldmario]

Sales value. Count the two minecraftses together.

weird they didn't just combine and list both MS and SCE as publisher

 

[Jucksalbe]

It appears to be sorted by Sales Value if you add the Minecraft values together.

Oh, right. Thanks.

 

[Usobuko]

AAA Multiplat Evolve, winners of 80+ Game conferences awards , selling worst than The Order is the real story here.

 

[KillerMan91]

Witcher 3 sold 300k first week in UK and France alone (combined). There is definitely something fishy going on.

 

[Penguin]

It appears to be sorted by Sales Value if you add the Minecraft values together.

Ahh that's what was throwing me off

Odd that they did that instead of combing it though

 

[BadWolf]

Huh, The Order didn't do half bad.

 

[Hasney]

Could say the same about Arkham Knight.

True. Plus Batman being there means June inclusive rather than up to June. Can't just be digital then. Wonder what's up there.

Are only certain publishers contributing to this? Seems weird that it couldn't even outsell The Crew.

 

[Xando]

Eh, a lot of digital there. plus it'd have less than a month and when you see a lot of end of 2014 games there, it'll probably pop up during the second half if it does at all.

Well arkham Knight is in which was released later. Didn't they announce 6 million sales or something like that? This must be a mistake.

 

[Paganmoon]

Its probably at like 600-700K LTD

40k less in Europe than Bloodborne, that just got 2 million WW, even if Bloodborne sold better in Japan, that doesn't account for the disparity.

I don't think that 600-700k number for The Order is very accurate.

 

[ZhugeEX]

When I was transcribing the list I had to check several times to see if I had overlooked The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but no, it's not included on the list ?

In 20 years they'll find 6 million copies buried at a landfill site.

 

[Jucksalbe]

Witcher 3 sold 300k first week in UK and France alone (combined). There is definitely something fishy going on.

Does that number include digital sales?

 

[BlackBuzzard]

When I was transcribing the list I had to check several times to see if I had overlooked The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but no, it's not included on the list ?

Yeah that's really weird.

 

[Obliterator]

Witcher 3 missing is indeed strange given the numbers we know its sold it has to have really high digital purchases

 

[Shantom]

No Witcher 3 is definitely an error - there's no way Namco would be 4th top publisher if if didn't sell enough to make the list.

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

Damn, I knew Far Cry was a strong franchise, but number 5? And Dying Light and number 7; impressive.

 

[BlackBuzzard]

40k less in Europe than Bloodborne, that just got 2 million WW, even if Bloodborne sold better in Japan, that doesn't account for the disparity.

I don't think that 600-700k number for The Order is very accurate.

Should ask Cream for the LTD of the Order in the next NPD thread i guess.

 

[bombshell]

40k less in Europe than Bloodborne, that just got 2 million WW, even if Bloodborne sold better in Japan, that doesn't account for the disparity.

I don't think that 600-700k number for The Order is very accurate.

Good point, so it should definitely be over 1M comparing it to the Bloodborne number. This data is retail only and digital ratio is getting bigger and bigger.

 

[Chezzymann]

So minecraft is really number 3

Has there ever been a game with this amount of legs in the history of video games? Its been selling consistently great for 6 years. About to be 7.

 

[cyba89]

So many people bought Battlefield Hardline? I saw no buzz around this at release at all.

 

[Hasney]

No Witcher 3 is definitely an error - there's no way Namco would be 4th top publisher if if didn't sell enough to make the list.

Yeah, they don't even have a game in the top 20.

 

[RespectThySole]

Witcher 3 sold 6 million in 6 weeks. Must be an error.

 

[ArchedThunder]

A lot of numbers seem weirdly low and Witcher is missing. List seems fucked.