Data from GSD shows that 2.53 million console and PC games were sold in the UK in June, a drop of almost 14% on the year before.
June 2023 was a particularly busy month with the launch of Diablo IV, Final Fantasy 16, F1 23 and Street Fighter 6, while June 2024 was considerably quieter.
EA Sports FC 24 tops the charts. It’s a strong showing in June for EA’s football game, which has undoubtedly benefited from the European Championship competition currently taking place in Germany.
The best-selling new game in June this year was F1 24, which sits at number 3 on the podium. It’s a slightly disappointing launch for the EA racer, with its first five weeks on the market down 44% on F1 23’s launch.
Elden Ring climbs 19 spots in the charts with a 467% increase in revenue from the previous month. The game FromSoftware and Bandai Namco received the extensive new DLC Shadow of the Erdtree at the end of the month, giving the base game a significant boost.
Elsewhere, at No. 14, is Nintendo’s Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD. It may be in the top 10, but Nintendo doesn’t share digital data with the charts, so its ranking is based on physical game sales alone. The game only just released at the end of the month.
A big month for the DualSense
Sales of game consoles fell slightly in June, by 9% compared to the same period in 2023. Just under 99,000 game consoles were sold (GfK panel data).
All three platforms saw slight declines, with the PS5 still the market leader (selling more than the other two platforms combined). Nintendo Switch drops to #3 this month, narrowly surpassed by Xbox Series S and X, with both platforms running more or less neck-and-neck this year.
The UK console sector is down 29% in units and 31% in sales this year. This has been driven by a number of factors, including a very strong first half of the year for PS5 in 2023 as the console came back into stock (making for a tricky year-on-year comparison), plus the age of the Nintendo Switch, now in its eighth year on the market.
Meanwhile, in accessories, 655,000 of these products were sold through UK retailers last month (GfK data). This is a 16% jump on the same period in 2023. This was driven by some strong promotions on the PS5 DualSense, with the entire Top Four made up of the controller (Midnight Black at No. 1, White at No. 2, Cosmic Red at No. 3 and Starlight Blue at No. 4). The average selling price of the controller was £10 lower in June compared to May.
GfK boss Dorian Bloch revealed that the same number of extra DualSense controllers have been sold as PS5 units, meaning the average PS5 customer has one extra controller.
UK GSD June 2024 Top 10 (Digital & Physical)
| Position | Title |
| 1 | EA Sport FC 24 (EA) |
| 2 | Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar) |
| 3 | F1 24 (EA) |
| 4 | Elden Ring (Bandai Namco) |
| 5 | Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros) |
| 6 | Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 (2K Games) |
| 7 | Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar) |
| 8 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard) |
| 9 | Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar) |
| 10 | Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft) |
GSD digital data includes games from participating companies that are sold on PC digital storefronts, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo Eshop. Notable participating companies include Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Capcom, CD Projekt, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Embracer Group (including Gearbox, Koch Media, Sabre Interactive), Focus Entertainment, Kepler, Konami, Marvellous Games, Microids, Microsoft (including Bethesda), Milestone, Nacon, Paradox Interactive, Quantic Dream, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Take-Two, Tencent, Ubisoft, and Warner Bros.; Nintendo and 505 Games are notable absent, along with a number of smaller studios.