PS5 Best-Selling Console in the US in October, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Debuts in 1st

The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console in the US in October 2023 in terms of units sold and dollar sales, according to figures from Circana (formerly The NPD Group). Circana includes the dates for the four week period of October 1 to 28.

[Nyxus]

"Launch month dollar sales of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 exceeded those of September 2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man by a double-digit percentage."

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[Einhander1972]

"By Circana's numbers, Spider-Man 2 is already the fourth best-selling game of the year, behind only Hogwarts Legacy, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Madden NFL 24 in that order."

Note: This is ranked on dollar sales of full game purchases, so it doesn't include bundles.

[VersusDMC]

And it is only 8 days of sales as it only reports up to the 28th and SM2 came out on the 20th.

[Eonjay]

Well damn... but we shouldn't be too surprised. Spiderman's popularity is unmatched.

[Einhander1972]

It's kind of a shame it's tracked by sales and not units, because the Spider-Man 2 bundles are clearly going to sell millions on top of the full game sales.

[neutralgamer1992]

It’s sad that madden sells this much when the game has been down in quality for a decade or longer

[Tacoboto]

Going from $60 to $70 by itself is a 16.667% increase, so that says nothing outside of accounting for the price increase.

The bigger statement is from Sony themselves giving specifics on 2.5m day one (their biggest ever) and 5m after 11 days.

[Nyxus]

Replied to the wrong person, sorry.

[VenomUK]

Circana, formerly the NPD group.
X, formerly Twitter.
Your mum, formerly your dad.

[neutralgamer1992]

8 days of sales for Spider-Man 2. It will become the best selling game of 2023 soon

[Plague-Doctor27]

Has a lot of ground to cover to beat Hogwarts, TOTK, and probably COD

[mkis007]

It may be possible. Xmas sales will probably dwarf what has released until now.

[Jin_Sakai]

Crazy how XBS are doing worse than XBO.

“Piscatella: In the US, PS5 is now trending 9% above PS4; XBS trails behind XBO by 11%”

YTD October
2023 PS5 ~4.24 m
2023 XBS ~2.19 m
2016 PS4 ~2.41 m
2016 XBO ~2.22 m

LTD (After 36 months)
PS5 ~16.16m
PS4 ~14.83m
XBO ~13.33m
XBS ~11.86 m

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Phil should be demoted.

[Hofstaderman]

More like fired.

[Cockney]

Old gen ps4 beating new gen xbox, thats mental

[Plague-Doctor27]

Spiderman 2 already selling more than Diablo 4 and Jedi Survivor for the entirety if 2023 is kind of crazy considering its only on one platform

[Tacoboto]

Agreed, Spider-Man's a beast! I'd have never thought it to exceed Diablo 4 right out the gate but it did.

It's weird seeing Starfield ahead of FFXVI *and* RE4 both too. RE4 is so incredible and multiplatform, and FFXVI was hyped and marketed like a full first party title. I'd have surely thought they'd have done better especially being out months earlier

[Obscure_Observer]

"It's weird seeing Starfield ahead of FFXVI *and* RE4 both too."

Not surprised at all. Starfield is a massive success on Xbox.

[Einhander1972]

It's w̶i̶e̶r̶d̶ "unfortunate" seeing Starfield ahead of FFXVI *and* RE4 both too. RE4 is so incredible and multiplatform, and FFXVI was hyped and marketed like a full first party title.

But personally I would say the thing about Startfied is that it could have been in the top three, I think many people expected that.

But instead it's behind MK1 a game that only sold 3m WW.

That said FFXVI outsold SF6 which was praised as a huge success with a release on 5 platforms. Though i will say Sony/Square really dropped the ball on FFXVI post launch marketing, the bundles didn't really last and they stopped pushing it in advertising and it hasn't had a big sale at retail or on PS Store. I feel like they could have squeezed a lot more sales out of it.

[Tacoboto]

That's the keyword - on Xbox. This chart is dollar sales-based.

Steam must've accounted for a lot considering the market share of Xbox relative to PS, and the impact of Game Pass where Premium Upgrades were only $30 or $40, compared to these other $60-$70 titles that released to a much wider console audience.

[Einhander1972]

"That's the keyword - on Xbox. This chart is dollar sales-based"

This chart includes Steam, where by far the majority of Starfields sales were.

I mean, we can have a whole other discussion about the value of "players vs sales" ...

[crazyCoconuts]

Can't help but to wonder how many Xbox execs are looking at spreadsheets that estimate how many more units would sell if they put the games on PS. Articles like this just make avoiding that discussion harder and harder

[Obscure_Observer]

@crazyCoconuts

"Can't help but to wonder how many Xbox execs are looking at spreadsheets that estimate how many more units would sell if they put the games on PS."

Probably a lot, but still, Starfield proved that it doesn´t need Playstation to be successful.

It performed amazingly giving its only available exclusively on both Xbox and STEAM.

Some PS fanboys were expecting it to flop in sales, specially considering the fact that Starfied is avaliable on both Xbox and PC Gamepass.

Given its sales number and player engagement, specially on Xbox, I´m pretty sure that executives at MS are more than satisfied with Starfield´s successful release.

[CombatEmu]

@Obscure

And yet, Starfield couldn't beat the poorly done Metal Gear Solid collection in September. Not to mention, the average Steam review score keeps dropping and concurrent player count dropped below Skyrim's. It's a tale of coming out of the gate in a full sprint and immediately running out of gas.

Also, mind if you share how Forza is doing? For someone who's extremely invested on the Xbox, it's rather suspicious you don't talk about all of Microsoft's 1st party games.

[Crows90]

Re4 and ff16 didn't sell much...starfields didn't do well either but just enough better to beat out those 2...it's not saying much. As someone stated it is behind mk1 and that sold 3 million.

So yeah. Tells you where starfields is at. The game flopped hard in sales compared to expectations.

[Gamingsince1981]

obscure_observer really just lives in some weird other reality, the things he says are beyond delusional, they arent even close to matching reality, the front page even has a story of starfield being a flop and hes still going on about how well it has done........ it has to be trolling at this point, you can just make this stuff up and pretend its real and think everyone will believe you. its insane

[neutralgamer1992]

people don't understand just how popular spiderman is. And for sony to have it as an exclusive is HUGE. This will be the #1 game almost every kid(and many adults) will want as their present. It will help sell the software and hardware (imagine how many parents will need to buy PS5 when they realize it's only available on PS

[ChasterMies]

“considering its only on one platform”

If you are only going to be on one platform, PS5 is the platform to be on.

[InUrFoxHole]

Not really. Spidey is more popular

[Hereandthere]

The main reason why exclusives will always drive sales.

[Tacoboto]

Well, October will be the only month of the year I guess we can say and relish in this

It's pleasant seeing a COD title *not* in the Top 5 Overall

[ironmonkey]

ain't even Christmas yet.

[eagle21]

Congrats! :)

[Games1st]

No surprises.

[gold_drake]

not surprised, people want the ps5 :)

[Doomeduk]

Wouldn't be a surprise to me to hear that starfield is heading to playstation at some point to get some sales ,MS leaving money on the table while it's console sales tank is just too hard to pass up

[-Foxtrot]

You never know, with the way MS is going it’s possible

Release it on Xbox first and then years later do a version on PS5 with all the updates and content included.

[lexisestate]

Launch month dollar sales of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 exceeded

[jznrpg]

Not surprising at all.

[QuantumMechanic]

The absence of BG3 from the 2023 Top Sales chart is confounding. Maybe the "22M" sell-through was an error.

[repsahj]

Yeah, it's weird, considering on Steam alone it is close to 10M.

[Plague-Doctor27]

In the fine print at the bottom it says the list only includes Publishers in the "Digital Leader Panel" which are mostly the big ones. Larian self published BG3 and Larian isn't included in that Panel so won't show up on any charts other than the engagement charts

[QuantumMechanic]

Good catch!