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Bruno MB · Sep 16, 2015

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 · Sep 16, 2015

I love you bruno

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 · Sep 16, 2015

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

Mysterious · Sep 16, 2015

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

jmaine_ph · Sep 16, 2015

Bloodborne Top 10. Praise the moon.

ZhugeEX · Sep 16, 2015

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

YTD

Zalman · Sep 16, 2015

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

hagege_s · Sep 16, 2015

GTA V is unstoppable.

Xando · Sep 16, 2015

Suprised to see no witcher 3.

Thanks for posting this, Bruno.

viHuGi · Sep 16, 2015

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

YTD

Keep going Bloodborne and Order you are doing great!

KillerMan91 · Sep 16, 2015

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

Acquiescence · Sep 16, 2015

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

It still flopped tho.

Jucksalbe · Sep 16, 2015

What exactly is this sorted by?

oldmario · Sep 16, 2015

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

Hasney · Sep 16, 2015

Xando said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

Acquiescence said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

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 · Sep 16, 2015

Interesting how Nintendo's marketshare increased despite fewer heavy hitters

Springy · Sep 16, 2015

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

May, dude.

Usobuko · Sep 16, 2015

Extra bomba Evole.

SquirrelSoup · Sep 16, 2015

oldmario said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

Acquiescence said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

Jucksalbe said:
What exactly is this sorted by?

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

Svartafaran · Sep 16, 2015

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

Hasney · Sep 16, 2015

Springy said:
May, dude.

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

bombshell · Sep 16, 2015

Xando said:
Suprised to see no witcher 3.

That is definitely weird. Error?

Kenzodielocke · Sep 16, 2015

Hasney said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

Where's Witcher 3?

oldmario · Sep 16, 2015

SquirrelSoup said:
Sales value. Count the two minecraftses together.

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

Jucksalbe · Sep 16, 2015

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

Oh, right. Thanks.

Usobuko · Sep 16, 2015

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

KillerMan91 · Sep 16, 2015

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

Penguin · Sep 16, 2015

Wickerbasket said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

Huh, The Order didn't do half bad.

Hasney · Sep 16, 2015

Kenzodielocke said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

Hasney said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

BlackBuzzard said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

Bruno MB said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

KillerMan91 said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

Bruno MB said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

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

Shantom · Sep 16, 2015

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 · Sep 16, 2015

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

BlackBuzzard · Sep 16, 2015

Paganmoon said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

Paganmoon said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

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 · Sep 16, 2015

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

Hasney · Sep 16, 2015

Shantom said:
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 · Sep 16, 2015

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

ArchedThunder · Sep 16, 2015

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

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