Europe top selling video games 2023, by country

In 2023, football simulation game EA Sports FC 24 was one of the top-selling video game in every European country except for Sweden. Hogwarts Legacy was ranked second based on physical unit sales for PC and console.

Can the success of the FIFA series last?

First released in 1993, the FIFA football video game series ranks among the best-selling video gaming franchises worldwide and regularly tops the year-end charts across Europe. However, change is on the horizon – in May 2022, it was announced that the game’s publisher Electronic Arts (EA), and the sport’s governing body FIFA's partnership was set to end after failing to reach an agreement over licensing fees for the use of the FIFA name. The FIFA 23 release at the end of September 2022 was be the last under the current agreement, and EA’s future football simulation games will be published under the new series title of EA Sports FC. The football association body FIFA is planning to find a new publisher for FIFA-branded games.
EA's change in branding has paid off, and the latest iteration of the series, EA Sports FC 24, was a best-seller in virtually every European country in 2023.

The enduring popularity of Zelda

Second-placed Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a role-playing game published by Nintendo and is one of the best-selling Nintendo Switch game of all time. The game is the highly anticipated follow-up to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, another top Nintendo Switch title which was one of the launch games at the start of the new console release.