Top 20 best-selling video games in the UK in June 2021

Within the 4 weeks ending July 3, 2021, greater than 183,000 consoles had been offered in keeping with the most recent GfK knowledge. This represents a development of 6 % month-on-month.

The PlayStation 5 got here out on prime because the best-selling console for the month, regardless of inventory ranges being barely decrease than they’ve been over earlier months. The Xbox Collection X/S rose to turn into the second best-selling console of the month, with the Nintendo Swap coming in third. Each Nintendo and Xbox noticed improved gross sales in June over Might for his or her units.

Sport console gross sales have handed 1.1 million items offered within the UK for the primary six months of the yr. Which is up by 25 % year-on-year. With regards to video games, knowledge reveals that 2.5 million digital and bodily items have been offered in June alone. Regardless of that seeming like a big quantity, it’s truly down by 29.7 % over 2020, when lockdowns had been in full impact. That is additionally the comparability interval for the extremely fashionable The Final Of Us Half 2.

Digital video games accounted for 1.62 million of the video games offered final month, down by 31.4 % year-on-year, and bodily gross sales made up 876,000 items, which is down by 26.4 %. Nintendo was the most important bodily writer whereas Ubisoft was the most important digital one for the month.

The most important new sport of the month was Ratchet and Clank: Rift Aside, a PS5 unique. This was adopted by Mario Golf: Tremendous Rush, a Nintendo Swap unique, although FIFA 21 was the best-selling sport for the interval general.

731,879 equipment had been offered over the month, up 19 % month-on-month however down by 19.6 % year-on-year. The DualSense controller for the PS5 managed to stay the best-selling accent, and the 2 color variants have joined it because the second and fourth best-selling equipment as effectively.

Apparently, controller income was up by 7 %, and headset income up by 9 %, for the primary six months of 2021. Contemplating that two new consoles have simply launched, this looks as if a small improve. Clearly although, it reveals how sturdy gross sales for the units had been throughout lockdown final yr.

The highest twenty best-selling video games within the UK for the month of June 2021 had been as follows.