'The Zelda Effect' Causes Game Sales To Drop This May (Europe)
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Sales are down 17% compared to last year.
GSD, via GamesIndustry.biz, has shared the latest sales data for the video game market across Europe in May 2024, and it looks to have been a quiet month. So quiet, in fact, that the entire top ten failed to sell as many copies as May 2023’s highly-anticipated The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Across physical and digital data from the major European markets (excluding Nintendo which doesn’t share digital figures), Game sales dropped 17% in May 2024, compared to the same period last year. That’s still 11.6 million game sales.
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