Digital video game sales fell 24% y/y in U.K. in October, GI.biz reports

Roughly 1.6M digital video games were purchased in the U.K. in October, a 24% decline year-over-year, Gamesindustry.biz’s Christopher Dring reports, citing data from GSD. Meanwhile, data from GfK show that physical game sales rose 8% to 1.08M units, the author notes. The main source of the overall decline is the fact that Activision’s (MSFT) “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” released in October 2022, while this year’s “Modern Warfare 3” launched in November, the author notes. Top sellers for the month of the October in the U.K. include Electronic Arts’ (EA) “EA Sports FC 24,” Sony‘s (SONY) “Spider-Man 2,” Nintendo’s (NTDOY) “Super Mario Bros. Wonder,” and Ubisoft’s (UBSFY) “Assassin’s Creed Mirage.”