In March, consumers in the USA again spent more on their hobby, at 566 million dollars.
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella has released fresh figures from the US video game market for March 2023.
In March 2023, consumers in the US spent $4.6 billion on hardware, software and content. Compared to the same period of the previous year, this corresponds to a decrease of 5%. Year-to-date, consumers spent 1% or $13.6 billion less over the same period.
Sony increased spending on PlayStation hardware, but declining content spending offset the growth.
Resident Evil 4 Remake topped the list for the best-selling premium video games in the US (physical and digital) in March. The horror game replaced the role-playing game Hogwarts Legacy, which slipped to second place. Sports game MLB The Show 23 took third place.
Resident Evil 4 Remake is already the third best-selling game of 2023, behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Hogwarts Legacy remains the best-selling game this year.
American consumers continued to spend $566 million on video game hardware in March. That is 10% more than in 2022.
Measured by the best-selling hardware platform in terms of units and dollars, the PlayStation 5 is not only in first place in March, but also in the year to date in 2023.
In accessories, controllers achieved the highest sales in March. In terms of sales, the PlayStation 5 Dual Sense Edge Wireless Controller Black was the top-selling gamepad.
There are more numbers and analyses here.
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