Mat Piscatella

Starfield debuted at No.1 in Circana's US charts for September, instantly becoming the seventh best-selling game of 2023 year-to-date.

Starfield managed to hold off Mortal Kombat 1 to be the best-selling game of September 2023 in the U.S., according to new numbers from Circana.

In addition to software sales for September 2023, Circana executive director and analyst Mat Piscatella also revealed hardware sales in the United States for the month. The PS5 topped the charts again in unit and dollar sales, with Xbox Series X/S in second place.

Starfield was the best-selling game in the US in September, while PS5 was once again the leading console platform.

Circana’s September 2023 video game sales charts for the United States are now available, and Bethesda’s Starfield is on top. It was the best-selling game of the month and the seventh best-selling game of the year to date. The sci-fi RPG was also the best-selling game across Xbox and PC, with the majority of sales on the latter.

The sandbox title continues to be extremely popular and has now sold over 300 million copies.

Video game analyst group Circana has released its September 2023 U.S. video game market highlights and in it, the company reveals that developer Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield was the best-selling game last month, which is the month it launched. And after just six weeks on the market, Starfield is already the seventh best-selling game of the year. February's Hogwarts Legacy remains in the top spot. 

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically shifted how employees work in several industries, including gaming. As the world recovers, different studios have been trying different strategies to adapt to changed employee expectations. This becomes obvious when you compare Insomniac and Roblox Corporation.

Roblox has had a huge launch on PlayStation, according to analyst group Circana (NPD).

Roblox is off to a great start on PlayStation. This analysis comes from Mat Piscatella, executive director and leading analyst at Circana (NPD). In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Piscatella said Roblox "ranked 3rd in percentage of PlayStation players that played the title at least once" during its launch on the PlayStation, trailing only Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Fortnite.

Nintendo sold just one brand new Wii U unit in September, marking their first official sale of a Wii U system in over a year. That's according to Mat Piscatella, an industry analyst at the market research firm Circana.

Years after Nintendo stopped producing it, and 15 months after its last sale, a single new Wii U unit was sold in the US in September, according to video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella.

According to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, a single Wii U was sold in the USA throughout the month of September. Piscatella took to social media platform X to share this interesting sales fact.

Nintendo discontinued the Wii U in 2017, and will shut down all online connectivity for the console by the end of this year. Despite it all, unboxed units are still out their own shelves: According to Circana industry analyst Mat Piscatella, Nintendo sold a single new Wii U in the United States in 2023. It’s reportedly the first new Wii U sold since May 2022.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

Ubisoft executive Chris Early foresees a future where physical game sales may continue to decline, but he doesn’t think they’ll ever go away completely.

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There's been a lot of debate over Final Fantasy 16 and its sales numbers. Whether it's because of tiresome fanboy wars on social media (Final Fantasy 16 is currently a PS5 exclusive, remember), Square Enix's long history of being disappointed in its products, expectations that have been set by previous Final Fantasy titles, or, more than likely a bit of everything, Clive and the gang's commercial success has been a heated talking point over the last couple of months.

It’s safe to say that the gaming industry’s obsession with live-service titles and microtransactions won’t wane anytime soon. However, the remarkable success of Remnant 2 has shown that there’s still a substantial market for smaller, more contained experiences. Remnant 2‘s sales have been so remarkable, in fact, that the game managed to dethrone Diablo 4 last month, skyrocketing to the very top of the July list of bestsellers.

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The battle for Game of the Summer has found its victor. Remnant 2 beat Diablo 4 to become the best-selling game of July 2023 in the U.S. According to the latest NPD data from Mat Piscatella, Gearbox's Remnant 2 ranked first in July sales for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and Steam, dethroning Activision Blizzard's Diablo IV.

Though not as packed with major AAA releases as June, the month of July certainly wasn’t a quite month by any stretch of the imagination, and a number of new releases performed well in the US in terms of sales, as per newly released data by Circana. Shared by Circana executive director Mat Piscatella on Twitter, for the month of July, Remnant 2 was the best-selling game in the United States, enjoying an impressive debut with its sales. Shortly after the game’s announcement, developer Gunfire Games announced that it had sold over a million copies worldwide.

We've known Baldur's Gate 3 was selling extremely well on Steam since day one. After all, Larian's triple-A cRPG broke various concurrency records on Valve's platform, reaching rank #9 on Steam's all-time concurrent player chart with a peak of 814K users. Last Sunday, the game registered a new peak of 875K concurrent users, nearly matching the eighth game on that chart (Hogwarts Legacy, another massive success in this year of records, which peaked at 879K on Steam).

It's time for yet another article about the impressive records being set by Baldur's Gate 3. The triple-A cRPG made by Larian Studios reached position #9 on Steam's all-time concurrent player chart, peaking at 814K players, just below Avalanche's Hogwarts Legacy, which also enjoyed incredible success earlier this year.

Be honest, have you played for more than five hours at a time?

Baldur’s Gate 3 is currently this year’s top-rated RPG game on Metacritic, and it’s not hard to discern why. Larian Studios spent years working to get the game out of early access, and its launch has proved more successful than anyone could have predicted. Baldur’s Gate 3 has not only taken over ratings and scores, though, as it’s absolutely soaring on Steam in terms of player count. Over the past weekend, the Dungeons & Dragons-like game accounted for almost a third of all Steam players.

A whole lot of people are playing Baldur's Gate 3.

Baldur's Gate 3 accounted for nearly a third of total playtime on Steam in the US this past Sunday.

Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian has issued an emergency hotfix that changes the way personal story databases work because players had maxed them out.

Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studio’s latest RPG, launched on PC on August 3 after spending some time in Early Access. Already, there are signs that the game has had a monumentally successful launch.

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Halfway through the year, June has emerged as perhaps the busiest month for video game releases in 2023, with three highly anticipated sequels all launching within weeks (or even days) of one another.

Diablo 4 was the best-selling game in June 2023 in the U.S., according to new data.

Circana (formerly known as the NPD Group) has released the data for software and hardware sales in the United States for the month of June 2023, and to no one’s surprise, some of the biggest new releases of month dominate the top of the charts.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2-themed accessories and consoles went up for pre-order, but within an hour they were being resold at steeper prices.

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It looks like Sega won’t be releasing a physical version of Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name in the west.