Assassin’s Creed Mirage may not be GOTY, but it outsells one of them

Game news Assassin’s Creed Mirage may not be GOTY, but it outsells one of them

The month of October saw many high-quality releases such as Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario Bros. Wonder to name just a few. According to GSD, a company that compiles monthly sales charts in Europe, 10.21 million games were sold across Europe on consoles and PC in November, a slight decrease of 2.3% compared to October. 2023. Small important clarification, these statistics only include games sold in digital form from the main publishers in the euro zone and physical sales from the main markets in the euro zone.

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Assassin’s Creed Mirage ahead of GOTY contenders

Despite the absence of the latest Call of Duty (Modern Warfare 3 (2023)) which was released in November this year and not in October as usual, the drop in game sales in October 2023 compared to last year remains rather weak. In this context, one of the games that was not nominated for Game of the Year 2023 at the Game Awards ceremony ranks ahead of two nominees. This is Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the latest installment of the famous Ubisoft franchise. which ranks second in sales behind EA Sports FC 24 and ahead of two games selected for GOTY, namely Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

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The different statistics

Mirage therefore remains slightly ahead of Spider-Man 2, despite its sales falling by more than 49% compared to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla over the first four weeks of their respective releases. As for the second part of the adventures of the spider-man, its sales figures are 30% higher than the first episode and three times higher than those of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales over two weeks.

Super Mario Wonder is having an impressive launch by becoming the best-selling Super Mario game in Nintendo history in Europe, as the Japanese manufacturer taught us. Indeed, its sales are 59% higher than those of Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020) and 53% higher than those of Super Mario 3D World (2021). In terms of consoles, the PlayStation 5 shows excellent results with an increase of 143% this month of October 2023 compared to last year. If you want to know more about the console sales results, we invite you to read them directly here.