Europe: Top 20 best-selling games for the first half of 2015

Nintendo’s situation in Europe may seem a little paradoxal at first glance. They are the second most successful publisher, with a market share of 12.57%, and yet, they only have two titles in the Top 20 of best-selling games in Europe (by value)! Of course, what the chart below doesn’t show is all the “evergreen” titles that just keep on selling on Nintendo 3DS, such as Tomodachi Life for example.

The two Nintendo games in the chart are:

• Super Smash Bros. (most likely the Nintendo 3DS version, due to the average price), with 418 289 units sold and 19 218 160€ in sales value through the first six months of the year.
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D, with 400 580 units sold and 16 265 883€ in sales value through the first six months of the year.

Here’s the Top 20 of best-selling games in Europe, from January to June:

Next, we have the Top 10 of publishers in Europe (once again, by value). Nintendo is actually slightly up this year, and is #2 because of Ubisoft’s drop (which went from #2 to #6, and saw their market share almost divided by two).

Here’s the Top 10 of publishers in Europe, from January to June:

01 (01) Electronic Arts – 15,05% (18,58%)
02 (03) Nintendo – 12,57% (12,32%)
03 (06) Take-Two Interactive – 10,79% (5,77%)
04 (10) Bandai Namco Entertainment – 9,52% (3,18%)
05 (07) Warner Bros. Interactive – 9,35% (5,26%)
06 (02) Ubisoft – 8,67% (15,07%)
07 (04) Activision Blizzard – 8,19% (9,76%)
08 (05) Sony Computer Entertainment – 7,62% (7,54%)
09 (09) Microsoft – 3,08% (3,59%)
10 (__) Bethesda Softworks – 2,50%

NB: the numbers in this post are from retail sales in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, UK, Ireland, Finland, Norway, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Greece.

Source: mediamarkt
Via: NeoGAF