After months of Helldivers II holding the highest spot on 2024’s best-seller checklist, EA Sports activities School Soccer 25 has stolen its throne, in keeping with industry-tracking agency Circana. Not solely has the sport bought nicely sufficient to place it atop the July charts, but it surely’s additionally apparently accountable for an upturn in complete online game gross sales for the month. In contrast to in earlier months, the numbers for each single class of sport gross sales are up year-over-year.
“Online game content material spending elevated 10% in July in comparison with a yr in the past, as 29% progress in console content material spending and an 8% improve in cellular was partially offset by a 6% drop in spending on PC, cloud and non-console VR content material,” stated Mat Piscatella, Circana’s government producer for video games studies. “EA Sports activities School Soccer 25 debuted because the best-selling sport of 2024 year-to-date and was the first driver of each content material and {hardware} progress on console platforms.”
| July 2024 Greenback Gross sales, Tens of millions | Jul 2023 | Jul 2024 | Change |
| Complete Video Recreation Gross sales | $4,349 | $4,773 | 10% |
| Video Recreation Content material (Bodily & Digital Full Recreation, DLC/MTX and Subscription shopper spending throughout Console, Cloud, Cellular*, Moveable, PC and VR platforms) | $3,880 | $4,263 | 10% |
| Video Recreation {Hardware} | $292 | $326 | 12% |
| Video Recreation Equipment | $177 | $184 | 4% |
Based on Circana’s previous studies, July is the primary month of 2024 to date to indicate progress within the {hardware} class. Piscatella added, on the subject of {hardware} gross sales, “Progress in spending on PlayStation 5 (+25% vs YA) and Xbox Sequence (+48%) {hardware} was partially offset by a 44% drop in spending on Change.” It ought to be famous that EA Sports activities School Soccer 25 is barely accessible on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X|S.
Circana July 2024: High 20 best-selling video games within the U.S.
| Rank | Final Month Rank | Title | Writer |
| 1 | NEW | EA Sports activities School Soccer 25 | Digital Arts |
| 2 | NEW | EA Sports activities MVP Bundle | Digital Arts |
| 3 | 1 | Elden Ring | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 4 | 2 | Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare III (2023) | Activision Blizzard (Corp) |
| 5 | 6 | Minecraft | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 6 | NEW | Nintendo World Championships: NES Version* | Nintendo |
| 7 | 5 | Hogwarts Legacy | Warner Bros. Video games |
| 8 | 7 | MLB: The Present 24^ | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 9 | 9 | EA Sports activities FC 24 | Digital Arts |
| 10 | 13 | Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 | Sony (Corp) |
| 11 | 15 | Mortal Kombat 1 | Warner Bros. Video games |
| 12 | 17 | Mario Kart 8* | Nintendo |
| 13 | 11 | Helldivers II | Sony (Corp) |
| 14 | 30 | Tekken 8 | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 15 | 8 | Luigi’s Mansion 2* | Nintendo |
| 16 | 10 | Sea of Thieves | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 17 | 16 | UFC 5 | Digital Arts |
| 18 | 21 | Rainbow Six: Siege [Tom Clancy’s] | Ubisoft |
| 19 | 37 | The Crew: Motorfest | Ubisoft |
| 20 | 12 | Ghost of Tsushima | Sony (Corp) |
^Digital gross sales on Nintendo and Xbox platforms not included
As famous, EA Sports activities School Soccer 25 is the best-selling title for the month, but it surely additionally holds the second place as nicely. The EA Sports activities MVP Bundle contains each EA Sports activities School Soccer 25 Deluxe Version in addition to Madden NFL 25 Deluxe Version.
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The sport’s reputation was evident even at its launch, as EA stated in a press release that 2.2 million distinctive gamers performed the sport throughout its early entry interval, accessible for Deluxe Version gamers three days earlier than launch. EA CEO Andrew Wilson praised the sport’s efficiency in an analyst name, saying, “This can be a monumental second for EA Sports activities.”
The one different new launch to make the best-sellers checklist is Nintendo World Championships: NES Version. It’s all the time notable when a brand new Nintendo title makes the Circana best-seller checklist, if solely as a result of Nintendo doesn’t present its digital gross sales knowledge to Circana to issue into its evaluation.
Tekken 8 and The Crew: Motorfest profit from gross sales
Two of the video games which have made a return to Circana’s prime 20 from decrease spots are The Crew: Motorfest and Tekken 8. The 2 titles have moved from 37 to 19 and 30 to 14, respectively. The rationale for each video games’ rise seems to be a mixture of summer time gross sales and new content material updates. Motorfest rolled out its Season 4 content material, which added new vehicles and the “Donk vs Lowrider” playlist. The sport was additionally accessible to play at no cost on all platforms between July 4-11.
Tekken 8 was a part of a number of summer time gross sales, together with the PlayStation Summer time Gross sales occasion and Steam’s summer time sale. Walmart and Finest Purchase additionally supplied offers on the console editions of the video games. As for content material, Bandai Namco rolled out a number of new options for the sport in July’s 1.06 replace, in addition to roster addition Lidia Sobieska.
Circana July 2024: 20 best-selling video games of 2024 to date
| Rank | Final Month Rank | Title | Writer |
| 1 | NEW | EA Sports activities School Soccer 25 | Digital Arts |
| 2 | 1 | Helldivers II | Sony (Corp) |
| 3 | 2 | Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare III (2023) | Activision Blizzard (Corp) |
| 4 | 3 | Dragon’s Dogma II | Capcom USA |
| 5 | NEW | EA Sports activities MVP Bundle | Digital Arts |
| 6 | 6 | Elden Ring | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 7 | 4 | MLB: The Present 24^ | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 8 | 5 | WWE 2K24** | Take-Two Interactive |
| 9 | 7 | Ultimate Fantasy VII: Rebirth | Sq. Enix Inc (Corp) |
| 10 | 8 | Tekken 8 | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 11 | 10 | Hogwarts Legacy | Warner Bros. Gamees |
| 12 | 9 | Madden NFL 24 | Digital Arts |
| 13 | 11 | NBA 2K24 | Take 2 Interactive (Corp) |
| 14 | 12 | Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League | Warner Bros. Video games |
| 15 | 13 | EA Sports activities FC 24 | Digital Arts |
| 16 | 14 | P3: Persona 3: Reload | Sega |
| 17 | 16 | Minecraft | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 18 | 15 | Grand Theft Auto V** | Take-Two Interactive |
| 19 | 17 | Sea of Thieves | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 20 | 18 | Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 | Sony (Corp) |
^Digital gross sales on Nintendo and Xbox platforms not included
**Might-Jul Digital gross sales not included
Each EA Sports activities School Soccer 25 and the EA Sports activities MVP Bundle have joined the top-sellers of 2024 checklist, with the previous knocking Helldivers II off the highest spot for the primary time because it launched in February. Elden Ring is sustaining a gentle place on the checklist, regardless of most different video games getting shifted by the 2 new titles — probably as a result of lingering results of Shadow of the Erdtree.
