Nintendo hardware usually has a much better Dec than Nov. As for Series, I think it had some big discounts after the lackluster Nov.

Suprised to see that console sales seem to have declined a bit since the ps360 days.

"The other console to post year-on-year growth was, interestingly, PS4. Sales of PS4 were up 633% year-on-year. .... "

What the.... hahaha..... well well.

I'm always with USA BlackFriday on mind expecting Nov being much bigger than UK, but you are right.

https://twitter.com/chris_dring/status/1744695314513015252?t=dTsicjx75u6r1hbB1lA55A

"Games that didn't make the UK Top 100 include: LEGO 2K Drive (No.104), Metal Gear Solid Collection (No.180), Immortals of Aveum (No.331), Forza Motorsport (No.463). Detective Pikachu Returns, Mario RPG, Pikmin 4... also outside of Top 100 (but missing digital for those)"

Forza Motorsport (No.463).

In the UK, a place where xbox does well(ish) compaired to the rest of the world, where they love cars, and raceing games.
Thats crazy to me.

Forza Motorsports died sales wise (its sales on pc, and console are bad).
At this point, you have to hope gamepass and microtransactions are makeing it profitable.

Compaired with GT7:

"New release Gran Turismo 7 is at No.2, and the PlayStation game did particularly well at physical retail. 45% of its sales were for the boxed version, which made GT7 the best-selling physical game of the month.

Over 73% of Gran Turismo 7's sales were for the PS5 version (with the remainder on PS4)."

Supposedly it was also #13 overall for 2022.

Compaired with Forza Horizon 5:
"Forza Horizon 5 was #6 in November 2021 but wasn't in the top 20 for 2021 as a whole." -super era

So sales are waaaaay down, for this Forza Motorsports, compaired to normal.

Switch being at the end of its life and Xbox not carrying its weight are a big factor. Also the overall lack of systems (PSV and 3DS were new devices at the time)

Even in the US, Nintendo typically has stronger Dec, they don’t usually go as aggressive as the others on BF discounts.

very true

Oops this was meant to be a reply to the post comparing console sales in the UK. The ps3 and 360 sold quite a bit more than the ps4 and xbone. Nintendo consoles are also quite a bit down compared to that era.

14% down YOY for Xbox is somewhat less catastrophic than November suggested; hopefully they're not doomed and can salvage some semblance of health.
Switch down 16.7% YOY is downright amazing for a system in its 7th year, and again better than it seemed would be the case based on last month's sales.

Switch Sports making the monthly top 10 is a pleasant surprise; I assume this is due to them counting bundled software?