According to information provided by Circana, Starfield is doing very well in the US market, becoming the first game in 17 years from Bethesda Game Studios to win the monthly sales crown (The Elder Scrolls 5 and Fallout 4 were previously in second place). However, the game isn’t doing so well in Europe, where it can’t even compare to Forza Horizon 5.
According to the latest European GSD data released, Starfield ranked second in the market in September, behind only EA Sports FC 24, EA’s football simulator. Of course, this is not surprising. This, of course, is not surprising, since football games in Europe have always been extremely popular. What’s surprising, however, is that Starfield didn’t perform as well as Xbox Game Studios’ other big title, Forza Horizon 5, in its first month in Europe.
In fact, in the first week of sales, the results of the space RPG were still higher than those of Forza Horizon 5. But the results for the first month of sales of Starfield, according to the latest data, were not as high as for the first month of sales of Forza Horizon 5. This means that Starfield’s popularity plummeted after the first week, at least in Europe.
Some analysts believe this may be due to a decline in the overall gaming market in Europe, where total gamer spending was down compared to September last year and September this year: in contrast, total gamer spending in the US was up in September this year compared to last year . The growth was 10%.