Monster Hunter Wilds breaks the February sales, numbers still in red Circana

Monster Hunter Wilds breaks the February sales, numbers still in red Circana

Monster Hunter Wilds was a great success of February on sales charts, although in no case is the only one, based on a company tracking the circa industry. Several games have released this month on the list of American bestsellers, and Monster Hunter Wilds ranks first. However, it is not enough to balance the continuous decline in sales on sales charts, which are still in negatives – especially the sale of kit.

Sales in February 2025, hundreds of thousandsFebruary
2024
February
2025
Change
Total sales of video gamesUSD 4,795$ 4 507-6%
The content of video games (full physical and digital game, DLC/MTX and subscription Consumer expenses inside the console, clouds, mobile*, portable, computer and VR)$ 4,217$ 4,031-4%
Video equipmentUSD 341USD 256-25%
Video games accessoriesUSD 238USD 220-8%
*Mobile expenses provided by the tower sensor

“Expenses for playing equipment in February dropped by 25% compared to the year of the year, to $ 256 million. This is the lowest number of Luty expenses for video equipment from $ 184 million achieved in February 2020.” – said Mat Piscatella, executive producer of Cirrana for games. “After the first 52 months of the platform on the market, the sale of PlayStation 5 units exceeds the PlayStation 4 sales rate by 7%, while Xbox Series currently lasts Xbox One by 19%.”

It is value noting that the decrease in the sale of kit is resulting from a sharp decline, because sales in February 2024 have already dropped by 30/% in comparison with February 2023. Sales of accessories, which sometimes operated inversely to the equipment, also fell, and Cirrana noticed that the sale of gamepads dropped by 17% to the time, and issuing the headphone set fell by 25% in the same period.

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Annual sale of $ 2025, hundreds of thousands2024
YTD
2025
YTD
Change
Total sales of video gamesUSD 10,116USD 9,020-11%
The content of video games (full physical and digital game, DLC/MTX and subscription Consumer expenses inside the console, clouds, mobile*, portable, computer and VR)USD 8,899USD 8,146-8%
Video equipmentUSD 712$ 461-35%
Video games accessoriesUSD 505USD 413-18%

Monster Hunter Wilds was one of six latest games that jumped on the list of bestsellers, but this will likely reflect the player to react to the generally summer market of January. This lot of enormous – and successful – release of games is not enough to balance the overall inheritance trend of market sales, which has been falling for some time.

Circana February 2025: 20 best -selling games in the USA

DegreeLast
Month
Degree
TitlePublisher
1NEWMonster Hunter: WildsCapcom USA
2NEWKingdom Come: Delivance IIPlan
3NEWCivilization VIITake-dwa interactive
4NEWPGA Tour 2K25Take-dwa interactive
52NBA 2K25Take-dwa interactive
61Call of Duty: Black Ops 6Microsoft (Corp)
7NEWNotoriousMicrosoft (Corp)
8NEWLike a dragon: pirate Yakuza in HawaiiSega
94Grand theft Auto VTake-dwa interactive
103Madden NFL 25Electronic art
118Minecraft ^^Many video game producers
126Ea sports fc 25Electronic art
139Marvel’s Spider-Man 2Sony (Corp)
147Red Dead Redemption IITake-dwa interactive
1512Hogwarts LegacyGames Warner Bros.
1610EA Sports College Football 25Electronic art
1714Helldivers IISony (Corp)
1818Elden RingBandai Namco Entertainment
1916Dragon Ball: Sparring! ZeroBandai Namco Entertainment
2015Astro botSony (Corp)
^^ Digital sale on Nintendo platforms is not included

After quite summer sales in January, which did probably not see many latest games on sales charts, the February charts are an explosion of recent titles. It is value noting that for the first time in some time there is no Nintendo games on the sales chart. Donkey Kong Country Returns was the only latest game that can win the January List of the Charts, but was quickly pushed out of the list by many latest titles in February.

Monster Hunter Wilds is an obvious winner, being at the top of the list. According to Piscatelli, Monster Hunter Wilds was the best selling on PlayStation, Xbox and Steam, and Steam was greater than half of the total sales of the dollar. This caterpillars from Capcom reveal that the game has sold over eight million copies in just three days on the market.

Other great winners of Lutia

In addition to Monster Hunter Wilds, Warhorse RPG Kingdom Come: Delivance II was also a great hit on the market, and Piscatella noticed that the sale in dollars of the starting month for continuation was greater than five times higher than in the original place when in 2018. This is one of the 4 games that collectively contorted Call of Duty, traditionally Conteded Contender, fell, the other civilian Fiaksis and PPA. 2K25.

Avowed and RGG Studio Obsidian is like a dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii appears a little further down the list, complementing the stable of the titles of Lutzy to make them this month. If nothing more, it proves that the market has an appetite for many expansive games at the same time, because many games belong to the “open world” and “rpg” categories.

Circana February 2025: 20 best -selling games from 2024

DegreeLast
Month
Degree
TitlePublisher
1NEWMonster Hunter: WildsCapcom USA
2NEWKingdom Come: Delivance IIPlan
3NEWCivilization VIITake-dwa interactive
41Call of Duty: Black Ops 6Microsoft (Corp)
52NBA 2K25Take-dwa interactive
6NEWPGA Tour 2K25Take-dwa interactive
73Madden NFL 25Electronic art
84Grand theft Auto VTake-dwa interactive
96Ea sports fc 25Electronic art
108Minecraft ^^Many video game producers
117Red Dead Redemption IITake-dwa interactive
129Marvel’s Spider-Man 2Sony (Corp)
13NEWNotoriousMicrosoft (Corp)
1410EA Sports College Football 25Electronic art
155Final Fantasy VII: RebirthSquare Enix Inc (Corp)
1612Hogwarts LegacyGames Warner Bros.
1711Donkey Kong Country is back*Nintendo
18NEWLike a dragon: pirate Yakuza in HawaiiSega
1914Helldivers IISony (Corp)
2018Elden RingBandai Namco Entertainment
*Digital sales not included for marked titles
^^ Digital sale on Nintendo platforms is not included

February is not much time to present any changes on the market since January, but the latest premieres of the month turned out to be as disturbances as on the monthly list. All six reached the best -selling chart for a yr, and Monster Hunter Wilds appeared at the top. As in the case of this list, a few games pushed Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 from the upper place, although it’s going to probably come back in the coming months.

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