Time will tell if Dead Space has the sticking power to hang on into next month’s charts, but with a significantly better critical response and little AAA competition in February, it has more favorable odds.

Just one month on, The Callisto Protocol has completely disappeared from the top 20 sales chart. But despite that pedigree, it debuted at an underwhelming No.17 in the NPD sales charts for December 2022. Widely considered a spiritual successor to Dead Space thanks to being helmed by the original game’s co-creator Glenn Schofield, some may have expected The Callisto Protocol to have made something of a splash. Fuelled in part by the popularity of the new HBO show, it rose from No.36 to No.11 in the sales chart.Īs for Dead Space, a debut at No.2 means that it has had a much better start in life than last year’s The Callisto Protocol. The Last of Us: Part 1, the PS5 remake of Naughty Dog’s celebrated survival horror, saw a leap in chart position. TvmxTayZr6- Mat Piscatella February 13, 2023

Video game hardware spending was flat, while content (-5%) and accessories (-14%) spending fell. consumer spending on video game content, hardware and accessories totaled $4.3 billion, a decline of 5% when compared to a year ago. This drop, from $4.5bn to $4.3bn, means sales are down year-on-year for the first time since last September. “Video game hardware spending was flat, while content (-5%) and accessories (-14%) spending fell,” he revealed on Twitter.

consumer spending on video game software, hardware, and accessories dropped year-on-year by 5%, according to NPD’s Mat Piscatella. While there were four new releases among the top 10, U.S.

Dead Space was joined in the top 20 best-sellers by three other new games: Fire Emblem Engage (No.5), Forspoken (No.7), and One Piece Odyssey (No.9).

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