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[vaibhavpisal]

Here are the Top 20 games by monthly active users across US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy for December 2024, across PC and consoles, according to Newzoo:

1 Fortnite
2 COD
3 Marvel Rivals
4 GTA 5
5 Minecraft
6 Roblox
7 Rocket League
8 EA FC 25
9 RS: Siege
10 EA CF 25
11 EA FC 24
12 Overwatch 1&2
13 CS
14 NBA 2025
15 Sims 4
16 Apex Legends
17 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
18 Valorant
19 RDR 2
20 Fall Guys

Fortnite reclaims top spot on revenue and engagement charts for December 2024 | Newzoo Charts

Fortnite reclaimed the top spot on Newzoo's overall revenue and engagement charts for December.

www.gamesindustry.biz

What does GAF think? Is it successful enough or does it need to be sales?

 

[Generic]

The truth is that singleplayer-only games are hard to sell. Most gamers want multiplayer.

 

[onQ123]

Here are the Top 20 games by monthly active users across US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy for December 2024, across PC and consoles, according to Newzoo:

1 Fortnite
2 COD
3 Marvel Rivals
4 GTA 5
5 Minecraft
6 Roblox
7 Rocket League
8 EA FC 25
9 RS: Siege
10 EA CF 25
11 EA FC 24
12 Overwatch 1&2
13 CS
14 NBA 2025
15 Sims 4
16 Apex Legends
17 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
18 Valorant
19 RDR 2
20 Fall Guys

Fortnite reclaims top spot on revenue and engagement charts for December 2024 | Newzoo Charts

Fortnite reclaimed the top spot on Newzoo's overall revenue and engagement charts for December.

www.gamesindustry.biz

What does GAF think? Is it successful enough or does it need to be sales?

Wait? Sims 4 & GTA 5 isn't single player?

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Wait? Sims 4 & GTA 5 isn't single player?

GTAV charts because of GTA Online. Sims 4 I don’t know if it has MP or not. But surely Red Dead 2 charted from people mostly playing single player.

 

[SweetTooth]

Wow.. Nintendo domina.. oh

Its not Famitsu... don't matter then

 

[Bonfires Down]

Overwatch over CS? Reading the interwebs you’d get the impression that Overwatch is dead and forgotten.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

This is saying as much as Indy being #2 best-selling game during it's launch week.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Damn Siege still going strong. I should peek in and see what kind of ridiculous operators they've added over the last 7 years.

 

[jm89]

Why is xbox so quiet on this amazing feat? vaibhavpisal

 

[mdkirby]

The truth is that singleplayer-only games are hard to sell. Most gamers want multiplayer.

Not really, look at that list again. Most those games are half a decade old or more. It’s more that a small number of companies built addiction machines, that players just continue to play, exclusively, for forever. Most of the rest of the list are the same, but where they offer yearly additions which are the same game with a fresh coat of paint.

They all hired psychologists and gambling experts to ensure they created addicts. But it’s poisoned large numbers of what were potential future gamers/customers, and left the rest of the industry fighting over a much smaller pool of customers.

Indie being up there is promising as an indicator of its success tho which is great as it looks like my sort of game

 

[Vlodril]

It bombed. It is too bad because it is actually a pretty good game but there is no need for mental gymnastics about it.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Indie being up there is promising as an indicator of its success tho which is great as it looks like my sort of game

Or there just weren't many big releases outside of Indy and the typical yearly releases.

Indy would be a success if it has long legs.
Release months aren't saying much.

Just look at RDR2 being there, for example.

 

[Thebonehead]

They all hired psychologists and gambling experts to ensure they created addicts

Sadly true.

Lootboxes and locking things behind season passes are some nasty manipulative shit aimed at young kids.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Wait? Sims 4 & GTA 5 isn't single player?

Its base game is free. And it receives regular updates. I don’t classify it as purely SP title.

Why is xbox so quiet on this amazing feat? vaibhavpisal

They are trying to shine the light on COD I feel. They will announce stuff about Indi later, probably close to PS release date to create some momentum. Late ports usually don’t do as well.

 

[Skifi28]

While I personally don't care for online/live service games, it's not hard to see why so many developers/publishers are trying to shift to them as much as we want to make them seem crazy on GAF. Of course making a live service game and having it succeed is two very different things. Looking forward to seeing MH wilds added to the list as I do care for that.

 

[Hudo]

Here are the Top 20 games by monthly active users across US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy for December 2024, across PC and consoles, according to Newzoo:

1 Fortnite
2 COD
3 Marvel Rivals
4 GTA 5
5 Minecraft
6 Roblox
7 Rocket League
8 EA FC 25
9 RS: Siege
10 EA CF 25
11 EA FC 24
12 Overwatch 1&2
13 CS
14 NBA 2025
15 Sims 4
16 Apex Legends
17 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
18 Valorant
19 RDR 2
20 Fall Guys

Fortnite reclaims top spot on revenue and engagement charts for December 2024 | Newzoo Charts

Fortnite reclaimed the top spot on Newzoo's overall revenue and engagement charts for December.

www.gamesindustry.biz

What does GAF think? Is it successful enough or does it need to be sales?

that's one of the most depressing lists I have seen.

 

[Three]

Here are the Top 20 games by monthly active users across US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy for December 2024, across PC and consoles, according to Newzoo:

1 Fortnite
2 COD
3 Marvel Rivals
4 GTA 5
5 Minecraft
6 Roblox
7 Rocket League
8 EA FC 25
9 RS: Siege
10 EA CF 25
11 EA FC 24
12 Overwatch 1&2
13 CS
14 NBA 2025
15 Sims 4
16 Apex Legends
17 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
18 Valorant
19 RDR 2
20 Fall Guys

Fortnite reclaims top spot on revenue and engagement charts for December 2024 | Newzoo Charts

Fortnite reclaimed the top spot on Newzoo's overall revenue and engagement charts for December.

www.gamesindustry.biz

What does GAF think? Is it successful enough or does it need to be sales?

The spin you're applying to this is off the charts. MAU instead of sales. 17th out of 20. "Only single player title", most people arent playing Sims 4 and RDR2 for multiplayer.

 

[DirtInUrEye]

100% MS will greenlight a sequel regardless of this headline.

 

[coachmcguirk91]

Or there just weren't many big releases outside of Indy and the typical yearly releases.

Indy would be a success if it has long legs.
Release months aren't saying much.

Just look at RDR2 being there, for example.

100% this. Matt Piscatella had the tweet that said Indy was the second best selling game the week of its release, behind only Call of Duty. Everybody was impressed. But I'm not sure how many copies COD is selling 5 weeks after launch, maybe a few hundred thousand worldwide?

I would be shocked if Indy has sold more than 1mil units. I know it's on Gamepass, and sales aren't everything, but the game probably cost 100+mil to develop, and that's without mentioning all the licensing fees Microsoft needs to pay for

 

[Hyet]

12 Overwatch 1&2

Here's you you log into Overwatch 1:

 

[ManaByte]

Overwatch over CS? Reading the interwebs you’d get the impression that Overwatch is dead and forgotten.

No it's alive and thriving. People base it's "death" on Steam, when it released late on there and 99.9% of the players just use Bnet for it. Comp is still a toxic cesspool though.

 

[Insane Metal]

All hail MAU.

 

[Hyet]

No it's alive and thriving. People base it's "death" on Steam, when it released late on there and 99.9% of the players just use Bnet for it. Comp is still a toxic cesspool though.

True. It's also on more platforms than CS and that helps a lot in this kind of aggregates.
The fact that Rivals exploded beyond expectations doesn't kill OW2. Although is super sad to see all content creators jump ship, makes me feel like they really didn't like the game and were just waiting for an excuse to jump ship and make more money.

 

[foamdino]

Which platform is this? Because I'm damn sure PoE2 would have similar numbers to Marvel Rivals if you're talking steam?

 

[MMaRsu]

Good shit, well deserved.

 

[onQ123]

Its base game is free. And it receives regular updates. I don’t classify it as purely SP title.

So you basically made up rules

 

[Zacfoldor]

The spin you're applying to this is off the charts. MAU instead of sales. 17th out of 20. "Only single player title", most people arent playing Sims 4 and RDR2 for multiplayer.

This. MAU? That's what they show when sales suck and they want to brag anyway, or when they want to sell new haircuts in a lobby game.

I mean, do they even fucking track how much time people played Mario Kart? How is that tracked fairly and compared? It probably isn't. It sure as fuck isn't tracking my gaming.

Can we do actual sales instead? We can all agree that this is what actually matters.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

So you basically made up rules

Do you consider Suicide Squad as GAAS title?

Its less GAAS than Sims 4.

 

[onQ123]

Do you consider Suicide Squad as GAAS title?

Its less GAAS than Sims 4.

I don't know anything about Suicide Squad but I know The Sims is usually a single player game.

 

[tTHANOSs]

In it's release month? I'm not sure that's all that impressive. Shouldn't it be higher?

 

[Magic Carpet]

I'm still slowly playing the game. I almost have Giza done and can move on to the next area, I hear it's about boats or something.
I play a few hours then set it aside for other things for a while before going back and doing another side quest.
It's surprisingly a chill game.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

I don't know anything about Suicide Squad but I know The Sims is usually a single player game.

Sims 4 - unending, regularly updated title.

Suicide Squad - story based, short campaign, will receive an off line patch.

You play solo in Sims 4 but it is not a traditional SP title. It is GAAS by definition.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

You play solo in Sims 4 but it is not a traditional SP title. It is GAAS by definition.

Gaas doesn't automatically exclude a game from being a singleplayer(-focused) game.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

I mean...in its release month and day one on gamepass. Not sure that's something good or not. But it IS the only single player game in there so who knows.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Sims 4 - unending, regularly updated title.

Suicide Squad - story based, short campaign, will receive an off line patch.

You play solo in Sims 4 but it is not a traditional SP title. It is GAAS by definition.

GaaS can still be SP titles.

Ass Creed has been GaaS for awhile, still single player. Also do you really think Red Dead 2 is there for MP.

 

[onQ123]

Sims 4 - unending, regularly updated title.

Suicide Squad - story based, short campaign, will receive an off line patch.

You play solo in Sims 4 but it is not a traditional SP title. It is GAAS by definition.

You should have just said Non-GAAS


But either way you was going out of your way to prop up Indiana Jones

 

[vaibhavpisal]

GaaS can still be SP titles.

Ass Creed has been GaaS for awhile, still single player. Also do you really think Red Dead 2 is there for MP.

Ass Creed is updated regularly, or does it just have a store?

Since it is a finishable story based title, I think its closer to SP titles.

Gaas doesn't automatically exclude a game from being a singleplayer(-focused) game.

You should have just said Non-GAAS


But either way you was going out of your way to prop up Indiana Jones

Point is, these types of titles its not uncommon to feature in these lists.

Something like Terraria, its usually played solo. But it is a GAAS title and plenty of them have high MAUs.

Indiana Jones is clearly a different type of game than those. Yeah, non GAAS would be more apt term.

 

[proandrad]

I’m sure gamepass has nothing to do with its shit sales.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

I’m sure gamepass has nothing to do with its shit sales.

That's the hole MS dug for themselves though:

Games barely sell and GamePass isn't growing.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

#13 is CS2 and Go. I dont get how it's that low even if it's PC only. Game avgs 1M Steam CCU at any time.

Rocket League is still that popular at #7? Wow.

Didnt know RDR2 is still that popular to crack the top 20.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]