Sales of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in the US are second only to Call of Duty Black Ops 6, while Astro Bot has also received a sales boost after its Game of the Year win at The Game Awards 2024.
Mat Piscatella, Executive Director and Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD) shared an update regarding the sales performance of the recently released Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and recent Game of the Year winner Astro Bot. According to the Circana Retail Tracking Service, Bethesda Game Studios and MachineGames’ newly released Indiana Jones title was the second best-selling video game for the week ending December 14, 2024, in US dollar sales, trailing only Call of Duty Black Ops 6.
Meanwhile, Piscatella reported that Sony Interactive Entertainment and Team Asobi’s 3D platformer, Astro Bot, went from the 11th place during the prior week to the 7th place during the same week, which also happens to be the same week during which the game won the Game of the Year award at The Game Awards 2024. This suggests that winning the top accolade at the awards ceremony likely gave the game a sales boost.
Back when Astro Bot and the other The Game Awards 2024 nominees for the Game of the Year award were announced, it was reported by Christopher Dring, head of GameIndustry.biz, that, based on game sales data following the reveal of the Game of the Year nominees at The Game Awards 2024, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Astro Bot, Elden Ring, Metaphor had received a notable sales boost. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth sales increased 268% week-on-week across Europe, Astro Bot sales jumped 61%, Elden Ring sales saw a 38% increase, and Metaphor sales rose up by 172%. Dring added that, while these aren’t huge sales figures overall, they represent a definite uptick.
As for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, it was recently reported that the launch concurrent player count stats for the game were below MachineGames’ previous titles. Read about it here.
