Xbox One and PS4 failed to compensate for current-gen decline

Feb 14, 2014 07:43 GMT  ·  By

Call of Duty: Ghosts, the first-person shooter from developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision, leads the United States video game sales chart for the month of January 2014 even as the segment of the market has seen a huge decline when compared to the same period of 2013.

The rest of the top ten is made up of:

NBA 2K14 - PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Battlefield 4 - PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag - PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One Grand Theft Auto 5 - PS3, Xbox 360 Madden NFL 25 - PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Minecraft - Xbox 360 FIFA 14 - PS3, PS4, Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One Lego Marvel Super Heroes - 3DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tomb Raider - PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One

No new titles were able to enter the top ten in January 2014.

VG247 quotes analyst Liam Callahan as saying that, “A major factor in the decline in software this month was the slide in performance of November and December 2013 launches during January 2014 compared to how November and December 2012 launches performed in January 2013.”

Overall spending on games declined by 26 percent mainly because players seem to be abandoning current-gen consoles faster than the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 can compensate.