NPD’s monthly sales figures for August have been released, suggesting that last month was a fairly quiet one for Nintendo. Pad Piscatella The head of the NPD Group shared the results on Twitter, with the PS5 surpassing the Switch in dollar sales and unit sales in August.
Overall, the Switch remains the best-selling console of the year in North America in terms of sales. In the UK, the PS5 is actually the best-selling console in 2022 so far (as of August this year).
Games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 entered the top 10 in August 2022. The better news is that video game sales have returned to 2020 levels, although year-to-date sales are still 9% lower than the last year. On the other hand, dollar-denominated hardware sales rose 14% compared to last August.
Sony’s strong sales may benefit from two large multi-platform releases Madden NFL 23 and Saints Rowdebuted in the top two. Eldon Ring Yes still The best-selling games of the year, but Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and Pokémon Saga: Arceus are still second and third.
September could be an entirely different story. We’ve already seen Splatoon 3 break sales records in Japan and top the UK charts for two weeks in a row. We’ll have to see how this translates in the North American market when we get the NPD results for September.
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