The NPD Group, a market research company, has released its monthly sales charts painting a picture of the gaming market in the U.S during the month of August. Just like last month and most of the year, the Nintendo Switch was the best selling piece of video game hardware.
Despite a few notable August game releases, the market as whole suffered a year-on-year on decline of 2 percent, reporting only $568 million for the period.
Video game software specifically declined 2 percent to $271 million (PC game software saw a steeper drop of 23 percent), while hardware suffered a slightly increased decline of 6 percent to $168 million. But it wasn’t all declines, as the accessories market actually increase 10 percent to $118 million, largely driven by Xbox One S controller, game cards, and Nintendo Switch Pro controllers.
Another note for August is that Splatoon 2 was replaced by Madden NFL 18 on the software chart.
Below, you can check the Top 20 software chart (it’s important to note Nintendo games do not include digital figures, while Overwatch’s figures don’t include Battle.net — PC platform — numbers)
- Madden NFL 18
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
- Splatoon 2
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
- Mario Kart 8
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastred
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
- Overwatch
- Injustice 2
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands
- Minecraft
- For Honor
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- Agents of Mayhem
- Forza Horizon 3
- Battlefield 1
- NBA 2K17
- UFC 2
And here is the Top Ten selling games of 2017 so far in the U.S., according to NPD:
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Grand Theft Auto V
- For Honor
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- Injustice 2
- Mass Effect: Andromeda
- Madden NFL 18
- NBA 2K17
- Resident Evil 7
