Official NPD Sales - Nintendo Wins! But Global Sales Matter?

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Here are the numbers for August 2018:

• Total: $796 million (up 26 percent from $634 million in August 2017)
• Hardware: $214 million (up 28 percent from $168 million)
• PC and console software: $330 (up 16 percent from $285 million)
• Accessories: $251 million (up 39 percent from $181 million)

August 2018 spending across video game hardware, software, accessories and game cards grew 26 percent when compared to a year ago, to $796 million.

Year-to-date spending across video game Hardware, Software, Accessories and Game Cards is up 17 percent when compared to the same period a year ago, to $7.5 billion. Growth has occurred across all categories of spending, with Accessories & Game Cards driving the largest dollar growth.

SOFTWARE

Dollar sales of Console, Portable and PC Games Software reached $330 million in August 2018, 16 percent higher when compared to a year ago. Year-to-date software spending is up 6 percernt versus year ago, to $3.1 billion.

Madden NFL 19 was the best-selling game of August 2018: Launch month sales of Madden NFL 19 are the highest achieved since the launch of Madden NFL 13. Since 2000, Madden NFL Football has been the best-selling game of August every year, with the exceptions of 2011 and 2012, when Madden NFL launched in the September tracking period.

Grand Theft Auto V ranked as the fourth best-selling game of August 2018 and is now the fifth best-selling title of 2018 year to date: August marks Grand Theft Auto V's 60th month in market, and is the 59th month Grand Theft Auto V has appeared on the best-sellers chart. Grand Theft Auto V remains the best-selling game in tracked history.

Monster Hunter: World returns to the best-sellers list in August driven by the release of the PC version on August 9th: Monster Hunter: World was the second best-selling game of August and remains the third ranked best-selling game of 2018.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 returns to the monthly best-sellers list in August, driven by sales of the Xbox 360 version: The title was added to the Xbox One Backward Compatible Game Library on August 28th, propelling the title up to number 8 on the August best-sellers chart. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 finished July 2018 as the 321st best-selling game of the month.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege climbed the chart from the 9th ranked position in July to become the third best-selling game of August: Performance was driven by the free play period that ran August 16-20 in conjunction with the Six Major Paris 2018 Esports tournament and associated retail and digital promotion.

Electronic Arts is the top-selling Full Game software publisher of August: Nintendo retains the top-selling publisher ranking for 2018 year to date.

HARDWARE & ACCESSORIES

Hardware spending in August 2018 grew 28 percent when compared to a year ago, to $214 million.PlayStation 4, Switch, Xbox One and Plug N Play devices such as the NES Classic Edition all posted year-on-year gains.

For the 2018 year-to-date period, hardware spending has increased 22 percent to $2.1 billion.Spending gains for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Plug N Play devices such as the NES Classic and SNES Classic have driven growth. Hardware spending remains at its highest level achieved since 2011.

Nintendo hardware unit and dollar sales are at the highest year-to-date totals since 2011. The Nintendo Switch Neon Red/Blue Joy Con 32GB is the year's best-selling hardware item in both unit and dollar sales.

Year to date, Sony's PlayStation 4 remains the best-selling console hardware platform in both units and dollars.

August 2018 dollar sales of Plug N Play consoles grew by a factor of 21x when compared to a year ago, and are now up over 400 percent year to date. The NES Classic Edition is the year's best-selling Plug N Play console in units, while the SNES Classic Edition leads in dollar sales.

Accessories Roundup: Total spending on Accessories and Game Cards grew 39 percent in August 2018 when compared to a year ago, to $251 million. This represents a record high for an August tracking period.

Year to date, Accessories and Game Card spending has grown 33 percent when compared to a year ago, to $2.3 billion. This is also an all-time high, significantly exceeding the $1.7B generated in the 2017 year-to-date period.

Game Card spending continues to set records. Unit sales of Game Cards are up more than 50 percent in the year, while dollar sales growth exceeds 40 percent.

RANKINGS

Physical and Full Game Digital for publishers in the Digital Leader Panel, ranked on dollar sales

1. Madden NFL 19 ^
2. Monster Hunter: World
3. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
4. Grand Theft Auto V
5. Mario Kart 8*
6. Naruto To Boruto: Shinobi Striker
7. God of War
8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
9. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
10. Super Mario Odyssey*
11. Minecraft
12. Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy
13. Far Cry 5
14. Monster Hunter: Generations Ultimate*
15. Call of Duty: WWII
16. Mario Tennis Aces*
17. Overwatch ^
18. Lego The Incredibles
19. We Happy Few*
20. The Crew 2

* Digital sales not included

^ PC digital sales not included

Xbox One

1. Madden NFL 19
2. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege
3. Grand Theft Auto V
4. Playerunknown's Battlegrounds
5. Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy
6. Overwatch
7. Naruto To Boruto: Shinobi Striker
8. Far Cry 5
9. Call of Duty: WWII
10. Star Wars: Battlefront II 2017

PS4

1. Madden NFL 19
2. God of War
3. Naruto To Boruto: Shinobi Striker
4. Grand Theft Auto V
5. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege
6. Horizon Zero Dawn
7. Detroit: Become Human
8. Far Cry 5
9. MLB 18: The Show
10. We Happy Few*

Switch

1. Mario Kart 8
2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
3. Super Mario Odyssey
4. Monster Hunter: Generations Ultimate*
5. Mario Tennis Aces
6. Octopath Traveler
7. Splatoon 2
8. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
9. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
10. Minecraft

Year To Date

1. Far Cry 5
2. God of War
3. Monster Hunter: World
4. Madden NFL 19^
5. Grand Theft Auto V
6. Call of Duty: WWII
7. Dragon Ball: Fighterz
8. Mario Kart 8*
9. NBA 2K18
10. Super Mario Odyssey*

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Switch won by 4-5 thousand.

@MonsieurX said:

@Random_Matt said:

Switch won by 4-5 thousand.

^This!

Kudos to Nintendo on the Switch sales. Crazy to see Modern Warfare 2 at number 8 thanks to backwards compatibility on the Xbox One.

GTA... Jebus what a juggernaut! Still surprised they didn't port the last gen version to the Switch.

Nintendo is doomed!!!

MW2? Jesus, Xbox is starved for games.

Numbers:

NSW: ~203K

PS4: ~197K

XB1: ~162K

3DS: ~71K

God of War still in the top ten! Spider-Man about to join it next month.

It kind of annoys me that they don’t include digital sales for the Nintendo games because I can’t help but wonder if any of those games might have charted higher.

Nintendo won't do good in thier coming future with the online and anti-consumerism recently.

PS4 over 400K this month?

Sheep are the weirdos of Gamespot.

Close race between the PS4 and Switch.

They're the weirdos, of, well, everywhere.

Getting these sales figures may be a problem as publishers are not in any obligation to reveal them to third-party entities like the NPD Group.

i think you will be in for a shock.

as soon as spiderman releases god of war will be forgotton and gone from the top 10. just like every other sony exclusive.

@onesiphorus: Oh yeah for sure I just find it kind of annoying.

Or any 3rd party game on a Nintendo console.

Am interested to see how September goes with the Spiderman release.

really? no opinion on this month?

@KBFloYd: It's not important. Move along, nothing to see here lol.

lol exactly, nobody cares about august. the worst month of the year imo- cows

@KBFloYd: Second worst, after July I think. ?

lmao

Here's a shocker. Labo Vehicle Kit is a failure at retail. Oh, wait, that's not shocking at all.

@mandzilla: As an Aussie who bought plenty of Wiggles dvds for my kids when they were young, i must admit i never saw this one lol.

You sir have won the internet for today.

Calling all cows LMFAO.

@Archangel3371: yeah I mean Mario Kart 8 is an old game at #5 before digital sales? Pretty impressive. But it is hard to go digital on Switch, so the numbers might not bump too much. Maybe 4th? 3rd? Couldn't be higher I think. Plus we don't know the gap between each title

@xantufrog: Yeah it’s hard to say how much it affect the rankings I just wish they would get all the sales data.

@i_p_daily: Yeah, the Wiggles video was a tactical choice to add insult to injury lol. My little cousin loves them also.

Cool, congrats to the Switch and very surprising to see what BC has done for MW2... a game released 9 years ago!

@FireEmblem_Man: Install Base says Hi!

wow lol, this little tweet caught my eye, from the NPD guy.... the fact that Street Fighter X Tekken was the top seller on Vita. Did not realize that game was still active, on Vita no less.... I loved that game on the 360 and I remember defending it vehemently at launch because the online community was enraged at Capcom after data miners found locked DLC characters on disk....just an amusing flashback I just got when I saw this tweet.

@Alucard_Prime: That's really cool, Street Fighter X Tekken was underrated imo. How the heck is Black Ops Declassified on that list though?! There's tons of better Vita games.

As legendary coach Earl Bruce used to say, "A win is a win is a win."

Or from Fast and Furious (the movie, not the Obama gun-running scandal), "Whether you win by an inch, or by a mile, it's still a win."

yea now cows are saying only winning by 1000 doesnt count anymore. and sony tied for first.

wow

@Alucard_Prime: That’s pretty cool. I got Street Fighter X Tekken for the 360 as well and really enjoyed the game too.

Great news

@MonsieurX said:

@Random_Matt said:

Switch won by 4-5 thousand.

Oh the PS4 is first by more than double the switch user base this is another lol worthy moment were the switch win a few months ala xbox one and all of the sudden its a turn around you people never learn.

OP think globally we dont all live in one place

Good on Nintendo. Pretty much guaranteed Sony wins September with Spiderman. October and November are a tossup, and betting Nintendo wins December with Smash.

Hahahhaahaaa it barely beat the PS4... Great sheeps the switch won by an outstanding 6,000 units while losing the war by 60 millions Bravo.

This post will be the latest example as to why places like this board do not represent the real world. This "anti-consumerism" movement is nothing more than an entitled gamer group that is pissed that things cost money in this world. Do you really think that maintaining servers and patching/updating games months/years after release is free? These employees demand living wages and benefits! If you want to take part in enjoying their work, your ass is gonna need to pay up! Everything in this world costs money. The sooner you grasp that truth, the better.

I think that the estimations of the difference between PS4 and Switch may be slightly off since it's now confirmed that Switch was up YoY. Either way though... As much as I don't want that stupid insect to feel satisfied, PS4 should have won the month. PS4 Pro was having shortages again this month, and while in July Switch beat PS4 by way too much for the shortages to have mattered, in August it's close enough that PS4 would have edged out a win otherwise.

Either way, these last 4 months are what will truly decide everything. PS4 has September locked down, while Switch should have both October and December in the bag. Thus, it'll come down November and how strong PS4's Black Friday sales are. While PS4 has been the leading console in the US this year up to now, it's still a toss-up for who will win the 2018 crown (except Xbox because... well, they tried). This will be interesting. Also, I'm calling PS4 finally declining next year while Switch sells more in 2019 worldwide than PS4 sold in any year. Quote me on that.

Switch pretty much has October locked due to the Fortnite bundle.

PS4 should of died already, unfortunately it's going longer than five years.

Finally, I can agree with someone on something.

I'm gonna take things a step further. Switch is gonna pull another PS Move/Kinect, and the competition is gonna react in a way that will throw this arms race for a loop. The "PS5" and "Xbox ?" aren't going to be big steps in the tech sense. They are going to follow Switches flexibility trend and cater to that crown. Imagine playing the recent AAA games on the go or playing them at home. That is far more fiscally achievable than providing a "next gen" leap over what is currently available. Where do we go from here? Native 4K and ray tracing... That will cost waaaaaaay more than $400. Your average gaming consumer wants none of that judging by PS4 Pro and Xbox One X sales. The Switch is winning... The NES and SNES classic have been beating the Xbox, X included. If you pay attention, all the information is right there in front of you. Consumers don't care about the things this board does. The devs/pubs are slowly, but surely figuring this out.