Monthly NPD sales figures are out for August, and it shows that last month was pretty quiet for Nintendo. Matt Piscatella The NPD Group shared the results on Twitter, and in August, the PS5 surpassed the Switch in both dollar sales and unit sales.
The Switch is still, overall, the best-selling console of the year in the North American market in terms of unit sales. Across the pond here in the UK, the PS5 is actually the best-selling console of 2022 (as of August this year).
Games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 rounded out the top ten for August 2022. In better news, video game sales are back to 2020 levels, although year-to-date sales are still up 9% this time around. On the other hand, hardware sales in dollars increased 14% compared to last August.
Sony’s strong sales will likely benefit from two major multiplatform releases Madden NFL 23 And Saints Rowwhich debuted in the top two spots. Elden Ring is still The best-selling game of the year, but both LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and Pokémon Legends: Arceus are number two and three.
September could be a pretty different story. We’ve already seen Splatoon 3 smash sales records in Japan and top the UK charts for two consecutive weeks. We’ll have to see how that translates to the North American market when we get September’s NPD results.
Did you play any games in August’s Top 20? What do you expect from the September results? Let us know!
