General Gaming August 2020 NPD: Madden #1, UFC #2, Nintendo games 10 of Top 20, Last of Us II/Tsushima continue to chart, NO GTA5, FFVII returns, Switch has best August of any hardware ever, PS4 controller best-selling accessory (accessories at record levels)

[SaysWho?]

August 2020 NPD: Madden and UFC supercharge U.S. game sales

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Consumers spent $3.3 billion on video game hardware, software, and accessories in August, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group.

 

• Video game total sales are 37% higher than last August
• Video game hardware is 37% higher than last August
• Video game conten (games, DLC, subscription, etc.) is 37% higher than last August
• Video game accessories are 42% higher than last August
• Video game accessories -- gamepads, headsets, steering wheels -- are at record levels.
• Madden 21's sales are double-digit percentage higher than Madden 20
• Breath of the Wild has been in the Top 10 for 42 consecutive months
• Nintendo Switch bests Wii's August 2008 dollar sales
• Final Fantasy VII Remake was rank 41 in July but jumped to 19 in August

 

Top 20 (asterisks mean digital sales not included)

 

1. Madden NFL 21
2. UFC 4
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 
4. Ghost of Tsushima 
5. Animal Crossing: New Horizons* 
6. Ring Fit Adventure 
7. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe*
8. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*
9. Paper Mario: The Origami King* 
10. Mortal Kombat 11
11. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild* 
12. The Last of Us: Part II 
13. Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition  
14. PGA Tour 2K21*  
15. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe*   
16. Super Mario Party*  
17. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege    
18. Super Mario Odyssey*    
19. Final Fantasy VII: Remake   
20. Luigi’s Mansion 3*    

 

Top 10 Games of 2020

 

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
3. The Last of Us: Part II
4. Final Fantasy VII: Remake
5. Ghost of Tsushima
6. Madden NFL 21
7. Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
8. MLB: The Show 20
9. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
10. Mortal Kombat 11

 

PS4

 

1. Madden NFL 21
2. Ghost of Tsushima
3. UFC 4
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
5. The Last of Us: Part II
6. Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition
7. Final Fantasy VII: Remake
8. MLB: The Show 20
9. Marvel's Spider-Man
10. PGA Tour 2K21*

 

Xbox One

 

1. Madden NFL 21
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
3. UFC 3
4. Forza Horizon 4
5. Minecraft: Xbox One Edition
6. Call of Duty: Black Ops III
7. Grounded
8. PGA Tour 2K21*
9. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege
10. Mortal Kombat 11

 

Switch (no digital sales included)

 

1. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
2. Ring Fit Adventure
3. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
4. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
5. Paper Mario: The Origami King
6. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
7. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
8. Super Mario Party
9. Super Mario Odyssey
10. Luigi's Mansion 3

[SaysWho?]

 

- Highest August dollar sales for a hardware platform in US history

- Dollar sales of Switch exceeded the August 2008 sales of Wii

- August 2020 unit sales of Switch more than doubled August 2019 total

 

In regards to Breath of the Wild:

 

 

These are the Top 10 best-selling Nintendo games in history in the US:

 

 

1. Wii Fit
2. Wii Play
3. Mario Kart: Wii
4. Wii Fit Plus
5. New Super Mario Bros. Wii
6. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
7. Super Smash Bros.
8. New Super Mario Bros.
9. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
10. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

[TheLeon]

People finally stopped buying GTAV!

 

... because they can buy the “next gen” version in a few months. 

[JPDunks4]

1 minute ago, TheLeon said:

People finally stopped buying GTAV!

 

... because they can buy the “next gen” version in a few months. 

 

Actually I think it's their Publisher stopped reporting Digital Sales numbers.

[Mercury33]

Sometimes I kinda forget just how much of a MONSTER the Wii was. 

[Keyser_Soze]

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This SOB!

[Chairslinger]

I wonder why they continue to split up the Minecraft sales. It was always kind of semantics, but there literally is no "PS4 Edition" anymore and there hasn't been an "Xbox One Editon" for years.

[Ghost_MH]

44 minutes ago, Chairslinger said:

I wonder why they continue to split up the Minecraft sales. It was always kind of semantics, but there literally is no "PS4 Edition" anymore and there hasn't been an "Xbox One Editon" for years.

 

That has to be a remnant of the pre-crossplay days, right?

[Chairslinger]

Just now, Ghost_MH said:

 

That has to be a remnant of the pre-crossplay days, right?

 

 

Apparently.

 

And pre-Bedrock.

 

I don't know how integrated other games are nowadays, but even DLC is shared among platforms for MC. It is about as cross platform as it is possible to be.

 

I guess once you hit 200,000,000 copies you're just not that concerned with juicing your NPD numbers.