The NPD Group launched its month-to-month gross sales chart for September 2022, exhibiting combined outcomes for the video video games trade in comparison with 2021. General spending noticed a decline of 4% with September 2022 spending dropping to $4.1 billion.
{Hardware} gross sales have been supported with a 19% enhance from final 12 months. Sony’s PlayStation 5 console continued to be the highest vendor for one more month in the US. In whole, United States shoppers spent $490 million on {hardware} throughout the month of September. Whole gross sales for the 12 months broke $3 billion this month, with $3.3 billion spent on {hardware} so far. General, it is a 1% lower in {hardware} gross sales from this date in 2021.
Software program gross sales have been the sector with the biggest lower from final 12 months with shoppers spending $3.4 billion, a 7% drop from September 2021. Yr-to-date spending on software program is down 9% total from final 12 months representing a complete of $33.4 billion.
Sports activities titles dominated the highest of the gross sales chart for September with FIFA 23 taking the highest spot, adopted by Madden NFL 23 and NBA 2k23 rounding out the highest 3. Swap unique Splatoon 3 debuted at quantity 4 with the PlayStation 5 unique The Final of Us: Half 1 proper behind, at quantity 5. The most recent Saints Row title dropped from quantity 2 to quantity 7.
Video games with the biggest features embody a pair of long-running surprises, Murderer’s Creed: Valhalla from Ubisoft went from the thirty sixth spot final month to the 18th in September. Equally, Bandai-Namco’s Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot noticed a lift attributable to lowered gross sales pricing and went from quantity 39 to quantity 20. No different titles noticed month-to-month features within the prime 20.
The 2 shock debuts for the month are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cowabunga Assortment coming in at quantity 6, boosted by the current success of Shredder’s Revenge from over the Summer time, and Jo-Jo’s Weird Journey: All-Star Battle which debuts at quantity 8. The most recent Jo-Jo title marks the best debut for the franchise in the US which mirrors the title’s efficiency in Japan the place it is usually the general best-selling title within the franchise.
Regardless of lowered gross sales in comparison with September 2021, digital content material purchases have been up by double-digits in non-mobile subscription spending. In whole, together with digital content material and equipment, year-to-date gross sales are down 8% from this month in 2021.
* Digital gross sales not included.
