The NPD Group has revealed which games were top sellers in the U.S. for January 2019, including Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu, Let’s Go Eevee, Pokémon Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. The full results in each relevant category are as follows:
The best-selling games of January 2018 in the U.S.
- Kingdom Hearts II
- Resident Evil 2 2019
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe*
- Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII**
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
- NBA 2K19
- Mario Kart 8*
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Madden NFL 19**
- Tales Of Vesperia
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
- Battlefield V^
- Super Mario Party*
- Minecraft***
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
- Marvel’s Spider-Man
- FIFA 19**
- Super Mario Odyssey*
*Digital sales not included
**PC digital not included
***Digital for Xbox and PlayStation included, but not PC or Nintendo eshop
Nintendo Switch’s best-selling games of January 2019
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Mario Kart 8
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Super Mario Party
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Pokemon: Lets Go Pikachu
- Pokemon: Lets Go Eevee
- Splatoon 2
- Tales of Vesperia
Nintendo 3DS’s best-selling games of January 2019
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr’s Journey
- Pokemon: Ultra Sun
- Mario Kart 7
- Luigi’s Mansion
- Super Smash Bros.
- Pokemon: Ultra Moon
- Super Mario 3D Land
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
- New Super Mario Bros. 2
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
The best-selling games of the last 12 months
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII**
- NBA 2K19
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*
- Madden NFL 19**
- Marvel’s Spider-Man
- Far Cry 5
- God of War 2018
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
- Mario Kart 8*
Here are results from January 2019
- Total: $893 million (down 19 percent from $1.101 billion in January 2018)
- Hardware: $199 million (down 28 percent from $278 million)
- PC and console software: $427 million (down 18 percent from $520 million)
- Accessories and game cards: $267 million (down 12 percent from $303 million)
“Nintendo Switch was the best-selling hardware platform of January 2019. Both in dollar and unit sales,” NPD analyst Mat Piscatella said. “Switch was the only console platform to show year-on-year sales growth.”
Source: VentureBeat.com
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