Anthem is February’s best-selling game, Crackdown Three nowhere to be seen – NPD

20.03.2019

The knowledge for February’s game and {hardware} gross sales within the US are in.

Just like each month, the NPD Group has printed a report in regards to the well being of the enterprise within the US, principally overlaying retail and on-line gross sales with some digital knowledge taken under consideration from collaborating publishers.

In February, spending on video game software program, {hardware}, equipment and game playing cards amounted to $1.zero billion, a 4% enhance over final 12 months. Game software program, in addition to equipment and game playing cards all noticed progress, however {hardware} declined.

Hardware

More particularly, the {hardware} phase noticed a 12% drop in comparison with final 12 months. Nintendo as soon as once more dominated February, with the Switch promoting greater than some other consoles in the course of the month.

Nintendo had an particularly busy February, too, producing its highest {hardware} greenback gross sales since February 2011. And, regardless of the dearth of massive Switch exclusives thus far this 12 months, Nintendo comfortably posted highest year-to-date greenback gross sales for {hardware} since 2011.

Even Nintendo gamepad gross sales had an excellent month, seeing a whopping 80% enhance in February.

Software

Software gross sales generated $457 million in February, a wholesome 15% progress. This was anticipated, contemplating the number of big games launched in the course of the month.

Anthem was the best-selling game of February, pushing it to be the second best-selling game in 2019 thus far. Anthem’s launch was additionally the second largest in BioWare historical past, when it comes to gross sales, behind Mass Effect 3.

Jump Force did properly at quantity two, attaining the third highest launch month gross sales for a Bandai Namco-published game. Kingdom Hearts Three rounds out the highest three, and the game stays the 12 months’s best-selling thus far.

Other notable February releases like Metro Exodus, and Far Cry New Dawn each landed within the prime ten, with Exodus setting a brand new launch month document for the franchise.

Crackdown Three is bizarrely nowhere to be seen within the prime 20, or the Xbox One-only prime ten.

Anthem is February’s best-selling game, Crackdown Three nowhere to be seen – NPD