Call of Duty: WW2 was the very best promoting recreation of 2017, PS4 the very best promoting console, NPD reviews

19.01.2018

Activision Blizzard’s blockbuster shooter, Call of Duty: WW2 was the very best promoting recreation of 2017 throughout all platforms, in line with NPD’s December report.

COD was also the highest selling game in December – the eighth consecutive yr a Call of Duty title has taken the highest spot over the vacations.

The report covers US bodily and full recreation digital gross sales on PS4 and Xbox One, in addition to bodily recreation gross sales on Switch and 3DS. Since it solely contains some digital gross sales, the report provides a little bit of a warped perspective, however can be utilized as a tough information to efficiency.

NPD’s high ten promoting video games of 2017 for the US have been:

Call of Duty: WWII
NBA 2K18
Destiny 2 – Excluding digital PC gross sales
Madden NFL 18
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Physical solely
Grand Theft Auto V
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Star Wars: Battlefront II 2017 – Excluding digital PC gross sales
Super Mario Odyssey – Physical solely
Mario Kart eight – Physical solely

The Switch finished the year well – as we found out last week – by selling the most consoles in December. And it’s fascinating to see so many Nintendo video games chart primarily based solely on their bodily gross sales, additional chatting with the Switch’s robust first yr available on the market.

Despite shifting fewer models than Xbox in December, PlayStation four was the very best promoting console of 2017 total, after an exceptional Black Friday which ranked as the biggest Sony’s history.

NPD additionally launched numbers for the US’s greatest promoting video games in December throughout every console. The high tens for every is beneath:

Xbox One – Includes full recreation digital gross sales