Mortal Kombat 11 claims one other month – May NPD

19.06.2019

Mortal Kombat 11 is as soon as once more topping the charts within the quiet, pre-E3 month.

The NPD Group has revealed gross sales and income knowledge for the games enterprise within the US. May, unsurprisingly, noticed a decline in spending throughout {hardware} and software program, an general drop of 11% in comparison with May final 12 months.

Game {hardware}, software program, equipment and game playing cards mixed generated $641 million throughout the month.

Hardware

Hardware spending in May declined by a whopping 20% in comparison with final 12 months, the results of a drop in unit gross sales for PS4 and Xbox One. The Nintendo Switch, nonetheless, is the one platform that continues to see progress, however it wasn’t sufficient to offset the steep decline of PlayStation and Xbox.

As such, the Switch is May’s best-selling console, and continues to be 2019’s largest {hardware} vendor.

Software

Software gross sales throughout all platforms generated $262 million in May, a 13% decline in comparison with May final 12 months. In truth, the NPD notes that May 2019 has had the bottom software program gross sales since May 2013, that means this complete the era.

Dollar gross sales of recent releases in May 2019 have additionally been the bottom in a May since 1998. All of that is to say April’s best performers continued to dominate in May.

Mortal Kombat 11 is May’s best-seller, and is to date 2019’s best-selling game as properly. It additionally appears to have an extended tail than most Mortal Kombat games, as MK11 practically doubled second-month gross sales of any Mortal Kombat game earlier than it.

Likewise, Days Gone saved its quantity two spot. New entry Total War: Three Kingdoms achieved the spectacular third spot for a PC-only game, adopted by Rage 2.