{"id":107442,"date":"2020-01-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/npd_shares_us_software_sales_for_last_month_2019_and_the_decade"},"modified":"2020-01-17T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T04:00:00","slug":"npd-shares-us-software-sales-for-last-month-2019-and-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/17\/npd-shares-us-software-sales-for-last-month-2019-and-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"NPD Shares US Software Sales For Last Month, 2019 And The Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following on from hardware sales<\/a>, let’s now take a look at the software sales within the US last year. For starters, Nintendo had half of the top 20 best-selling video games in December.<\/p>\n

The best-selling game of December 2019 was Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare<\/strong>, and further down the list was Luigi’s Mansion 3<\/a><\/strong> in fifth place, followed by the new Pok\u00e9mon, Mario Kart, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In 16th place was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong>, and this was followed by Link’s Awakening, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe<\/a><\/strong>, Super Mario Party<\/a><\/strong> and Ring Fit Adventure<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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As for the top ten best-selling games of 2019, Nintendo had two games on this list. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate finished in 7th place and Mario Kart was 10th. The best-selling game of the year went to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare:<\/p>\n

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The best-selling game of the decade in America was Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V<\/strong>, followed by a lot<\/em> of Call of Duty games, Red Dead Redemption 2<\/strong> and Minecraft<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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The best-selling Switch game of December 2019 was Luigi’s Mansion 3 and on 3DS it was Pok\u00e9mon Sun and Moon<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The NPD Group’s Mat Piscatella also noted how the Switch was the only system with software gains in 2019:<\/p>\n

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Dollar sales of tracked video game software declined 13% in December compared to a year ago, to $1.1B, while annual sales dropped 9% to $6.6B. Declines were experienced across all platforms in December, while Switch was the only platform with gains for the year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In December, combined video game software sales were $1,141 million (down 13% compared to the previous year) and for the whole of 2019, a total amount of $6,564 million was made (down by 9%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on from hardware sales, let’s now take a look at the software sales within the US last year. For starters, Nintendo had half of the top 20 best-selling video games in December. The best-selling game of December 2019 was Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and further down the list was Luigi’s Mansion 3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}