Nintendo Switch Continues To Break Sales Records And PlayStation 5 Lead In January In US Revenue – NPD

Game console Nintendo Switch it will soon be four years old, but its sales show no signs of slowing and only continue to grow. According to the rating agency NPD Group, in January 2023 the Nintendo console …

  • Updated her own January record (beat the results of January 2018, 2019 and 2023).
  • Showcased the largest January sales in the US market among consoles of all manufacturers in the past 11 years (since Wii in January 2010).

In general, Nintendo Switch has been leading the United States for 26 months in a row, which is also an absolute industry record (the previous one belonged to Xbox 360, which peaked at number one on the American iron chart for 21 months).

At the end of January, the American market grew by 42% compared to the same period a year earlier and reached a turnover of $ 4.7 billion

In January 2023, the PlayStation 5 became the leader in console revenue, with the biggest result since the Wii in January 2009 (the base PS5 costs $ 399, the flagship model costs $ 499; the Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite sell for $ 299 and $ 199, respectively).

Controller DualSense for the PlayStation 5 became the most successful accessory in January in terms of revenue, and the headset PlayStation Pulse 3D Wireless Headset White became the leader in the gaming headphone category.

In the game chart …

  • Cyberpunk 2077 plummeted from second to eighteenth place
  • Shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War retained first place in the January standings and is already ranked 20th in the list of the most successful games of all time (!) in terms of US sales.
  • Assassin’s creed valhalla occupied the second line by revenue in January and the second by the speed of sales in the history of the series (if we compare the figures for the first three months, then it is second only to Assassin’s creed iii).
  • A third of the chart consists of exclusives for Nintendo Switch, despite the fact that NPD does not have data on sales in the eShop for them (the places of other games on the chart, except for Cyberpunk 2077, are based on retail and digital sales).
  • Stealth action HITMAN 3 did not make it into the overall TOP-20 chart.

The most successful games in January in the USA by sales revenue:

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