Company NPD, which tracks sales of games and consoles in the United States, released a report for February 2023. He was marked by leadership Nintendo Switch on all fronts…
- Nintendo Switch topped the February iron chart for console sales and dollar-denominated revenue.
- Nintendo Switch Delivers Largest February Sales and Revenue in the U.S. Market of All Consoles in 13 Years (since Wii in February 2009). According to rough estimates, over the past month, Americans bought at least 615 thousand systems (significantly more than in January 2023, when Switch was also in the lead).
- The Nintendo Switch has already surpassed the overall US performance of the Nintendo DS since its inception in terms of total sales revenue since its inception.… It now ranks second behind Wii in the ranking of Nintendo consoles for total iron sales.
Overall, Nintendo Switch leads the US for 27 consecutive months, continuing to increase its 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 February, the American market grew by 35% compared to the same period a year earlier and reached a turnover of $ 4.6 billion…
PlayStation 5 ranked second on the chart for console sales and sales revenue. At the same time, according to the results of the first four months of its presence on the market, it holds the record for revenue from iron sales, which is not surprising given its high price tag – $ 499 for the flagship model versus $ 399 for the PlayStation 4 in 2013-2014 and $ 299 for the Nintendo Switch in 2017.
Controller DualSense for PlayStation 5 became the most successful accessory in February in terms of sales revenue and is the highest grossing accessory for the first two months of 2023 overall.
In the game chart …
- Platformer Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury debuted at # 1 on the February chart and immediately ranked # 2 after Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War place in the general chart for the first months of 2023, despite the fact that NPD only takes into account cartridge sales for Nintendo games.
- Role-playing action Persona 5 Strikers and horror Little nightmares ii started at the third and sixth places of the February chart, respectively.
- A third of the chart consists of exclusives for Nintendo Switchdespite the fact that NPD has no eShop sales data for them.
The most successful games in February in the USA by sales revenue:
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