This is 18% more than a year earlier.
Red Dead Redemption II is the highest—grossing game of the year on the American market
This is reported by the analytical company NPD in the latest report on the American video game market.
Gaming Hardware
Peripherals and consoles earned a total of $7.5 billion for the year (an increase of 15%). Iron alone, not counting the periphery, accounted for $5.1 billion (an increase of 8%).
The most successful platform of the year, both in terms of the number of boxes sold and in terms of money, was the Nintendo Switch.
Gaming software
Sales of games directly amounted to $35.8 billion (an increase of 18%). It is unclear from the published data whether earnings from mobile were taken into account in this amount. We can only say with confidence that when forming the top of the highest-grossing games of 2018 in the American market, they did not take them into account.
Top-grossing US games by the end of 2018 (consoles and PC)
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (excluding PC sales)
- NBA2K19
- Madden NFL 19 (excluding PC sales)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (excluding digital sales)
- Marvel’s Spider-Man
- Far Cry 5
- God of War
- Monster Hunter: World
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
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