The analyst of The NPD Group, Mat Piscatella, spoke about the earnings of the American gaming market for April. The console segment crashes again. Revenue from video games, on the contrary, is growing.
Mortal Kombat 11General market figures
- Total turnover — $842 million (increased by 1% year-on-year).
- Video game sales — $427 million (increased by 15% year-on-year).
- Sales of iron — $169 million (fell by 29% year-on-year).
- Accessory sales — $256 million (increased by 5% year-on-year).
The bestseller of the month on the American market is Mortal Kombat 11. She, released on April 23, managed this month to become the best-selling game in the United States on all platforms at once, where she was released. And she achieved a separate success on the Nintendo Switch: since September 2017, this is the first third-party game published by non-Nintendo, which became the bestseller of the month on Switch.
In addition, Mortal Kombat 11 has already become the second best-selling game of this year in the United States.
In addition to the results of Mortal Kombat 11, Days Gone, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII showed very good results in April, according to NPD.
Mortal Kombat 11Top 10 best-selling games in April
1. Mortal Kombat 11
2. Days Gone
3. MLB The Show 19
4. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (excluding digital sales on PC)
5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (excluding digital sales)
6. Grand Theft Auto V
7. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (excluding digital sales on PC)
8. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (excluding digital sales on PC)
9. NBA 2K19
10. Yoshi’s Crafted World (excluding digital sales)
Console Sales
The Nintendo Switch feels the most confident in the console market. This has already turned into a trend: Switch shows sales growth for the fifth month in a row. Currently, it is the best—selling console not only in April, but also in 2019.
The PS4 and Xbox One sales in annual terms, on the contrary, fell. Piscatella associates this with the decline of the current generation of consoles. The life span of both is gradually coming to an end, as follows from the words of the analyst.
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