What were the Top 10 best selling games in May 2016 in the United States?
The newest NPD numbers are in, and so are the top lists of the highest selling game systems and games for last month in America.
Here is the full Top 10 of May 2016:
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1. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (PS4)** – Sold 2.7 million copies in its first week!
2. DOOM (PS4, Xbox One, PC)**
3. Overwatch (PS4, Xbox One, PC)**
4. Battleborn (PS4, Xbox One, PC)
5. Grand Theft Auto V (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3, PC)**
6. Minecraft (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)
7. NBA 2K16 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)**
8. Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)**
9. MLB 16: The Show (PS4, PS3)**
10. Dark Souls III (PS4, Xbox One)**
** Includes: CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware. Physical retail copies only.
Here’s the Uncharted 4 TV commercial…
System Sales in May 2016:
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1. PlayStation 4 — Remains on the #1 overall platform spot as sales hit 40 million units worldwide!
2. Xbox One
3. Nintendo 3DS + 2DS
4. Nintendo Wii U
5. Xbox 360
6. PlayStation 3
7. PlayStation Vita
Note: Only the first four spots are confirmed. The rest are estimates, no complete hard sales data was released for the month.
Check out the PlayStation 4 2016 must-play games sizzle reel…
Analysis of the game and hardware sales numbers:
Although NPD doesn’t by far track all digital sales, retail still gives a good impression of last month’s best selling video games.
To quote NPD industry analyst Liam Callahan…
About video games he said:
“Software sales are $241.9 million, up 18% from $204.7 million in 2015. New launches were a major driver of the growth seen in May 2016 compared to May 2015.
Collectively, May 2016 new launches sold nearly double in unit sales and 108% more in dollars as new launches last May. These May 2016 launches represented 51% of overall new physical software sales for the month.
Uncharted 4 also marked the best first month of sales for any game in the Uncharted series after Uncharted 3, which is remarkable given the fact that it launched during the holiday period in November 2011. The success of Uncharted helped Sony rank as the leading software publisher for May 2016.
DOOM ranked second for May 2016 sales on a unit basis and had the best first month of sales for any game in the franchise when combining sales across platforms — exceeding sales of DOOM 3’s launch on the PC in August 2004. Overwatch was the third best-selling game for May with only a few days on the market. When comparing Overwatch sales for days in the market, this title doubled the sales of DOOM.”
About hardware he said:
“Hardware sales are $137.7 million, down 10% from $153.1 million in 2015. The majority of the decline in sales stemmed from portables, down $7.3 million and last-generation hardware, down $5 million. Current generation hardware unit sales were stable, but dollar sales decreased by 2% or $3 million due to a decrease in average price for these consoles.
As we head into E3 2016, it is encouraging to see such a healthy install base of the Xbox One and PS4, which currently have 43 percent higher cumulative unit sales than their predecessors at the same point in their lifecycles.”
Credits: NeoGAF