2K Games’ double-billing of NBA 2K20 and Borderlands 3 jumped to the top of the USA sales charts for September, as industry spend continued to sink year-over-year due to dwindling hardware numbers. Total industry spend topped out at $1.278 billion – down eight per cent compared to the same month last year. FIFA 20 secured third, with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint shooting up fifth position.
Perhaps the largest surprise, however, is Code Vein, which finished just one place behind the heavily marketed Gears 5 in eighth place. No, we’re not sure how that happened either. As has been the case for a while now, the Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console, but that’s to be expected with the PlayStation 4 entering its twilight years. We’ve included all of the relevant charts below.
NPD Software Top 20: September 2019
- NBA 2K20
- Borderlands 3
- FIFA 20
- The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening *
- Madden NFL 20
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint
- Gears 5 ^
- Code Vein
- NHL 20
- Mario Kart 8 *
- Minecraft #
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate *
- Spyro Reignited Trilogy
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
- Plants vs Zombies: Battle For Neighborville
- Marvel’s Spider-Man
- Catherine: Full Body
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild *
NPD PS4 Software Top 10: September 2019
- NBA 2K20
- Borderlands 3
- FIFA 20
- Madden NFL 20
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint
- NHL 20
- Code Vein
- Marvel’s Spider-Man
- Catherine: Full Body
- Minecraft #
NPD Best Selling Games of 2019 So Far
- NBA 2K20
- Mortal Kombat 11
- Borderlands 3
- Madden NFL 20
- Kingdom Hearts III
- Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
- Anthem
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate *
- Resident Evil 2
- Grand Theft Auto V
* Does not include digital sales
** Does not include PC digital sales
*** Minecraft does not include digital sales on PS4 and Xbox One
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[source venturebeat.com]
Comments 17
What good are these lists then? At what point do we finally admit that not counting digital sales makes best selling lists pointless?
And how does that 8% drop deal with this discrepancy?
Edit, how the heck is GTA V still on top 10 selling lists? It's 6 years old!
Code Vein making the list without Steam or console digital? That’s a true testament to its popularity. Seriously impressive and hopefully it means a sequel will be inbound.
Code Vein was great!
It's got a great community behind it, and great dev support.
Easily the best thing I played last month, including Borderlands 3.
Wow, great for CodeVein and Borderlands 3
Happy for code vein. The game is great.
@nessisonett Code Vein does include console digital, it needs an asterix beside to not include if I'm reading it right.
@Heavyarms55 Huh?... Everything has digital except Nintendo games because they do not share them.
Happy for Code Vein, great game
Industry decline... Yup, it's definitely time for those new consoles and fortunately they're not far off and with them the excitement will be back.
That's not to say there isn't still good stuff on the way for current gen next year, to be fair. I'm definitely hyped for The Last of Us Part II.
February, March and April 2020 will balance this out.
@Heavyarms55 Only the games marked don’t include digital. Everything else does. The fault is on companies like Nintendo for refusing to share their data, not the NPD.
GTA 5 must have sold 120 million copies at this point.
Nice to see Resi 2 up there, should be at number one really.
NBA 2k20 the most buggy and unfinished game of 2019, it looks like the nba developers can get away with murder easily.
Wow. Even in physical sales alone, Nintendo exclusives are doing incredibly well! What a turnaround for the big N.
@gamer89 Now that I just don't believe.
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