Now that 2022 is implicit (thank God), the NPD radical has done its thing, collecting and processing each the resulting income data. Now we tin look backmost astatine the past 12 months and spot what games and consoles sold best, and however overmuch wealth radical spent connected this stuff. Shocking nobody, Nintendo had different palmy twelvemonth portion Elden Ring astir topped the charts, beating retired some God of War and Madden. 

Yes, it’s erstwhile again that clip of the twelvemonth erstwhile the NPD Group—a decades-old retail tracking and marketplace probe company—releases information connected what radical bought past year. While the radical tracks and monitors galore antithetic industries, since 1995 it’s monitored the merchantability of video games and consoles successful the United States, and usually publishes immoderate of this information each month.

Nintendo is apt pleased to spot that successful 2022 the top-selling video crippled console successful the United States was the Nintendo Switch. The NPD doesn’t merchandise circumstantial income numbers publicly, truthful we don’t cognize conscionable however galore Switch consoles were sold this year, but Nintendo’s aging console outperformed the PlayStation 5, which was the 2nd best-selling level past year, and Xbox Series X/S, which came successful third. It should besides beryllium noted that the Switch was the best-selling console of December 2022 truthful it appears the Switch is inactive the blistery point to get astir Christmas. And 2 caller Pokémon games successful 2022 (even if they were buggy) astir apt helped, too.

Late past week, the NPD Group besides released its database of the 20 best-selling games of 2022. Before we leap into the list, retrieve that Nintendo doesn’t stock its integer numbers with the NPD, perchance hurting its ain games’ rankings. But anyway, here’s the NPD apical 10:

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. Elden Ring
3. Madden NFL 23
4. God of War: Ragnarök
5. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
6. Pokémon Scarlet/Violet
7. FIFA 23
8. Pokémon Legends: Arceus
9. Horizon Forbidden West
10. MLB The Show 22

While Elden Ring was connected a rotation this twelvemonth and inactive ends up arsenic the 2nd best-selling crippled of 2022, it wasn’t capable to decision the juggernaut that is Call of Duty. There’s a crushed Activision continues to absorption almost each of its resources and studios connected Call of Duty: due to the fact that it makes a batch of money. And arsenic always, immoderate big-name sports games and console exclusives capable retired the remainder of the list. This information is besides a large reminder that astir folks extracurricular of the radical speechmaking this oregon commenting beneath don’t attraction astir bugs, arsenic Madden NFL 23 and the caller Pokémon games launched successful reasonably unsmooth states yet they inactive cracked the apical 10.

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Now that 2022 is implicit and done with, it’s clip to spot your bets for the best-selling crippled of 2023! The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom seems similar a coagulated bet…assuming it releases this year.