NPD July 2018 UPDATE!!! Nintendo Officially wins July - Octopath Traveler top selling game

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Top 20 software

1. Octopath Traveler*

2. Grand Theft Auto V

3. Mario Kart 8*

4. Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy

5. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*

6. Far Cry 5

7. Super Mario Odyssey*

8. The Crew 2

9. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege

10. Mario Tennis Aces *

11. FIFA 18**

12. Lego Incredibles

13. God of War (2018)

14. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker*

15. NBA 2K18

16. Call of Duty: WWII

17. Detroit: Become Human

18. MLB 18: The Show

19. Minecraft**

20. Destiny 2**

July 2018 totals

Total Industry: $749 million (up 14 percent from $655 million in July 2017)

Hardware: $217 million (up 19 percent from $182 million)

PC and console software: $246 million (down 12 percent from $280 million)

Accessories: $286 million (up 49 percent from $193 million)

Comparison to July 2017

Total: $6.769 billion (up 17 percent from $5.807 billion in 2017 year to date)

Hardware: $1.902 billion (up 21 percent from $1.572 billion)

PC and console software: $2.807 billion (up 5 percent from $2.687 billion)

Accessories: $2.060 billion (up 33 percent from $1.548 billion)

Other tidbits

- half of July’s top 10 best-sellers are Nintendo platform exclusives

- Nintendo is the top-selling full game software publisher for both July and year to date

- Switch is the only platform showing year-on-year growth in full-game dollar sales with gains of nearly 70 percent

- year-to-date sales of full-game software on Switch have more than doubled when compared to a year ago

- overall hardware spending in July 2018 grew 19 percent when compared to a year ago, to $217 million

- this was due to Xbox One, Switch, and the NES Classic Edition

- spending on hardware is up 21 percent to $1.9 billion year-to-date

- Xbox One, PlayStation 4, NES Classic Edition, and Super Nintendo Classic are the primary drivers

- Switch was July’s best-selling hardware platform in both dollars and units sold

- this is the seventh month that Switch has led in hardware dollar sales since launching in March 2017

- unit sales of Nintendo hardware in July 2018 reached its highest point for a July month since 2009

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If true, then there goes to show you that 3rd party games can sell and move hardware with Nintendo Consoles.

Dammit, I was hoping that you wouldn't post it. I wanted to see if Ant_17 would post the official results tomorrow or not (and I don't want these leaks getting much attention, since that might kill them). Oh well, his predictable damage control will be enough I guess.

10 bucks says Octopath drops out of the top 10 next month.

Would that happening somehow invalidate its performance?

Yep. Would prove its front loaded sales from a niche audience with no appeal to anyone beyond that.

It sold over a million worldwide in a week though, despite shortages in some regions. Also, most third-party games on any platform drop off like that.

1 million ain't much for a console going through a big software drought. Beggars can't be choosers.

>Drought

>Sold almost 18 million software units last quarter, not counting eShop-only titles

Hm...

Nice to see Octopath Traveler doing so well, excellent game.

Most of that software was games already out. Namely Zelda, Mario, Mario Kart.

wtf sony do a better job marketing i hate to see us lose in the usa just terrible

@NathanDrakeSwag: A console that sold around 19 million in a year and a half that has a niche audience of around 1-1.5 million users is big success even by your salty twisted logic :))

Try harder man looooool

Switch is on a roll!

And wow those Snes/Nes Classic sales!

Finally after 6 month Switch is back.

well, ps4 sold more digital software than switch physical software if it counts....

i guess all it needed was games

too bad we wont have any more till october with mario party and i dont think it will move systems :P

sony will win sept with spiderman.

august? switch got Monster hunter (ghetto version). overcooked 2(everyone got it though), okami HD (i doubt this moved systems).

hmmm...

what did sony/xbox get in august?

Well-received game releases, creates incentive to buy console, console sells. News at eleven.

You would think that logic would be blindingly obvious to everyone, but apparently not...

Sony losing really bothers you huh?

Nothing, calm before DQXI/Spiderman early sep.

Just the right moment to save some money for the next 3 month of games, games and games.

wait a minute i think xbox/ps4/PC got shenmue HD collection?

Its just a remaster.

Octopath is a niche, low-budget, old-school, turn-based JRPG. Over 1 million sales for such a niche title is is already well beyond expectations. Before release, not many thought it would reach a million sales, or top the NPD chart.

What had shortages?

Octopath had shortages. Squenix didn't expect the game to sell as much as it did.

How can a game you can digitally download have shortages?

Do Square Enix only have a 2Gb data cap?

Hurr durr. Physical shortages of course, if common sense isn't your thing.
Not everyone wants to buy digital.

Also didn't take @NathanDrakeSwag long to come in and try and deflect the Switch beating PS4 in NPD for once.

Common sense is my thing..... That's why I expect people to use a little and not make stupid claims like 'shortages' when it gives a false representation to people who don't know any better.

'Physically shortages' should of been the terminology used as it's the most accurate.

/pedantic

Well I'd fucking hope so.

Octopath Traveler is an amazing game, and Nintendo exclusive games have legs like prime Zebras.

Fantastic reception and well deserved on the part of Octopath Traveler and Switch.

Always happy to see good games get the appreciation they deserve.

This is just another month of tag team of ass whopping from Nintendo and Sony taking turns clowning on MS for thinking power hype with no exclusives would change anything for the xbox one in the industry.

Sad when you can't even buy a win in your home territory.

I know the mighty PS4 loses to Nintendo in Japan every month lol.

Well Sony did win a month one time this year a think, but don't quote me on that lol.

But hey...maybe xbox one will come through with this next Forza Horizon release and dominate the charts to snatch the #1 spot for MS during it's release month...

Let the bovine damage control start in 3, 2, oops too late. My bad.

but that is both their home territory?

even though PS4 sold more than Xbox, it is bad month for PS4. the only one with decline compared to last year.

Even more interesting to me is the fact that the top sales was in the Other category. I wonder if the NES Classic was the top selling console again two months in a row? That's just awesome if it was!

I don't take any notice of these ms gave up before the system launched.

You make it sound like this is the 1st 3rd party game on the Switch...

Lol :P

@SecretPolice: Wow, you gloating the sheeps beat us?

What a cheerleader.

@Ant_17:

You fell for mah... Bait & Switch? C'mon Ant-Man....

lol :P

LOL at all the lem alts trying to fight a proxy console war through Nintendo. Down in the back begging everyone for crossplay crumbs.

@SecretPolice: Wasp was distracting me.

@tgob89 said:

@i_p_daily said:

@tgob89 said:

Octopath Traveler is an amazing game, and Nintendo exclusive games have legs like prime Zebras.

Fantastic reception and well deserved on the part of Octopath Traveler and Switch.

Always happy to see good games get the appreciation they deserve.

This is just another month of tag team of ass whopping from Nintendo and Sony taking turns clowning on MS for thinking power hype with no exclusives would change anything for the xbox one in the industry.

Sad when you can't even buy a win in your home territory.

I know the mighty PS4 loses to Nintendo in Japan every month lol.

Well Sony did win a month one time this year a think, but don't quote me on that lol.

But hey...maybe xbox one will come through with this next Forza Horizon release and dominate the charts to snatch the #1 spot for MS during it's release month...

Japanese sales are reported weekly. PS4 was selling above Switch for about a month and a half off of the back of Monster Hunter World, but then dropped like a rock partially due to shortages and never recovered.

Switch 3rd party support is too strong this gen. Another gem dropping this month with MH.

Must be a typo, it's only meant to sell well in Japan.

Don't know where you got that from. Both Sony and Nintendo have shown they can produce system sellers for their consoles year after year.

Sometimes it's Nintendo that takes the lead and other times it's Sony. This is nothing new.

So, the moral of the thread is: all a 3rd-party game on the Switch needs to dominate is to actually be published by Nintendo, with Nintendo's full might and advertising behind it?

and to actually be good!

@tgob89: No arguments from me, my post was intended to be taken sarcastically.

Bwhahaha a Sony Drone shooting games down for being front-loaded THE IRONY

Japan is irrelevant. PS4 still wins worldwide.