The Daily Populous Saturday August 20th, 2022 night edition
Authored by gamesindustry.biz and submitted by a_Ninja_b0y

Throughout the month of July US video game revenue reached $4.2 billion, a 9% drop year-over-year according to the latest NPD data.

Consumer spending for the month on hardware increased by 12% year-on-year to $362 million when compared to 2021.

Video game software sales during the month reached $3.7 billion, down 10% year-over-year.

Among game consoles, the PlayStation 5 led in hardware spending while the Nintendo Switch sold the most hardware units during the month.

For software, MultiVersus, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's newest title, debuted as no.1 for July's sales charts whereas Elden Ring came in second.

Lego Star Wars fell to third place while Nintendo's newest RPG, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 premiered at fourth place.

Accessories spending declined by 22% to a total of $148 million when compared to the same period in 2021.

The PS5 DualSense Wireless Controller Midnight Black was the no. 1 selling accessory for the month.

Here are the US Top 20 (based on dollar sales) for the period between 7/3/2022 through 7/30/2022, courtesy of The NPD Group:

1 NEW MultiVersus 2 1 Elden Ring 3 2 Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4 NEW Xenoblade Chronicles 3* 5 11 Call of Duty: Vanguard 6 4 MLB: The Show 22 7 6 Mario Kart 8* 8 NEW Digimon Survive 9 10 Minecraft 10 12 F1 22 11 8 Kirby and the Forgotten Land* 12 15 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate* 13 22 Animal Crossing: New Horizons* 14 5 Overwatch 15 18 Pokémon Legends: Arceus* 16 7 Nintendo Switch Sports* 17 25 Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War 18 24 Far Cry 6 19 37 Call of Duty: Black Ops III 20 13 Monster Hunter: Rise

DeusFever on August 19th, 2022 at 20:44 UTC »

The number 1 game on PSN last month was “Stray”, which also was part of the PS+ Extra and Premium collection. The number 2 game was GTA V. That should tell all you need to know about gamers’ spending habits.

Wemblack on August 19th, 2022 at 19:23 UTC »

There weren’t any good releases to spend money on

hunterko on August 19th, 2022 at 18:31 UTC »

This just in: people go outside when it’s nice out.