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Top 20 Best Selling Games of June 2021 (USA)
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What were the top 20 best-selling games in the United States in June 2021?
The newest NPD numbers are in, and so are the top lists of the highest selling game systems and games (by revenue) for last month in North America. Including both retail and most digital sales & revenue numbers.
What’s more unexpected is that, compared to a year ago, when everyone was at home playing games due to the covid lockdowns, game sales have actually increased in recent months! Nobody expected the video game industry to do as well as it did last year, much alone outperform it. Simply amazing.
June 2021’s top 20 best-selling games
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (NEW)
- Cold War in Call of Duty: Black Ops
- (NEW) Mario Golf: Super Rush
- **Major League Baseball: The Show 21
- Scarlet Nexus is a fictional character created by Scarlet Nexus (NEW)
- Village is a Resident Evil game.
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a video game developed by Nintendo.
- Minecraft
- Miles Morales, Spider-Man from Marvel
- Mortal Kombat 11 is the eleventh installment in the Mortal Kombat series
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons* is a game developed by Animal Crossing.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter developed by Activision (2019)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate* is a video game developed by Nintendo.
- Valhalla is an Assassin’s Creed game.
- Super Mario 3D World* is a video game developed by Nintendo. is a video game developed by Nintendo.
- Legendary Edition of Mass Effect
- 1 + 2 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild* is a video game developed by Nintendo.
- Sword and Shield (Pokémon)
- The Sea of Thieves is a game about thievery.
* Digital sales are not included, and Xbox digital sales are not included.
Here’s the Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart TV commercial…
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – PS5 TV Spot
So far, the top 20 best-selling games in 2021
- Cold War in Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Village is a Resident Evil game.
- **Major League Baseball: The Show 21
- Super Mario 3D World*
- Miles Morales, Spider-Man from Marvel
- Rise of the Monster Hunter
- 8* Mario Kart
- Valhalla is an Assassin’s Creed game.
- Outriders
- Minecraft
Sales of video game systems in June 2021:
Consumer expenditure on video gaming gear, content, and accessories was $4.9 billion in June 2021, up 5% from the previous year. Consumer expenditure in the first half of 2021 was $28.9 billion, up 15% over the same time in 2020.
In June, hardware was the main driver of growth. When compared to a year earlier, hardware dollar sales climbed 112 percent as sales of PlayStation, Switch, and Xbox consoles all surged.
When compared to June 2020, video game hardware sales increased 112 percent to $401 million. Since 2008 ($617 million), this is the biggest sum in a June month. Hardware consumer expenditure has risen 45 percent year-to-date to $2.3 billion, compared to the first half of 2020.
For the month of June, the Xbox Series was the most popular hardware platform in terms of dollar sales, while the Nintendo Switch was the most popular in terms of unit sales.
Xbox console dollar sales in June established a new high for the Xbox platform, surpassing the previous peak set in June 2011.
In terms of dollar and unit sales, the Nintendo Switch was the best-selling hardware platform in the first half of 2021.
The PlayStation 5 is still the fastest-selling console hardware platform in history in the United States (lifetime sales through 8 months in market, excluding portables).
Analysis of the remaining sales figures:
NPD monitors retail sales to obtain a decent idea of the best-selling video games from the previous month. Since April 2018, NPD has been tracking Steam (PC), Xbox Live, and PlayStation Network sales for the following major third-party publishers: Activision-Blizzard, Capcom, Deep Silver, Electronic Arts, Square Enix, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, and Warner Bros.
Mat Piscatella, an NPD analyst, says…
He stated the following about the top video game sales:
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart debuted as June’s best-selling game, achieving the highest launch month dollar sales of any title in franchise history. Launch month dollar sales more than doubled those of the previous high, set by Ratchet & Clank in April 2016
Mario Golf: Super Rush debuted in June 2021 as the third best-selling game. The game’s first month’s dollar sales were the biggest ever for a Mario Golf game. Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, released in July 2003 for the Nintendo GameCube, established the previous record.
On the June best-selling titles list, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 went from #51 in May to #17. During the month, the Switch version of the game was launched in the United States, accounting for the majority of the gains.
The June release of the A Pirate’s Life content update pushed Sea of Thieves back into the top 20 best-sellers list, from 36th a month earlier. Sea of Thieves was first released in March of 2018.
He stated the following about video gaming accessories:
Spending on video game accessories dropped 1% year over year in June 2021, to $207 million. When compared to the same time in 2020, accessory sales in the first half totaled $1.2 billion, up 14%.
The Sony DualSense Wireless Controller Midnight Black was the best-selling accessory in June 2021, whereas the DualSense Wireless Controller White was the best-selling item in the first half of the year. DualSense Wireless Controllers were three of the top four best-selling accessories in June.
Resetera is to thank for this.
Are the games in the Top 20 what you expected?
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