PlayStation 5 [1,173 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/playstation/ps5/ “> PlayStation 5 is currently the best-selling video game hardware platform in the history of the United States, according to the market research firm NPD Group [56 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/npd-group/ “> NPD Group.
This is based on the dollar sales generated by Sony Interactive Entertainment [1,226 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/sony/ “> Sony console after four months of availability, NPD analyst Mat Piscatella said on Friday.
However, the PS5 with limited supply was only the second best-selling hardware platform in February, behind the Nintendo Switch [1,526 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/nintendo/switch/ “> Nintendo Switch in units and in dollars.
Nintendo [1,629 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/nintendo/ “> Nintendo’s console is now the best-selling console in the United States for a record 27 consecutive months based on units sold.
NPD said that lifetime sales of the Switch surpassed those of the DS, making it the second best-selling platform from Nintendo, behind only the Wii, and the seventh best-selling platform in the history of the United States.
Nintendo does not provide digital sales data, but February’s best-selling game was Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury [44 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/super-mario-3d-world-bowsers-fury/ “> Super Mario 3D World + Bowser Fury based only on box sales. He is also the second champion of game sales behind Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War [146 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/call-of-duty/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ “> Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
Activision [506 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/activision-blizzard/activision/ “> The Activision sniper dropped to position 2 on the February software chart, followed by the new Persona 5 entry [28 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/persona-5/ “> Persona 5: Attackers, Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales [84 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/marvels-spider-man-miles-morales/ “> Spider-Man Miles Morales and Madden NFL 21 [25 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/madden-nfl-21/ “> Madden NFL 21. The only other entry in the top 20 was Little Nightmares 2 [9 articles]”href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/little-nightmares-2/ “> Little Nightmares 2 at No.6.
Total consumer spending on video game hardware, content and accessories reached a record $ 4.6 billion in February, with year-to-date spending up 39% compared to 2020.