The NPD Group is an analytics board that keeps track of game sales for the United States, much like Japan's Media Create. Each month, they release a charted list of the best-selling games, and give both industry and the public insight into how new releases perform on launch. Today, NPD has put out their sales data for January 2018.

In total, revenue was up a whopping 59% year-over-year from 2017, generating an estimated $1.096 billion dollars. Last month also saw the release of Dragon Ball: FighterZ and Monster Hunter: World, and both were the most successful launches in history for their respective franchises. Video game sales accounted for about $517 million, which is also up 51% from last year. January hasn't seen such successful numbers since 2011, where numbers reached $549 million.

Hardware saw the most drastic increase, going from last year's $127 million, to this year's $278 million, a massive increase of 119%. All of the big three; Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo "preformed well", according to the NPD.

Game Sales Overall
1. Monster Hunter: World
2. Dragon Ball: FighterZ
3. Call of Duty: WWII
4. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds*
5. Grand Theft Auto V
6. NBA 2K18
7. Super Mario Odyssey*
8. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
9. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe*
10. Madden NFL 18
11. Star Wars: Battlefront II*
12. Assassin's Creed: Origins
13. UFC 3
14. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
15. FIFA 18*
16. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2
17. The Sims 4*
18. Splatoon 2*
19. Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT
20. Need for Speed: Payback*

* Denotes that digital sales were not included in the report

PlayStation 4
1. Monster Hunter: World
2. Dragon Ball: FighterZ
3. Call of Duty: WWII
4. GTA V
5. NBA 2K18
6. Madden NFL 18
7. Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT
8. Star Wars: Battlefront II
9. UFC 3
10. FIFA 18

Xbox One
1. Monster Hunter: World
2. PUBG
3. Call of Duty: WWII
4. Dragon Ball: FighterZ
5. GTA V
6. Star Wars: Battlefront II
7. NBA 2K18
8. Madden NFL 18
9. Assassin's Creed Origins
10. UFC 3

Nintendo 3DS
1. Pokemon Ultra Sun
2. Pokemon Ultra Moon
3. Mario Kart 7
4. Mario Party: The Top 100
5. Minecraft
6. Super Mario Maker
7. Super Smash Bros.
8. Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions
9. New Super Mario Bros. 2
10. Kirby: Battle Royale

Nintendo Switch
1. Super Mario Odyssey*
2. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe*
3. Legend of Zelda: BOTW*
4. Splatoon 2*
5. Pokken Tournament DX*
6. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim*
7. Xenoblade Chronicles 2*
8. Arms*
9. Mario and Rabbids: Kingdom Battle*
10. DOOM*

Monster Hunter: World tops the charts of both consoles it released upon, while Dragon Ball FighterZ follows closely. Xbox's partnership with PUBG Corp. also proves itself to be a huge hit as well, selling very well. GTA V shows that it still has an incredible staying power as well, still making the top 5, even years after launch. Sports games also find themselves doing well, with UFC, FIFA, and Madden all placing on the cusp of the list. Nintendo sees success with their exclusive games on both their platforms, with Pokemon doing well per usual, alongside Super Mario and Zelda.

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[pedro702]

preety disapointed we have no numbers and just the names...

 

[HaloEliteLegend]

Wish these figures included digital sales. Digital sales are big part of the marketplace nowadays, and sales data seems pretty much useless without digital stats.

 

[heartgold]

NPD order listing are based on revenue, not actual sold, if anyone didn't know.

Also Switch sold the most in units this month, revenue wise PS4 was first.

 

[pedro702]

NPD order listing are based on revenue, not actual sold, if anyone didn't know.

Also Switch sold the most in units this month, revenue wise PS4 was first.

well none of nintendo games had digital sales acounted for while ps4 had them.

 

[sarkwalvein]

I hope the West had some detailed quality data like that provided by media create.

 

[heartgold]

well none of nintendo games had digital sales acounted for while ps4 had them.

Hardware sales.

It’s true that Nintendo doesn't share its digital sales with NPD.

 

[jt_1258]

Hold the dam phone, Minecraft is top 5 for 3DS. What the actual fuck. I suppose if kiddos are willing to put up with crappy touch screen controls on a phone their willing to put up with a seriously diluted experience .

 

[Deleted User]

Honestly, seems pretty silly to put digital sales included & digital sales NOT included into the same list.

One might be pessimistic enough to say it's cheating to make it look better....

 

[Xabring]

It's bizarre to see some "physical reported only" games to sell more than some games with digital sales included. Not bad for Nintendo (and those like PUGB).
also it's bizarre to see GTA V after all of those years....but I can understand WHY on that one at least: Rockstar's microtransactions. Those servers ain't feeding themselves.