October 2022 noticed shoppers in the USA spend $4.3 billion on gaming software program, {hardware}, and equipment in accordance with the NPD Group. Software program gross sales solely elevated by 2% year-over-year to $4 billion. Extra big-name new releases this yr didn’t end in a major gross sales enhance, moderately the historic Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 2 launch saved what would have been a disappointing month.
For the yr, complete spending stays down, increasing to a 7% hole with $43 billion spent up to now in 2022. Software program gross sales are down 8% from 2021, representing $37 billion of complete spending. {Hardware} gross sales are solely down 2%, making up $4 billion of complete gross sales, which stays disappointing now that the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X consoles are simpler to search out on retailer cabinets.
PlayStation 5 stays the highest vendor for each unit and greenback gross sales, whereas Xbox is true behind in second place for each classes. The Nintendo Change is falling off the tempo within the US, which is backed up by the software program gross sales. The very best-selling Change-exclusive, Mario+Rabbids Spark of Hope got here in at quantity 6.
Regardless of not being out there till the tip of the month, Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 2’s historic launch simply landed it in first place for the month of October. Quite surprisingly, the critically disparaged Gotham Knights was the second best-selling recreation of the month. Rounding out the highest 5 had been yearly sports activities titles from EA: FIFA 23, Madden NFL 23, and NHL 23 within the third, fourth and fifth spots respectively.
The biggest movers of the month had been a pair of titles that acquired new next-gen variations: Persona 5 Royal and Nier: Automata. Persona 5 Royal, previously a PlayStation unique, was launched for the Xbox Sequence consoles and the Nintendo Change, bringing the Atlus JRPG from quantity 291 to quantity 7. Neir: Automata was already out there on a number of platforms, however a brand new next-gen launch took the weird JRPG from 217 as much as quantity 19 for the month.
