Both repeated October's performance.
The NPD Group has released its November 2022 study covering video crippled hardware, software, and accessory income successful the US.
According to the NPD, full videogame manufacture spending accrued 3% year-over-year (yoy) to $6.3 cardinal with maturation driven by a 45% summation successful hardware dollar sales.
November brings year-to-date spending to $49 billion, which is simply a 6% diminution yoy.
Hardware saw a 45% summation yoy to $1.3 billion, led by PlayStation 5 successful some portion and dollar sales. PS5's pb was owed to an summation successful retail measurement compared to the aforesaid play successful 2021, and it remains the best-selling hardware level of 2022 successful year-to-date dollar sales. Nintendo Switch leads successful portion income for 2022 and was 2nd successful November crossed some portion and dollar sales.
In software, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was erstwhile again the month’s best-selling rubric successful dollar income and is present the best-selling crippled for 2022 year-to-date.
The shooter was followed by November debuts God of War: Ragnarok, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, and Sonic Frontiers, respectively, with Madden NFL 23 rounding retired the apical five.
Have a look astatine the best-selling games for November below, courtesy of the NPD's Mat Piscatella. The best-selling games per level tin beryllium recovered below.
For mobile, casino games experienced dependable growth, taking the apical spot. Casino, action, and tabletop games were the lone genres to spot yoy growth, with RPGs and shooters continuing to person a pugnacious time.
November's apical 10 mobile games by user spending were: Candy Crush Saga, Roblox, Royal Match, Coin Master, Clash of Clans, Evony, Pokemon Go, Township, Jackpot Party - Casino Slots, and Bingo Blitz.
Spending connected accessories accrued 10% yoy to $289 million. The conception saw double-digit percent maturation successful some gamepad and headset/headphone spending drove the segment’s performance. The best-swelling accessory for the period was the PlayStation 5 DualSense Wireless Controller Galactic Purple.