Black Ops Cold War # 1 Again, Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Hardened in January, NPD says

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The NPD Group has released their full North American sales data for January 2021, and the industry is off to a good start to the year. Numbers were up significantly year over year with players spending $ 4.7 billion on games, additional content and hardware. That’s 44 percent more than January 2020. Looking at hardware, Nintendo and Sony were neck and neck – the Switch sold the most units, but PS5 was the best in terms of revenue generated. Ultimately, this was January’s biggest for hardware sales since the Wii heyday of 2009 and 2010.

On the software front, the charts are largely dominated by the biggest games of 2020, including Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The main story is Cyberpunk 2077, plunging all the way to # 18 after the game’s troubled December release. The other big story is Hitman 3, which launched on January 20, but missed the charts completely. NPD didn’t get any digital sales from IO Interactive, so that partially explains its absence, but even without them, Hitman 3 should have been able to crack the top 20. Still, IO Interactive has said that Hitman 3 is already profitable, so maybe an unusual percentage of the game’s sales were digital or the game is just doing better in Europe and other regions outside of North America.

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Here are the 20 best games of January according to NPD:

  1. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
  2. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
  3. Spider-Man: Miles Morales
  4. Madden NFL 21
  5. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  6. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
  7. Ring Fit Adventure
  8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  9. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
  10. NBA 2K21
  11. Super Mario 3D All-Stars
  12. FIFA 21
  13. Immortals Fenyx Rising
  14. Mortal Kombat 11
  15. Just Dance 2021
  16. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  17. Minecraft (PlayStation 4 Edition)
  18. Cyberpunk 2077
  19. Super Mario party
  20. UFC 4

As a reminder, these were the 10 best-selling games of 2020:

  1. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
  2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  3. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  4. Madden NFL 21
  5. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
  6. The Last of Us Part II
  7. Spirit of Tsushima
  8. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
  9. Super Mario 3D All-Stars
  10. Final Fantasy VII Remake

We’re still close to Christmas, with people grabbing hardware and games they couldn’t get for Christmas. It will be interesting to see how things develop as we move into 2021. Which games do you expect to be the best-selling games this year?

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