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[Nirolak]

Overall:

August retail game sales are up 1% year over year.

Hardware was down 6% year over year.

Console and Handheld game sales were up 8% year over year.

Physical and Steam PC software sales were up 18% year over year.


Software:

1. Madden NFL 17
2. No Man’s Sky *
3. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
4. Grand Theft Auto V
5. Overwatch **
6. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops III
8. Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens
9. Minecraft *
10. Destiny: The Taken King

* No digital sales.
** No Battle.net digital sales.


Hardware:

XB1: #1 Console


Other Info:

https://twitter.com/JeffGrubb/status/776555796544884742

https://twitter.com/JeffGrubb/status/776557551169118208

 

[DeathSparks]

I wonder how many of those copies of No Man's Sky were returned

 

[nynt9]

Siege still doing good makes me happy.

 

[FelipeMGM]

I wonder how many of those copies of No Man's Sky were returned

I wondered that too

NMS sold a lot, #1 at UK as well and #1 at PSN both in EU and US

 

[BY2K]

Deux Ex #3? Guess it did better here than in the UK.

 

[Little Mons†er]

I wonder how many of those copies of No Man's Sky were returned

 

[Vena]

Deux Ex #3? Guess it did better here than in the UK.

About that...

 

[Rymuth]

Very leggy months. Siege, Overwatch, Taken King.

 

[MANUELF]

Overall:

July retail game sales are up 1% year over year.
[/U]http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/15/august-2016-npd-madden-no-mans-sky-lift-summer-game-spending/

But This is August NPD

 

[DeadlyParasite]

Siege higher than Black Ops 3 is pretty nuts or am I missing something?

 

[T-0800]

I wonder how many of those copies of No Man's Sky were returned

Bought mine on PSN. No regrets.

 

[falconxcrunner09]

Glad to see both Overwatch and Destiny continue to sell well!

 

[Loudninja]

Nice for No Man Sky has to be near 2 million now.

 

[NateDrake]

Saw something on Twitter saying Xbox One outsold the PS4 by more than 114,000 units for the month. No Man's Sky sales around 500k retail. Not sure if the numbers are accurate.

 

[Mushroomer25]

I wonder how many of those copies of No Man's Sky were returned

Doesn't NPD only track physical purchases? Most of which can't be returned?' I imagine NMS's resale rate will still be relatively high, but the refund train most impacted digital copies.

 

[Rellik]

Deux Ex #3? Guess it did better here than in the UK.

Or everything below it did bad.

 

[DeathSparks]

Bought mine on PSN. No regrets.

You're lucky, I got mine on PC and waste 30 hours that I will never get back.

Can't even request a refund

 

[silva1991]

Congrats MS!

 

[Thewonandonly]

Rainbow six seige is the little game that could God damn haha.

Also good on dues ex even tho I wish I could return it on Xbox one becuase I'm not a big fan of it

 

[Loudninja]

PSN Top sellers

PS4 Games
1 No Man’s Sky
2 Madden NFL 17
3 Battlefield 4
4 TOM CLANCY’S RAINBOW SIX SIEGE
5 Battlefield Hardline
6 Grand Theft Auto V
7 Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition
8 Rocket League
9 ABZÛ
10 Batman: The Telltale Series – Episode 1: Realm of Shadows
11 7 Days to Die
12 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
13 Overwatch: Origins Edition
14 resident evil 4
15 INSIDE
16 DOOM
17 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
18 The Last Of Us Remastered
19 Overcooked
20 Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/09/13/playstation-store-augusts-top-downloads/

 

[Fuchsdh]

Did they stop giving out platform breakouts of sales?

 

[RedAssedApe]

four hardware month wins in a row for ms

Spoiler

jk

 

[VenomousCoffee]

Fucking GTA...

 

[DeathSparks]

Doesn't NPD only track physical purchases? Most of which can't be returned?' I imagine NMS's resale rate will still be relatively high, but the refund train most impacted digital copies.

I believe they only started counting digital purchases in July of this year

 

[Boke1879]

Saw something on Twitter saying Xbox One outsold the PS4 by more than 114,000 units for the month. No Man's Sky sales around 500k retail. Not sure if the numbers are accurate.

I believe they are. Slim model gave the Xbox consoles a boost for the month.

 

[Carnby]

I wonder how many of those copies of No Man's Sky were returned

Seeing that the LE is still available on Amazon, I'd ask the same.

 

[Thewonandonly]

Siege higher than Black Ops 3 is pretty nuts or am I missing something?

It also has to do with seige going on sell all the time. While you have to suck activisions cock to get a 5% discount

 

[DeathSparks]

Seeing that the LE is still available on Amazon, I'd ask the same.

I expect No Man Sky to drop out of the top 10 next month.

 

[KingBroly]

Federation Force. Over/Under 7,500?

 

[Nirolak]

Deux Ex #3? Guess it did better here than in the UK.

Deus Ex did 120K.

For comparison, Human Revolution did 244K, which, to be honest, wasn't great either, but it maintained over 180K the next month as well, whereas I'd be surprised if Mankind Divided held as well as that.

 

[GabeTheGrouch76]

Numbers for Metroid Prime: Federation Force (if there are any, that is) ought to be fascinating to say the least. We already got word that it tanked in Japan and the UK as it is.

 

[AntraxSuicide]

The gaming industry is gonna have to make a new calendar for sales talk. Year 0 is when Minecraft came out and damn near permanently got a spot there.

 

[SpecX]

Seeing that the LE is still available on Amazon, I'd ask the same.

I know they have mine back to resell.

 

[Nags]

Glad to see NMS did great. Well deserved, it's an amazing game.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Fucking Minecraft.

NMS proves that hype and marketing will pretty much sell anything.

 

[Neuromancer]

You're lucky, I got mine on PC and waste 30 hours that I will never get back.

Can't even request a refund

Poor baby! Your life is so hard. 😢😢😢

 

[Nemesis121]

Minecraft and GTV never leaves the top 10 list..

 

[singhr1]

Seeing that the LE is still available on Amazon, I'd ask the same.

LE quantities aren't really indicative of a game performance all the time. Sometimes they just make a bunch of a higher price SKU because of the higher profits.

 

[TheBaldEmperor]

Numbers for Metroid Prime: Federation Force (if there are any, that is) ought to be fascinating to say the least. We already got word that it tanked in Japan and the UK as it is.

Fascinating is one way to put it.

 

[DeathSparks]

Ok just to confirm this, even though NPD has been counting digital sales since July

They only counted physical copies of No Man's Sky

 

[Deleted member 465307]

Not many surprises for me. X1S likely gave a big boost to X1 sales. Very curious if we see similar results with the PS4S next month or if PS4's boost in sales will be delayed and/or spread out because of the PS4P.

 

[Obliterator]

Siege and Destiny's legs are simply fantastic

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

I wonder how many of those copies of No Man's Sky were returned

 

[KingBroly]

Fascinating is one way to put it.

I already asked if it was o/u 7,500. No one's responded yet.

 

[DeathSparks]

Poor baby! Your life is so hard. 😢😢😢

Hey it's no big deal, like many others I should've never bought this game.

At least I know now to wait for impressions before getting a game

 

[Lime]

About that...

What?

EDIT: Nirolak elaborated I see. Thanks Niro!

 

[Nirolak]

I fixed the chart notes. Sorry, I thought had brought those over.

 

[Suzushiiro]

GTAV and Minecraft continuing to chart over significantly newer games is fucking ludicrous. Nice to see that Overwatch is having a decently long tail, though.

 

[thelastword]

NMS did well despite all the criticism, GTA5 is a beast. I guess the .pro version will sell even more copies......

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

Has Deus Ex bombed everywhere then?