MULTI NPD December 2020: CoD #1, Cyberpunk #2, AC Valhalla #3

[CerebralTiger]

via Reset Era

State of the Market -

Dec 2020 US NPD THREAD - December 2020 consumer spending across video game hardware, content and accessories reached a December record $7.7B, 25% higher when compared to a year ago. Full year spending also set a new record, totaling $56.9B, 27% higher than 2019.

US NPD Hardware -

• Hardware dollar sales reached $1.35 billion in December 2020, an increase of 38 percent when compared to a year ago, and the highest total for a Decemeber month since the $1.37 billion achieved in December 2013.
• Annual hardware dollar sales totaled $5.3 billion, 35% higher than 2019, and the most since $5.6 billion was reached in 2011.
• Nintendo Switch was the best-selling hardware platform in units and dollars for both December and the 2020 year. Annual dollar sales of Switch hardware were the 2nd highest for a platform in U.S. history. Only the 2008 dollar sales of Nintendo Wii were higher.
• PlayStation 5 finished 2020 as the #2 best-selling console in dollar sales, while PlayStation 4 ranked 2nd in units sold. PlayStation 5 set a new dollar sales record for PlayStation hardware through each platform's first December.

US NPD SW -

• Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War was the best-selling game of both December as well as 2020, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was 2020's 2nd best-seller. Call of Duty ranked as the best-selling gaming franchise in the U.S. market for a record 12th consecutive year.
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons was 2020's 3rd best-selling title, and the 6th best-selling game of December. In 2020 the title achieved the highest physical dollar sales for a Nintendo published game in a calendar year since Wii Fit Plus in 2010.
• Cyberpunk 2077 debuted as the #2 best-selling game of December, and the 19th best-selling game of 2020, despite the lack of digital tracking.
• The Last of Us: Part II finished 2020 as the year's 6th best-selling title overall. The Last of Us: Part II now ranks as the 3rd best-selling Sony published game in U.S. history in dollar sales, trailing only Marvel's Spider-Man and 2018's God of War.
• Half of the top 20 best-selling games of December 2020 were published by Nintendo.

US NPD SW - December 2020 Top 20 Sellers

Yearly Charts Software

 

[Major Aly]

All I can say is...Yikes!
CDnoPR...

 

[CerebralTiger]

All I can say is...Yikes!
CDnoPR...

And here's something interesting.

- in terms of physical game sales, both Switch launch title Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and 2018 title Smash Bros Ultimate outsold Cyberpunk 2077 in 2020, a multiplatform game released on 3 platforms that had a physical release
- in terms of physical game sales, both Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Super Mario 3D All-Stars for the Switch were released in 2020 and outsold Cyberpunk 2077, a multiplatform game released on 3 platforms that had a physical release

 

[Chandoo]

Are these charts before or after the universal refunds ?