In the course of the month of April, shopper spending throughout the US noticed an 8% decline to $4.3 billion in comparison with final yr.
The most recent knowledge revealed by the NPD Group signifies {that a} lower in content material and accent spending made the gross sales of the entire month decline regardless of the {hardware} positive factors. This brought on the spending year-to-date to see an 8% decrease spending at $18.3 billion in comparison with the identical interval final yr.
{Hardware} carried out properly and noticed a gross sales enhance of 16% year-to-year to $343 million. In accordance with an NPD’s VG trade analyst Mat Piscatella, this was as a result of improved provide of each PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S consoles.
Mat Piscatella additionally mentioned in a Twitter put up that the US market total stays properly above the pre-pandemic baseline.
Nintendo Swap additionally continued to carry out extraordinarily properly and is now the fourth best-selling console within the historical past of the USA with regards to the whole variety of models bought. Nintendo Swap was the best-selling console when it comes to models bought within the US for April 2022 in addition to year-to-date, nonetheless, the PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console in April with regards to worth.
Online game equipment noticed a ten% gross sales decline to $151 million this April in comparison with the identical time interval final yr.
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was No.1 in April and is at present the second best-selling recreation of 2022.
Piscatella knowledgeable that Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga achieved the best launch month greenback gross sales for any Lego title in historical past, and after one month ranks among the many prime six best-selling Lego video games life-to-date.
The most recent LEGO title was adopted by FromSoftware’s Elden Ring which continues to promote properly and is at present the best-selling online game of 2022 within the US.
Under is the highest ten best-selling video video games within the US in April 2022:
