US charts: Skyward Sword in July at the top

At the end of the week, the NPD Group considered us with various interesting statistics about the US sales month July 2021. While the PS5 was the console that represented the most successful system in July 2021 with regard to the generated sales, Nintendos Switch sold most units.

With a view of the best-selling games of the last month, the Switch-exclusive new edition "The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD" secured the place at the top - the first of Nintendo distributed title since "Super Mario 3D World" In February this year. The second place found the shooter "Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold was" in the US, according to the NPD Group, the best selling title of the calendar year 2021 is still.

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On the third place, the newcomer "Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin" landed three times in the launch month as often as the first "Monster Hunter Stories" in 2017. The other commercial successes include the baseball simulation " MLB The Show 21 ", which, despite the publication in the Xbox Game Pass, achieved" Resident Evil Village "as a secondary title of the year sold.

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In addition, "MLB The Show 21" books the strongest sales figures of series history. Under the stroke, the US market once again increased by ten percent compared to the same month of the previous year. In the US sales month, July 2021 revenues of $ 4.6 billion were generated with video games, corresponding hardware and accessories.

So far, the US video game market was implemented in 2021 $ 33.5 billion, compared to the same period of the previous year, in which the US market benefited mainly from COVID-19 conditional restrictions, this represents an increase of 14 percent.

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