NPD Group has printed its gross sales figures for July in North America, and to nobody’s shock, the Switch has had one other profitable month! The console is as soon as once more the top-selling {hardware} by way of models offered, and whereas spending is down in comparison with July 2021 by 10%, gross sales are starting to return to 2020 ranges.
The best-selling sport on the Switch in July is Monolith Soft’s Xenoblade Chronicles 3, regardless of solely releasing on twenty ninth of the month. The gigantic JRPG made an actual splash on the finish of July, and we dubbed it a “masterpiece” in our assessment.
Nintendo Switch Sports has seen a little bit of a drop, whereas Animal Crossing: New Horizons jumped up a couple of spots. And by way of new releases, each Live A Live and Digimon Survive additionally positioned within the month’s high ten Switch video games.
In phrases of total sport gross sales in July, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 positioned fourth (digital gross sales aren’t included) behind returners LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and Elden Ring. But primary went to a model new multiplatform launch — MultiVersus, which is unfortunately skipping out on the Switch for now. The free-to-play brawler managed to cinch the highest spot because of the Founder’s Pack. So Xenoblade has finished fairly nicely towards some stiff competitors!
But once more, in a pleasant shock, Digimon Survive — which additionally got here out on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC — was the eighth best-selling sport of the month total.
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