Tekken 8, Suicide Squad, Persona 3 Reload and New Like A Dragon were the best sellers last month in the United States

The last month has been full of new releases and many of them have proven to be hits with players, according to the latest Circana US Video game Market Highlights. report, which tracks video game spending for each month of the year. While Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III took home the top spot for best-selling games of January 2024 in the United Statesvarious new releases ranked in the top 10.

This includes Tekken 8, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, Persona 3 Reload, and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.

This is what the 10 best-selling games of the past month look like:

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
2. Tekken 8
3. Suicide Squad: kill the Justice League
4. Persona 3 Reload
5. Madden NFL 24
6. Hogwarts Legacy (it was the best-selling game of 2023)
7. Like a dragon: infinite wealth
8. EA Sports FC 24
9. The Last of Us Part II
10. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

Two more new releases from last month appear later in the list if you expand it into the top 20: Ubisoft’s latest platformer, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, came in at 13th place and Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Bandai Namco’s Clash won 19th place.

Broken down by individual platforms, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III was the best-selling premium game on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox series X/S platforms. On PS5, Tekken 8 took second place, Suicide Squad third, and Persona 3 Reload fourth place. On Xbox series X/S, Madden NFL 24 came in second, with Suicide Squad third and Tekken 8 fourth.

On Switch, which does not include digital sales, Super Mario Bros. Wonder was the best-selling game of last month with Hogwarts Legacy in second place. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown came fifth on Switch.

Palworld, the “Pokémon With Guns” survival game that attracted 25 million players yesterday, was, unsurprisingly, the most played title on Steam and third on Xbox last month. On Xbox series X/S and PS5, Fortnite was the most played title in January 2024.

Executive Director and Analyst of Circana Mat Piscatella writes about (formerly Twitter) that the PS5 was the best-selling hardware platform of the month in terms of units sold and dollar sales, with Switch in second place for units sold and Xbox series X/S in second place for sales in dollars. After 39 months on the market, PS5 unit sales to date are 7% higher than PlayStation 4 and 68% higher than PlayStation 3. However, overall, spending on video game hardware in January fell 4% from January of last year, to $378 million.

Spending on video game accessories increased 45% last month compared to January of last year, up to $246 million. The PS5’s DualSense Edge was the best-selling accessory of the month. Piscatelle said The recently released PlayStation Portal moved from the Hardware category to the Accessories category for January 2024, ranking fifth for video game accessory spending last month.

Overall spending on video games across all categories increased 15% compared to January this year, reaching $5.1 billion. Piscatelle Remarks that January 2024 was a five-week monitoring period, while January 2023 was a four-week period.

To find out more, read game Informers reviews for Tekken 8, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, Persona 3 Reload, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.

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