The Nintendo Switch 2’s second month on the market was one other explosive one, a minimum of in the U.S., the place it surpassed 2 million items offered life-to-date, placing it 75% forward of the unit gross sales tempo set by the Nintendo Switch 1.
That is in response to month-to-month information from Circana, whose evaluation was shared with IGN by Mat Piscatella. Nintendo Switch 2 gross sales in July had been so robust that July {hardware} spending reached $384 million, the highest July {hardware} spend since July 2008. The Switch 2 was the best-selling console for the month of July, and unshockingly is the best-selling console in the U.S. year-to date in phrases of each unit and greenback gross sales, surpassing the PlayStation 5. The Nintendo Switch 2 Professional Controller is now the best-selling accent of the 12 months in each greenback and unit gross sales.
Already final month, the Nintendo Switch 2 grew to become the fastest-selling sport console of all time in the U.S., surpassing the PlayStation 4. After we requested Piscatella at the time if that meant the Switch 2 may outsell the Switch 1, he supplied a cautious take:
What the launch gross sales of Switch 2 primarily inform us is that they made lots of Switch 2 to promote at launch. Lifetime gross sales and launch gross sales of a console usually don’t correlate, that means that some consoles with small launches ended up doing extremely nicely lifetime (PS2 solely offered 400k in its launch month) whereas others with massive launches ended up not doing as nicely lifetime. Since launch month demand isn’t satiated by obtainable provide (and it’s definitely not an ideal signal when it’s, traditionally) all we will actually get a learn on at launch is the confidence of the producer to make so many items obtainable, and the capacity of the provide chain to get these items into the market.
However having the largest launch month gross sales for any new online game {hardware} platform is a helluva good begin.
On the software program charts, July was dominated by new releases. EA Sports activities School Soccer 26 debuted at No.1 for July and is already the third best-selling sport of the 12 months thus far in phrases of greenback gross sales. The EA Sports activities MVP Bundle, which incorporates each Madden NFL 26 and School Soccer 26, adopted it at No.2 for July and No.12 for the year-to-date. Donkey Kong Bananza debuted at No.3 for the month of July and No.20 for the 12 months thus far on Circana’s rankings, regardless of Nintendo not sharing digital gross sales information. And Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 debuted at No.4 for the month of July.
Xbox was additionally well-represented once more on July’s month-to-month charts. Other than Tony Hawk, Forza Horizon 5 as soon as once more made an look due to its PlayStation launch, this time showing at No.7. Name of Obligation: Black Ops 7 was at No.5, and Grounded 2 debuted at No.8. For Grounded 2, its look appears largely based mostly on its PC launch, because it was the best-selling PC sport of the month in greenback gross sales. Nevertheless, it is nowhere to be discovered on Xbox’s console rankings, probably attributable to its Sport Move inclusion and extra individuals selecting to make use of that subscription for the console model. Microsoft additionally printed 4 of the top-selling video games on each PC (Grounded 2, Tony Hawk, Name of Obligation, and Minecraft) and PlayStation (Tony Hawk, Name of Obligation, Forza, and Minecraft) this month.
Monster Hunter: Wilds stays the best-selling sport of the 12 months thus far, and remains to be adopted by the Oblivion remaster. Total software program spending was up 4% year-over-year to $4.5 billion due to development in each cell and non-mobile subscriptions, offsetting a drop in console software program spending.
Complete video games spending for the month of July was up 5% year-over-year to $5.1 billion.
July 2025 U.S. High 20 Greatest-Promoting Video games:
- EA Sports activities School Soccer 26 (NEW)
- EA Sports activities MVP Bundle (2025) (NEW)
- Donkey Kong Bananza* (NEW)
- Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 (NEW)
- Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6
- Minecraft*
- Forza Horizon 5
- Grounded 2 (NEW)
- Crimson Lifeless Redemption II
- Grand Theft Auto V
- MLB The Present 25*
- Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside
- WWE 2K25
- Elden Ring
- NBA 2K25
- Elden Ring: Nightreign
- Cut up Fiction
- EA Sports activities FC 25
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- F1 25
* Signifies that some or all digital gross sales are usually not included in Circana’s information. Some publishers, together with Nintendo, don’t share sure digital information for this report.
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