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Sept 2017 US VG Sales from The NPD Group - Total video game spending in Sept 2017, incl HW SW and ACC, grew 39% versus YA to $1.2B

SW - Games software spending reached $744m in Sept 2017, up 49% vs YA. YTD, SW spending is up 7% to $3.7B.

SW - Destiny 2 was the top selling game of September, driving more launch month consumer spend than any other 2017 release to date.

SW - With 1 month of sales, Destiny 2 is the best selling game of 2017 YTD, and the 3rd best selling game of the 12 mo period ending Sept 17 Destiny 2 combined spend across packaged and digital also exceeded the launch month sales of Destiny, which released in Sept 2014.

SW - NBA 2K18 was the top selling sports game of Sept 2017. With one month of sales NBA 2K18 also became the best selling sports game YTD.

SW - NBA 2K18 had the largest consumer spend in launch month of any Sports genre title since the current gen of consoles launched in Nov 13.

SW - Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle was September's top selling game on the Nintendo Switch. The game charted at #5 overall.

SW - We'd like to welcome Psyonix to the Digital Leader Panel.

SW - Activision Blizzard was the best selling publisher of the month of September and is the top selling publisher year to date.

HW - HW spending in Sept 2017 grew 34% versus YA to $316m. Spending growth was driven by Switch, SNES Classic and PlayStation 4.

HW - PS4 led all HW platforms in consumer spend during Sept 2017, while Switch sold the most units amongst the current generation consoles.

HW - SNES Classic was the overall top unit selling hardware platform in the period.
HW - The SNES Classic is now the top selling Nintendo Classic console in life to date consumer spend.

HW - Sony's PlayStation 4 remains the best selling hardware platform year to date.

All of Numbers were taken from twitter the thread on twitter was created by Mat Piscatella
I just took the numbers to share it here for anyone who follows the sales figures and stuff like that

Edited on by get2sammyb

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