NPD Group‘s Mat Piscatella has revealed that the PlayStation 5 was January 2021’s best-selling platform in the United States in terms of dollar sales. The console broke a 12-year-old record, set by the Nintendo Wii in 2019, by posting the highest dollar sales total for a January month.

However, it was the Nintendo Switch that sold the most units during the period. According to Piscatella, Switch’s unit sales were “the highest of any platform in a January month since the Nintendo Wii in January 2010.” Overall, sales of video game hardware stood at $319 million, up by 144 percent year-on-year. This is also the highest total for a January month in nearly a decade.

Consumer spending across hardware, software, and accessories reached $4.7 billion, which is a 42 percent year-on-year increase. We’ve already reported that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War was unsurprisingly January’s best-selling game in the U.S. In second position is Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which is now the second-fastest selling Assassin’s Creed game in the country’s history behind Assassin’s Creed III.

January’s top 20 titles are as follows:

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
2. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
3. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
4. Madden NFL 21
5. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
6. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
7. Ring Fit Adventure
8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
9. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
10. NBA 2K21
11. Super Mario 3D All-Stars
12. FIFA 21
13. Immortals: Fenyx Rising
14. Mortal Kombat 11
15. Just Dance 2021
16. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
17. Minecraft: PS4 Edition
18. Cyberpunk 2077
19. Super Mario Party
20. EA Sports UFC 4

On PlayStation platforms specifically, Miles Morales outperformed Valhalla and was the second best-selling game after Black Ops Cold War.

[Source: Mat Piscatella]

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