Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart #1, Xbox Series X/S Top in Dollar Sales in June Says NPD

The NPD Group has released their full North American sales data for June 2021, and it was a solid month overall, with players spending $4.9 billion on games, additional content, and hardware, representing a year-on-year increase of 5 percent. On the hardware front, the big surprise was the Xbox Series X/S – if you count the two consoles together as a platform, they were #1 in June in terms of dollar sales (the Switch still sold more units). What spurred this isn’t entirely clear, but it seems Microsoft may finally getting a decent flow of Xbox Series units onto shelves.

On the software front, it was Sony’s month, as Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart nabbed the top spot. Other new additions to the list include Mario Golf: Super Rush at #3 and Scarlet Nexus at #5. Meanwhile, last month’s #1 game, Resident Evil Village, dropped to #6 and the now-multiplatform MLB The Show 21 held surprisingly strong at #4.

Here are June’s top 20 games according to NPD:

1. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
3. Mario Golf: Super Rush
4. MLB The Show 21
5. Scarlet Nexus
6. Resident Evil Village
7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
8. Minecraft
9. Spier-Man: Miles Morales
10. Mortal Kombat 11
11. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
12. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
13. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
14. Assassin's Creed Valhalla
15. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
16. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
17. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2
18. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
19. Pokemon Sword & Shield
20. Sea of Thieves

And here are the top-10 best-selling games of 2021 thus far:

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
2. Resident Evil Village
3. MLB The Show 21
4. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
5. Spider-Man: Miles Morales
6. Monster Hunter Rise
7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
8. Assassin's Creed Valhalla
9. Outriders
10. Minecraft

It seems like we may actually have a real horserace developing between Microsoft and Sony’s next-gen consoles. Can Xbox Series X/S rack up some more wins while the PS5 is supply constrained? We shall see.

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