NPD Group has released its chart of the top-selling video games in the US for July 2020, while PS4s Ghost of Tsushima took the top spot, Paper Mario: The Origami King put a very good view and debuted at number three on the chart with all formats last month.
In fact, The Origami King’s launch performance puts it ahead of every previous game in the Paper Mario series for the same period, as detailed by NPD’s Mat Piscatella:
Paper Mario: The Origami King set a new record of the month for sales for a Paper Mario title, with physical launch month dollar sales more than doubling those of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
Piscatella letter clear that was the previous best-selling entry in the series Super paper Mario on the Wii, with Gamecube’s The millennial door next third.
Here’s a look at the rest of the map:
As you can see Call of Duty Modern Warfare (the 2019 version, of course) took second place, followed by the aforementioned Paper Mario just ahead of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us: Part II and Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
First-party Nintendo titles managed to take five of the top ten spots, though it should be noted that this NPD card does not consider digital eShop game sales. Given the healthy digital sales performance of Nintendo software in recent months, it would be interesting to see how adding those to the above numbers would change things.
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