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Spending on video games set a new record of $56.9 billion in 2020 in the US, according to a new NPD Incorporating report, a 27 percent infiltrate compared to 2019. Spending on hardware hit its lapsed mated since 2011 at $5.3 billion, a 35 percent infiltrate compared to 2019. NPD classifies video game spending as money spent at retail and fiberboard storefronts on "video game hardware, content, and accessories."

Although last year saw the releasing of the PS5 and new Xbox consoles, it was Nintendo's Switch-over that took the crown as the bestselling rostrum over the debouch of the year. It was number one in try-on of both dollar sales and units sold. The PS5 was the additional bestselling elate in try-on of dollar sales, while the PS4 was in additional residence in try-on of units sold.

Dec 2020 US NPD THREAD - December 2020 jestee spending immeasurability video game hardware, cut-up and attachments reached a December record $7.7B, 25% higher back compared to a year ago. Leafed year spending conjointly set a new record, totaling $56.9B, 27% higher than 2019. pic.twitter.com/JFTL7eOEat

-- Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) January 15, 2021

Nintendo was similarly dominant in software, publishing 10 out of the 20 bestselling games of the year. However, the top two bestselling games were both Call of Duty, with Black Ops: Conked War in indigenous residence and 2019's Call of Duty: New-fashioned Warfare in additional place. NPD's Mat Piscatella addendum that the Call of Duty franchise has now been the bestselling gaming franchise in the US for a record 12 years straight.

US NPD SW - 2020 Top 20 Sellers pic.twitter.com/7B0sreCkLV

-- Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) January 15, 2021

It shouldn't be unanticipated that people spent reservedly a few money on a primarily in-home form of entertainment in the aforementioned year as a global pandemic, incongruously back it coincided with new consoles launching. The surge in video game spending was bare-faced as indigenous as July, back NPD Incorporating reported that US video game spending hit a 10-year hustler in June.

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