With more than half of 2022 behind them, experts and analysts are starting to draw the first conclusions on what the definitive results of the videogame industry and its games will be at the end of the year. To throw himself into the forecasts is NPD Groupfocusing mainly on the American videogame market.
And NPD is sure of it: it will be concluded by 2022 Elden Ring the best-selling game of all in the US, doing better than even Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, which is scheduled for release on PC and PlayStation and Xbox consoles on October 28th. While it is true that there would be 8 months to separate the release of the two games (remember that the signed title From Software made its debut last February 25), it must be said that the brand of call of Duty it is very strong in the USA, always coming to dominate the annual sales charts despite the release generally fixed in the last months of each vintage.
For the latest effort of Hidetaka Miyazaki it would therefore be a further, important success in a territory where only on two occasions the COD series has not conquered the top of the podium: in 2013, beaten by GTA Vand in 2018, where it was overtaken by Red Dead Redemption II. Once 2022 is over, we will therefore find out if there will be a third exception. In any case, NPD expects to find other important titles such as God of War Ragnarok (we remember in this regard that the release date of God of War Ragnarok has been announced), Horizon Forbidden West, Gotham Knights and the games in the series Pokémon (Legends And Scarlet and Violet).
Keep in mind that Elden Ring sold over 13 million copies in the first month of marketing alone, and the numbers could have grown further in the following weeks, thus making the possibility that it could be number one on the stars and stripes very credible. Finally, among the other forecasts of NPD Nintendo Switch it will be the best-selling console in the US, while the overall expenditure in the gaming sector will come around 55.5 billion dollarsthus recording a decrease of 8.7% compared to 2021.
