THREAD - We reach a record hardware sales milestone, while Red Dead Redemption 2 claims the title as November's best-seller... Here's the thread with all the U.S. Video Game October 2018 market results from The NPD Group! 
US NPD VG - November 2018 tracked spending across video game Hardware, Software, Accessories & Game Cards totaled $2.7B, flat vs YA. Gains in Hardware, Accessories and Game Card spending were offset by a decline in Software due to the shift of the launch of Call of Duty to Oct.
US NPD VG - YTD spending across video game Hardware, Software, Accessories and Game Cards has grown 16 percent when compared to YA, to $13.2B. This is the highest year-to-date total spend achieved since the $13.9B achieved between January and November 2010.
November's Top 20 Best-Selling Titles
PS4's Top 10 Best-Sellers of November
Xbox One's Top 10 Best-Sellers of November
Nintendo Platforms Top 10 Best-Sellers of November
The All Platforms Charts
US NPD SW - Dollar sales of Console, Portable and PC Games Software totaled $1 billion in November 2018, declining 15 percent when compared to a year ago. The shift in launch timing for Call of Duty from November to October is the driver of the change.
US NPD SW - YTD dollar sales of Console, Portable and PC Games Software exceeded $5.8B, a 9% increase over the same time period last year. This is the highest year-to-date total for Software spending since the $7B achieved in the YTD 2011 comparable period.
US NPD SW - Red Dead Redemption 2 is the best-selling game of November 2018 and is the 2nd best-selling game YTD. With two months in market, sales of Red Dead Redemption 2 now exceed the lifetime sales of Red Dead Redemption, by nearly 40 percent.
US NPD SW - Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII is the second best-selling game of November, and remains the best-selling game year to date. Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII is the second fastest selling game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in history, trailing only 2017's Call of Duty: WWII.
US NPD SW - 2018 represents the fifth consecutive year, and ninth time in the last 10 years, that a title from the Call of Duty franchise has been the best-selling game over the January through November time period.
US NPD SW - Fallout 76 is the 4th best-selling game of November, despite digital not being reported for Bethesda Softworks published titles. Fallout 76 physical sales achieved the 3rd highest launch month sales in franchise history, trailing only Fallout 4 and Fallout New Vegas.
US NPD SW - Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu and Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee are the #5 and #6 best-selling games of November. Launch month sales of Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu are the 2nd highest in franchise history, trailing only 2000's Pokemon Stadium.
US NPD SW - Spyro Reignited Trilogy is the #9 best-selling game of November. The launch month dollar sales of Spyro Reignited Trilogy are more than 30 percent higher than the combined launch month sales of all other Spyro games in history (excluding Skylanders).
US NPD SW - God of War returns to the monthly top 20 best-sellers list for the first time since August, ranking as the #16 best-selling game of November. It is currently the #7 best-selling game year-to-date.
US NPD HW - Hardware spending in November 2018 grew 3 percent when compared to a year ago, to $3.9 billion. Significant growth in Nintendo Switch spending offset declines in spending experienced across all other platforms.
US NPD HW - For the 2018 year-to-date period, hardware spending has increased 14 percent, to $3.9 billion. Spending gains for Xbox One, Switch, PlayStation 4 and Plug N Play devices such as the NES Classic Edition and SNES Classic Edition have driven growth.
US NPD HW - For the first time in history, three Console platforms achieved more than 1m units sold in a November, as Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One each generated over 1.3m units sold.
US NPD HW - Nintendo Switch was the leading hardware platform of November 2018 in dollar sales. The PlayStation 4 remains the leader in hardware platform dollar sales year to date.
US NPD ACC & GC - Total spending on Accessories and Game Cards grew 35 percent in November 2018 when compared to a year ago, to an all-time high of $503 million.
US NPD ACC & GC - Year to date, Accessories and Game Card spending has grown 35 percent when compared to a year ago, to $3.5 billion. This is also an all-time high.
Join me as we look at December, and total 2018, results from The NPD Group on January 22nd!
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