MultiVersus Was July’s Best-Selling Game In The US, Thanks To Its Founder’s Pack

MultiVersus was the best-selling game in the U.S. last month, despite being a free-to-play title, due to its premium Founder’s Pack. 

The Founder’s Packs for MultiVersus came in three forms: a $39.99 standard edition, a $59.99 Deluxe edition, and a $99.99 Premium edition. This pack could be used to give players character tokens which allowed them instant fighter unlocks. It also included exclusive banners and Gleamium, an in-game currency. According to NPD’s latest numbers, MultiVersus was the top-selling U.S. title in July. 

Mat Piscatella (executive director, The NPD Group), a group that analyzes trends and sells video games, has released his monthly threadThe video game market in July 2022, as compared to the previous month. We now know which 10 games were the most popular in America last month. (Digital sales excluded) 

1. MultiVersus
2. Elden Ring
3. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
4. Xenoblade Chronicles 3
5. Vanguard: Call of Duty
6. The Show 22
7. Mario Kart 8
8. Digimon Survive
9. Minecraft
10. F1 22

The full list of 20 games can be viewed here. 

For each platform, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was best-selling Switch title, Elden Ring best-selling PlayStation 2 game, MultiVersus best-selling Xbox One game, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 best-selling Switch video game. You can check out the top 10 for each platform in Piscatella’s thread. 

Piscatella mentions that both the July 2022 NPD thread and the PlayStation 5 topped the market for hardware spending in July and 2022 year to date, however, the Switch was most popular in both periods. Both the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 sales experienced double-digit percentage increases compared with a year earlier. This is likely because of increased supplies to satisfy ever-growing demands for these consoles. The overall video game hardware dollar sales increased 12% to $362 million compared to last year, however, year-to date spending on hardware has fallen 7% to $2.5 billion. 

Spending on videogame accessories is at a 22% decline compared with July 2021 and $148 million. The year-to date accessory spend is also down 15% at $1.2 million. Midnight Black DualSense was July’s top-selling accessory. Year-to-date, the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller has been the most popular accessory. 

For more about July 2022 video game sales, be sure to check out Piscatella’s entire thread here.