The NPD Group has released its US console sales statistics for June and sees the newly released PlayStation 5 game “Ratchet & amp; Clank: Rift Apart “at the top of best-selling games, with the Xbox Series X/S having the most sales and the Switch having the most sold copies.
The launch of Ratchet & amp; Clank: Rift Apart was the series' most successful sales start in terms of sales – to which an increased digital retail price of 80 euros could have contributed. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War came in second, ahead of Mario Golf: Super Rush, which was released in June. If you break down the sales on the individual platforms, the Xbox Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is ahead of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Resident Evil: Village. At Nintendo, on the other hand, it's Mario Golf: Super Rush before Mario Kart 8 and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. On the PlayStation, follow Ratchet & amp; Clank: Rift Apart, on the other hand, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and MLB: The Show 21.
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Sales statistics of console games for June 2021 (Image: NPD Group)
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Sales statistics for June 2021 for the Xbox 
Sales statistics for June 2021 for the PlayStation Console market also grows in the 2nd year of the pandemic
The entire console market continued to grow compared to the previous year, despite the enormously high sales in 2020 due to the pandemic, and increased by another 5 percent to around $ 4.5 billion. So far, the year 2021 with a total of around 24 billion US dollars in sales is 17 percent ahead of the previous year.
Xbox for sales, Switch for sales front
Hardware grew by 112 percent compared to June 2020, with $ 410 million spent on consoles in June 2021 – that's how much there was for console hardware in June most recently in 2008. In the first half of the year, hardware sales are 45 percent above the first half of 2020. The Microsoft Xbox Series X/S is the console that achieved the highest sales in June of this year and a new record for the Xbox -Mark achieved – the previous record came from June 2011. However, the Switch is still the most frequently sold console, which also applies to the entire first half of 2021. Calculated over the last six months, it also generated the most sales. The PlayStation 5 remains the fastest-selling console in the US, even if it was not the leader in terms of numbers or sales in June.