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“The market desperately needs new releases“, confirms Mat Piscatella of the NPD, which takes care of compiling the results of traditional games each month in an ecosystem increasingly blurred by subscriptions and free-to-play. And with regard to the month of May , only Evil Dead: The Game came to save the honor by placing in the top 5. Saber Interactive’s game is quite simply the only new release recorded last month in the entire top 50. Symbol of this gloom and lack of of competition, games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim reappear in this not very fresh top 20.
For the rest, Elden Ring took the opportunity to regain the lead in the rankings at the expense of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. Author of a very solid second month, Nintendo Switch Sports completes the podium in a ranking where Nintendo exclusives but also PlayStation do well. In addition to MLB The Show 22, Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7 are still in place, unlike Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, which was present last month but which is plunging back here at the same time as PS5 stocks.
Because if we look at the good side of things, it was probably not necessary to release lots of big games with so few new consoles on the shelves. No worries for the Switch, once again the best-selling console in volume and value for the month of May. The problem once again comes from the lack of next-gen consoles, in particular the PS5 which plunges back immediately after its successful month of April. It is therefore the Xbox Series which regains its second place in May, both in volume and in value. Among the three manufacturers, the Microsoft console is also the only one to sell better in 2022 than in 2021 for the moment.
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