August NPD sales are in and the industry sales figures don’t look good and retail spending is down for the 9th consecutive month. Total retail spending is down to $515.6 million down 20% year-on-year. Software sales are down 9% to 237.7 million while hardware is down a massive 39% to $150.6 million.
Winners of the month included THQ’s Darksiders 2 (Xbox360, PS3 and PC) selling 247k units, Nintendo‘s New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS) selling 240k units and Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts 3D (3DS) which sold “well beyond 200,000.”
List of Top 10 sellers in August is below:
Darksiders 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS)
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream, Drop Distance (3DS)
NCAA Football 13 (PS3, Xbox 360)
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (3DS, DS, PC, PS3, Vita, Wii, Xbox 360)
Sleeping Dogs (PS3, Xbox 360)
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (PS3, Xbox 360)
Batman: Arkham City (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360)
The Amazing Spider-Man (3DS, DS, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360)
Hopefully sales will improve when giants like Assassin’s Creed 3 and Black Ops 2 hit stores later this year.