Elden Ring overtakes Call of Duty: Vanguard in sales

Video game Elden Ring is the best-selling game of the past 12 months in the US, according to analysts at the NPD Group. The game has sold more times than Call of Duty: Vanguard, which has been out for almost four months longer.

Elden Ring was released on February 25 and has been on the market for more than 3 months. Call of Duty: Vanguard was released on November 5 and has been available for just over 6 months. That Elden Ring has Call of Duty caught up when it comes to sales figures for the past twelve months, just happened, the NPD Group announces. The development is striking: normally the Call of Duty franchise always tops NPD’s game sales rankings.

The analyst group does not come up with concrete sales figures, but Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco does share them. The last interim score is that the game has sold 13.4 million times worldwide. Incidentally, before this Elden Ring was already the best-selling new game franchise of the past six years. There are no figures showing how well Call of Duty: Vanguard is performing, but publisher Activision left its investors to its investors in March. know that this title ‘didn’t live up to expectations’.

Further notables coming from the NPD Group are that Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was the best-selling game in the US for the month of April. The game also immediately holds the number two spot on the list of best-selling games in 2022 in the US so far. caught.

Finally, the Nintendo Switch has become the number four best-selling game console ever in the US; the game console has the PlayStation 4 caught up. In the US, the Switch is only behind the PlayStation 2, Xbox 360 and Wii.