The Evil Within Sets Record For First-Month Survival Horror Sales For New I.P.

The Evil Within set a new record for highest first-month sales for a new I.P. survival horror game, the NPD Group said in a report this afternoon. The game launched on October 14th in the U.S., and had 22 days of sales recorded by the NPD Group tracker. It landed at the #3 spot for the top-10 sales chart for October, below NBA 2K15 and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.

Unfortunately, Bethesda have not announced sales figures for The Evil Within, so one can only guess as to how much the game actually sold.

Meanwhile, the new set of consoles still appears to be performing rather well. NPD analyst Liam Callahan reports that the first 12 month sales for the Xbox One and PS4 are currently 70% higher than the combined first-year totals of Xbox 360 and PS3. Furthermore, hardware sales of eighth generation consoles accounted for nearly 80% of dollar sales during October.

In terms of console sales, Sony reported that the PlayStation 4 was, once again, the best-selling console for the month of October.

The top-10 best-sellers in the U.S. during the month of October were as follows:

 Tracking period: October 5th – November 1st, 2014

Something that bears mentioning is that, while it doesn’t appear in the top-10 chart you see above, Microsoft’s Sunset Overdrive for Xbox One was the ninth best-selling game for the month, when sorting the list by SKU rather than title.