Update: Game Informer have confirmed with NPD that Darksiders II at #1 sold 247,000 copies in the month of August. Meanwhile, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron at #7 sold  105,000 copies.
Not one, but two Nintendo 3DS games among the top-ten best-selling games in August? Yep. New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance were #2 and #3 respectively on the NPD Group’s U.S. software sales chart for last month.
Meanwhile, the #1 position was taken by Darksiders II, which launched simultaneously on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Also on the list was Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs, which came in at #6.
The top ten best-selling games in August were as follows:
| Rank | Title | System | Publisher |
| 01. | Darksiders II | PS3, 360, PC | THQ |
| 02. | New Super Mario Bros. 2 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 03. | Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance | 3DS | Square Enix |
| 04. | NCAA Football 13 | PS3, 360 | Electronic Arts |
| 05. | Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes | PS3, 360, 3DS, Wii, PC, PSV, DS | Warner Bros. |
| 06. | Sleeping Dogs | PS3, 360, PC | Square Enix |
| 07. | Transformers: Fall of Cybertron | PS3, 360 | Activision Blizzard |
| 08. | Batman: Arkham City | PS3, 360, PC | Warner Bros. |
| 09. | Call of Duty: Black Ops | PS3, 360, Wii, PC, DS | Activision Blizzard |
| 10. | The Amazing Spider-Man | PS3, 360, 3DS, Wii, DS | Activision Blizzard |
Software sales in August were down just 1% compared to August 2011, according to the NPD Group’s data.
NPD’s Anita Frazier chalks this up to a strong slate of titles as compared to the year prior. The reason that a decline happened at all is the result of a domino effect from previous months in 2012, where the selection of game releases has not been particularly strong, Frazier suggests.
Published: Sep 6, 2012 04:05 pm