November Videogame Sales: All Sequels Reporting For Duty

Long story short: North America saw lots of sequels released in November and they all sold better than their predecessors, according to the NPD Group. Let’s take these in order:

#1 – First month sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 bested last year’s Black Ops by about 7%.

#2 – In one month, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim sold 5x the amount Oblivion did in the same timeframe. In a month, the game was just half a million copies short of Oblivion’s lifetime sales.

#3 – Battlefield 3 is the best-selling game in the Battlefield series to date.

#9 – This isn’t from the NPD Group, but Nintendo of America reported that Skyward Sword is the fastest-selling Zelda game of all time. The game sold 600,000 copies in its first.

#10 – Following strong sales, Batman: Arkham City is just shy of Arkham Asylum’s lifetime sales.

Finally, while it isn’t on the list, Super Mario 3D Land is the fastest-selling portable Mario game ever. It sold 625,000 copies in November. It and Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary would have charted in the top-ten had the chart been broken up by sales on individual platforms.

Here’s the full top-10 chart for the month: