The August NPD report is in, and Madden NFL 19 has taken the top spot on the US sales charts, with Monster Hunter: World making a return at number two.

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The report, with analysis from Mat Piscatella, notes that Madden has been the best-selling game in August every year since 2000 - with the notable exceptions of 2011 and 2012, though those only missed being the best-selling games in August because they happened to launch in the September tracking period. The report notes that it has achieved the highest launch sales in the Madden series since Madden NFL 2013.Monster Hunter: World returned to the number two spot after launching in January, largely due to its PC version releasing on August 9. Grand Theft Auto V has made the fourth spot, making it the fifty-ninth month that the title has been in the charts. Originally released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2013, GTA5 is the best-selling game in NPD’s tracking history.Interestingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (which originally released in 2009) has returned to the list at the eighth spot, attributable to the game becoming backward compatible on the Xbox One . In July it was in the three hundred and twenty-first spot. With this, the original Call of Duty is the only mainline game in the series that can’t be played on the Xbox One family of systems.Octopath Traveler and four other Switch exclusives dominated the July 2018 sales charts , and three of those exclusives have remained in the August charts: Mario Kart 8, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey.Year-to-date, the PlayStation 4 is the best-selling console hardware platform in the US, though the neon red/blue Joy Con Nintendo Switch is the single best-selling hardware item, both in units sold and dollar sales. Sales for “Plug N Play” consoles like the NES and SNES Classic Editions have grown by over 400 percent from this point last year, and are attributed for driving growth in hardware sales in the industry.The industry as a whole is doing well, as hardware, software and accessory spending is up 26 percent year-to-date.Here are the top ten best-selling games for August 2018:In our review of Madden NFL 19, we called the game “Great” saying, "With Real Player Motion delivering a fluid on-the-field experience, and Franchise mode customization offering another level of realism, Madden is in a great place."In our review of the PC release of Monster Hunter: World, we called the game “Amazing” saying, "If it’s the first time you’ve gotten a chance to see what Monster Hunter is all about, this is as good a starting point as you’re likely to get."

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