As is tradition here at Thinknum Alternative Data, we have rounded up the best-selling video games for the month of October 2019 from Amazon ($AMZN) and GameStop ($GME) into handy dandy lists. This includes games from Nintendo ($TYO:7974), Sony ($SNE), and literally one from Microsoft ($MSFT). Yeah, the Xbox One is not doing too hot on physical media sales but is killing it on digital and with Games Pass, so shout out to them for future-proofing their brand.

Nintendo comes out the big winner for the month, as a mix of new exclusive games and older classics like Smash Bros. and Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart helped to dominate the Amazon list. If you combine the two different SKUs for Call of Duty, technically it becomes the best selling game of the month, but it's nice to know people like me still love the Luigi's Mansion games.

Name Category Rank (Avg) Platform Luigi's Mansion 3 7.1 Nintendo Switch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Standard Edition) 7.8 Microsoft Xbox One Pokemon Sword 8.9 Nintendo Switch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Standard Edition) 10 Sony PS4 Pokemon Shield 12 Nintendo Switch Pokemon Sword and Shield Double Pack 13.8 Nintendo Switch Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening 14.1 Nintendo Switch Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 14.4 Nintendo Switch Ring Fit Adventure 15.7 Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 16.4 Nintendo Switch Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 18.8 Nintendo Switch Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 25.6 Nintendo Switch The Amazon best-sellers list we have here is based on sales-rank data reported by Amazon every day throughout the month of October 2019. It includes the top-100 selling items in each Amazon category. In this case, we looked just at the Amazon "Video Games" category, averaged each product's sales rank for the month, and then weighted based on the number of days each product remained a best-seller in the month. So a few things to take away from the Gamestop best-sellers. There were not a lot of games, but a metric TON of shirts, toys, dolls, bundles, controllers, gift cards, consoles, and other things. The Switch Lite was a monster, as was special collector's editions of games. There were also not a lot of Xbox representation in the top 100, which is more in line with how the consoles are selling relative to these month-long lists. Name Category Rank (Avg) Platform PlayStation 4 (1TB) Pro Death Stranding Edition 13 Sony PS4 The Last of Us Part II Collector's Edition 17.3 Sony PS4 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare C.O.D.E Edition 30 Sony PS4 Pokemon Sword and Shield Double Pack 37.9 Nintendo Switch Luigi's Mansion 3 62.4 Nintendo Switch Pokemon Sword 76.6 Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 86.6 Nintendo Switch MLB 20 The Show 15th Anniversary Edition 90.8 Sony PS4 Madden NFL 20 91.4 Sony PS4

Both the Amazon and Gamestop lists have been heavily edited to remove duplicate listings, A TON of gift cards, toys, controllers, screen protectors, and other non-gaming related items. The gift cards alone were the top seven, so we'll skip them for now. The above lists represent only items that ranked every day in the month of October in order to correct for items that may have spiked in sales rank due to a flash sale.

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