The NPD Group has released its US sales results for August 2020, which once again saw year-over-year growth and a number of Mut 21 coins new games hitting the top ten in sales figures. Overall consumer spending August 2020 hit $3.3 billion, representing a 37% year-over-year growth. Digital content, mobile spending, and subscription services had the largest growth. That attracted year-to-date consumer spending around $29.4 billion, which is 23% higher than the same time period in 2019.

Hardware spending was up 37% year-over-year, whilst game content (like DLC and subscriptions) was up 37%, and accessories were up 42 percent.

Nintendo Alter put a new US August hardware sales record. That beat out the previous record set in 2008 from Nintendo Wii. NPD says that Switch unit sales more than doubled over precisely the same period this past year. That strength was revealed in applications sales too, as nine of the top 20 are Shift exclusives, and that's without counting digital sales for Switch matches.

The top-selling match in August was buy Madden 21 coins, also this year's entry in the annual football franchise is already #6 in the year-to-date graphs. Its powerful performance is no surprise, however, as NPD notes this is the 21st year in a row that a Madden NFL game has been the best-seller in its own launch month.