A well-known market researcher predicted after E3 2019 what he believes will be the Top 10 video games in 2019. He refers to the best-selling titles in the USA. Among the Top 5 are video games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Borderlands 3, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. What will be the new top games of 2019 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One?
Who makes these predictions? The video game oracle is Mat Piscatella. He is an industry analyst for the “NPD Group,” a large US market research institute. The NPD figures are considered a kind of chart.
So what he says has substance and is based on years of market observation and experience. However, Piscatella cannot see into the future. He says: “What would the video game industry be without surprises?”
US Bestselling List for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch
What are his top games? They are defined as the “bestsellers” in the USA, regarding retail and digital sales, although Piscatella excludes the digital numbers for PC for many titles.
He is now giving his estimate in June 2019 of what the NPD Group will release as the bestsellers list at the end of the year:
- 1 Call of Duty Modern Warfare, the shooter from Activision Blizzard
- 2 NBA 2K20, basketball simulation from Take2
- 3 Madden NFL 20, football simulation from Electronic Arts
- 4 Borderlands 3 – loot shooter from Take 2
- 5 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order – action-adventure from Electronic Arts
- 6 Mortal Kombat 11 – beat’em up from Warner Bros.
- 7 Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint – online shooter from Ubisoft
- 8 Death Stranding – action game from Sony
- 9 Kingdom Hearts III – action RPG from Square Enix
- 10 Super Mario Maker 2 – level editor/jump’n run from Nintendo
This is notable from a German perspective: The global list of bestsellers will likely differ in some points from the US list. NBA 2K20 and Madden NFL20 are clear games for the US market and play a significantly smaller role in Europe.
In Europe and other parts of the world, FIFA 20 holds a similarly high status as Madden and NBA in the USA.
The list by Piscatella revolves around “units sold,” while many online games rely on microtransactions to generate their revenues.
