There's Good News And Bad News About Video Game Sales In September 2026 - 麻将胡了在线试玩

Circana senior director and gaming research head Mat Piscatella shared his latest monthly breakdown of U.S. sales data this morning over on Bluesky. “U.S. video game projected total spending across content, hardware and accessories fell 1 percent in September when compared to a year ago, to $4.8 billion,” he wrote. “Year-to-date spending is now 3 percent behind 2025’s pace, at $41.0 billion.” [...] © Marvel / Kotaku

Last month kicked off the big annual torrent of autumn game releases and Circana has finally shared its latest sales data and estimates for September 2026. What did we learn? Games are up. Hardware is down. Wolverine took home the gold. Xbox sales continue to decline. [...] Less heartening is the news around console sales. Once again, Sony excelled. “PlayStation 5 unit sales increased by 22 percent year-on-year, with Switch 2 unit sales falling 14 percent and Xbox Series dropping 27 percent,” Piscatella wrote. PS5 is presumably up thanks to the bump from Grand Theft Auto 6‘s Netflix reveal the month prior. Switch 2 sales are seemingly down amid the latest price hike, though that might reverse as we get closer to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time‘s release in