Elden Ring Was June 2022's Best-Selling Game In The US

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The NPD Group has released its latest monthly sales report, revealing which games and consoles sold the best during June 2022, and once again, Elden Ring was a standout.

Elden Ring was June 2022's best-selling game, and it continues to be the highest-selling title of 2022 so far. Additionally, after just five months on the market, Elden Ring is already inside the top 10 best-selling premium games in US history for dollar sales, NPD said. Again, this is not units sold, but dollars driven. The research company did not share the full top 10 list, so it's unclear where Elden Ring ranks.

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Following the publication of this story, the NPD Group issued a retraction for the section of its note pertaining to Elden Ring being among the top 10 best-selling premium games in the US all-time. This may not be true, and NPD apologized for the mistake. «This is based on an incomplete data set,» NPD said.

NPD's Mat Piscatella issued a statement on Twitter regarding the change. You can read the statement below.

A mea culpa. Because the ranked charts do not include the full history for all titles and all platforms — across both physical and digital sales — this note was worded too definitively for what is an incomplete comparable universe. I apologize for the lack of clarity in the note. pic.twitter.com/NuSbSmPEam

Elden Ring has been the best-selling game in terms of dollar sales in the US every month since launch in February except for April, which is when Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker