Marvel’s Spider-Man sees jump in sales in August 2022 NPD

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This August saw a familiar face web-zip his way up the NPD rankings. Following a PC port of Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man, the game shot up to third in the month’s best-selling titles.

As NPD’s Mat Piscatella notes, Marvel’s Spider-Man made the leap from 84th in July to 3rd in August. Concurrently, Spider-Man was the best seller of the month across all tracked Steam titles.

US NPD PREMIUM GAMES – Marvel's Spider-Man jumped to 3rd on the best-selling titles chart for August – up from 84th in July. Marvel's Spider-Man was the month's best seller across tracked Steam titles.

— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) September 20, 2022

Insomniac’s web-crawler hit the PlayStation in 2018, but the remastered version made the jump to PC on August 12. And it seems like that jump was very successful, both critically and in sales.

While it doesn’t have the Miles Morales content yet, the combination of high-end PC features and the potential portability (it is Steam Deck Verified) seems to have worked out well.

US NPD PREMIUM GAMES – August 2022 Top 20 Sellers pic.twitter.com/0vnu2fiONS

— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) September 20, 2022

Madden NFL 23 came in at the top selling spot, which is not a huge surprise as Madden is a consistent top-seller for its launch month. The new Saints Row took the second place in NPD’s top sellers.

Other notables include Horizon Forbidden West, back on the top 20 with a price promotion likely helping out, and Soul Hackers 2 debuting at the 15th spot. The PS5 leads the month’s console sales, and is the top for the year in dollar sales. The Switch still leads in unit sales for the year, though.

This is another solid PC port debut for Sony, following off others like God of War (2018) earlier this year. The