NPD's Most-Played Games List Of Q1 Doesn't Include Elden Ring
The top 10 most-played video games of Q1 2022 have been revealed, and 2022's best-selling game of the year so far in the US--Elden Ring--did not make it into the chart.
NPD analyst Mat Piscatella shared a list of the most-played games in the US for the January-March period, ranked by year of initial release, and sourced to the NPD's PlayerPulse survey. As you can see in the chart below, half of the games in the top 10 were not released this decade. As for Elden Ring, it ranked 20th overall for Q1 2022, outpaced by titles like Skyrim (released originally in 2011), the MMO World of Warcraft, and Rocket League.
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As for games that made it into the top 10, Minecraft, GTA V, The Sims 4, Fortnite, Among Us, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Call of Duty: Warzone, Call of Duty: Vanguard, Madden NFL 22, and NBA 2K22 all charted. Again, the graphic below is ranked by year of initial release, not overall popularity. And the games were decided by the percentage of panelists in the NPD's survey who played in the past month. The list does not include mobile games, which are more popular than console and PC games.
Despite Elden Ring not making it into the top 10 most-played games in the US for Q1 2022, it is not only 2022's best-selling game so far but the best-selling game of the past year, even topping Call of Duty: Vanguard.
Source: The NPD Group's PlayerPulse
*Percentage of Panelists Who Have Played in the Past Month
Piscatella shared this list and wider commentary in the wake of
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