October 2017 NPD Thread! Switch #1

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shikamaru317 said:

I'm surprised to see how well Shadow of Mordor did. Guess the lootbox controversy and fake charity controversy didn't hurt it much at all.

The stand-out losers of the month to me are Wolfenstein 2 and Evil Within 2, neither made the top 10 on their debut month. That's not so bad for Wolfenstein 2 since it only had a few days of sales (though AC released the same day and managed #2) but it is pretty bad for Evil Within 2 which had 2 weeks of sales on the month. They don't include digital, but even with digital included I doubt either would have made it higher than #7. 

Yeah, The Evil Within 2 looks to have been a commercial disappointment. I wonder if Bethesda is satisfied with sales for either of the 2 games.