https://wccftech.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-cyberpunk-2077-npd-january-2021/

The NPD Group has released their full North American sales data for January 2021, and the industry is getting the year off to a hot start. Numbers were up significantly year-on-year with players spending $4.7 billion on games, additional content, and hardware. That’s up 44 percent compared to January 2020. Looking at hardware, Nintendo and Sony were neck-and-neck – the Switch sold the most units, but PS5 was top in terms of revenue generated. Ultimately, this was the biggest January for hardware sales since the Wii heyday of 2009 and 2010.

On the software front, the charts are largely dominated by 2020’s biggest games, including Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The top story is Cyberpunk 2077, which plunges all the way to #18 following the game’s troubled December release. The other big story is Hitman 3, which launched on January 20, but missed the charts altogether. NPD did not get digital sales from IO Interactive, so that partly explains the absence, but even without them, Hitman 3 should have been able to crack the top 20. Nevertheless, IO Interactive has said Hitman 3 is already profitable, so perhaps an unusual percentage of the game’s sales were digital or the game is simply doing better in Europe and other regions outside of North America.