{"id":410243,"date":"2025-11-02T14:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/switch-was-the-best-selling-console-of-october-in-us-metroid-dread-sets-new-franchise-record\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:26:52","slug":"switch-was-the-best-selling-console-of-october-in-us-metroid-dread-sets-new-franchise-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/switch-was-the-best-selling-console-of-october-in-us-metroid-dread-sets-new-franchise-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Was The Best-Selling Console Of October In US, Metroid: Dread Sets New Franchise Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/switch-was-the-best-selling-console-of-october-in-us-metroid-dread-sets-new-franchise-record.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Nintendo had a really great October if U.S. sales numbers are anything to go off of.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatPiscatella\/status\/1459158089324646403?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The NPD Group released its monthly update today<\/a>, and it revealed that the Switch was the best-selling console for October in the U.S., both in units and dollars. That\u2019s likely due to excitement around the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/2021\/10\/06\/switch-oled-review-playing-with-portable-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new OLED model of the console released last month<\/a> and the launch of new first-party games such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/mario-party-superstars\/mario-party-superstars-review-reliable-party-tricks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Party Superstars<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/metroid-dread\/metroid-dread-review-astro-dreadnought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metroid: Dread<\/a>. Speaking of Dread, it had a great October as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS NPD SW \u2013 Metroid: Dread debuted as October\u2019s #3 best-selling game, while also ranking 1st on Switch,\u201d NPD\u2019s Mat Piscatella writes in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatPiscatella\/status\/1459158310972649472?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a>. \u201cMetroid: Dread achieved the highest launch month sales of any Metroid franchise release in tracked history.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tw-align-center twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">US NPD SW &#8211; Metroid: Dread debuted as October&#8217;s #3 best-selling game, while also ranking 1st on Switch. Metroid: Dread achieved the highest launch month sales of any Metroid franchise release in tracked history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatPiscatella\/status\/1459158310972649472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dread\u2019s physical dollar sales also \u201cnearly doubled those of the previous franchise best, Metroid: Prime,\u201d according to Piscatella. Congrats, Metroid fans \u2013 you did it. Now let\u2019s hope Nintendo sees this as a sign to keep the Metroid games coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in today\u2019s NPD report, the Switch leads consoles in units sold for 2021, but the PlayStation 5 remains the best-selling hardware platform for 2021 in terms of year-to-date dollars. This makes sense considering the PS5 costs a minimum of $400 (for the digital edition), whereas the most expensive Switch \u2013 the OLED model \u2013 goes for $350.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In terms of games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/far-cry-6\/far-cry-6-review-the-spark-that-ignites-the-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Far Cry 6<\/a> debuted as October\u2019s best-selling game, and Piscatella writes on Twitter that it \u201cinstantly\u201d became the eighth best-selling game of the year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/back-4-blood\/back-4-blood-review-a-familiar-fright\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back 4 Blood<\/a> was behind it as the second best-selling game for October, and Dread came in third.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/11\/12\/switch-was-the-best-selling-console-of-october-in-us-metroid-dread-sets-new-franchise\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch embedded media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other new releases this month did well\u00a0too. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy\/marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy-review-enthralling-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eidos-Montreal\u2019s Guardians of the Galaxy<\/a> debuted as the seventh best-selling game in October, with less than a week on the October market. Nintendo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/mario-party-superstars\/mario-party-superstars-review-reliable-party-tricks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Party Superstars<\/a> debuted at number eight with even less time, having released just two days before October was over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite October\u2019s numbers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war\/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-review-mind-games-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War<\/a> remains the best-selling game of 2021 \u2013 it came in as the twelfth best-selling game in October. Following it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/madden-nfl-22\/madden-nfl-22-review-short-of-the-first-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madden NFL 22<\/a>, which was the fourth best-selling game of last month. Here\u2019s the entire top 10\u00a0best-selling games this year:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War<\/li>\n<li>Madden NFL 22<\/li>\n<li>MLB: The Show 21<\/li>\n<li>Resident Evil: Village<\/li>\n<li>Super Mario 3D World + Bowser\u2019s Fury<\/li>\n<li>Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man: Miles Morales<\/li>\n<li>Mario Kart 8<\/li>\n<li>Far Cry 6<\/li>\n<li>Minecraft<\/li>\n<li>Assassin\u2019s Creed Valhalla<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For more, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/metroid-dread\/metroid-dread-review-astro-dreadnought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game Informer\u2019s Metroid: Dread review<\/a> and then read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/far-cry-6\/far-cry-6-review-the-spark-that-ignites-the-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game Informer\u2019s Far Cry 6 review<\/a>. Be sure to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/2021\/10\/06\/switch-oled-review-playing-with-portable-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game Informer\u2019s Switch OLED review<\/a> after that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>What was your favorite game released in October? Let us know in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/11\/12\/switch-was-the-best-selling-console-of-october-in-us-metroid-dread-sets-new-franchise\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo had a really great October if U.S. sales numbers are anything to go off of.\u00a0 The NPD Group released its monthly update today, and it revealed that the Switch was the best-selling console for October in the U.S., both in units and dollars. That\u2019s likely due to excitement around the new OLED model of the console released last month and the launch of new first-party games such as Mario Party Superstars and Metroid: Dread. Speaking of Dread, it had a great October as well.\u00a0 \u201cUS NPD SW \u2013 Metroid: Dread debuted as October\u2019s #3 best-selling game, while also ranking 1st on Switch,\u201d NPD\u2019s Mat Piscatella writes in a tweet. \u201cMetroid: Dread achieved the highest launch month sales of any Metroid franchise release in tracked&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/switch-was-the-best-selling-console-of-october-in-us-metroid-dread-sets-new-franchise-record\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":410244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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