Red Dead Redemption 2 was not the best-selling game in October

In your opinion, which game sold the most units in October? Hold your horses, partner. If you were going to say Red Dead Redemption 2then you would have everything wrong. It turns out that Activision Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII actually takes the crown for the October sales, although a few factors explain the reason.

On the basis of all the recent news, you would not be blamed for assuming that Rockstar's Western epic, Red Dead Redemption II, had won first place on the NPD charts for its launch month. After all, it was the biggest launch weekend in media history (take CELA, Avengers!), and managed a few days later to overtake the original Red Dead Redemption in sales for life. It's super impressive, but as Gameinformer reports, the game did not deserve the NDP's top spot.

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII also posted a strong performance, although Activision's investors were still not impressed. He set a sales record on day one at launch and managed to exceed $ 830 million over five days. Microtransactions have also been introduced in the game recently. Combined with continued sales and sales growth, the group will likely continue to record big numbers in the coming months.

As for how Call of Duty sold Red Dead Redemption in October, we must first keep in mind that the first was launched on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, while the second was launched on the game consoles. In other words, Call of Duty had an additional sales value of the platform sales. Most important, Call of Duty launched on October 12, two weeks before Red Dead arrived on October 26th. It is also worth noting that, launching on October 26, Red Dead Statistics for the month of October the NDP only included about a week of sales.

None of this removes Call of Duty, although. The game is obviously very good for itself. But if you were confused as to how he overcame Red Dead in sales last month, well, you must now take into account some additional factors.

In case you're curious, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey was the third best-selling game in October according to NPD, followed by NBA 2K19 and super Super Mario Party, which was only launched for the Switch. The remaining 10 places were filled respectively by Soulcalibur VI, FIFA 19, Marvel's Spider-Man, Madden NFL 19 and WWE 2K19.

Unexpected announcements on the list include Mario Kart 8 at age 15, who is almost two years old at this stage, as well as Super Mario Odyssey at 17 and Breath of nature 19 Again, these are Switch exclusives, which should let you know how well the latest Nintendo console is doing.

And in case you are wondering about Red Dead Redemption IIpower to stay, last game of Rockster, Grand Theft Auto Vhas been on the NDP map since it was launched about five years ago, and in October it was still there to hold 16th place.