Marvel’s Wolverine Tops US September Charts and Achieves Highest Monthly Sales for a Sony-Published Title Since Helldivers 2

Marvel’s Wolverine dominated US game sales in September, achieving the highest monthly sales for a Sony-published title since Helldivers 2.

Sony continued its hardware momentum, with the PlayStation 5 leading in unit and dollar sales, according to Circana data.

PS5 spending increased 43% year-over-year and unit sales increased 22%, resulting in Sony’s highest monthly hardware share since May 2025.

Overall hardware spending increased 12% to $362 million in September, offsetting lower dollar sales of the Nintendo Switch 2 (down 12%) and Xbox Series X|S (down 2%).

Unit sales of Xbox Series Sales of Switch 2 units were down 14%.

Total content spending fell 2% to $4.2 billion in September, led by a 14% decline in mobile. Console spending increased by 8% and PC spending by 27%.

Eight new games debuted on the US charts in September. Marvel’s Wolverine moved NBA 2K27 to #2 and surpassed EA Sports FC 27.

Despite its decline, NBA 2K27 has surpassed Resident Evil Requiem to become the best-selling game of 2026 so far.

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave and Blood of the Dawnwalker round out the Top 5. Other new releases for September include Wardogs, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Halloween: The Game and Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve.

Projected overall spending on content, hardware and accessories decreased 1% in September to $4.8 billion.

Here are the top 10 best-selling games projected for the period August 30 to October 3, 2026, data provided by Circana:

^ Includes actual digital point-of-sale data, * Includes digital sales projections