{"id":1937,"date":"2022-06-07T15:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/07\/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-holds-the-top-spot-for-mays-charts\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:14:59","slug":"lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-holds-the-top-spot-for-mays-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/07\/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-holds-the-top-spot-for-mays-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Holds The Top Spot For May&#8217;s Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s been a quiet one, folks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May was a quiet month for the video game industry. With no major game releases (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nintendo_switch_sports\">Nintendo Switch Sports<\/a> just got ahead on April 29th &#8211; yeah, we thought that was a May title, too!), overall sales were down by 22%. In terms of hard figures, 100,000 games consoles were sold, 1.63 million games (both digital and physical), and 460,000 accessories.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to April, which saw the release of the aforementioned Nintendo Switch Sports and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/lego_star_wars_the_skywalker_saga\">LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga<\/a>, sales were down by 32%. LEGO Star Wars remains at the top of the charts for month, however this too saw a massive drop in sales, falling 87% month-on-month. Additionally, although LEGO Star Wars took the overall number 1 spot, Nintendo Switch Sports saw the most physical sales during May and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_22\">FIFA 22<\/a> won out in terms of digital sales.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-holds-the-top-spot-for-mays-charts\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Holds The Top Spot For May&#8217;s Charts<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s been a quiet one, folks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May was a quiet month for the video game industry. With no major game releases (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nintendo_switch_sports\">Nintendo Switch Sports<\/a> just got ahead on April 29th &#8211; yeah, we thought that was a May title, too!), overall sales were down by 22%. In terms of hard figures, 100,000 games consoles were sold, 1.63 million games (both digital and physical), and 460,000 accessories.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to April, which saw the release of the aforementioned Nintendo Switch Sports and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/lego_star_wars_the_skywalker_saga\">LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga<\/a>, sales were down by 32%. LEGO Star Wars remains at the top of the charts for month, however this too saw a massive drop in sales, falling 87% month-on-month. Additionally, although LEGO Star Wars took the overall number 1 spot, Nintendo Switch Sports saw the most physical sales during May and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_22\">FIFA 22<\/a> won out in terms of digital sales.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-holds-the-top-spot-for-mays-charts\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}