Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Beat Every Other Game In The US Last Month
Overview & Key Takeaways
March 2026 was a great month for video game spending, and April didn't disappoint either. According to new data by Circana, US video game spending totaled $4.3 billion in April 2026--a growth of 3% when compared to a year ago--with Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream being the biggest winner of the month.
The best-selling game of April--and now the ninth-best-selling game of 2026--Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is estimated to have delivered over $41 million in sales across both physical and digital in the US. Thanks in part to Nintendo's new Switch 2 exclusive, consumer spending on new physical software grew to $96 million in April, a 44% increase when compared to a year ago. According to Nintendo's financial results, Tomodachi Life sold 3.8 million units in the first two weeks of its release.
Coming in hot in second place was Capcom's brand-new Pragmata, which was the best-selling game on PS5, the second-best-selling game on PC via aggregated storefronts, and the third-best-selling game on Xbox for April. Overall, it placed in the top 15 for the month on Switch 2. Crimson Desert continued to rake in sales and finished in third, while the early access launch of Windrose saw the game finish in fifth place.
March 2026 was a great month for video game spending, and April didn't disappoint either. According to new data by Circana, US video game spending totaled $4.3 billion in April 2026--a growth of 3% when compared to a year ago--with Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream being the biggest winner of the month.
The best-selling game of April--and now the ninth-best-selling game of 2026--Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is estimated to have delivered over $41 million in sales across both physical and digital in the US. Thanks in part to Nintendo's new Switch 2 exclusive, consumer spending on new physical software grew to $96 million in April, a 44% increase when compared to a year ago. According to Nintendo's financial results, Tomodachi Life sold 3.8 million units in the first two weeks of its release.
Coming in hot in second place was Capcom's brand-new Pragmata, which was the best-selling game on PS5, the second-best-selling game on PC via aggregated storefronts, and the third-best-selling game on Xbox for April. Overall, it placed in the top 15 for the month on Switch 2. Crimson Desert continued to rake in sales and finished in third, while the early access launch of Windrose saw the game finish in fifth place.
Likely buoyed by the success of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the classic Super Mario Galaxy games on Switch jumped several positions to finish in seventh place, and Starfield's launch on PS5 alongside new content drops saw it finish in eighth place. Housemarque's new release, Saros, took ninth place, although it's worth noting that it launched on the last day of April.
Top 10 Best-Selling Games In the US for April 2026
(Physical and full-game digital)
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
- Pragmata
- Crimson Desert
- MLB: The Show 26
- Windrose
- Pokemon Pokopia
- Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Starfield
- Saros
- Mario Kart World
Unsurprisingly, Circana's data has Resident Evil Requiem still holding onto the position of the best-selling game in the US for 2026. There have been a few changes to the top 10 list, as Tomodachi Life has entered the picture, NBA 2K26 continues to be a strong performer, and Arc Raiders has fallen to eighth place.
Top 10 Best-Selling Games In the US for 2026
(Physical and full-game digital)
- Resident Evil Requiem
- Crimson Desert
- MLB: The Show 26
- Pokemon: Pokopia
- WWE 2K26
- NBA 2K26
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
- Arc Raiders
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
- Minecraft
Circana's Senior Director, Mat Piscatella, revealed that hardware spending increased by 34% when compared to a year ago, to $261M. Nintendo's Switch 2 console was once again the best-selling hardware platform across both units and dollars for April, while the PS5 came in second. According to Piscatella, the PS5's lifetime installed base is now 2% ahead of the PS4 on a time-aligned basis. Spending on Nintendo hardware ended in April at its highest point since July 2025, and spending finished the month at $3.8 billion, a growth of 2% when compared to a year ago.
