These Are the Top 5 Best Selling Games on Amazon So Far This Year

Grand Theft Auto 6 and a slew of Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 games are dominating the best-seller charts astatine Amazon successful the U.S truthful acold this year.

The apical 5 best-selling games of the twelvemonth astatine the retail elephantine are listed arsenic GTA 6, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, Star Fox (2026), Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

Not acold down arsenic good are 007 First Light, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Pokémon Legends Z-A, Pokémon Pokopia, and Sonic X Shadow Generations.

So what's the deal? There's an casual mentation for astir of these apical sellers astatine Amazon, particularly if you're pursuing day-to-day discounts and deals. It's besides worthy noting that these are strictly the apical video games included successful the best-seller list, portion Amazon besides lumps successful thing other video crippled related to the chart, specified arsenic gaming acquisition cards, controllers, and accessories.

GTA 6 is the slightest astonishing summation to this list. Despite it being a download code-in-a-box, this is inactive going to beryllium the biggest crippled of the year, adjacent with the ongoing carnal vs integer play that Rockstar and, subsequently, PlayStation person precocious ignited.

Notably, the Amazon illustration shows the Xbox version, but earlier you get up of yourself, I'm reasonably definite Amazon's charts enactment disconnected information for some SKUs (Stock Keeping Unit), truthful this volition see orders for Xbox and PS5.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream's inclusion mightiness astonishment some, but the civ-sim has seen immoderate brainsick income figures successful the archetypal fractional of the year, starring Circana's US charts successful April, and generating implicit $41 cardinal successful combined carnal and projected integer sales. Even much interestingly, Living the Dream besides contributed to a 44% year-on-year summation successful user spending connected caller carnal bundle successful April 2026, reaching $96 million.

Star Fox's inclusion is apt a premix of it being a large Switch 2 exclusive, released successful the summer, reviewing well, and Amazon bestowing a $10 discount for anyone buying a carnal transcript successful the tally up to release. This purely terms matches the caller integer to carnal terms differential that Nintendo has implemented, but Amazon deciding to straight instrumentality this connected is seemingly prooving rather fruitful for the retail elephantine truthful far.

Finally, some Mario + Rabbids, and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's inclusions are seemingly the merchandise of caller merchantability events specified arsenic Amazon Prime Day than ran from June 23-26 this year. Mario + Rabbids fell arsenic debased arsenic $9.99, and became 1 of the champion selling games of the buying event.

Metroid Prime 4, connected the different hand, is really inactive discounted, successful fact, and down to $44.99 astatine Amazon astatine the clip of writing. Its Nintendo Switch mentation was besides discounted during Prime Day, down to $29.99, and is much than apt contributing to the precocious merchantability numbers arsenic well.

So What Does This Tell Us?

Over fractional mode done the year, and it does inactive look similar Nintendo is dominating the Amazon charts for video games. One of the biggest debates surrounding the Switch 2 has been whether the console has a beardown capable room of games to warrant the upgrade. Now, implicit a twelvemonth into the console’s beingness cycle, the 4 retired of 5 of the champion selling games connected Amazon are each Nintendo exclusives.

We don't person the afloat income information from Amazon's "Best Seller" chart, and doesn't instrumentality into relationship different U.S retailers similar Best Buy, Walmart, Target, and GameStop, alongside planetary integer storefronts.

But, it does overgarment a somewhat vague, but undeniably absorbing representation arsenic to what consumers are gravitating towards erstwhile it comes to buying games as, for the astir part, carnal purchases from places similar Amazon, 1 of the world's biggest online retailers.

As acold arsenic the console ongoing success, it's besides hardly surprising. Nintendo Switch 2 besides precocious ended its archetypal 12 months connected merchantability arsenic the 2nd fastest-selling hardware successful U.S. history. Fresh information from Circana revealed that the Switch 2 has a 5.9 cardinal U.S. instal basal aft a year, with lone the Game Boy Advance’s 6.5 cardinal units implicit its archetypal twelvemonth successful the marketplace exceeding it.

Nintendo has said Switch 2 is its fastest-selling hardware ever globally, contempt immoderate income struggles astatine the backmost extremity of 2025 successful occidental markets. Nintendo has besides said it volition summation the Switch 2's terms by $50, raising the console to $499.99 connected September 1 owed to ongoing marketplace conditions.

Yet, the gaming elephantine has precocious had an incredibly fashionable "Choose Your Game" bundle up connected retailers similar Amazon for $499, successful which buyers tin determine betwixt Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Pokémon Pokopia arsenic a escaped integer download included with their purchase. That's a $20-$30 redeeming close now, depending connected what crippled you choose, but up to $80 saved erstwhile the console terms summation is implemented aboriginal this year.