Wolverine Tops U.S. September Sales, Sony's Best First Month Since Helldivers 2
A $70 PS5-only title landing Sony's biggest first-month dollar haul since a $40 simultaneous PS5 and PC release points to price and install base doing the work, while the rest of the hardware market slides.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Circana's September 2026 U.S. chart puts Marvel's Wolverine first, and analyst Mat Piscatella says it posted the highest first-month dollar sales for a Sony-published title since Helldivers 2 in February 2024. Ampere data puts global September copies at about 2.16 million, second among PS5 titles behind EA Sports FC 27. PS5 dollar sales rose 43 percent year on year; Xbox Series X|S fell 27 percent and Switch 2 fell 14 percent.
Eight of September's top ten were new releases, an unusual concentration that pushed NBA 2K27 to second despite the game taking the 2026 year-to-date lead from Resident Evil: Requiem. Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Wardogs, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Halloween: The Game, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve and Madden NFL 27 fill out the rest. Piscatella noted that Madden NFL 27 is tracked across three separate entries (the base game, the EA Sports Kickoff Bundle and the EA Sports MVP Bundle), and because bundle spending is not split out, it misses the annual top ten.
- Marvel's Wolverine: first place in September
- NBA 2K27: second; now leads 2026 year-to-date
- EA Sports FC 27: third
- Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
- The Blood of Dawnwalker
- Wardogs
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword
- Halloween: The Game
- Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve
- Madden NFL 27: tracked across three separate entries
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.