The NPD Group has released its projections for the best-selling games of 2019, and the predicted top-seller should be no surprise. NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella said he expects Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to be the best-selling game of 2019 in the US.

　　If that happens, it would mark the 9th time in 11 years that a Call of Duty game was the year's top-seller. The only two times in the past 11 years that a Call of Duty game was not No. 1 for the year in the US was 2013 when it was Grand Theft Auto V and 2018 when it was Red Dead Redemption 2.

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　　The NPD report goes on to predict that NBA 2K20 will be No. 2 in 2019, improving the franchise's No. 3 place from 2018. Madden NFL 20 will finish as the No. 3 best-seller for 2019, according to Piscatella. Borderlands 3 and Mortal Kombat 11 will round out the top five, according to the prediction.

　　The full Top 10 list of predictions for 2019 best-sellers can be seen below.

　　In terms of consoles, Piscatella says he thinks the Nintendo Switch will end 2019 as the year's best-selling console. The Switch was the first half of 2019's best-selling console. Not only that, but it's the only system in the US that's growing in sales year over year. With the recent launch of the Switch Lite and the forthcoming release of Pokemon Sword and Shield, the Switch is expected to reach the highest annual unit sales number in the US since the Xbox 360 in 2011.

　　Across games and consoles, total spending on video games in the US for 2019 is expected to reach $44.6 billion in 2019; that would be up modestly from $42.2 billion in 2018.

2019 Best-Selling Video Game Predictions (US Only)