NBA 2K27 at No. 1 in U.S. August 2026 sales chart, Madden NFL 27 at No. 2

• Madden NFL 27 follows at No. 2, while Madden NFL 27: Kickoff Bundle is listed at No. 4 in the same ranking.
• According to the supplied article, half of August 2026’s top 10 consisted of new releases.

What happened

Gamespot summarizes Circana’s monthly report for August 2026 and places NBA 2K27 at the top of the U.S. sales chart. Madden NFL 27 is listed at No. 2, with Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls at No. 3 and Madden NFL 27: Kickoff Bundle at No. 4. The ranking summarized in the article also lists Star Wars Zero Company at No. 5, Halo: Campaign Evolved at No. 6, Elden Ring at No. 7, Big Walk at No. 8, Mario Kart World at No. 9 and Splatoon Raiders at No. 10.

The article says five of the 10 best-selling games in August 2026 were new releases. That means the story is not just about NBA 2K27 taking the top spot, but also about a top 10 where several new titles arrived high on the chart right away. The ranking includes sports, action, racing and platform games, showing a broad spread across genres and publishers.

Alongside the monthly chart, the piece also mentions U.S. year-to-date sales for 2026. In that list, NBA 2K27 is said to have climbed to No. 3, ahead of Crimson Desert. The text also names Resident Evil Requiem, 007 First Light and MLB The Show 26 as titles appearing in that year-to-date list, but the supplied material does not include a full table of positions. As a result, only the article’s mention of those games in the 2026 year-to-date context can be confirmed here, not the complete ranking.

The summary is based on a Gamespot article that cites Circana as the source for the sales data. The original Circana report was not included, so the exact figures, any sales gaps between positions and the full year-to-date ranking cannot be independently verified from the supplied material. The core takeaway remains that NBA 2K27 leads the U.S. August chart in this summary, with Madden NFL 27 and the Kickoff Bundle also placing high in the top 10.

Background

The supplied source cites Circana as the sales-data provider, but the original report itself is not included. That means the exact figures and the full year-to-date ranking remain dependent on the article’s summary. It is also not visible how large the gaps were between positions, or which exact sales window within August 2026 was used.

The title NBA 2K27 is not independently confirmed in the supplied material as the final release name. Based on this source, it can only be said that the article uses that name for the game that topped the U.S. sales chart in August 2026. The same caution applies to the year-to-date mention: the article places NBA 2K27 at No. 3 and Crimson Desert behind it, but the underlying table is missing.

The source also names several other titles relevant to U.S. sales rankings in 2026, including Madden NFL 27, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, Star Wars Zero Company, Halo: Campaign Evolved, Elden Ring, Big Walk, Mario Kart World and Splatoon Raiders. In the year-to-date context, Resident Evil Requiem, 007 First Light and MLB The Show 26 are also mentioned. Because the original Circana data is not included, these references should be read as part of the article’s summary rather than as a fully verifiable dataset.