Call of Duty was the US’s best-selling video game for the 16th year running

G7 Magazine Staff24 January، 2025

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Call of Duty was the US’s best-selling video game for the 16th year running

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the best-selling video game in the US final year, marking the sequence’ 16th successive annual no 1.

According to new knowledge revealed by Circana for December 2024 and the whole year, Black Ops 6 was the best-selling game in the US in phrases of greenback gross sales.

As such, in keeping with Circana, “Call of Duty remains the best-selling video game franchise in US full game dollar sales for a record 16th consecutive year”.

Last month, following the launch of its November 2024 knowledge, Circana declared that EA Sports College Football 25 had turn into the best-selling sports activities game ever in the US.

This nonetheless wasn’t sufficient to dethrone Call of Duty over the course of the whole year, nevertheless, that means EA‘s game had to settle for second place.

Elsewhere in Circana’s knowledge, US spending on video video games was down 1.1% in 2024 in comparison with 2023.

This was primarily because of a 25% drop in spending on video game {hardware}, as a result of gross sales in content material (software program, DLC and subscriptions) and equipment have been up 2% and 6% respectively.

“No question video game hardware had a rough one,” Circana govt director Mat Piscatella wrote on BlueSky. “But it was expected with Switch being in market for so long and both PS5/XBS past their selling peaks.

“Total 2024 hardware spend of $4.9B is still significantly higher than the $3.9B seen in 2019. Shrug.”

The high 10 best-selling video games in the US in 2024 are as follows (based mostly on bodily gross sales in addition to gross sales on Nintendo eShop, Steam and the Xbox and PlayStation digital shops):