2025 U.S. Video Sport Chart Rubber-Stamps Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 Gross sales Battle

Battlefield 6 ended 2025 because the best-selling recreation within the U.S., beating its first-person shooter rival Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7, which ended down in fifth place. Black Ops 6, which additionally launched day one on Sport Go, was 2024’s primary best-selling recreation within the U.S.

In line with gross sales information from Circana, EA’s Battlefield 6 completed as 2025’s best-selling online game in tracked full recreation greenback gross sales. Battlefield 6 ranked first on each Xbox and the aggregated PC storefronts for the 12 months whereas putting second on PlayStation behind solely NBA 2K26.

Battlefield 6 had a large launch in October 2025, breaking franchise data by promoting over 7 million copies in its first three days and turning into the best-selling recreation of 2025 by income. This launch, coupled with the discharge of the massively in style extraction shooter, Arc Raiders, put huge strain on Black Ops 7, which has disenchanted in gross sales phrases. Certainly, Black Ops 7’s fifth place end is the bottom for a mainline Name of Responsibility recreation since Name of Responsibility: World at Struggle ended up at quantity six in 2008.

There are, nonetheless, plenty of elements we should always consider when analyzing Black Ops 7’s efficiency. The primary is that Microsoft, which owns Activision Blizzard, has but to announce any gross sales quantity for the sport, within the U.S. or globally, so we’re missing that essential information level.

We do know that Black Ops 7 (November 14) launched after Battlefield 6 (October 10), so had fewer days to depend gross sales for the 12 months. After which there’s the Sport Go issue. As a Microsoft recreation, Black Ops 7 launched day one on Sport Go, the place it has trended excessive when it comes to engagement since launch. It’s thought that Name of Responsibility’s day one launch on Microsoft’s subscription service impacts gross sales, in any case on Xbox consoles, and maybe additionally on PC.

And Black Ops 7 completed the 12 months comparatively robust. It was December’s best-selling recreation throughout bodily and tracked digital spending, Circana mentioned. 2025 marked the seventh consecutive 12 months a Name of Responsibility recreation has been December’s greatest vendor, with Tremendous Smash Bros. Final topping the chart in December 2018.

However there may be no doubting Black Ops 7’s gross sales battle in comparison with 2024’s Black Ops 6, a undeniable fact that’s mirrored in the whole lot from European gross sales figures to Activision’s personal admissions. Following the discharge of Black Ops 7, Activision introduced important adjustments to the Name of Responsibility franchise, together with promising by no means to launch again to again video games in the identical sub-brand (Trendy Warfare, Black Ops). Activision launched Trendy Warfare 2 in 2022, Trendy Warfare 3 in 2023, Black Ops 6 in 2024, and Black Ops 7 in 2025.

After which, earlier this month, former Activision boss Bobby Kotick claimed Name of Responsibility gross sales had been down 60% year-on-year — though he offered no proof to again up his declare and neither Microsoft nor Activision Blizzard have commented in response.

As for Battlefield 6, it is had struggles of its personal since its explosive launch, with Season 2 delayed and an obvious lack of second on Steam.

No matter your tackle the Name of Responsibility vs Battlefield gross sales conflict, Epic’s Fortnite led the 12 months in whole lively customers throughout each PlayStation and Xbox platforms, in keeping with Circana’s Participant

Engagement Tracker, with over half of all lively customers of the 2 ecosystems participating with Fortnite a minimum of as soon as.

Roblox was 2025’s main writer in digital at retail spending (together with present playing cards, code on receipts, and so forth.) for each December and the 2025 12 months. Digital at retail spending on Roblox throughout 2025 elevated by 16% in comparison with 2024.

Activision is predicted to unveil this 12 months’s Name of Responsibility recreation in the summertime. Not like final 12 months, it can have the behemoth that’s GTA 6 to cope with.

Wesley is Director, Information at IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You possibly can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.