Battlefield 6 outsold Name of Obligation for the primary time ever final 12 months within the US, in line with knowledge from market analysis agency Circana.
The Digital Arts shooter was the best-selling sport of 2025 throughout Circana’s tracked platforms, rating first on Xbox and aggregated PC storefronts, and second on PlayStation, behind solely NBA 2K26.
The newest Name of Obligation entry, Black Ops 7, positioned fifth, behind Battlefield, NBA 2K26, Borderlands 4, and Monster Hunter: Wilds.
It’s price noting that Black Ops 7 was launched in Xbox Sport Cross, whereas Battlefield was not, and the EA title additionally launched round six weeks earlier.
Nonetheless, it’s an enormous turnaround for Battlefield, which has by no means outsold Name of Obligation over a calendar 12 months. Black Ops 7’s fifth place is the bottom a Name of Obligation sport has positioned in practically 20 years, when Name of Obligation: World at Warfare was sixth in 2008, throughout the Wii phenomenon.
Within the years since then, CoD has often been the best-selling sport within the US, inserting solely behind Rockstar titles like GTA and Purple Useless Redemption 2 and, most lately, Hogwarts Legacy in 2023.
On PlayStation platforms, Name of Obligation: Black Ops 7 positioned fourth, behind NBA 2K26, Battlefield 6, and Ghost of Yotei.
The rival shooter franchises had polarising years in 2025. After a rethought growth and years of manufacturing, Battlefield 6 loved the largest launch within the historical past of the sequence, in line with EA, with greater than 7 million copies in its first three days.
As compared, Name of Obligation: Black Ops 7’s launch gross sales have been down greater than 60% in some markets in comparison with the sequence’ earlier instalment. Black Ops 7 launched with elevated competitors from Battlefield and blended opinions from critics.
2024’s Name of Obligation, Black Ops 6, was the primary to launch day-and-date on Xbox Sport Cross. Though early outcomes have been optimistic, with Microsoft declaring it the largest CoD launch ever by way of gamers, the sport noticed a sharper post-launch decline than normal.
Talking to VGC final 12 months, former Name of Obligation director, Glen Schofield, mentioned he was ‘immensely fearful’ about the way forward for the franchise below Microsoft, and questioned whether or not the Xbox maker’s tradition will probably be suitable with the groups behind the FPS over the long run.
