Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 was the best-selling online game within the US final 12 months, marking the collection’ sixteenth successive annual #1.
In response to new information printed by Circana for December 2024 and your entire 12 months, Black Ops 6 was the best-selling recreation within the US when it comes to greenback gross sales.
As such, in line with Circana, “Name of Responsibility stays the best-selling online game franchise in US full recreation greenback gross sales for a report sixteenth consecutive 12 months”.
Final month, following the discharge of its November 2024 information, Circana declared that EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 had grow to be the best-selling sports activities recreation ever within the US.
This nonetheless wasn’t sufficient to dethrone Name of Responsibility over the course of your entire 12 months, nonetheless, that means EA‘s recreation needed to accept second place.
Elsewhere in Circana’s information, US spending on video video games was down 1.1% in 2024 in comparison with 2023.
This was primarily on account of a 25% drop in spending on online 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 query online game {hardware} had a tough one,” Circana govt director Mat Piscatella wrote on BlueSky. “Nevertheless it was anticipated with Change being in marketplace for so lengthy and each PS5/XBS previous their promoting peaks.
“Whole 2024 {hardware} spend of $4.9B continues to be considerably larger than the $3.9B seen in 2019. Shrug.”
The highest 10 best-selling video games within the US in 2024 are as follows (primarily based on bodily gross sales in addition to gross sales on Nintendo eShop, Steam and the Xbox and PlayStation digital shops):
US High 10 Finest-Promoting Video games 2024
- Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 (Microsoft)
- EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 (EA)
- Helldivers II (Sony)
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Bandai Namco)
- NBA 2K25 (Take-Two)
- Madden NFL 25 (EA)
- Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 3 (2025) (Microsoft)
- EA Sports activities FC 25 (EA)
- Elden Ring (Bandai Namco)
- EA Sports activities MVP Bundle (EA)
