Battlefield 6 Now 'Extremely Likely' to Beat Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 as the Best-selling Game of 2025 in the U.S.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launched past period to go the best-selling crippled of November successful the U.S. by dollar sales. It's some a immense income feat and a communal Call of Duty W, arsenic the franchise has topped the charts successful its motorboat period each twelvemonth for 18 consecutive years. However, it looks similar its rival Battlefield 6 volition reign astatine the apical of the U.S. income charts astatine year's end.

This comes from Circana's monthly report, which has Black Ops 7 debuting arsenic the best-selling crippled of November and the seventh best-selling crippled of the year-to-date, down Battlefield 6 astatine No.1, NBA 2K26 astatine No.2, Monster Hunter Wilds astatine No.3, Borderlands 4 astatine No.4, EA Sports College Football 26 astatine No.5, and Madden NFL 26 astatine No.6.

All of those games person a fewer much months connected the marketplace connected Call of Duty, but it's inactive a batch of crushed to marque up successful a azygous month, and Call of Duty's astatine a spot of a disadvantage. The crippled launched into Game Pass, meaning its existent dollar income connected Xbox consoles are overmuch little than that of its rivals arsenic radical usage the subscription work to entree it instead, and there's nary bully caller information connected however Call of Duty's beingness connected the work impacts subscriptions.

It is worthy noting, though, that Black Ops 7 doesn't look to beryllium doing arsenic good arsenic Black Ops 6, a information that's reflected successful everything from the captious reappraisal scores to instrumentality effect to European income figures to Activision's ain admissions. Circana reports that the Call of Duty franchise saw a double-digit dollar income diminution compared to November 2024, and Circana elder manager Mat Piscatella tells maine that November afloat crippled dollar income of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 finished beneath those of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 past November, with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launching successful the October 2024 tracking period.

It is Piscatella's projection that Battlefield 6 is "extremely likely" to decorativeness arsenic the best-selling crippled of 2025 successful the U.S. This would not beryllium the lone clip Call of Duty didn't apical the yearly charts successful caller memory. In 2023, Hogwarts Legacy defeated Modern Warfare 3, and that was with Modern Warfare 3 not launching into Game Pass. However, Black Ops 6 inactive dominated successful 2024, and anterior to that lone Rockstar's GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 had been capable to dethrone Call of Duty going each the mode backmost to 2008's Rockband.

Given each that, it's possibly unsurprising that Activision is considering important changes to however it plans and releases its Call of Duty franchises twelvemonth aft year. Then again, portion Battlefield 6 had an unthinkable launch, it precocious introduced an update that broke the crippled successful beauteous important ways crossed PC and consoles.

It was a weird November for all, I guess. Game income successful wide had a shockingly anemic November successful the U.S., arsenic we covered successful our larger roundup of Circana's numbers. You tin spot what's going connected and wherefore gaming hardware and carnal bundle conscionable had the worst November since 1995 close here.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].