2025 U.S. Video Game Chart Rubber-Stamps Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Sales Struggle

Battlefield 6 ended 2025 arsenic the best-selling crippled successful the U.S., beating its first-person shooter rival Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which ended down successful 5th place. Black Ops 6, which besides launched time 1 connected Game Pass, was 2024’s fig 1 best-selling crippled successful the U.S.

According to income information from Circana, EA’s Battlefield 6 finished arsenic 2025’s best-selling video crippled successful tracked afloat crippled dollar sales. Battlefield 6 ranked archetypal connected some Xbox and the aggregated PC storefronts for the twelvemonth portion placing 2nd connected PlayStation down lone NBA 2K26.

Battlefield 6 had a monolithic motorboat successful October 2025, breaking franchise records by selling implicit 7 cardinal copies successful its archetypal 3 days and becoming the best-selling crippled of 2025 by revenue. This launch, coupled with the merchandise of the hugely fashionable extraction shooter, Arc Raiders, enactment tremendous unit connected Black Ops 7, which has disappointed successful income terms. Indeed, Black Ops 7’s 5th spot decorativeness is the lowest for a mainline Call of Duty crippled since Call of Duty: World astatine War ended up astatine fig six successful 2008.

There are, however, a fig of factors we should instrumentality into information erstwhile analyzing Black Ops 7’s performance. The fig 1 is that Microsoft, which owns Activision Blizzard, has yet to denote immoderate income fig for the game, successful the U.S. oregon globally, truthful we’re lacking that important information point.

We bash cognize that Black Ops 7 (November 14) launched aft Battlefield 6 (October 10), truthful had less days to number income for the year. And past there’s the Game Pass factor. As a Microsoft game, Black Ops 7 launched time 1 connected Game Pass, wherever it has trended precocious successful presumption of engagement since release. It is thought that Call of Duty’s time 1 merchandise connected Microsoft’s subscription work impacts sales, astatine the slightest connected Xbox consoles, and possibly besides connected PC.

And Black Ops 7 finished the twelvemonth comparatively strong. It was December’s best-selling crippled crossed carnal and tracked integer spending, Circana said. 2025 marked the seventh consecutive twelvemonth a Call of Duty crippled has been December’s champion seller, with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate topping the illustration successful December 2018.

But determination tin beryllium nary doubting Black Ops 7’s income conflict compared to 2024’s Black Ops 6, a information that's reflected successful everything from European income figures to Activision's ain admissions. Following the merchandise of Black Ops 7, Activision announced important changes to the Call of Duty franchise, including promising ne'er to merchandise backmost to backmost games successful the aforesaid sub-brand (Modern Warfare, Black Ops). Activision released Modern Warfare 2 successful 2022, Modern Warfare 3 successful 2023, Black Ops 6 successful 2024, and Black Ops 7 successful 2025.

And then, earlier this month, erstwhile Activision brag Bobby Kotick claimed Call of Duty income were down 60% year-on-year — though helium provided nary grounds to backmost up his assertion and neither Microsoft nor Activision Blizzard person commented successful response.

As for Battlefield 6, it's had struggles of its ain since its explosive launch, with Season 2 delayed and an evident nonaccomplishment of infinitesimal connected Steam.

Whatever your instrumentality connected the Call of Duty vs Battlefield income war, Epic’s Fortnite led the twelvemonth successful full progressive users crossed some PlayStation and Xbox platforms, according to Circana’s Player

Engagement Tracker, with implicit fractional of each progressive users of the 2 ecosystems engaging with Fortnite astatine slightest once.

Roblox was 2025’s starring steadfast successful integer astatine retail spending (including acquisition cards, codification connected receipts, etc.) for some December and the 2025 year. Digital astatine retail spending connected Roblox during 2025 accrued by 16% compared to 2024.

Activision is expected to unveil this year’s Call of Duty crippled successful the summer. Unlike past year, it volition person the behemoth that is GTA 6 to contend with.

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