Nintendo Switch 2 Was the Best-Selling Console of 2025 in the U.S. and Is Still Outselling the Nintendo Switch

The Nintendo Switch 2 was the best-selling console of 2025 successful the U.S., some successful portion income and dollar sales, selling a full of 4.4 cardinal units successful the U.S, and continuing its streak of selling faster than the archetypal Nintendo Switch implicit the aforesaid period.

This comes from Circana's full-year reporting connected the U.S. games marketplace courtesy of expert Mat Piscatella, and shouldn't travel arsenic a daze to anyone. The Switch 2 has been astatine the apical consistently since it launched earlier successful the year, amid a play of diminution for the steadily aging PS5 and Xbox Series consoles.

Battlefield 6 was the best-selling crippled of past year, and the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller was the best-selling accessory.

Overall, the U.S. games marketplace reached $60.7 cardinal successful income for each of 2025, and $7.8 cardinal successful December alone. That's up 1% and 3% year-over-year, respectively.

In hardware, spending was up 9% year-over-year to $5.4 cardinal for the year, and up 6% year-over-year to $1.2 cardinal successful December. The Nintendo Switch 2, arsenic the best-selling console of the year, managed to merchantability 4.4 cardinal units, 94% higher than the archetypal Switch astatine the aforesaid magnitude of clip aft its ain launch, and 35% up of the PlayStation 4. It besides continues its reign arsenic the fastest-selling video crippled console hardware platform, with Piscatella pointing retired connected Bluesky that the Game lad Advance remains the fastest-selling hardware level wide aft 7 months connected sale.

Over successful software, December spending was up 3% to $5.9 billion, with subscription services seeing the biggest summation of 24% year-over-year. Overall full-year spending was lone up 1% year-over-year, with subscription spending expanding 20% offsetting declines successful everything other but mobile spending.

While Battlefield 6 was the best-selling crippled of the full year, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 took the crown successful December, contempt its precense connected Game Pass making its interaction connected Xbox overmuch harder to tally. Fortnite saw the highest full progressive users crossed PlayStation and Xbox successful 2025 of immoderate game, with implicit fractional of each progressive users connected the 2 platforms playing Fortnite astatine slightest once.

As for different games, the apical 5 sellers for the afloat twelvemonth should daze nary 1 who's been watching the numbers each month: aft Battlefield 6 was NBA 2K26, Borderlands 4, Monster Hunter: Wilds, and Call of Duty Black Ops 7, again noting that Call of Duty was a Game Pass Day 1 title. The remainder of the database was populated by a bid of expected sellers, with immoderate standouts specified arsenic The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered coming successful astatine No.9, Elden Ring: Nightreign astatine No.14, Pokemon Legends: Z-A astatine No.17 (though Nintendo doesn't study integer sales, truthful it's imaginable this would person been higher), and Split Fiction astatine No.19. Grand Theft Auto V clocked successful astatine No.20 arsenic players await the merchandise of Grand Theft Auto VI, astir apt this year.

And finally, conscionable looking astatine December, standout games including Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which launched into No.7 wide for the month, and Flight Simulator 2024, which released connected PlayStation successful December and changeable from No.114 successful November to No.16 past month. Over connected PC for December, some Elden Ring and Elden Ring: Nightreign saw jumps apt owed to the caller Nightreign DLC.

December 2025 U.S. Top 20 Best-Selling Games:

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
2. NBA 2K26
3. Battlefield 6
4. Madden NFL 26
5. EA Sports FC 26
6. Pokemon Legends: Z-A*
7. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (NEW)*
8. Minecraft*
9. Donkey Kong Bananza*
10. Ghost of Yotei
11. EA Sports College Football 26
12. Grand Theft Auto V
13. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
14. Forza Horizon 5
15. Red Dead Redemption II
16. Flight Simulator 2024
17. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
18. Kirby Air Riders*
19. Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2*
20. Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Full Year 2025 U.S. Top 20 Best-Selling Games:

1. Battlefield 6
2. NBA 2K26
3. Borderlands 4
4. Monster Hunter: Wilds
5. Call of Duty Black Ops 7
6. Madden NFL 26
7. EA Sports College Football 26
8. EA Sports FC 26
9. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered
10. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
11. Ghost of Yotei
12. MLB: The Show 25*
13. Minecraft*
14. Elden Ring: Nightreign
15. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
16. Forza Horizon 5
17. Pokemon Legends: Z-A*
18. WWE 2K25
19. Split Fiction
20. Grand Theft Auto V

* Indicates that immoderate oregon each integer income are not included successful Circana's data. Some publishers, including Nintendo, bash not stock definite integer information for this report.

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