Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 Is the Greatest-Promoting Recreation of 2025 within the U.S.

Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 is the very best promoting recreation of each December 2024 and the total 12 months 2024 within the U.S., returning to the No.1 spot after Hogwarts Legacy took the crown in 2023.

That is based on Circana information and evaluation by Mat Piscatella shared with IGN. The annual Name of Obligation launch traditionally is sort of at all times the No.1. best-selling recreation within the U.S. every year by greenback gross sales going again to 2008, with just a few exceptions. Each Grand Theft Auto V and Purple Useless Redemption II beat it out of their respective launch years, and in 2023, Hogwarts Legacy took the crown. Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 was again on high this 12 months, although it is doable that victory is short-lived given Grand Theft Auto VI’s anticipated launch late this 12 months.

This 12 months, Name of Obligation was additionally as soon as once more the best-selling franchise within the U.S. for a report sixteenth 12 months in a row.

EA Sports activities School Soccer 25, the No.2 best-selling recreation of 2024 and the No.3 best-selling recreation of December, was additionally the best-selling sports activities recreation in U.S. historical past.

Not a single Nintendo recreation cracked the highest 20 for 2024, although that is presumably as a result of Nintendo doesn’t share digital gross sales information with Circana, that means all Nintendo first-party video games on this record are solely together with bodily gross sales of their rankings. That mentioned, on the Nintendo Swap console, Tremendous Mario Occasion Jamboree was the best-selling recreation of the 12 months, adopted by Mario Kart 8 at No. 2 and Mario & Luigi: Brothership at No.3.

Many of the rankings for the month of December have been releases from earlier within the 12 months and even prior years, given a low variety of new releases. Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle was the one new launch rating in December, at No.14. As a result of Circana tracks in greenback gross sales, we do not see new releases Marvel Rivals (free-to-play) or Path of Exile 2 ($30, versus $60) on the top-selling video games record. Nevertheless, each ranked on Circana’s monitoring of the highest video games within the U.S. by Steam MAUs (No.1 and No.3 for December, respectively) and Marvel Rivals was additionally No.3 on PS5 and Xbox Collection by MAUs.

For the total 12 months, content material spending within the U.S. elevated by 2% to $50.6 billion, the second highest whole for content material spending in U.S. historical past, behind 2021’s $52 billion. There was an 11% drop in console content material spending, but it surely was balanced out by progress in all different content material areas. For December by itself, online game content material spending was down 5% 12 months over 12 months to $5.8 billion. There was a 21% drop in console content material spending in December, however PC content material spending grew 13%.

{Hardware} spending for 2024 dropped 25% from 2023 to $4.9 billion, with PS5 because the best-selling console of each the month and the 12 months. Swap was second place for the 12 months in unit gross sales, whereas Xbox Collection completed second in greenback gross sales. Digital editions made up 45% of PS5s offered within the U.S. throughout 2024, and 44% of Xbox Collection.

For the month of December alone, {hardware} spending was down 29% from 2023 to $1.1 billion in December. All three console makers noticed the drop: PS5 {hardware} spending dropped 18%, and Xbox Collection and Swap each dropped by 38%.

For the total 12 months, total spending on video games was down 1.1% to $58.7 billion. For December, whole spending dropped 8.9% 12 months over 12 months to $7.5 billion.

The highest 20 best-selling video games within the U.S. for the month of December, based mostly on greenback gross sales:

1. Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6
2. Madden NFL 25
3. EA Sports activities School Soccer 25
4. EA Sports activities FC 25
5. Tremendous Mario Occasion Jamboree*
6. Sonic X Shadow Generations
7. Hogwarts Legacy
8. Astro Bot
9. Minecraft*
10. NBA 2K25*
11. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
12. Elden Ring
13. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
14. Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle
15. Helldivers II
16. Mario Kart 8
17. Mario & Luigi: Brothership*
18. God of Warfare: Ragnarok
19. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge*
20. Simply Dance 2025 Version

The highest 20 best-selling video games within the U.S. for the total 12 months 2024, based mostly on greenback gross sales:

1. Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6
2. EA Sports activities School Soccer 25
3. Helldivers II
4. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
5. NBA 2K25*
6. Madden NFL 25
7. Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare III (2023)
8. EA Sports activities FC 25
9. Elden Ring
10. EA Sports activities MVP Bundle
11. Hogwarts Legacy
12. Dragon’s Dogma II
13. WWE 2K24*
14. MLB: The Present 24*
15. Grand Theft Auto V*
16. Minecraft*
17. Closing Fantasy VII: Rebirth
18. Tekken 8
19. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
20. NBA 2K24*

* Signifies that some or all digital gross sales usually are not included in Circana’s information. Some publishers, together with Nintendo and Take-Two, don’t share sure digital information for this report.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You’ll find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Received a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.