Star Wars: Battlefront 2, a sport that got here out in 2017, shot as much as grow to be the 12th best-selling sport in the U.S. by greenback gross sales for the month of May, possible due to renewed curiosity from followers of the TV collection Andor.
This knowledge comes from analytics agency Circana, which places Battlefront 2 at No. 12 for the month of May, up from No. 135 the month earlier than. Reputation of Battlefront 2 spiked in May due to Andor and different Andor-related Star Wars promotions, giving the sport the finest Steam participant rely it is seen in years, aided by Andor actor Ben Amor’s requires a Battlefront 3 on social media.
“The participant surge for Battlefront 2 began with Revenge of the Sith’s twentieth anniversary re-release again in early May, then actually picked up with Andor,” Circana analyst Mat Piscatella confirmed to IGN. “Gamers peaked in the week of May 25 after which began to fall again a bit. There was one other bump in mid- to late- June as the sport was put into varied gross sales and issues as properly however that is a narrative for 2 weeks from now.”
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Elden Ring: Nightreign, in the meantime, debuted at the high of the charts for May, and have become the eleventh best-selling sport of 2025 to this point, topping the PlayStation, Xbox, and PC storefronts. After we requested Piscatella for remark, he famous that Elden Ring: Nightreign and the unique Elden Ring weren’t actually comparable sales-wise, on account of being very totally different video games offered at very totally different costs. “That being stated, Nightreign launch unit gross sales didn’t attain the identical neighborhood as these of Elden Ring.”
It was adopted intently by debut sport Doom: The Darkish Ages at No. 2, which can be now the sixteenth best-selling sport of 2025. As with Nightreign, The Darkish Ages did not hit the gross sales heights of its predecessor, Doom: Everlasting, however based on Piscatella, “that is extra timing than something. Doom Everlasting launched in March 2020… and nothing goes to ever comp properly to any new sport that launched in March of 2020.”
New video games F1 25 and Capcom Combating Assortment 2 debuted at No. 15 and No. 19, respectively.
General, spending on online game content material was up 2% year-over-year to $3.7 billion, largely pushed by subscription spending on non-mobile platforms, based on evaluation by Circana.
{Hardware} spending dropped by 13% year-over-year in May, to $172 million, with Nintendo Change greenback gross sales dropping 44%, Xbox Sequence dropping 30%, and PlayStation rising 3%. The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling {hardware} in each unit gross sales and {dollars}. Subsequent month’s charts for June will present the impression of the Nintendo Change 2’s launch on this panorama.
General, online game spending was up 1% year-over-year to $4.1 billion.
May 2025 U.S. Prime 20 Best-Selling Video games:
- Elden Ring: Nightreign (NEW)
- Doom: The Darkish Ages (NEW)
- Forza Horizon 5
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered
- Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6
- MLB: The Present 25*
- Minecraft*
- Grand Theft Auto V
- NBA 2K25
- EA Sports activities FC 25
- Murderer’s Creed: Shadows
- Star Wars: Battlefront II
- Break up Fiction
- Purple Useless Redemption II
- F1 25 (NEW)
- Helldivers II
- The Final of Us: Half II
- WWE 2K25
- Capcom Combating Assortment 2 (NEW)
- PGA Tour 2K25
* Signifies that some or all digital gross sales will not be included in Circana’s knowledge. Some publishers, together with Nintendo, don’t share sure digital knowledge for this report.
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