Battlefield 6 ended 2025 because the best-selling recreation within the U.S., beating its first-person shooter rival Call of Responsibility: Black Ops 7, which ended down in fifth place. Black Ops 6, which additionally launched day one on Game Go, was 2024’s primary best-selling recreation within the U.S.
Based on gross sales information from Circana, EA’s Battlefield 6 completed as 2025’s best-selling online game in tracked full recreation greenback gross sales. Battlefield 6 ranked first on each Xbox and the aggregated PC storefronts for the yr whereas putting second on PlayStation behind solely NBA 2K26.
Battlefield 6 had a large launch in October 2025, breaking franchise information by promoting over 7 million copies in its first three days and changing into the best-selling recreation of 2025 by income. This launch, coupled with the discharge of the massively well-liked extraction shooter, Arc Raiders, put huge stress on Black Ops 7, which has disillusioned in gross sales phrases. Certainly, Black Ops 7’s fifth place end is the bottom for a mainline Call of Responsibility recreation since Call of Responsibility: World at Battle ended up at quantity six in 2008.
There are, nonetheless, a quantity of components we should always take into accounts when analyzing Black Ops 7’s efficiency. The primary is that Microsoft, which owns Activision Blizzard, has but to announce any gross sales quantity for the sport, within the U.S. or globally, so we’re missing that vital information level.
We do know that Black Ops 7 (November 14) launched after Battlefield 6 (October 10), so had fewer days to rely gross sales for the yr. After which there’s the Game Go issue. As a Microsoft recreation, Black Ops 7 launched day one on Game Go, the place it has trended excessive in phrases of engagement since launch. It’s thought that Call of Responsibility’s day one launch on Microsoft’s subscription service impacts gross sales, at least on Xbox consoles, and maybe additionally on PC.
And Black Ops 7 completed the yr comparatively robust. It was December’s best-selling recreation throughout bodily and tracked digital spending, Circana stated. 2025 marked the seventh consecutive yr a Call of Responsibility recreation has been December’s greatest vendor, with Tremendous Smash Bros. Final topping the chart in December 2018.
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However there will be no doubting Black Ops 7’s gross sales wrestle in comparison with 2024’s Black Ops 6, a indisputable fact that’s mirrored in all the things from European gross sales figures to Activision’s personal admissions. Following the discharge of Black Ops 7, Activision introduced vital modifications to the Call of Responsibility franchise, together with promising by no means to launch again to again video games in the identical sub-brand (Trendy Warfare, Black Ops). Activision launched Trendy Warfare 2 in 2022, Trendy Warfare 3 in 2023, Black Ops 6 in 2024, and Black Ops 7 in 2025.
After which, earlier this month, former Activision boss Bobby Kotick claimed Call of Responsibility gross sales have been down 60% year-on-year — though he offered no proof to again up his declare and neither Microsoft nor Activision Blizzard have commented in response.
As for Battlefield 6, it is had struggles of its personal since its explosive launch, with Season 2 delayed and an obvious loss of second on Steam.
No matter your tackle the Call of Responsibility vs Battlefield gross sales battle, Epic’s Fortnite led the yr in complete lively customers throughout each PlayStation and Xbox platforms, based on Circana’s Participant
Engagement Tracker, with over half of all lively customers of the 2 ecosystems participating with Fortnite no less than as soon as.
Roblox was 2025’s main writer in digital at retail spending (together with reward playing cards, code on receipts, and many others.) for each December and the 2025 yr. Digital at retail spending on Roblox throughout 2025 elevated by 16% in comparison with 2024.
Activision is predicted to unveil this yr’s Call of Responsibility recreation in the summertime. In contrast to final yr, it is going to have the behemoth that’s GTA 6 to deal with.
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