October was an unbelievable debut month for Battlefield 6: it is formally the best-selling title in franchise historical past in the U.S., and the best-selling recreation in the U.S. as of final month.
This comes from Circana’s month-to-month report, which states that Battlefield 6 is the best-selling recreation of 2025 on each Xbox and PC, and the second best-selling on PlayStation up to now, behind NBA 2K26. It additionally says that Battlefield produced the highest single month tracked full recreation greenback gross sales whole of any online game in three years. Which means it offered greater than the previous few Name of Responsibility video games did in their debut months, together with Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare II in October of 2022. Is that this troubling information for Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 when the November report comes out? We’ll see.
Battlefield 6 is adopted by Pokemon Legends: Z-A, which is the second best-selling recreation of October and, per Circana, the best-selling bodily recreation year-to-date. Notably, as a result of Nintendo doesn’t share digital gross sales information, its second-place spot is totally primarily based on bodily gross sales.
Different debut video games for October included The Outer Worlds 2 at No.7, Little Nightmares III at No.8, and Ninja Gaiden 4 at No.11. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake did not make it to the high 20, but it surely was No.6 on Nintendo platforms for the month. There weren’t every other main outliers in the charts this time round.
{Hardware} spending was up 36% year-over-year to $351 million, with the Nintendo Change 2 offsetting declines in the different three main consoles: Nintendo Change (gross sales down 52% year-over-year, surprise why?), Xbox Sequence (down 37%), and PlayStation 5 (down 22%). The Nintendo Change 2 offered roughly 328,000 items in October, 68% forward of the authentic Nintendo Change’s tempo and three% forward of the PlayStation 4, which was the earlier record-holder.
Due to Battlefield, the Nintendo Change 2, and a very good month for cell, total recreation {hardware}, content material, and equipment spending was $4.9 billion for the month, up 3% year-over-year.
October 2025 U.S. High 20 Best-Promoting Video games:
- Battlefield 6 (NEW)
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A (NEW)*
- Ghost of Yotei
- NBA 2K26
- EA Sports activities FC 26
- Madden NFL 26
- The Outer Worlds 2 (NEW)
- Little Nightmares III (NEW)
- Digimon Story: Time Stranger
- Borderlands 4
- Ninja Gaiden 4 (NEW)
- EA Sports activities School Soccer 26
- Tremendous Mario Galaxy + Tremendous Mario Galaxy 2*
- Last Fantasy Techniques: The Ivalice Chronicles
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
- Silent Hill: f
- Minecraft*
- Helldivers II
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Pink Lifeless Redemption II
* Signifies that some or all digital gross sales will not be included in Circana’s information. Some publishers, together with Nintendo, don’t share sure digital information for this report.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Acquired a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.