Call of Obligation: Black Ops 6 is the finest promoting recreation of each December 2024 and the full 12 months 2024 in the U.S., returning to the No.1 spot after Hogwarts Legacy took the crown in 2023.
That is in response to Circana information and evaluation by Mat Piscatella shared with IGN. The annual Call of Obligation launch traditionally is sort of at all times the No.1. best-selling recreation in the U.S. annually by greenback gross sales going again to 2008, with just a few exceptions. Each Grand Theft Auto V and Pink Lifeless Redemption II beat it out in their respective launch years, and in 2023, Hogwarts Legacy took the crown. Call 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, Call of Obligation was additionally as soon as once more the best-selling franchise in the U.S. for a document 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 high 20 for 2024, although that is probably 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 in their rankings. That stated, on the Nintendo Change console, Tremendous Mario Celebration 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.
Most of the rankings for the month of December had been releases from earlier in the 12 months and even prior years, given a low quantity of new releases. Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle was the solely 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 high video games in 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 Sequence by MAUs.
For the full 12 months, content material spending in the U.S. elevated by 2% to $50.6 billion, the second highest complete for content material spending in U.S. historical past, behind 2021’s $52 billion. There was an 11% drop in console content material spending, nevertheless it 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 as the best-selling console of each the month and the 12 months. Change was second place for the 12 months in unit gross sales, whereas Xbox Sequence completed second in greenback gross sales. Digital editions made up 45% of PS5s bought in the U.S. throughout 2024, and 44% of Xbox Sequence.
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 Sequence and Change each dropped by 38%.
For the full 12 months, total spending on video games was down 1.1% to $58.7 billion. For December, complete spending dropped 8.9% 12 months over 12 months to $7.5 billion.
The highest 20 best-selling video games in the U.S. for the month of December, based mostly on greenback gross sales:
- Call of Obligation: Black Ops 6
- Madden NFL 25
- EA Sports activities School Soccer 25
- EA Sports activities FC 25
- Tremendous Mario Celebration Jamboree*
- Sonic X Shadow Generations
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Astro Bot
- Minecraft*
- NBA 2K25*
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- Elden Ring
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle
- Helldivers II
- Mario Kart 8
- Mario & Luigi: Brothership*
- God of Conflict: Ragnarok
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge*
- Simply Dance 2025 Version
The highest 20 best-selling video games in the U.S. for the full 12 months 2024, based mostly on greenback gross sales:
- Call of Obligation: Black Ops 6
- EA Sports activities School Soccer 25
- Helldivers II
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- NBA 2K25*
- Madden NFL 25
- Call of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare III (2023)
- EA Sports activities FC 25
- Elden Ring
- EA Sports activities MVP Bundle
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Dragon’s Dogma II
- WWE 2K24*
- MLB: The Present 24*
- Grand Theft Auto V*
- Minecraft*
- Remaining Fantasy VII: Rebirth
- Tekken 8
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- 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. Yow will discover her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Received a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
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