The Nintendo Switch 2 was the best-selling console of 2025 in the U.S., each in unit gross sales and greenback gross sales, promoting a complete of 4.4 million items in the U.S, and persevering with its streak of promoting sooner than the unique Nintendo Switch over the identical interval.
This comes from Circana’s full-year reporting on the U.S. video games market courtesy of analyst Mat Piscatella, and should not come as a shock to anybody. The Switch 2 has been at the prime persistently because it launched earlier in the 12 months, amid a interval of decline for the steadily getting old PS5 and Xbox Sequence consoles.
Battlefield 6 was the best-selling recreation of final 12 months, and the Nintendo Switch 2 Professional Controller was the best-selling accent.
Total, the U.S. video games market reached $60.7 billion in gross sales for all of 2025, and $7.8 billion in December alone. That is up 1% and 3% year-over-year, respectively.
In {hardware}, spending was up 9% year-over-year to $5.4 billion for the 12 months, and up 6% year-over-year to $1.2 billion in December. The Nintendo Switch 2, as the best-selling console of the 12 months, managed to promote 4.4 million items, 94% greater than the unique Switch at the identical quantity of time after its personal launch, and 35% forward of the PlayStation 4. It additionally continues its reign as the fastest-selling online game console {hardware} platform, with Piscatella pointing out on Bluesky that the Recreation boy Advance stays the fastest-selling {hardware} platform total after seven months on sale.
Over in software program, December spending was up 3% to $5.9 billion, with subscription providers seeing the greatest improve of 24% year-over-year. Total full-year spending was solely up 1% year-over-year, with subscription spending rising 20% offsetting declines in every part else besides cellular spending.
Whereas Battlefield 6 was the best-selling recreation of the complete 12 months, Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 took the crown in December, regardless of its precense on Recreation Cross making its influence on Xbox a lot more durable to tally. Fortnite noticed the highest whole energetic customers throughout PlayStation and Xbox in 2025 of any recreation, with over half of all energetic customers on the two platforms enjoying Fortnite no less than as soon as.
As for different video games, the prime 5 sellers for the full 12 months ought to shock nobody who’s been watching the numbers all month: after Battlefield 6 was NBA 2K26, Borderlands 4, Monster Hunter: Wilds, and Name of Responsibility Black Ops 7, once more noting that Name of Responsibility was a Recreation Cross Day 1 title. The remaining of the checklist was populated by a collection of anticipated sellers, with some standouts corresponding to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered coming in at No.9, Elden Ring: Nightreign at No.14, Pokemon Legends: Z-A at No.17 (although Nintendo does not report digital gross sales, so it is potential this could have been greater), and Break up Fiction at No.19. Grand Theft Auto V clocked in at No.20 as gamers await the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, in all probability this 12 months.
And eventually, simply taking a look at December, standout video games together with Metroid Prime 4: Past, which launched into No.7 total for the month, and Flight Simulator 2024, which launched on PlayStation in December and shot from No.114 in November to No.16 final month. Over on PC for December, each Elden Ring and Elden Ring: Nightreign noticed jumps doubtless as a consequence of the new Nightreign DLC.
December 2025 U.S. High 20 Best-Selling Video games:
- Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7
- NBA 2K26
- Battlefield 6
- Madden NFL 26
- EA Sports activities FC 26
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A*
- Metroid Prime 4: Past (NEW)*
- Minecraft*
- Donkey Kong Bananza*
- Ghost of Yotei
- EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 26
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
- Forza Horizon 5
- Purple Useless Redemption II
- Flight Simulator 2024
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Kirby Air Riders*
- Tremendous Mario Galaxy + Tremendous Mario Galaxy 2*
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
Full Yr 2025 U.S. High 20 Best-Selling Video games:
- Battlefield 6
- NBA 2K26
- Borderlands 4
- Monster Hunter: Wilds
- Name of Responsibility Black Ops 7
- Madden NFL 26
- EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 26
- EA Sports activities FC 26
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered
- Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6
- Ghost of Yotei
- MLB: The Present 25*
- Minecraft*
- Elden Ring: Nightreign
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Forza Horizon 5
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A*
- WWE 2K25
- Break up Fiction
- Grand Theft Auto V
* Signifies that some or all digital gross sales aren’t 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. Obtained a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.