This year has been quite of an oddity for gaming cause it’s the first time since, well..ever, that we see a Call of Duty title not just struggling in terms of sales numbers, which was unthinkable even 3 months ago but as now been revealed, it has lost it’s spot as the best selling FPS of the year to it’s rival Battlefield 6. According to Mat Piscatella, the Senior Director & Video Game Industry Thought Leader at Circana, Battlefield 6 is currently the best selling title of the year in the U.S which means it has indeed beaten it’s competitor Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in terms of actual sales figures.
Aside from Battlefield 6 which came out in October, the top 5 best-selling games of this year are NBA 2K26, Monster Hunter: Wilds, Borderlands 4, and EA Sports College Football 25. In fact, this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is also on the list but it’s at the seventh position, however as we move on to the rest of December, there is still time for the numbers to change favorably for Call of Duty.
Check out the entire list of the best selling games of 2025 in the U.S:
- Battlefield 6 — Electronic Arts
- NBA 2K26 — Take-Two Interactive
- Monster Hunter: Wilds — Capcom USA
- Borderlands 4 — Take-Two Interactive
- EA Sports College Football 26 — Electronic Arts
- Madden NFL 26 — Electronic Arts
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 — Microsoft (Corp)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 — Microsoft (Corp)
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered — Microsoft (Corp)
- Ghost of Yotei — Sony (Corp)
- EA Sports FC 26 — Electronic Arts
- MLB: The Show 25 — Multiple Video Game Publishers
- Elden Ring Nightreign — Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II — Plaion
- WWE 2K25 — Take-Two Interactive
- Minecraft – Multiple Video Game Publishers
- Forza Horizon 5 — Microsoft (Corp)
- Split Fiction — Electronic Arts
- Helldivers 2 — Sony (Corp)
- EA Sports MVP Bundle (2025) — Electronic Arts
And while every other year a Call of Duty game is considered as an auto-win for the best selling title overall, Battlefield 6 has indeed managed to stop or at least slow down Activision’s juggernaut franchise by quite a bit. Now only time will tell if this year does signal the fall of the Call of Duty franchise in any way though it seems highly unlikely.
