Battlefield 6 may have actually done it: beaten Call of Duty

If you happen to’ve been paying any consideration to the shooter market these previous few months, you received’t be stunned to study that Battlefield 6 has been an unprecedented success for EA, and the Battlefield collection as an entire.

The sport managed to sell over 7 million units at launch, climbing to the highest of the charts anyplace you look, together with setting new series concurrent player records on Steam. Due to new information, we now higher perceive the true scale of this launch.

The newest Circana report, which seems to be at sport and {hardware} gross sales in the US, has arrived. This iteration covers the month of October, which is when Battlefield 6 was launched.

Battlefield 6 was the top-selling sport throughout all platforms throughout October – which isn’t stunning. It has overtaken NBA 2K26 to develop into 2025’s best-selling sport year-to-date, making it the best-selling Battlefield sport ever.

In October alone, the sport bought greater than the lifetime gross sales of Battlefield 1, beforehand the best-selling entry within the franchise.

Battlefield 6 even set information past simply its personal collection, having now produced the best single-month greenback gross sales (bodily and digital) whole for any full sport launched within the final three years. The earlier report holder was 2022’s Modern Warfare 2.

November’s report, which is about to reach halfway by means of December, will present, as soon as and for all, whether or not Battlefield 6 has been capable of overtake Black Ops 7. With one exception, Name of Obligation video games have, for greater than a decade, topped the best-selling year-to-date chart. Whatever the high quality of the person titles, or the competitors in any given yr, nothing has been capable of shake that dominance.

Given all this momentum, Battlefield 6 has a shot at dethroning Name of Obligation this yr, beating Black Ops 7 to develop into the yr’s best-seller. You by no means wish to depend out the sheer recognition of Name of Obligation amongst informal gamers, nevertheless, which is what’s going to make December’s report all of the extra attention-grabbing.