It’s official: Battlefield 6 is 2025’s best-selling game, but Black Ops 7 still managed to be November’s top-seller

Circan’s November 2025 online game gross sales report has simply been one of the crucial anticipated. For one, November is all the time one of the crucial profitable for the video games trade, however this yr particularly has seen a number of main hits – together with new entries in two rival collection.

We’re speaking, after all, about Battlefield 6, and Black Ops 7 the newest releases of their respective multiplayer shooter collection. The decades-old combat to assert the highest spot has lengthy been gained by Call of Duty, however the newest Battlefield has achieved what many thought was inconceivable.

Cricana’s report covers spending on online game software program, {hardware}, and equipment within the U.S. November 2025 noticed spending fall by 4% in comparison with November 2024, bringing in a complete of $5.9 billion.

Software program technically noticed development in the course of the month, however declines in {hardware}, and equipment have been primarily chargeable for the drop in general spending. Black Ops 7 continued Name of Obligation’s 18-12 months Streak in topping gross sales in its launch month.

Nevertheless, this yr’s recreation didn’t additionally high the year-to-date charts, one thing the collection has carried out constantly, and greater than every other top-selling recreation annually – with uncommon exceptions. Battlefield 6 is firmly within the lead there, cementing its declare as 2025’s best-selling title. Black Ops 7, fittingly, occupies within the #7 spot there.

Individually from the best-selling recreation title combat, November has really been one of many worst for the trade by way of {hardware} gross sales. The report notes that the three main platform holders – Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have all seen their {hardware} gross sales decline.

Spending on {hardware} throughout November amounted to solely $695 million, a large 27% decline in comparison with November 2024. In accordance with the report, that’s the worst greenback quantity whole for any November since 2005, on the subject of {hardware} particularly. All three current-gen consoles totaled 1.6 million models offered, which Circana additionally notes is the bottom for any November since 1995.

This all doesn’t bode particularly nicely for the trade. November has all the time been a key vacation buying month, however it’s clear the constantly rising console prices – and already excessive recreation costs – have had a huge impact.