Battlefield 6 crushes the competition, becoming the best-selling game of last year

Statistical data from Circana provides the definitive resolution for the past gaming year in the United States.

The Return of the Multiplayer King

The top spot was surprisingly not grabbed by the annual favorite, but rather by Battlefield 6, which stormed into the market late in the season. Developers from DICE achieved the near-impossible, selling enough copies in just 3 months to beat the annual results of other publishers.

This massive success suggests that the return to modern conflict and the enhanced Frostbite engine acted as a magnet for the community, definitely erasing the bad taste of the previous, less successful installment and regaining fans' trust.

The traditional hegemon of sales charts, the Call of Duty series, must settle for fifth place this time with Black Ops 7. The drop in interest for this phenomenon was exploited by sports simulators, which form a separate religious category in America. Basketball title NBA 2K26 defended its silver medal, while American football in the form of Madden NFL 26 and the college league occupies the middle of the table.

The shooter and sports genres are complemented by strong narrative adventures and cooperative actions. Borderlands 4 took the bronze position, confirming players' insatiable hunger for wacky humor and loot grinding. Close behind was the hunting hit Monster Hunter: Wilds, which is bringing record revenue to Japanese publisher Capcom even in the Western market. The nostalgia wave was then perfectly utilized by the remaster of the legend The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, which fought its way into the top ten.