An eventful Circana report monitoring the US online game business for November 2024 has confirmed a few fascinating milestones: the Nintendo Switch has now overtaken the PS2 because the nation’s best-selling console of all time, whereas EA Sports College Football 25 has cemented itself because the best-selling sports activities recreation ever.
Those are the headlines in a report that has a ton of different element, because the sector slumped to a 7% year-over-year decline.
PS5 was the best-selling {hardware} platform of the month, from each a items and greenback gross sales perspective. It was in fact boosted by the PS5 Pro which accounted for 19% of the overall programs bought. It truly bought 12% fewer items than the PS4 Pro in November 2016, however generated 50% extra income as a result of its a lot greater worth.
While the PS5 improved year-over-year, each the Switch and Xbox Series X|S declined, by 3% and 29% respectively. Last November was the worst for Microsoft’s gaming division since 2006, so falling so dramatically wanting that can show a headache for the Redmond agency – particularly because it follows the discharge of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 into Xbox Game Pass.
Speaking of which, the brand new Call of Duty is already the second best-selling recreation of the yr. There are few significant surprises within the November 2024 gross sales charts, however Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D debuted in twelfth place, whereas Astro Bot climbed a few spots into thirteenth place.
Elsewhere, the PS Portal is continuous to carry out past expectations, whereas equipment stay an actual money-spinner for Sony general.
We’ve included the important thing gross sales knowledge to your perusal under.
USA Software Sales Top 10: November 2024
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Madden NFL 25
- EA Sports FC 25
- EA Sports College Football 25
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- Super Mario Party Jamboree*
- Mario & Luigi: Brothership
- Sonic X Shadow Generations
- NBA 2K25*
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
PS5, PS4 Software Sales Top 10: November 2024
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Madden NFL 25
- EA Sports FC 25
- EA Sports College Football 25
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- Astro Bot
- NBA 2K25*
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Silent Hill 2
* Digital gross sales excluded