Resident Evil Requiem Debuts as the Best-selling Game of the Year in the U.S. So Far

Unlike the exceedingly dilatory preceding period of January, February 2026 had a steadily moving enactment of caller releases to shingle up the U.S. income charts, with Resident Evil Requiem debuting arsenic the best-selling crippled of the period and, frankincense far, the full year.

We don't person a circumstantial income fig for Requiem successful the U.S., but Capcom has said it has sold 6 cardinal globally, making it the fastest-selling crippled successful the franchise ever.

Unfortunately for wealth and numbers people, each the caller releases didn't truly bash thing to boost wide income compared to past year. According to Circana's monthly study compiled and analyzed by Mat Piscatella, full gaming spending was lone up 1% year-over-year, contented spending was flat, and accessories were down 2% from past year.

Hardware was the lone country that saw existent change, and that's mostly acknowledgment to the Nintendo Switch 2, which wasn't retired astatine this clip past year. With the Switch 2 successful the mix, hardware was up 22% to $326 million, with Switch 2 spending offsetting declines successful each the different consoles. The PS5 inactive led some dollar and portion sales.

But the Switch 2 is inactive outpacing its predecessor 9 months in, trending 45% up of the archetypal Switch successful the U.S. Notably, November was the Switch 1's ninth period successful action, truthful some consoles present person a Black Friday nether their belts erstwhile comparing their respective clip connected the market.

Content spending saw declines crossed everything but non-mobile subscription spending, which was up 27% compared to past year. I initially recovered that astonishing fixed each the caller releases. There's Requiem debuting astatine No.1 for the period and the year, Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined astatine No.9 for February and 14th for the twelvemonth truthful far, Mario Tennis Fever astatine No.11 for February (No.1 connected Switch 2), God of War: Sons of Sparta astatine No.14 (No.6 connected PlayStation), My Hero Academia: All's Justice astatine No.17, and the Resident Evil Generation Pack coming successful astatine No.20. Interestingly, Resident Evil Generation Pack containing Resident Evil 7, Village, and the caller Requiem sold amended connected Switch than conscionable Requiem by itself (No.4 connected the level vs. No. 6), showing a beauteous large appetite for Resident Evil from Nintendo fans.

But past I took a look astatine February 2025 and wow, the comparable connected this indispensable beryllium tough. February of past twelvemonth saw the debuts of Monster Hunter Wilds (No.1. for the month), Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (No.2), Civ VII (No.3), PGA Tour 2K25 (No.4), and Avowed (No.7). By comparison, this is an exceedingly quiescent February.

There were immoderate absorbing bundle income spikes, though. Diablo II: Remastered leaped from No.195 past period to No.13 successful February acknowledgment to the Steam merchandise of the Infernal Edition. And Doom: The Dark Ages went from No.92 connected the PC storefront charts for January to No.9 acknowledgment to immoderate day merchantability promo pricing.

February 2026 U.S. Top 20 Best-Selling Games:

1. Resident Evil Requiem (NEW)
2. NBA 2K26
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
4. Minecraft*
5. Helldivers 2
6. EA Sports FC 26
7. Battlefield 6
8. Madden NFL 26
9. Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined (NEW)
10. Grand Theft Auto V
11. Mario Tennis Fever* (NEW)
12. Red Dead Redemption II
13. Diablo II: Resurrected
14. God of War: Sons of Sparta (NEW)
15. Ghost of Yotei
16. Forza Horizon 5
17. My Hero Academia: All's Justice (NEW)
18. Marvel's Spider-Man 2
19. Pokemon Legends: Z-A*
20. Resident Evil Generation Pack (NEW)

* Indicates that immoderate oregon each integer income are not included successful Circana's data. Some publishers, including Nintendo, bash not stock definite integer information for this report.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].