Battlefield 6 Just Had the Best Month of Sales in the U.S. of Any Game in the Last Three Years

October was an unthinkable debut period for Battlefield 6: it's officially the best-selling rubric successful franchise past successful the U.S., and the best-selling crippled successful the U.S. arsenic of past month.

This comes from Circana's monthly report, which states that Battlefield 6 is the best-selling crippled of 2025 connected some Xbox and PC, and the 2nd best-selling connected PlayStation truthful far, down NBA 2K26. It besides says that Battlefield produced the highest azygous period tracked afloat crippled dollar income full of immoderate video crippled successful 3 years. That means it sold much than the past fewer Call of Duty games did successful their debut months, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II successful October of 2022. Is this troubling quality for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 erstwhile the November study comes out? We'll see.

Battlefield 6 is followed by Pokemon Legends: Z-A, which is the 2nd best-selling crippled of October and, per Circana, the best-selling carnal crippled year-to-date. Notably, due to the fact that Nintendo does not stock integer income data, its second-place spot is wholly based connected carnal sales.

Other debut games for October included The Outer Worlds 2 astatine No.7, Little Nightmares III astatine No.8, and Ninja Gaiden 4 astatine No.11. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake didn't marque it to the apical 20, but it was No.6 connected Nintendo platforms for the month. There weren't immoderate different large outliers successful the charts this clip around.

Hardware spending was up 36% year-over-year to $351 million, with the Nintendo Switch 2 offsetting declines successful the different 3 large consoles: Nintendo Switch (sales down 52% year-over-year, wonderment why?), Xbox Series (down 37%), and PlayStation 5 (down 22%). The Nintendo Switch 2 sold astir 328,000 units successful October, 68% up of the archetypal Nintendo Switch's gait and 3% up of the PlayStation 4, which was the erstwhile record-holder.

Thanks to Battlefield, the Nintendo Switch 2, and a bully period for mobile, wide crippled hardware, content, and accessories spending was $4.9 cardinal for the month, up 3% year-over-year.

October 2025 U.S. Top 20 Best-Selling Games:

1. Battlefield 6 (NEW)
2. Pokemon Legends: Z-A (NEW)*
3. Ghost of Yotei
4. NBA 2K26
5. EA Sports FC 26
6. Madden NFL 26
7. The Outer Worlds 2 (NEW)
8. Little Nightmares III (NEW)
9. Digimon Story: Time Stranger
10. Borderlands 4
11. Ninja Gaiden 4 (NEW)
12. EA Sports College Football 26
13. Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2*
14. Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
15. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
16. Silent Hill: f
17. Minecraft*
18. Helldivers II
19. Grand Theft Auto V
20. Red Dead Redemption II

* 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].