EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 has change into the best-selling sports activities sport ever launched within the U.S., in response to industry-tracking agency Circana. The revival of EA’s school soccer franchise has been doing good enterprise because it launched in September, and even lately received the Recreation Award for Greatest Sports activities/Racing Recreation for this 12 months. Its success is a standout in a comparatively quiet month in U.S.-based online game gross sales.
| November 2024 Greenback Gross sales, Hundreds of thousands | Nov 2023 | Nov 2024 | Change |
| Whole Video Recreation Gross sales | $6,171 | $5,755 | -7% |
| Video Recreation Content material (Bodily & Digital Full Recreation, DLC/MTX and Subscription shopper spending throughout Console, Cloud, Cell*, Transportable, PC and VR platforms) | $4,889 | $4,455 | -9% |
| Video Recreation {Hardware} | $924 | $927 | 0% |
| Video Recreation Equipment | $358 | $373 | 4% |
“Projected November 2024 U.S. shopper spending on online game {hardware}, content material and equipment fell 7% when in comparison with a 12 months in the past, to $5.8 billion,” mentioned Mat Piscatella, Circana’s government producer for video games experiences. “The decline was pushed partially by the debut of Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 in October this 12 months, whereas Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare III (2023) launched through the November monitoring month a 12 months in the past.”
{Hardware} gross sales for the 12 months have been on a downward pattern for months — that is the primary time since July that the gross sales change hasn’t been a damaging. Nonetheless, that is possible as a result of dip in software program gross sales in November 2023 (which have been down 24% year-over-year) somewhat than distinctive gross sales in November 2024. Piscatella additionally notes that {hardware} gross sales for PlayStation 5 grew, whereas gross sales of Xbox Sequence consoles and Nintendo Swap have been down.
| Yr-to-Date 2024 Greenback Gross sales, Hundreds of thousands | 2023 YTD | 2024 YTD | Change |
| Whole Video Recreation Gross sales | $51,012 | $51,116 | 0% |
| Video Recreation Content material (Bodily & Digital Full Recreation, DLC/MTX and Subscription shopper spending throughout Console, Cloud, Cell*, Transportable, PC and VR platforms) | $43,796 | $44,878 | 2% |
| Video Recreation {Hardware} | $4,897 | $3,742 | -24% |
| Video Recreation Equipment | $2,319 | $2,495 | 8% |
Piscatella notes that the PlayStation 5’s enhance in gross sales is available in half from the launch of the PlayStation 5 Professional. “PlayStation 5 Professional accounted for 19% of complete PlayStation 5 items bought within the month and 28% of {dollars}. Launch month greenback gross sales of PlayStation 5 Professional have been greater than 50% increased than the November 2016 launch month gross sales of PlayStation 4 Professional, whereas items have been 12% decrease.”
Circana November 2024: High 20 best-selling video games within the U.S.
| Rank | Final Month Rank | Title | Writer |
| 1 | 1 | Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 2 | 8 | Madden NFL 25 | Digital Arts |
| 3 | 10 | EA Sports activities FC 25 | Digital Arts |
| 4 | 11 | EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 | Digital Arts |
| 5 | 2 | Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 6 | 7 | Tremendous Mario Social gathering Jamboree* | Nintendo |
| 7 | NEW | Mario & Luigi: Brothership* | Nintendo |
| 8 | 9 | Sonic X Shadow Generations | Sega |
| 9 | 17 | NBA 2K25* | Take-Two Interactive |
| 10 | 6 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Digital Arts |
| 11 | 13 | Hogwarts Legacy | Warner Bros. Video games |
| 12 | NEW | Dragon Quest III | Sq. Enix Inc (Corp) |
| 13 | 15 | Astro Bot | Sony (Corp) |
| 14 | 22 | Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 | Sony (Corp) |
| 15 | 3 | Silent Hill 2 (2024) | Konami Digital Ent. |
| 16 | 4 | Undisputed | Plaion |
| 17 | 5 | Metaphor: ReFantazio | Sega |
| 18 | 16 | Minecraft^^ | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 19 | NEW | My Sims: Cozy Bundle | Digital Arts |
| 20 | 87 | Marvel vs. Capcom Preventing Assortment: Arcade Classics | Capcom USA |
^^ Digital gross sales on Nintendo platforms not included
Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 stays prime of the listing in November over a number of of EA’s sports activities titles, that are boosted, possible due to Black Friday gross sales. Just a few of November’s video games make the listing, together with Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Dragon Quest III and My Sims: Cozy Bundle. Whereas it didn’t make the gross sales charts, GSC Recreation World’s Stalker 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl confirmed excessive ranges of participant engagement on Xbox and Steam.
The opposite fascinating shift on the listing is Marvel vs. Capcom Preventing Assortment: Arcade Classics getting a lift all the way in which from 87th place to twentieth. It’s not totally clear what precipitated the sport’s bounce to date up the listing — although the launch of the bodily model on November 22 is a possible issue.
Circana November 2024: 20 best-selling video games of 2024 to date
| Rank | Final Month Rank | Title | Writer |
| 1 | 1 | EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 | Digital Arts |
| 2 | 3 | Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 3 | 2 | Helldivers II | Sony (Corp) |
| 4 | 4 | Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 5 | 5 | Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare III (2023) | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 6 | 6 | Madden NFL 25 | Digital Arts |
| 7 | 10 | EA Sports activities FC 25 | Digital Arts |
| 8 | 7 | EA Sports activities MVP Bundle | Digital Arts |
| 9 | 8 | Elden Ring | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 10 | 9 | Dragon’s Dogma II | Capcom USA |
| 11 | 12 | MLB: The Present 24^ | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 12 | 11 | WWE 2K24** | Take-Two Interactive |
| 13 | 13 | Hogwarts Legacy | Warner Bros. Video games |
| 14 | 14 | Grand Theft Auto V** | Take-Two Interactive |
| 15 | 15 | Ultimate Fantasy VII: Rebirth | Sq. Enix Inc (Corp) |
| 16 | 16 | Tekken 8 | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 17 | 17 | NBA 2K24** | Take-Two Interactive |
| 18 | 18 | Minecraft^^ | A number of Video Recreation Producers |
| 19 | 19 | Madden NFL 24 | Digital Arts |
| 20 | 24 | Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 | Sony (Corp) |
** Sep-Nov digital gross sales not included
^^ Digital gross sales on Nintendo platforms not included
EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 continues to maintain its place on the prime of the 12 months’s best-selling listing, thought Black Ops 6 has now edged up sufficient (with the addition of a month of gross sales) to displace Helldivers 2 from its second-place throne. One other EA title, EA Sports activities FC 25 has additionally risen up the charts since its launch. The one different fascinating change on the listing is Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s bounce from twenty fourth place to twentieth — possible as a result of sport being one of many titles to obtain a graphical enhance on the PlayStation 5 Professional.
