Black Ops 6, the best-selling video game in 2024 in the United States

The latest installment in the saga Call of Dutysubtitled Black Ops 6was the best-selling video game in the United States in 2024, according to figures from the Circana cabinet published Thursday, January 23.

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Overall, the American video game market fell 1.1% compared to 2023, to 58.7 billion USD.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, From the American publisher Activision Blizzard, owned by Microsoft, is a shooting game located in an alternative post-war cold. He succeeds Hogwarts Legacyadventure game in the universe of Harry Potter, in first place in 2023.

Circana’s figures do not count the players who have obtained the game via the Xbox Game Pass, that is to say the Microsoft subscription offer which gives access to a catalog of titles and allowed for the first time D ‘Try the last Call of Duty As soon as it is released this year.

He is followed by EA Sports College Football 25a simulation of American university football, which also becomes the best-selling sports game of all time in the United States.

If sales of games and online content are up 2%, to more than 50 billion USD, console sales dropped by 25% last year, despite the arrival of the PlayStation 5 Pro, Improved version of the Sony machine.

The PS5 remains the best-selling console in the United States in 2024, followed by the Nintendo switch. The Japanese manufacturer announced last week that Switch 2 would be created in 2025.

On their own, mobile games weighed for almost 25.5 billion USD last year on the American market, up 9% over one year, according to the report “State of Mobile 2025” Posted by the Sensor Tower analysis agency.

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