Circan’s November 2025 online game gross sales report has simply been one of the crucial anticipated. For one, November is at all times one of the crucial profitable for the video games trade, however this 12 months particularly has seen a number of main hits – together with new entries in two rival sequence.
We’re speaking, after all, about Battlefield 6, and Black Ops 7 the most recent releases of their respective multiplayer shooter sequence. The decades-old struggle to say the highest spot has lengthy been received by Name of Responsibility, however the newest Battlefield has achieved what many thought was not possible.
Cricana’s report covers spending on online game software program, {hardware}, and equipment within the U.S. November 2025 noticed spending fall by 4% in comparison with November 2024, bringing in a complete of $5.9 billion.
Software program technically noticed progress through the month, however declines in {hardware}, and equipment have been primarily chargeable for the drop in general spending. Black Ops 7 continued Name of Responsibility’s 18-Yr Streak in topping gross sales in its launch month.
Nonetheless, this 12 months’s recreation didn’t additionally prime the year-to-date charts, one thing the sequence has carried out persistently, and greater than another top-selling recreation every year – with uncommon exceptions. Battlefield 6 is firmly within the lead there, cementing its declare as 2025’s best-selling title. Black Ops 7, fittingly, occupies within the #7 spot there.
Individually from the best-selling recreation title struggle, November has really been one of many worst for the trade when it comes to {hardware} gross sales. The report notes that the three main platform holders – Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have all seen their {hardware} gross sales decline.
Spending on {hardware} throughout November amounted to solely $695 million, an enormous 27% decline in comparison with November 2024. In keeping with the report, that’s the worst greenback quantity whole for any November since 2005, in terms of {hardware} particularly. All three current-gen consoles totaled 1.6 million items bought, which Circana additionally notes is the bottom for any November since 1995.
This all doesn’t bode particularly properly for the trade. November has at all times been a key vacation buying month, nevertheless it’s clear the always rising console costs – and already excessive recreation costs – have had a huge impact.
