The Nintendo Switch has formally handed the PlayStation 2 to change into the second best-selling gaming {hardware} within the United States, now trailing solely the Nintendo DS.
This comes from Circana’s November online game gross sales report, which states that lifetime unit gross sales of the Nintendo Switch are actually at 46.6 million (we have requested for up to date totals on the Nintendo DS).
But Switch gross sales are nonetheless slowing down. Per evaluation from Circana’s Mat Piscatella, it was solely the second best-selling console for November, following the PS5 in each unit and greenback gross sales, with Xbox Series consoles in third. Overall {hardware} spending was flat, with 15% year-over-year progress for PlayStation {hardware} off-setting a 29% drop in Xbox Series gross sales and three% drop on Switch.
PS5 gross sales have been pushed partially by the discharge of the PS5 Pro, which accounted for 19% of all PS5 unit gross sales final month and 28% of all greenback gross sales. Notably, launch month greenback gross sales of the PS5 Pro have been over 50% greater than launch month gross sales of the PS4 Pro, however unit gross sales have been 12% decrease. This is not shocking, and is roughly in step with analyst expectations, on condition that the PS4 Pro launched at $399 and the PS5 Pro launched at $699.
Spending on video games general was down 7% year-over-year to $5.8 billion, and general software program spending was down 9% year-over-year to $4.5 billion. Both of those drops have been largely merely as a result of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s launch timing in comparison with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 final yr. Black Ops 6 launched in October this yr, elevating gross sales that month, whereas Modern Warfare 3’s November launch final yr pumped that month’s numbers and made for a more durable comparable this yr as Black Ops 6 gross sales quiet down a bit.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was nonetheless the best-selling recreation this month, nevertheless, and is the second best-selling recreation of the yr to this point. It trails solely EA Sports College Football 25, which is now the best-selling sports activities recreation in U.S. historical past by greenback gross sales, and ranks among the many 50 best-selling video games of all time by the identical metric.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership debuted at No.7 for the month, proper behind Super Mario Party Jamboree at No.6. Both video games’ place on the chart solely displays bodily gross sales, nevertheless, so it is potential the inclusion of digital gross sales may have pushed both greater.
A couple of different massive new video games this month aren’t mirrored on the best-seller charts for varied causes. S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl launched on Game Pass, which suggests lots of people performed it for “free.” But it debuted at No.6 on Circana’s Player Engagement Tracker Xbox Monthly Active Users chart, and it ranked No.9 for Steam MAUs, indicating it is doing all proper for itself. In an analogous scenario, free-to-play Genshin Impact launched on Xbox in November, and debuted at No.10 for Xbox MAUs.
And over on cell, Pokemon TCG Pocket was the second best-selling cell recreation by income worldwide in November, beating out the extremely fashionable Monopoly GO. It was the sixth best-selling cell recreation within the States for the month.
The prime 20 best-selling video games within the U.S. for the month of October, based mostly on greenback gross sales:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Madden NFL 25
- EA Sports FC 25
- EA Sports College Football 25
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- Super Mario Party Jamboree*
- Mario & Luigi: Brothership*
- Sonic X Shadow Generations
- NBA 2K25*
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Dragon Quest 3
- Astro Bot
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Silent Hill 2 (2024)
- Undisputed
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Minecraft*
- My Sims: Cozy Bundle
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
* Indicates that some or all digital gross sales aren’t included in Circana’s knowledge. Some publishers, together with Nintendo and Take-Two, don’t share sure digital knowledge for this report.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can discover her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a narrative tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
