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A leading industry observer has predicted that EA’s Battlefield 6 is “extremely likely” to outsell Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in the US to finish as the year’s No. 1 best-selling game.
Prior to the release of Battlefield 6 in October and Black Ops 7 in November, industry experts predicted that Black Ops 7 would come out on top. But new data has arrived pointing to Black Ops 7’s sales struggles, and now Mat Piscatella of Circana has told IGN that EA’s game will likely be the best-seller.
It would be just the second time since 2018 that a Call of Duty game would be outsold in the US. The last time it happened was 2023, when Hogwarts Legacy beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Before that, Red Dead Redemption II came out on top in 2018, with Black Ops 4 at No. 2.
2024’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the year’s best-selling game in the US, and it achieved that despite being the first Call of Duty game to launch into Game Pass. The game reportedly lost out on $300 million in revenue due to Game Pass. Circana’s lists are ranked by revenue, not unit sales.
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