EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 has turn out to be the best-selling sports activities recreation ever launched within the U.S., in keeping with industry-tracking agency Circana. The revival of EA’s school soccer franchise has been doing good enterprise because it launched in September, and even not too long ago gained the Recreation Award for Finest 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, Tens of millions | 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 client spending throughout Console, Cloud, Cellular*, Moveable, 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. client 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 stories. “The decline was pushed partially by the debut of Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 in October this 12 months, whereas Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare III (2023) launched throughout the November monitoring month a 12 months in the past.”
{Hardware} gross sales for the 12 months have been on a downward development for months — that is the primary time since July that the gross sales change hasn’t been a unfavourable. Nevertheless, that is possible because of the dip in software program gross sales in November 2023 (which had been down 24% year-over-year) fairly 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 Change had been down.
| Yr-to-Date 2024 Greenback Gross sales, Tens of millions | 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 client spending throughout Console, Cloud, Cellular*, Moveable, 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 whole PlayStation 5 items bought within the month and 28% of {dollars}. Launch month greenback gross sales of PlayStation 5 Professional had been greater than 50% increased than the November 2016 launch month gross sales of PlayStation 4 Professional, whereas items had been 12% decrease.”
Circana November 2024: Prime 20 best-selling video games within the U.S.
| Rank | Final Month Rank | Title | Writer |
| 1 | 1 | Name of Obligation: 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 Celebration 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 Combating Assortment: Arcade Classics | Capcom USA |
^^ Digital gross sales on Nintendo platforms not included
Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 stays high of the checklist in November over a number of of EA’s sports activities titles, that are boosted, possible due to Black Friday gross sales. Only some of November’s video games make the checklist, 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 checklist is Marvel vs. Capcom Combating Assortment: Arcade Classics getting a lift all the way in which from 87th place to twentieth. It’s not completely clear what brought about the sport’s bounce up to now up the checklist — although the launch of the bodily model on November 22 is a possible issue.
Circana November 2024: 20 best-selling video games of 2024 up to now
| Rank | Final Month Rank | Title | Writer |
| 1 | 1 | EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 | Digital Arts |
| 2 | 3 | Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 | Microsoft (Corp) |
| 3 | 2 | Helldivers II | Sony (Corp) |
| 4 | 4 | Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero | Bandai Namco Leisure |
| 5 | 5 | Name of Obligation: Fashionable 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 | Last 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 high of the 12 months’s best-selling checklist, 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 checklist is Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s bounce from twenty fourth place to twentieth — possible because of the recreation being one of many titles to obtain a graphical enhance on the PlayStation 5 Professional.
