October was an unbelievable debut month for Battlefield 6: it is formally the best-selling title in franchise historical past within the U.S., and the best-selling recreation within the U.S. as of final month.
This comes from Circana’s month-to-month report, which states that Battlefield 6 is the best-selling recreation of 2025 on each Xbox and PC, and the second best-selling on PlayStation to date, behind NBA 2K26. It additionally says that Battlefield produced the best single month tracked full recreation greenback gross sales whole of any online game in three years. Which means it offered greater than the previous couple of Name of Responsibility video games did of their debut months, together with Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare II in October of 2022. Is that this troubling information for Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 when the November report comes out? We’ll see.
Battlefield 6 is adopted by Pokemon Legends: Z-A, which is the second best-selling recreation of October and, per Circana, the best-selling bodily recreation year-to-date. Notably, as a result of Nintendo doesn’t share digital gross sales knowledge, its second-place spot is completely based mostly on bodily gross sales.
Different debut video games for October included The Outer Worlds 2 at No.7, Little Nightmares III at No.8, and Ninja Gaiden 4 at No.11. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake did not make it to the highest 20, nevertheless it was No.6 on Nintendo platforms for the month. There weren’t another main outliers within the charts this time round.
{Hardware} spending was up 36% year-over-year to $351 million, with the Nintendo Change 2 offsetting declines within the different three main consoles: Nintendo Change (gross sales down 52% year-over-year, surprise why?), Xbox Sequence (down 37%), and PlayStation 5 (down 22%). The Nintendo Change 2 offered roughly 328,000 items in October, 68% forward of the unique Nintendo Change’s tempo and three% forward of the PlayStation 4, which was the earlier record-holder.
Because of Battlefield, the Nintendo Change 2, and a very good month for cell, total recreation {hardware}, content material, and equipment spending was $4.9 billion for the month, up 3% year-over-year.
October 2025 U.S. Prime 20 Finest-Promoting Video games:
Battlefield 6 (NEW)Pokemon Legends: Z-A (NEW)*Ghost of YoteiNBA 2K26EA Sports activities FC 26Madden NFL 26The Outer Worlds 2 (NEW)Little Nightmares III (NEW)Digimon Story: Time StrangerBorderlands 4Ninja Gaiden 4 (NEW)EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 26Super Mario Galaxy + Tremendous Mario Galaxy 2*Closing Fantasy Techniques: The Ivalice ChroniclesSonic Racing: CrossWorldsSilent Hill: fMinecraft*Helldivers IIGrand Theft Auto VRed Lifeless Redemption II
* Signifies that some or all digital gross sales are usually not included in Circana’s knowledge. Some publishers, together with Nintendo, don’t share sure digital knowledge for this report.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Bought a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
