The Nintendo Change has formally handed the PlayStation 2 to grow to be the second best-selling gaming {hardware} in america, 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 Change at the moment are at 46.6 million (we have requested for up to date totals on the Nintendo DS).
However Change 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 Collection consoles in third. Total {hardware} spending was flat, with 15% year-over-year progress for PlayStation {hardware} off-setting a 29% drop in Xbox Collection gross sales and three% drop on Change.
PS5 gross sales have been pushed partially by the discharge of the PS5 Professional, 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 Professional have been over 50% increased than launch month gross sales of the PS4 Professional, however unit gross sales have been 12% decrease. This is not shocking, and is roughly consistent with analyst expectations, provided that the PS4 Professional launched at $399 and the PS5 Professional 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. Each of those drops have been largely merely resulting from Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6’s launch timing in comparison with Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 3 final 12 months. Black Ops 6 launched in October this 12 months, elevating gross sales that month, whereas Trendy Warfare 3’s November launch final 12 months pumped that month’s numbers and made for a harder comparable this 12 months as Black Ops 6 gross sales cool down a bit.
Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 was nonetheless the best-selling recreation this month, nevertheless, and is the second best-selling recreation of the 12 months up to now. It trails solely EA Sports activities School Soccer 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 Tremendous Mario Celebration Jamboree at No.6. Each video games’ place on the chart solely displays bodily gross sales, nevertheless, so it is attainable the inclusion of digital gross sales might have pushed both increased.
Just a few different huge new video games this month aren’t mirrored on the best-seller charts for numerous causes. S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chernobyl launched on Sport Move, which implies lots of people performed it for “free.” But it surely debuted at No.6 on Circana’s Participant Engagement Tracker Xbox Month-to-month Energetic Customers 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 Influence 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 widespread Monopoly GO. It was the sixth best-selling cell recreation within the States for the month.
The highest 20 best-selling video games within the U.S. for the month of October, based mostly on greenback gross sales:
- Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6
- Madden NFL 25
- EA Sports activities FC 25
- EA Sports activities School Soccer 25
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- Tremendous Mario Celebration 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 Combating Assortment: Arcade Classics
* Signifies 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’ll find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Obtained a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
