In 2025, Battlefield 6, published by Electronic Arts, was the best-selling video game in the United States based on dollar sales. This was followed by NBA 2K26 and Borderlands 4.
The dominance of AAA gaming productions
In the video-game industry, AAA (pronounced Triple-A) is a classification that is used when describing or talking about video games that are produced and distributed by major or mid-tier video game developers. These game productions typically have a large development and marketing budget. When looking at the top-selling video games in the United States in 2025, the majority of the best-selling titles were produced by the biggest gaming companies worldwide.
In addition to several publicly listed video game companies, gaming platform owners Sony and Nintendo also produce top-selling games with Sony's Ghost of Yotei and Nintendo’s Pokémon Legends: Z-A of the Kingdom also reaching rank and , respectively.
Spotlight: Call of Duty series
Activision Blizzard’s long-running Call of Duty franchise usually features in many end-of-the-year lists as it is one of the top-grossing and best-selling gaming franchises worldwide. In 2025, it earned two entries, one at rank and one at rank . As of April 2021, the Call of Duty (CoD) series has generated more than 400 million lifetime unit sales and the most recent entry in the series is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, which was released in November 2023. The annual releases of the game series are rotated between several game development studios which are subsidiaries of Activision Blizzard: Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch, and Raven Software.