Call Of Duty: Vanguard Was Best-Selling Game In U.S. In November, With Battlefield 2042 Behind It In Second Place

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Call of Duty: Vanguard was the best-selling crippled of past period successful the U.S., with Battlefield 2042 coming successful close down it arsenic the 2nd best-selling crippled of November. 

This quality comes from the NPD Group's Mat Piscatella, who regularly tracks monthly income of carnal video games, hardware, accessories, and much successful the U.S. In his accustomed monthly Twitter thread breaking down the anterior month's sales, Piscatella revealed that Vanguard instantly became the 2nd best-selling crippled of the full twelvemonth and that 2021 is the 14th consecutive twelvemonth wherever a Call of Duty crippled becomes the best-selling rubric of its merchandise month. 

Battlefield 2042 came successful 2nd spot past month, and it was the sixth best-selling crippled of 2021. Behind Battlefield 2042 was Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, which are treated arsenic 1 unit, and pursuing that was Forza Horizon 5, which acceptable a caller Forza franchise (across some Horizon and Motorsport) motorboat period income record. Piscatella says that Shin Megami Tensei V achieved the highest motorboat period dollar income of immoderate crippled successful the full series, and it was the 16th best-selling crippled of November (and sixth best-selling connected Switch past month). 

The Switch took the apical spot connected the console broadside of things, thing it's done for 35 of the past 36 months. Despite that, wide hardware dollar income person declined 38 percent compared to November 2020, coming successful astatine $883 million. Piscatella says November 2021 hardware spending was the lowest it's been since November 2016 and that specified a debased fig is driven by a "lack of disposable console inventory."

Year-to-date crippled income are thing Piscatella and the NPD Group support way of with each month's caller sales, and November is nary different. Here are the caller apical 10 games sold crossed each platforms successful the U.S. this year:

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War
  • Call of Duty: Vanguard
  • Madden NFL 22
  • MLB: The Show 21
  • Resident Evil: Village
  • Battlefield 2042
  • Super Mario 3D World
  • Pokemon: Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl
  • Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
  • Far Cry 6

For more, beryllium definite to cheque retired Piscatella's full Twitter thread and beryllium definite to work our thoughts connected the latest Call of Duty successful Game Informer's Call of Duty: Vanguard review. Check retired Game Informer's Battlefield 2042 review aft that and past work astir however the Switch was the best-selling console past month


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