"To begin with, Piscatella pointed out that the last shooter game to outsell a Call of Duty title in the US over a full year was Gears of War in 2006. The last FPS to beat Call of Duty was Star Wars: Battlefront II in 2005. Call of Duty has reigned supreme in the US not just in the shooter and FPS categories, but generally as well."
""Still have some big weeks of potential sales to come, but this part of the market hasn't been this competitive in 20 years," Piscatella said of the shooter and FPS categories of the gaming market. He added that comparing titles over such a long time horizon is imperfect because the gaming market today is much more "dynamic," especially with things like subscription services and free games like Fortnite. This means "sales alone don't tell the whole story.""
"Battlefield 6 is already performing better than Call of Duty's latest releases in the US. First-month sales of Battlefield 6 were higher than any other game's first-month sales going back to 2022, meaning Battlefield 6 sold better out of the gate than 2024's Black Ops 6 and 2023's Modern Warfare 3. Battlefield 6 needed just 22 days to eclipse the entire lifetime sales of Battlefield 1 in the US."
Call of Duty finished as the US best-selling game 13 of the past 16 years, with only a few exceptions. The last shooter to outsell Call of Duty over a full year was Gears of War in 2006 and the last FPS was Star Wars: Battlefront II in 2005. The shooter and FPS segments are now the most competitive they have been in two decades. Battlefield 6 posted the highest first-month US sales since 2022 and surpassed Battlefield 1's lifetime US sales in 22 days. Subscription services and free-to-play titles complicate pure sales and revenue comparisons.
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