Oct 2024 USA Sales: PS5, PS4 Account for 82% of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Sales in the US

The impact of Game Pass

by · Push Square

The US sales data for the month of October has arrived, courtesy of Circana and analyst Mat Piscatella. Perhaps most interesting is the sales performance of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which is the first entry to be included on Xbox's Game Pass subscription service.

As noted by Piscatella, 82 per cent of the game's sales in October were for the PS5 and PS4 versions. It's a somewhat similar story in Europe; the latest physical game chart revealed an 89 per cent slice of the pie for Sony's systems.

The analyst also notes a year-on-year increase of 16 per cent in non-mobile subscription spending for the month of October, primarily driven by Black Ops 6's inclusion on Game Pass. It's worth noting that Game Pass had its prices increased earlier this year, so that will also have contributed to this increase.

Even so, the game's first two-week sales compared to last year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 were up 23 per cent.

Black Ops 6 is now the country's third best-selling game of 2024 behind College Football 25 and Helldivers 2.

Elsewhere, lots of new releases shake up the monthly chart, with the likes of Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero, Silent Hill 2, Undisputed, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and more joining Black Ops 6 in the rundown. Speaking of Sparking! Zero, it's already become the US's best-selling Dragon Ball game ever.

On the hardware side, year-on-year spending is down across the board, but PS5 remains the top-selling console, in both units and dollar sales, with Xbox Series in second.

USA Software Sales Top 10: October 2024

  1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
  2. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
  3. Silent Hill 2
  4. Unisputed
  5. Metaphor: ReFantazio
  6. Dragon Age: The Veilguard
  7. Super Mario Party Jamboree
  8. Madden NFL 25
  9. Sonic X Shadow Generations
  10. EA Sports FC 25

PS5, PS4 Software Sales Top 10: October 2024

  1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
  2. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
  3. Silent Hill 2
  4. Unisputed
  5. Madden NFL 25
  6. Dragon Age: The Veilguard
  7. Metaphor: ReFantazio
  8. EA Sports FC 25
  9. College Football 25
  10. Sonic X Shadow Generations

[source bsky.app]