Among the forty-three reported annual top-sellers between 1980 and 2024, thirteen were published by Activision Blizzard and another thirteen by Nintendo, four each by Atari and Take-Two Interactive, three by Electronic Arts, and two each by Sega and Acclaim Entertainment.
Madden NFL and the Call of Duty series have been on the annual top ten best-sellers list twelve times over the last thirteen years.
Call of Duty has been the best-selling video game series in the US for the past sixteen years.
Companies that share data with NPD include: Activision Blizzard, Atlus, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Capcom, Disney Interactive, Electronic Arts, Embracer Group, Konami, Krafton, Marvelous, Microsoft Gaming, NCSoft, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Warner Bros. Games, and Wizard of the Coast.
[28] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the best-selling game of 2011, followed by The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Madden NFL 12.
Among the ten titles, three were published by Activision Blizzard, three by Electronic Arts, two by Take-Two Interactive, and one each by Ubisoft and Square Enix.
[41] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II from Activision Blizzard was the best-selling video game in the United States in 2022.
[42] The game outperformed the previous record-holders for the series, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from 2011 and Black Ops II from 2012.
Call of Duty finished 2023 as the best-selling video game series in the US market for the 15th consecutive year.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the best-selling video game in the United States in 2024.