EA Sports College Football is now the best-selling sports game of all time in the US | US monthly charts

Electronic Arts’ college football game is now the best-selling sports video game in US history in terms of dollar sales.

That’s according to Circana’s November report, which also reports that EA Sports College Football 25 is among the top 50 best-selling games of all time by the same metric. It is also the best-selling game of the year so far in the United States.

The price promotions brought the title back into the Top Ten of the monthly charts, surpassed only by Madden NFL 25 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

The latter was cited as a key factor behind the year-on-year drop in spending last month, down 7% to $5.8 billion. November 2024 was compared to the release month of Modern Warfare 3, while Black Ops 6 launched in October. This year’s Call of Duty is the second best-selling title of 2024 so far.

Instead, the biggest new release was Mario & Luigi: Brothership at #7 (although this doesn’t include digital sales, as Nintendo doesn’t share this data). The only other new releases in the Top 20 were the HD-2D remake of Dragon Quest 3 at No. 12 and EA’s My Sims: Cozy Bundle at No. 19.

Spending on video game content (including software, subscriptions, etc.) fell 9% year-on-year to $4.5 billion, with console content being the biggest source of the decline, down 29% from November 2023.

Hardware spending remained stable at $927 million, with 15% growth for PlayStation 5 helping to offset the 29% decline for Xbox and 3% for Switch.

The new PS5 Pro console represented 19% of all Sony units sold. Dollar sales of the upgraded console were more than 50% higher than launch sales of the PS4 Pro, which launched in November 2016, but unit sales were 12% lower.

In total, 2.4 million consoles were sold in November 2024, 4% more than the same month last year. So far this year, hardware sales are lagging at 9.4 million units compared to 11.8 million.

Here are the 20 best-selling games from November 3 to 30, 2024, data courtesy of Circana:

*Digital sales not included, ^^Digital sales on Nintendo platforms not included.