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- Call of Duty takes up at least four of the top 10 spots on PlayStation’s best-sellers list over the last 30 years.
- First-party IPs like Spider-Man and The Last of Us also show up on the list.
- GTA 5 takes the crown as the top-selling game by unit sales and dollars.
Ever since the release of Call of Duty 4, Activision’s first-person shooter franchise has turned into an unstoppable juggernaut. This success means that Activision breaks sales records and produces billion-dollar Call of Duty titles year after year.
Further highlighting this dominance, a recently revealed list of PlayStation’s best-selling titles highlights the series’ presence at the top of the list.
Why it matters: Black Ops 7 is being criticized, and many fans have vowed to boycott the game. However, this list shows that Call of Duty is always guaranteed to do well.
This data comes from Circana, a popular analysis firm from the US. According to Circana’s numbers, GTA 5 is the number 1 best-selling title on PlayStation since 1995.
Other Rockstar titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA San Andreas also make the list, but no single series has as many entries on the list as Call of Duty. In fact, Call of Duty has at least four different titles within the top 10 best-sellers.
When going by dollars, the following Call of Duty titles are present on the list in various positions:
- Modern Warfare (2019)
- Modern Warfare 2 (2022)
- Black Ops 6
- Black Ops: Cold War
- Black Ops 3
Elsewhere, unit sales put the following Call of Duty entries on the top 10 list:
- Modern Warfare (2019)
- Black Ops 3
- Black Ops: Cold War
- Modern Warfare 2 (2022)
The most interesting part about the list is perhaps not the fact that Activision’s flagship IP is so popular. Instead, it seems to be the fact that most of the games on the list were released over the last 7-8 years.
This trend suggests that Call of Duty has only grown in popularity with each passing year. Fan-favorites like Black Ops and Black Ops 2 also make the list, but they are seen much lower than the more recent entries of the IP.
As for PlayStation’s own IPs, the likes of The Last of Us and Marvel’s Spider-Man have made it into the top 20 best-sellers. To nobody’s surprise, other games like Minecraft also make the list.
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