Call of Duty has been the best selling game in the US for 8 of the past 9 years

Common gaming wisdom might tell you that Call of Duty’s best years are in the past, and the series’ biggest sales numbers are not going to be repeated. A newly released bit of NPD data suggests otherwise, though. With one exception, a Call of Duty title has been the top selling game in the US every year since 2009. That train starts with Modern Warfare 2 and carries on through last year’s WWII. The only break in tradition comes in 2013, when the impossibly popular Grand Theft Auto V topped the generally-maligned launch of Call of Duty: Ghosts. This data is based on full game dollar sales across both physical and digital releases. There are a couple of caveats to that data. Not every company reports its digital game sales, though Activision, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Square Enix, Take-Two, Ubisoft, and Warner Bros. all do. Separately, not every company reports sales on PC, and Activision is among those who don’t tell Steam numbers - Valve’s service is how every digital PC COD release has been handled up until Black Ops 4.

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