Best-selling video games in the United States by year
This is a listing of the best-selling video games in the United States annually by units sold since 1980, with sales figures from The NPD Group since 1994. The United States is a very competitive market for video game developers. Games from different developers around the world have entered the annual lists of top ten best-selling games in the United States. The most successful developers are mostly from Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom and Sweden. Among the 41 reported annual top-sellers between 1980 and 2022, thirteen were published by Nintendo, twelve by Activision Blizzard, four each by Atari and Take-Two Interactive, three by Electronic Arts, and two each by Sega and Acclaim Entertainment. Video game publishers Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts managed to enter the list of ten best-selling games every single year with at least one of their games for the last twelve years in a row. Of the twelve best-selling games released in the last thirteen years, eleven were from Call of Duty franchise and published by Activision Blizzard. Madden NFL and the Call of Duty series have been on the annual top ten best-sellers list twelve times over the last twelve years. 1980–2006 Among the 25 reported annual top-sellers between 1980 and 2006, twelve were published by Nintendo, four published by Atari, three by Electronic Arts, and two each by Sega, Acclaim Entertainment and Take-Two Interactive. 2007–present 2007 Halo 3 was the best-selling game of 2007. 2008 Wii Play was the best-selling game of 2008. 2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the best-selling game of 2009. 2010 Call of Duty: Black Ops was the best-selling game of 2010. 2011 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the best-selling game of 2011, followed by The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Just Dance 3. 2012 Call of Duty: Black Ops II was the best-selling game of 2012. 2013 Grand Theft Auto V was the best-selling game of 2013. The game became the fastest-selling entertainment product in history three days after its release. 2014 The best-selling game of 2014 was Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. 2015 The best-selling game of 2015 was Call of Duty: Black Ops III. 2016 The best-selling game of 2016 was Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Among the top ten best-selling games in 2016, eight were multiplayer games and the other two had multiplayer modes. 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. 2017 The best-selling game of 2017 was Call of Duty: WWII, followed by NBA 2K18 and Destiny 2. PUBG is absent from the list due to PUBG Corporation not sharing sales data with the NPD. Nintendo also do not share digital sales data with the NPD, thus Nintendo games are under-represented. 2018 Red Dead Redemption II was the best-selling game of 2018, Rockstar Games' first game in over 5 years. For the first time since 2013, the best-selling game of the year wasn't