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 a Call of Duty game.

2019 
The best-selling game of 2019 was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

2020 
Top selling game of 2020 was Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War, followed by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

2021 
Call of Duty: Vanguard was the best-selling game of 2021. Two of the top 10 best-selling games of 2021 were Activision Blizzard games.

2022 
The best-selling video game of 2022 in the United States was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II from Activision Blizzard. The game outperformed the previous record-holders for the series, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from 2011 and Black Ops II from 2012.

January–September 2023 
The best-selling video game in the United States between January and September 2023, based on data available to the NPD, is Hogwarts Legacy from Warner Bros. Games. However, due to the NPD being unable to track Nintendo digital sales data, only physical sales are counted for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

See also 

 Video games in the United States
 History of video games
 List of best-selling video games

References 

Video gaming in the United States
Lists of best-selling video games