Unsurprisingly, the US gaming market was quiet in January, with only a few new releases and the busy vacation season, with Name of Obligation: Black Ops 7 as soon as once more being the best-selling sport of the month, and the PlayStation 5 taking the lead amongst house consoles.
In line with an evaluation shared by Circana Senior Director and Analyst Mat Piscatella, the PS5 leads the {hardware} in each models offered and income, with the Nintendo Change 2 in second place for each. General {hardware} spending was up 16% year-over-year, with elevated spending on the Change 2 (clearly greater than nothing because the Change 2 hadn’t launched final 12 months) offsetting decrease spending on the PS5 (down 17%), Xbox Sequence (down 27%), and Change 1 (down 79%, which is a big however comprehensible drop). Accent spending decreased 5% to $185 million.
In content material, spending elevated 3% year-over-year to $4.3 billion, primarily pushed by a 23% enhance in subscription spending. Name of Obligation: Black Ops 7 is as soon as once more the best-selling sport of the month, NBA 2K26 is as soon as once more in second place, and Madden NFL 26 rises from fourth place final month to 3rd place in January. Battlefield 6, which was in third place final month, dropped to fifth place in January.
The one new sport within the prime 20 in January was Code Vein II, which got here in at #11. Because of the discharge of the Xbox Sequence and Nintendo Change 2, Remaining Fantasy 7: Remake jumped from #225 final month to #9 in January. Fallout 4 additionally made a giant bounce from 68th place to twentieth place. Maybe it is due to Season 2 of the Fallout TV present, which coincided with an enormous value drop on Steam on the finish of the month.
Moreover, Piscatella informed videogameaddicted that exterior of the highest 20, each Fable Anniversary and Animal Crossing: New Horizons noticed important gross sales will increase. Within the former case, that is due to a brand new trailer for the upcoming Fable sport, and within the latter case, it is because of DLC and the discharge of the Change 2.
General, whole gaming spending reached $4.7 billion, a rise of three% 12 months over 12 months. The beginning of 2026 is not precisely thrilling, however when was the final time January was an explosive month for gaming?
Prime 20 best-selling video games within the US for January 2026:
- Name of Obligation: Black Ops 7
- NBA 2K26
- Madden NFL 26
- Minecraft*
- battlefield 6
- EA Sports activities FC 26
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Pink Useless Redemption II
- Remaining Fantasy VII: Remake
- Forza Horizon 5
- Code Vein II (NEW)
- Ghost of Yotei
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 26
- Helldivers II
- Pokemon Legend: ZA*
- cut up fiction
- elden ring
- flight simulator 2024
- fallout 4
* Signifies that some or all digital gross sales usually are not included in Circana’s knowledge. Some publishers, together with Nintendo, don’t share sure digital knowledge for this report.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter at videogameaddicted. Do you’ve gotten any story suggestions? Ship it to rvalentine@videogameaddicted.com.