EA Says Battlefield 6 Is the Year's Top Shooter — Sales Data Shows It's Bigger Than That
Battlefield 6 is storming this year’s release calendar, poised to be the blockbuster to beat with franchise-defining scale, spectacle, and all-out chaos.
Quick detour from movies and TV, because this one is too big to ignore: the shooter race this year has been crowded — Borderlands 4, Doom: The Dark Ages, Arc Raiders, and the ever-present Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 — but the game making the loudest noise right now is Battlefield 6.
The bold claim (straight from EA)
EA is already calling its shot on the official Battlefield 6 site. There’s a little sales pitch on the landing page that ends with this line:
"There’s never been a better time to jump into the best selling shooter game of the year."
No numbers to back it up there, and neither EA nor the Battlefield studios have amplified that claim on social media. Still, it’s sitting on the site, plain as day.
The receipts (and they’re convincing)
Mat Piscatella, senior director at Circana, just posted new year-to-date sales data that backs up EA’s swagger. By his numbers, Battlefield 6 isn’t just the top-selling shooter of 2025 — it’s in the mix for best-selling game of the year overall.
Platform breakdown looks like this:
- PC: Battlefield 6 is #1
- Xbox: Battlefield 6 is #1
- PlayStation: Battlefield 6 is #2, right behind NBA 2K26
Getting edged by a sports juggernaut is hardly a black eye; it mostly shows how big this Battlefield entry is hitting across the board.
Franchise records getting shattered
It may go without saying, but let’s say it anyway: Battlefield 6 is now the best-selling entry in the series. The wild stat? October’s sales alone topped the lifetime total of Battlefield 1, which previously held the franchise benchmark. Yes, that’s how outsized this launch has been.
The holiday wild card
We still have the holiday rush ahead, and Black Ops 7 will get a meaningful December bump. Call of Duty has a habit of closing late, so don’t write it off yet.
Meanwhile, players are dunking on a new mode
Not everything in Battlefield 6 is winning hearts. The new Sabotage mode is getting dragged by FPS diehards — lots of 'awful' being thrown around — with some players saying they can’t fathom how it got greenlit and arguing it feels engineered to keep a few Call of Duty players from wandering off. The sales momentum is real; the design debate is, too.
Bottom line: Battlefield 6 is having the kind of year publishers dream about, even as it stirs up the usual discourse that follows any massive live game. And yes, I’m watching to see if Call of Duty makes this a photo finish in December.