Call of Duty: Black Ops II is the Best-Selling Xbox 360 Game in the US, Console Sold 42.7M Lifetime - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 22 November 2025 / 6,056 Views
Circana Executive Director and Video Game Industry Analyst Mat Piscatella in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the launch of Xbox 360 in North America, November 22, 2005, has revealed the top 20 best-selling Xbox 360 games in the US of all-time.
Call of Duty dominates the best-sellers list with seven entries in the top 20 and four of the top five games. There are also three Halo games, two Gears of War games, and two Grand theft Auto games in the top 20.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is the best-selling Xbox 360 game of all-time in terms of units and dollar sales. The list is likely excluding bundle games like Kinect Adventures!, which came with every Kinect sold.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is in second place, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is in third place, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is in fifth place, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is in seventh place, Call of Duty: Ghosts is in ninth place, and Call of Duty: World at War is in 13th place.
Halo 3 is the best-selling first-party game as it came in fourth place, while Halo: Reach is in eighth place and Halo 4 is in 10th place.
The original Gears of War came in 19th place, while Gears of War 3 rounds out the top 20. Gears of War 2 didn't make the list.
Grand Theft Auto V, which launched right before the Xbox One, is the sixth best-selling Xbox 360 game, while Grand Theft Auto IV came in 14th place. The original Red Dead Redemption came in 18th place.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came in 12th place, Minecraft in 15th place, and Battlefield 3 in 17th place.
Rock Band is the best-selling music game as it came in 11th place, while Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock came in 16th place. The ranking is by dollar sales and the games likely had a higher selling price due to coming with plastic instruments, helped the rankings.
"Happy 20th to the Xbox 360!" said Piscatella. "The Xbox 360 sold 42.7M consoles in the US lifetime, with Call of Duty: Black Ops II being its best-selling game in the US in both units and dollars. The 360 Headset led accessory SKUs in US units sold at over 11.4M."
Here are the all-time top 20 best-selling Xbox 360 games in the US:
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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What's crazy is Microsoft own most of the games on this list now.
Gross
Halo 3 being 4th place of best selling Xbox 360 games... And it still cannot even get a proper remaster/remake.
Own the physical release for each and every one of these games, the Xbox 360 was such a banging platform.
I thought the GTA games would be higher. Maybe the fanbase does lean PS after all these years.
Let's see if the PS5 can reach it.. it was on great track until recently .. if that slow down is just a temporary it will have a chance.
No Gears 2? Interesting.
Its launch-window MP issues likely resulted in some lost overall sales. I still remember telling other buddies not to buy the critic's hype when playing a full competitive match felt near-impossible.
EDIT: To be clear, these issues weren't accounted for in Horde Mode. There was something about 5v5 competitive that Epic had problems with back then.
Not a single sports title
I owned almost all of them ^^'.
Greatest black ops of all time
Not too much has changed in 20 years if you see the most purchased games now lol. I'll still always remember the 360 not only for Halo and Gears, but Gotham Racing, Prey, Rainbow Six: Vegas, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Ace Combat 6, Left 4 Dead, Ninja Gaiden 2, and I can go on. Such a great system and honestly the peak of social gaming.
My boy Reach should be higher
That's... only three whole franchises in the top 10.
One of the least-known trivia questions out there is that the Xbox 360 beat the Wii in the US. It was the number-one-selling console in that territory during that gen... which is quite remarkable.
I guess NPD adjusted some of their estimates for 360 hardware sales. I've catalogued all the posted monthly figures and it all adds up to over 43.2M units.
Six CoD games in the top 10. Wow.
Out of that top 20 list I owned Halo 3, Halo Reach, Halo 4, GTAV, Rock Band, Skyrim, Minecraft, Gears of War, and Gears of War 3. If I played CoD I would have owned nearly every game in the list.
