American Market Tracking Company NPD presented a list of the highest grossing games of the decade by sales revenue in the United States. The top releases were released between 2010 and 2019. Mostly these are multi-platform products with Grand theft auto v and shooter series Call of duty in charge of. Only two exclusives were able to break into the top twenty – a racing game Mario kart 8 and adventure The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild the company Nintendo.
The highest grossing games in the US for the decade 2010-2019 on sales revenue:
- Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012)
- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015)
- Call Of Duty: Ghosts (2013)
- Red Dead Redemption II (2018)
- Call of Duty: WWII (2017)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (2018)
- Minecraft (2009)
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
- Mario Kart 8 (2014, 2017)
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016)
- Battlefield 1 (2017)
- Battlefield 4 (2013)
- Destiny (2014)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
- Star Wars Battlefront (2015)
The rating is based on sales data in boxed and digital formats.
It is worth recalling that Nintendo and Bethesda they don’t share statistics on sales of digital versions of games with NPD, which means that their products are presented on the chart only on the basis of boxed statistics. Given digital copies, they probably would have taken higher positions.
For comparison, this was the chart of the most successful games of the previous decade, 2000-2009:
