Sparking Zero made the list of best selling video games in all of 2024 for the US

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero hits 5 million

2024 marked the launch of a couple of big new fighting games as well as continued support for plenty of others, and now we have a better idea as to how they all performed across the entire year.

Circana (formerly the NPD Group) recently released their latest best-selling video game charts for December and 2024 as a whole where Tekken 8 and Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero made the cut.

Starting out with December, Sparking Zero was the only fighter to make the list to close out the year for game sales in the United States according to Mat Piscatella’s data.

Dragon Ball fell from 5th to 11th month over month and 2nd place from where it launched in October.

This means the Winter / holiday sales were not enough to help Tekken, Street Fighter 6 or Mortal Kombat 1 get back onto the top 20 of the charts interestingly while other games like Hogwarts Legacy, Astro Bot, Minecraft, Helldivers 2 and God of War: Ragnarök all benefit from the gift-giving season.

As for the entirety of 2024, however, both Tekken plus Goku and crew made the cut for the top 20.

In terms of money made for the year, Tekken 8 finished in 18th place overall, falling down one spot from the previous total thanks to Minecraft shooting back up.

Bandai Namco had an even bigger hit on their hands, though, with Sparking Zero closing out 2024 at an impressive 4th place behind only Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, EA Sports College Football 25 and Helldivers 2.

This isn’t the biggest surprise considering Sparking became the best-selling Dragon Ball game ever in the U.S. in just a month.

More recently, it was also revealed that Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero had surpassed 5 million units sold.

We’re thrilled to announce that DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO has officially sold 5 million copies worldwide! #DBSZ

A huge THANKS to our amazing fans for the epic journey. We truly appreciate your passion and dedication pic.twitter.com/3X0MuvXc99

— Dragon Ball Games (@dragonballgames) February 4, 2025

When looking at the individual platforms, Dragon Ball and Tekken both ranked on PlayStation exactly where they did overall, but Xbox was different.

On Microsoft’s conosole, Sparking was 7th and Tekken didn’t end up charting at all.

The Nintendo Switch doesn’t have either of those fighters, but Super Smash Bros. Ultimate still managed to be the system’s 8th-best selling game of 2024 ahead of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Pokemon Scarlet / Violet, which is interesting to see.

There’s also some notable absences from the overall list here with Street Fighter 6, the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection and Mortal Kombat 1 not making the cut in any regard.

Marvel did manage to chart for two of the months it was out late last year, but that was not apparently enough to get the game to at least 20th place.

Both SF6 and MK1 were on the top 20 for 2023, but it seems that the Khaos Reigns expansion and some deep discounts were not enough to get them onto the charts again for two years in a row.

At least Capcom had a different hit on their hands with Dragon’s Dogma 2 while MultiVersus wasn’t anywhere to be seen for Warner Bros.

The latter isn’t surprising since it was just announced that MultiVersus will be shutting down in May after Season 5.

For 2025, we’ve got games like Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, the Capcom Fighting Collection 2 and 2XKO on the horizon, so we’re very interested to see if any of them or the previously mentioned current fighting games will have a shot at the charts again as we move through this year.