14 Years After Its Release, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Is One of 2026's Best Selling Games, According to Analysts

The caller PS4 and PS5 ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 are already immoderate of the best-selling games of the year, according to analysts.

Last month, Activision amazed Call of Duty fans by dropping ports of Black Ops 1 and 2 connected modern PlayStation consoles. Activision has somewhat notoriously avoided re-releasing older Call of Duty games, arsenic fans speculate that it would distract players from the newer games that are much lucrative for the publisher. Still, it seems that aft Black Ops 7 failed to conscionable expectations past year, these ports were enactment into accumulation to gain backmost subordinate spot (and make immoderate speedy cash, too).

That program worked absurdly well, arsenic Alinea Analytics estimates that Black Ops 2 sold a whopping 8.2 cardinal connected PS4 and PS5 past month, portion Black Ops 1 sold 3 million. The steadfast estimated that the games collectively generated $435 cardinal connected PlayStation. The 2 are estimated to beryllium the 2 highest-selling PlayStation titles of July, with Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced trailing successful 3rd with 1.6 cardinal copies, astir fractional the fig of copies sold arsenic a 16-year-old game.

This is simply a alternatively astonishing magnitude and would marque Black Ops 2 1 of the best-selling games of 2026, period. At the opening of July, Alinea estimated that the 3 best-selling games of 2026 were Mecha Chameleon astatine 12.6 cardinal copies, EA's FC 26 astatine 9.1 million, and Resident Evil Requiem astatine 7.5 million. By the extremity of July, Capcom confirmed Requiem had conscionable surpassed 8 cardinal units sold, truthful those estimates look reasonably connected point. With that said, it looks similar Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is among the apical 5 best-selling games of the twelvemonth truthful far.

Another notable portion of this communicative is that these ports haven't made immoderate important changes from their archetypal versions. There are nary caller features oregon content, and adjacent the method aspects mostly stay unchanged. It's unclear however overmuch Activision paid developer Iron Galaxy to enactment these ports together, but they apt didn't walk astir arsenic overmuch arsenic needed for a remaster oregon remake. Whether this volition unfastened the doorway to much Call of Duty ports remains to beryllium seen, but vocal fans are hoping to spot a instrumentality of the archetypal Modern Warfare 2 successful the future.

Activision's reign is acold from over, though, arsenic Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is acceptable to merchandise this October. While it was released during a precise engaged season, it volition inactive apt merchantability gangbusters arsenic the Modern Warfare sub-franchise is the astir revered portion of Call of Duty.

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