Black Ops 7 Suffers Staggering Defeat Against Battlefield 6 In Europe

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is underperforming on sales in Europe
• Worst Call of Duty sales figures in Japan since 2007
• Black Ops 7 concurrent player numbers getting crushed by BF6 and ARC Raiders
• Sales numbers in the United States yet to be released

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Sales Plummet Around The World

• The Call of Duty franchise’s latest addition,
• Black Ops 7
• , could be in serious trouble. The game is being outperformed on all fronts and Activision execs are feeling the heat. Its biggest rival,
• Battlefield 6

, has even started picking up in sales, suggesting that Call of Duty fans are deserting their own game.

During its first week in Europe, Black Ops 7 sales were 63% lower than Battlefield 6 across the continent. It was slightly worse in Spain where only a combined 29,026 physical and digital units were sold, compared to Battlefield 6’s first week ending Oct. 12 hit 86,551 units sold.

The official Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 account on X (formerly Twitter) announced on Nov. 17 that: “Physical launch sales for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in the UK were down 61% compared to Black Ops 6, not counting digital purchases.”

In Japan sales were even worse. When the game was released on PlayStation 5 on Nov. 13 there, it only sold 12,311 units in retail. The last time sales were so poor in the land of the rising sun was in June, 2007, when Call of Duty 3 shipped 14,117 units.

Meanwhile, EA has confirmed that Battlefield 6 has sold 7 million copies right out the gate. Analysts believe this number has increased to 10 million due to a surge after Black Ops 7 was released, this latest report is yet to be confirmed by EA.

ARC Raiders Also Crushing BO7

Still, Battlefield 6 is not the only shooter making waves this year, ARC Raiders has had a phenomenal debut and is going strong in sales and building a massive community. The extraction PvPvE shooter was released on Oct. 30, but recently hit a new all-time peak of concurrent players according to SteamDB.

The weekend ending Nov. 16 saw a peak of 481,966 gamers playing at the same time. In October, Battlefield 6 topped out at 747,440 players, while BO7 concurrent player data shows that the game peaked at a meager 100,332 players on Nov. 16.

Activision Blizzard is yet to release the sales figures for the United States so it is not completely over for the staple shooter franchise.

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