- Mat Piscatella
- 2 days ago
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February 2026 Spending (USD, Millions)
Total: $4,557 (+1% vs YA)
Content: $4,016 (0%)
Hardware: $326 (+22%)
Accessories: $215 (-2%)
YTD 2026 Spending (USD, Millions)
Total: $9,256 (+2% vs YA)
Content: $8,282 (+1%)
Hardware: $574 (+19%)
Accessories: $401 (-3%)
Resident Evil: Requiem Debuts as the Best-Selling Video Game of 2026
Nintendo Switch 2 pushes hardware spending 22% higher in February when compared to a year ago.
Hardware Key Takeaways
Hardware spending increased 22% when compared to a year ago, to $326M. Spending on Nintendo Switch 2 hardware offset year-on-year declines across PlayStation 5, Switch and Xbox Series consoles.
PlayStation 5 again led the hardware market in both unit and dollar sales. Nintendo Switch 2 repeated its January performance ranking 2nd across both measures.
With nine months in market, the life-to-date installed base of Nintendo Switch 2 is trending 45% ahead of the original Nintendo Switch (November 2017 was the ninth month in market for Nintendo Switch).
Content Key Takeaways
February video game content spending was flat when compared to February 2025, at $4.0B. Non-mobile subscription content spending increased by 27% compared to a year ago, offsetting the declines experienced across other content segments. (mobile source: Sensor Tower).
Resident Evil: Requiem debuted as the best-selling video game of the year. It ranked 1st in February across the PlayStation, Xbox and the aggregated PC storefront charts.
Launch week dollar sales of Resident Evil: Requiem were more than 60% higher than the launch week total of Resident Evil: Village (week ending May 8, 2021), with unit sales increasing by more than 40%. (Note - percentages exclude bundled versions).
Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined debuted as the 7th best-selling game in February while ranking 14th year-to-date.
Other new video games appearing among the month’s top 20 best-sellers included Mario Tennis Fever (11th – physical only), God of War: Sons of Sparta (14th), My Hero Academia: All’s Justice (17th) and Resident Evil Generation Pack (20th).
Diablo II: Resurrected jumped to 13th on the February 2026 best-selling titles chart – up from 195th in January – driven by the Steam release of Diablo II: Resurrected – Infernal Edition.
DOOM: The Dark Ages lifted from 92nd on the aggregated PC storefront best-selling games chart in January to #9 in February helped in part by id Software Anniversary Sale promotional pricing on Steam.
In Mobile content, Sensor Tower reports the top 10 games by U.S. consumer spending in February and the change in ranking from January as: MONOPOLY GO!, Last War: Survival (+1), Royal Match (-1), Candy Crush Saga, Gossip Harbor, Kingshot, Whiteout Survival, Township (+1), Pokémon GO (+8) and Royal Kingdom (-2).
“Pokémon GO shot up in the ranks, breaking into the top 10 again with 61% revenue growth month-over-month and knocking Free Fire out of the top 10,” said Bryan Isagholian of Sensor Tower. “This is likely due to the Road to Kalos event being launched late February, and the title will continue to see an increase in daily revenue into early March before the event comes to a close.”
Accessories Key Takeaways
Accessories spending fell by 2% when compared to February a year ago, to $215M. The PlayStation Portal Remote Player Midnight Black was the best-selling accessory in dollar sales for both the month and year-to-date.
The PS5 Dual Sense Wireless Controller Midnight Black was the best-selling accessory in units for both the month and 2026 year thus far.
Top 10 Selling Video Games (Retail and Digital), February 2026
Rank | Last Month Rank | Title | Publisher |
1 | NEW | Resident Evil: Requiem | Capcom USA |
2 | 2 | NBA 2K26 | Take-Two Interactive |
3 | 1 | Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 | Microsoft (Corp) |
4 | 4 | Minecraft^ | Multiple Video Game Publishers |
5 | 15 | Helldivers I| | Sony (Corp) |
6 | 6 | EA Sports FC 26 | Electronic Arts |
7 | 5 | Battlefield 6 | Electronic Arts |
8 | 3 | Madden NFL 26 | Electronic Arts |
9 | NEW | Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined | Square Enix Inc (Corp) |
10 | 7 | Grand Theft Auto V | Take-Two Interactive |
* Digital sales not included for marked titles - ^ Digital sales on Nintendo platforms not included
Note: Sales of software packaged in a hardware bundle are not included in the best-selling titles charts.
Top 10 Selling Video Games (Retail and Digital), Year-to-Date 2026
YTD | Last Month Rank | Title | Publisher |
1 | NEW | Resident Evil: Requiem | Capcom USA |
2 | 2 | NBA 2K26 | Take-Two Interactive |
3 | 1 | Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 | Microsoft (Corp) |
4 | 3 | Madden NFL 26 | Electronic Arts |
5 | 4 | Minecraft^ | Multiple Video Game Publishers |
6 | 6 | EA Sports FC 26 | Electronic Arts |
7 | 5 | Battlefield 6 | Electronic Arts |
8 | 7 | Grand Theft Auto V | Take-Two Interactive |
9 | 9 | Red Dead Redemption I| | Take-Two Interactive |
10 | 15 | Helldivers II | Sony (Corp) |
* Digital sales not included for marked titles - ^ Digital sales on Nintendo platforms not included ^^ Digital sales on Nintendo and Xbox platforms not included
Note: Sales of software packaged in a hardware bundle are not included in the best-selling titles charts.
