Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Battlefield 6, and Ghost of Yōtei helped drive Canada’s top selling video games chart for December 2025.
By Jon Scarr
December brought one last shake-up to the Canadian video game sales charts. If you have been following the monthly breakdowns, this list wraps up a busy year where new releases, sports games, and long-running favourites kept trading spots. According to Circana and the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, December followed that pattern right to the end.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 closed out 2025 in first place, which fits the way shooter season usually plays out. NHL 26 grabbed second as hockey fever settled in, and Battlefield 6 followed in third after a strong fall run. EA Sports FC 26 held fourth, keeping three Electronic Arts titles in the top five to finish the year.
Pokrmon Legends: Z-A rounded out the top group in fifth place. Since Nintendo’s digital sales are not counted in this tracking, the result only reflects boxed copies. Even with that caveat, it still pushed into the upper half of the chart.
As always, these rankings cover physical retail only. Nintendo’s digital data is not included, and some games likely sit higher once everything is combined. Even so, the snapshot shows where December’s holiday money went at Canadian retailers.
Let’s take a closer look at the top selling games in Canada for December 2025.
December 2025 Top 10 Canadian Video Game Sales Chart
December pulled together a mix of major shooters, annual sports staples, Nintendo exclusives, and one evergreen classic. Below is the full top ten based on Circana and Entertainment Software Association of Canada retail reporting, with publishers listed for each game.
December’s chart ended up feeling like a meeting point between new releases and familiar routines. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 taking the top spot lined up with how the series usually behaves around the holidays. A major shooter landing in November often spills straight into December, and that pattern held again.
NHL 26 grabbing second fit the time of year as well. Once the regular season settles in, hockey games move steadily at Canadian retailers. Battlefield 6 in third and EA Sports FC 26 in fourth showed how strong Electronic Arts remained through the end of the year. Three of the top four games carried that logo, which says a lot about how sports and shooters drive December spending.
Pokémon Legends: Z-A taking fifth place even without digital sales counted says a lot about how strong Nintendo’s boxed copies remain. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond sliding into sixth pushed another Nintendo release into the mix. With both marked as physical only, it is easy to imagine how different the list might look if digital numbers were added.
NBA 2K26 held seventh, keeping basketball in the conversation after a long year. Minecraft appearing in eighth felt almost inevitable. It does not need a big launch window anymore. It just keeps moving copies whenever people pick up new hardware or want a reliable game to throw into the cart.
Ghost of Yōtei turning up ninth added a final note from October’s charts. It went from a strong fall debut into a quieter December spot but still stayed present. Madden NFL 26 at tenth rounded out the list and continued the usual pattern of football hanging around during the holidays.
Notes From December’s Top Ten
Digging through December’s list, a few details stood out. The first was how dominant Electronic Arts ended up being. Battlefield, NHL, EA Sports FC, and Madden all landed in the top ten. That is a lot of shelf space tied to one publisher at the end of the year.
Another detail was how late-year releases stacked against long-running games. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 claimed first as the new shooter, while Minecraft kept eighth without a new launch behind it. One rode holiday hype, the other simply stayed in the mix because people still grab it whenever they set up a new console.
Seeing Ghost of Yōtei and Pokémon Legends: Z-A here also helped tie December back to the monthly charts. Both had been part of earlier reports, and their December positions showed how they settled once the big wave of launches started to thin out.
Canada’s Top Selling Video Games December 2025 Wrap Up
December wrapped 2025 in a way that matched the year we just looked back on. Shooters, sports titles, and Nintendo exclusives all shared space, with Minecraft continuing to float somewhere in the middle, refusing to disappear.
Watching the month-to-month movement has been half the fun. Borderlands 4, Ghost of Yōtei, NBA 2K26, and others all shifted around over the last stretch of 2025. Some games burned bright around launch, while others kept a slow but steady presence.
The genre mix made December feel busy right through the holidays. Call of Duty provided the big year-end push, Pokémon and Metroid kept Nintendo fans covered, sports stayed steady, and Minecraft proved once again that it does not need a new release to keep selling.
Now the focus turns to the next wave. New hardware, new game launches, and more Canadian-developed projects are all lining up. For now, this list is a quick look at how 2025 wrapped up at Canadian game retailers, and I’ll be following it up with a wider look at Canada’s top selling video games of 2025 to see how these December results fit into the full year.
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Jon Scarr
4ScarrsGaming Owner / Operator & Editor-in-Chief
Jon covers video game news, reviews, industry shifts, cloud gaming, plus movies, TV, and toys, with an eye on how entertainment fits into everyday life.
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