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Call of Duty and Destiny are the top two best-selling console games of 2014

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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First-person shooters continue to pay off for one of the biggest video game publishers in the world.

Activision Publishing said today that Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Destiny are the No. 1 and No. 2 best-selling console games of the year in the United States. And Activision’s Skylanders Trap Team is also the No. 1 kids video game of 2014, based on retail sales data from market researchers NPD Group. That’s a pretty good position to be in, and it shows that the two sci-fi shooting games didn’t cannibalize each other in the first-person genre.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.