Name: Xbox Series X Digital
Brand: Microsoft
Price: 448 USD

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Microsoft has revealed the top 20 best-selling Xbox games of 2024.
The company shared an alphabetized list, making it impossible to gauge how individual Xbox titles compare to one another.
The list itself is dominated by sports games, which account for over one-third of it.

Microsoft has shared the list of 2024's best-selling Xbox games. As is customary for such year-end roundups, this particular list highlights Xbox gamers' strong preference for sports titles.

In late January 2024, Microsoft introduced a new initiative called the Xbox Excellence Awards. As the name suggests, the program aims to celebrate the most outstanding Xbox games on an annual basis.

The first iteration of the Xbox Excellence Awards comprises four categories, one of which measures commercial performance. This category includes 20 games that sold the most units on the Microsoft/Xbox Store over the course of 2024. Microsoft decided to alphabetize this list rather than present it in the form of rankings, making it impossible to determine how individual titles stack up against one another from this source alone. But if Circana's recently published report on the top 20 best-selling games of 2024 is any indication, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and EA Sports College Football 25 might have topped Microsoft's sales charts last year.

Top 20 Best-Selling Microsoft/Xbox Store Games of 2024

7 Days to Die
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
Dragon’s Dogma 2
EA Sports College Football 25
EA Sports FC 25
EA Sports Madden NFL 25
Farming Simulator 25
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
MLB The Show 24
NBA 2K25
NHL 25
Palworld
Phasmophobia
Star Wars Outlaws
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
WWE 2K24

Microsoft alphabetized the list of 2024's best-selling games rather than sharing detailed rankings.

In terms of big-picture trends, sports games have dominated the Xbox ecosystem over the course of 2024. More than one-third of the newly shared list consists of sports titles, including MLB The Show 24, NBA 2K25, NHL 25, and WWE 2K24. Three sports games from Electronic Arts have also made the cut. Of those, EA Sports College Football 25 and EAS FC 25 ended up making the top 20 in two other categories: Player Engagement and Daily Active Users. While the latter is self-explanatory, Microsoft measures player engagement by calculating the average playing hours per user within the first six weeks of a given game's release.

Multiple Best-Selling Xbox Games of 2024 Underperformed Commercially

The newly released list of 2024's best-selling Xbox games features several titles that underperformed commercially, making their inclusion somewhat unexpected. Both Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Star Wars Outlaws failed to meet internal sales expectations, with earlier signs suggesting that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora faced similar challenges. Since all of them still sold well within the Xbox ecosystem, it's debatable whether their perceived failures stem from unrealistic expectations, ballooning development budgets, other factors, or a combination thereof.

All the developers and publishers highlighted as part of the Xbox Excellence Awards 2024 will soon receive trophies from Microsoft. The full list of winners includes games from dozens of companies spanning 15 countries.

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Xbox Series X Digital

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4K Capabilities: 60 fps, 120 fps
Brand: Microsoft
Storage: 1TB Custom NVME SSD
CPU: 8X Cores @ 3.8 GHz (3.6 GHz w/SMT) Custom Zen 2 CPU
Connectivity: 802.11ac dual band, Ethernet 802.3 10/100/1000, HDMI 2.1 3x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports
Dimensions: 5.94 x 5.94 x 11.85 in (15.1 x 15.1 x 30.1cm)

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The Xbox Series X Digital is the best way yet to play Microsoft's extensive collection of Game Pass titles. In a distinctive robot white color, Microsoft's flagship console has the same 4K gaming capabilities and supports 120 fps gameplay. The Xbox Series X digital ships with a blazingly fast 1 TB SSD to ensure gamers have plenty of space for digital downloads. With the console, buyers receive the versatile Xbox Wireless Controller with a dedicated Share Button to boast gameplay achievements.

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