The Xbox Black Friday Sale 2023 has been live for a little over a week on the official Xbox Store, which means the "Top Paid" Xbox charts are now revealing some of the most popular purchases in the sale so far.
As we usually do with these roundups, we're focusing on the US version of the Xbox Store to produce a list of the top 25 best-sellers as things stand. The UK version is a little different, but still features most of the same games.
Here's a look at the current "Top Paid Games" list in the US for just the Xbox Black Friday 2023 deals. This list is accurate at the time of writing, but obviously these rankings could change before the sale ends on November 30th.
We're not counting COD: MW3 for this list as it's only received a very temporary discount.
- Madden NFL 24 - $34.99
- NBA 2K24 for Xbox Series X|S - $34.99
- EA Sports FC 24 - $34.99
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 - $14.99
- NBA 2K24 for Xbox One - $26.99
- Red Dead Redemption 2 - $19.79
- Mortal Kombat 1 - $48.99
- Hogwarts Legacy for Xbox Series X|S - $41.99
- Assassin's Creed Mirage - $39.99
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Zombies Chronicles Edition - $19.79
- UFC 5 - $48.99
- Call of Duty: Black Ops - $14.99
- Hogwarts Legacy for Xbox One - $35.99
- Borderlands Collection: Pandora's Box - $49.49
- Madden NFL 24 Deluxe Edition - $49.99
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - $9.99
- Fallout 4: Game Of The Year Edition - $9.99
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection - $9.99
- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - $14.99
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege: Deluxe Edition - $9.99
- WWE 2K23 Cross-Gen Edition - $23.09
- Red Dead Online - $9.99
- Cyberpunk 2077 - $35.99
- Grand Theft Auto V: Premium Edition - $14.99
- Call of Duty: World at War - $9.99
Beyond the top 25, there are plenty of other successful Black Friday deals on Xbox, including for the likes of The Witcher 3, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Diablo 4, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Dead Island 2 and many others.
In the UK, some of the cheaper games in the sale are actually towards the top of the list, such as Mad Max, Dead Island Definitive Edition, I Am Fish, Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition and Batman: Return To Arkham.
If you're still wondering what to buy, we've got lots of Black Friday guides here at Pure Xbox including all the backwards compatible games in the Xbox Black Friday sale, the games with the biggest 90% and 95% reductions, and much more!
Have you been buying any of these in the Xbox Black Friday sale? Tell us down in the comments below.
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25% of them being CoD games, is actually pretty sad imo.
That list gives me major 2013 Xbox One launch vibes. 😂
Call of Duty, Call of Duty, Call of Duty, Sports, Sports.. something something TV.. Call of Duty!
Guess Microsoft did know it’s audience after all.
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Especially since they all should be on GamePass within a few months.
One of the great mysteries of the universe is why I pay extra for the x/s version of a game… why is it more?
Remember that Call of Duty and EA sports games are also the best-selling games on PS!
Why is CoD being prevalent sad? They are games people love. Not everything has to cater to any given player. CoD is popular, and if anything this shows that MS made a great choice buying out ABK.
Its odd that the CoD games are big sellers especially with the lobbies are hacked to *****. My guess is it's hackers who previously got banned and have to buy the game again.
@Banjo- yeah but in considerably higher volumes...
@Tharsman I guess it’d be nice to have to variety but I can’t talk, I mostly play Halo.
It's crazy how Hogwarts Legacy keeps selling. And with the Switch version, is probably one of the best selling games of the year.
Hogwarts is probably the best selling game of 2023, @Lup, and for three reasons in particular:
1. It's a well established, and, popular IP
2. It's a fantastic game that does the IP great service
and
3. It had a huge head start over some of the other big releases this year in that it released in February, giving it an overall advantage over many of the others. That's not me pouring scorn on the number of sales as I imagine that it will end up selling more than all the others anyway.
I always think year on year sales are a better metric to base sales on, rather than an arbitrary statement of the actual year in which a given game was released. A game that sells 500,000 one year, and 500,000 the next, still sells more than a game that sells a total of 900,000 in a single year, and that's it, if you follow.
Personally, I'd prefer to see a review of sales after 12 months, over a given year, but that never really seems to happen. Either way, I think Hogwarts will win that title (and probably deservedly so, especially when you consider that there was an effort to boycott the game!) but just saying '2023' does not, and will not, tell the entire story...
13 of 25 are either Call of Duty or some flavour of sports game. Really goes to show just how unfathomably popular those two genres are.
@Cakefish
Indeed, and that’s what I was trying to point out in my earlier post. In 2013 so many people hated on Xbox and Microsoft for focusing so heavy on Call of Duty and sports games during the Xbox One reveal.
Yet here we are 10 years later in 2023, and what is dominating the above top 20 chart? That’s right, COD and sports games! Hence Microsoft knew its audience even if others wanted to hate on them for it.
Look how PlayStation fought tooth and nail to stop Microsoft making COD Xbox exclusive. People can hate all they want but COD really does remain one hell of an enduring and popular franchise, that actually does have some really great campaigns, even if some are on the shorter side.
Still crazy that Hogwarts is getting snubbed at Game Awards
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