Created by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, Call of Duty was first launched in 2004. While the franchise was designed exclusively for Windows, later versions were made available for numerous other platforms, including Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, OS X, and more.

Statistics show that three Call of Duty titles ranked on the all-time best-selling PlayStation 4 games list, with a total of 36.9 million sold units so far.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 was the most successful among them, reaching 15.09 million in lifetime unit sales, and ranking as the second most sold PS4 title. Since its release in 2015, the game has sold over six million copies in both North America and Europe for the PlayStation 4.

CoD: WWII took fourth place on the list, with 13.4 million copies sold. Released in November 2017, this title gained a fantastic success in Europe, where it sold 6.21 million copies as of January 2020.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare ranked in ninth place. The video game released in November 2016 reached 8.48 million in PS4 unit sales, so far.

The 2020 data shows that the three most popular CoD games reached 23.6 million in lifetime unit sales on the list of Xbox all-time best-selling titles. Again, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 was the most successful among them, hitting 7.37 million sold copies and ranking as the second best-selling Xbox title of all times.

With 6.23 million in lifetime unit sales, CoD: WWII ranked as the third most-sold Xbox title so far. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare took sixth place on this Xbox list, with 5.22 million sold units so far. Statistics show that CoD: Infinite Warfare reached 4.79 million copies in Xbox unit sales, ranking as the tenth all-time best selling Xbox title.