While it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Call of Duty: Black Ops was the best-selling game in November, it’s also now the 7th best-selling game of all time. Black Ops sold 8.4 million units at retail in a single month and accounted for 25% of all video game software units sold during the month.
The rest of the NPD top-ten for the month consists of a similarly high-profile games. November saw publishers striking out with the best they had. For Ubisoft, this consisted of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, which took the #2 spot, followed by Just Dance 2 at #3.
Fable III for the Xbox 360 also turned up at #5, as did Donkey Kong Country Returns at #6. While Fable III got a head start by releasing in October, it’s rather impressive that Donkey Kong, despite being on a single platform, managed to outsell Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which was on every current-gen home console on the market.
Following behind Hot Pursuit was another racing game — Gran Turismo 5 — for the PlayStation 3, at #8. The top-ten for the month of November was as follows:
| Rank | Title | System | Publisher |
| 01. | Call of Duty: Black Ops | PS3, 360, PC, Wii DS | Activision Blizzard |
| 02. | Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood | PS3, 360 | Ubisoft |
| 03. | Just Dance 2 | Wii | Ubisoft |
| 04. | Madden NFL 11 | PS3, 360, Wii, PSP, PS2 | Electronic Arts |
| 05. | Fable III | 360 | Microsoft |
| 06. | Donkey Kong Country Returns | Wii | Nintendo |
| 07. | Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit | PS3, 360, Wii, PC | Electronic Arts |
| 08. | Gran Turismo 5 | PS3 | Sony |
| 09. | NBA 2K11 | PS3, 360, Wii, PSP, PS2 | Take Two |
| 10. | Wii Fit Plus | Wii | Nintendo |
