Best selling video games ever

Warbie · 10 Sep 2007 at 03:35

Top 25 (not bundled)

1. Pokemon Red, Blue and Green (Game Boy - 20.08 million)
2. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES - 18 million)
3. The Sims (PC - 16 million)
4. Nintendogs (DS - 14.79 million)
5. Pokemon Gold and Silver (Game Boy - 14.51 million)
6. Super Mario Land (Game Boy - 14 million)
7. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2 - 13 million), Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire (GBA - 13 million), The Sims 2 (PC - 13 million)
10. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2 - 12 million)
11. Super Mario 64 (N64 - 11 million)
12. Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (PS2 - 11 million)
13. Grand Theft Auto III (PS2 - 11 million)
14. Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen (GBA - 10.66 million)
15. New Super Mario Bros. (DS - 10.52 million)
16. Gran Turismo (PS1 - 10.5 million)
17. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl (DS - 10 million)
18. Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES - 10 million)
19. Final Fantasy VII (PS1 - 9.8 million)
20. StarCraft (PC - 9.5 million)
21. World of Warcraft (PC - 9 million)
22. Gran Turismo 4 (PS2 - 8.79 million)
23. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (DS - 8.61 million)
24. Gran Turismo 2 (PS1 - 8.5 million)
25. Golden Eye (N64 - 8 million), Half-Life (PC - 8 million), Halo 2 (Xbox - 8 million)

Bundled games that sold over 1 million:

1. Super Mario Bros. (NES - 40.23 million)
2. Tetris (Game Boy - 33 million)
3. Super Mario World (SNES - 17 million)
4. Wii Sports (Wii - 8.32 million)

Top 20 franchises

1. Mario (193 million)
2. Pokemon (155 million)
3. The Sims (90 million)
4. Final Fantasy (75 million)
5. Tetris (60 million)
6. Madden NFL (60 million)
7. The Legend of Zelda (52 million)
8. Grand Theft Auto (50 million)
9. Donkey Kong (48 million)
10. Gran Turismo (47 million)
11. Sonic the Hedgehog (44 million)
12. Lineage (43 million)
13. Dragon Quest (41 million)
14. Crash Bandicoot (34 million)
15. Tomb Raider (32 million)
16. Resident Evil (31 million)
17. James Bond (30 million)
18. Mega Man (27 million)
19. Medal of Honor (27 million)
20. Command & Conquer (25 million), Street Fighter (25 million)

Best selling fps - Golden Eye, Half-Life and Halo 2 (8 million)

Total Nintendo games sold as of June 1, 2007: 2.4 billion (!!)

Stats taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ng_video_games

That is a Nintendownage (see what I did there

) of obscene proportions.

XPE · 10 Sep 2007 at 05:00

The number of gta sold is really impressive, so is the Dragon Quest franchise, considering that the game never sell out side of Japan I’m surprised the franchise has sold that much.

Also Mario kart 64 seems to be missing, I always though that sold over 10 million. :confused:

malccy · 10 Sep 2007 at 09:27

Was expecting to see Doom and Half Life in list.

Kyle009 · 10 Sep 2007 at 09:36

impressive form from Nintendo.

james.miller · 10 Sep 2007 at 09:40

should pokemon red, blue AND green even count as one game?

vincent1989 · 10 Sep 2007 at 09:44

james.miller said:
should pokemon red, blue AND green even count as one game?

i would say yes, to all intents and purposes they are the same game, the story line is the same, the cities/ badges/ items/ (and for the most part) pokemon.

Mr Men · 10 Sep 2007 at 10:02

Should they even count as games is a better question

james.miller · 10 Sep 2007 at 10:04

bringerofdecay said:
i would say yes, to all intents and purposes they are the same game, the story line is the same, the cities/ badges/ items/ (and for the most part) pokemon.

orly? i always thought the were different. my bad lol

The Running Man · 10 Sep 2007 at 10:12

Reb/Blue/Green are in there because i think in Japan, Blue was Green. Yellow was a post dated release follow up which was a little different...

still though, dos this show decline in the console market games sales (in an industry which is increasing??) hintint at even greater fragmentation ?

apart from GTA and Peal/Diamond those games are like 5-10 years old+

Mr Men · 10 Sep 2007 at 10:33

Nickg said:
still though, dos this show decline in the console market games sales (in an industry which is increasing??) hintint at even greater fragmentation ?

apart from GTA and Peal/Diamond those games are like 5-10 years old+

More likely its shows the increase in game pirates :mad:

Trojan · 10 Sep 2007 at 10:46

Slightly different list of top 25 here:

http://www.gunslot.com/blog/top-twenty-five-25-best-selling-video-games-all-time

Shamikebab · 10 Sep 2007 at 10:51

Surely they're going to run out of colours for pokemon games soon.

KNiVES · 10 Sep 2007 at 11:01

malccy said:
Was expecting to see Doom and Half Life in list.

PC games are never going to be as popular as console games. There are hardly any PC games in that list. (And Half Life is mentioned in top selling FPS)

Shamikebab · 10 Sep 2007 at 11:04

Lets face it the best games will never sell the most, sales mean nothing.

magick · 10 Sep 2007 at 11:08

Suprised to see that GTA:SA didn't outsell GTA:Vice City and that HL2 didn't outsell the original Half Life especialy considering the amount Half Life 2 cost to make.

magick · 10 Sep 2007 at 11:11

Shamikebab said:
Lets face it the best games will never sell the most, sales mean nothing.

SMB 3, Super Mario 64, Goldeneye, Half Life, GTA Series. If they aren't some of the, if not the best games ever made I don't know what are.

Trojan · 10 Sep 2007 at 11:11

Shamikebab said:
Lets face it the best games will never sell the most, sales mean nothing.

I don't know, most of the games in that list are absolute classics. The Super Mario games, the GTAs, Goldeneye, Gran Turismo etc are all fantastic even today. I've not played the Pokemon games nor the Brain Age so can't comment on those, but of the games in that list that I have played, the only one I didn't like was The Sims 2.

Shamikebab · 10 Sep 2007 at 11:13

magick said:
SMB 3, Super Mario 64, Goldeneye, Half Life, GTA Series. If they aren't some of the, if not the best games ever made I don't know what are.

Oh no doubt some of the best games will get on there, but they're also the most commercial. Great games like Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Command & Conquer will never get on there.

Blinkz · 10 Sep 2007 at 11:23

how is Starcraft the highest PC game? I only know a cpl of people that bought it....

magick · 10 Sep 2007 at 11:27

Shamikebab said:
Oh no doubt some of the best games will get on there, but they're also the most commercial. Great games like Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Command & Conquer will never get on there.

Sorry I rate the games in the list much higher than the ones you list. Not to say the ones you mention aren't good. I'd say the reason the ones I mentioned sold so well is because they are ultimate classics not because they are commercial.