Lists of the best selling video games of all-time.
Overall[]
- List of best-selling video games
- List of highest-grossing video games
- Best selling games in the United States
- Best selling games in Japan
- Best selling game franchises
- List of highest-grossing video game franchises
- Best selling new IPs
- Best selling games (sixth generation)
- Best selling games (seventh generation)
- Best-selling video games of 2017
- Best-selling video games of 2018
- Best-selling video games of 2021
- Best-selling video games of 2022
Records[]
- Biggest game system launches
- List of fastest-selling video games
- NPD Fastest selling video games in the United States
- Chart-Track Fastest selling video games in the United Kingdom
- Famitsu Fastest selling video games in Japan
Genres[]
- Best selling fighting games
- Best selling first-person shooters
- Best selling music games
- Best selling RPG games
Developers[]
- Best selling Nintendo games
- Best selling Square-Enix games
- Best selling Blizzard games
- Best selling Konami games
- Best selling Capcom games
- Best selling Ubisoft games
- Best selling Microsoft games
- Best selling Sony games
- Best selling Sega games
- Best selling Valve games
Milestones[]
The following is a list of best-selling milestone records.
Note: Mobile downloads are excluded from the list.
Year | Title | Platform(s) | Sales milestone (units sold) | Market | Ref |
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1971 | Computer Space | Arcade | 1 | USA | [1] |
1972 | Computer Space | Arcade | 200 | USA | [2] |
Pong | Arcade | 6,000 | USA | [3] | |
Magnavox Odyssey | Console | 69,000 | USA | [4] | |
1974 | Magnavox Odyssey | Console | 150,000 | Worldwide | [5] |
1975 | Home Pong | Console | 150,000 | Worldwide | [6] |
Pong | Multi-platform | 160,000 | Worldwide | [7][6] | |
Magnavox Odyssey | Console | 350,000 | Worldwide | [5] | |
1978 | Nintendo Color TV-Game 6 | Console | 350,000 | Japan | [8] |
1979 | Nintendo Color TV-Game 15 | Console | 700,000 | Japan | [8] |
Space Invaders | Arcade | 750,000 | Worldwide | [9] | |
1980 | Space Invaders | Atari VCS | 1,000,000 | USA | [10] |
Fire (Fireman) | Game & Watch | 1,000,000 | Worldwide | [11] | |
Vermin (The Exterminator) | Game & Watch | 1,000,000 | Worldwide | ||
Space Invaders | Atari VCS | 1,318,655 | USA | [10] | |
Multi-platform | 2,068,655 | Worldwide | [9][10] | ||
1981 | Space Invaders | Atari VCS | 4,282,792 | USA | [10] |
Multi-platform | 5,032,792 | Worldwide | [9][10] | ||
1982 | Space Invaders | Atari VCS | 5,655,825 | USA | [10] |
Multi-platform | 7,336,925 | Worldwide | [9][10] | ||
Pac-Man | Atari VCS | 7,271,844 | USA | [10] | |
Multi-platform | 9,671,844 | Worldwide | [12] | ||
1983 | Pac-Man | Multi-platform | 11,356,413 | Worldwide | [12] |
1984 | 11,357,613 | ||||
1986 | 11,449,365 | ||||
1987 | 11,525,487 | ||||
1988 | 11,537,436 | ||||
1989 | Pac-Man | Multi-platform | 13,051,894 | Worldwide | [12] |
Super Mario Bros. | NES | 15,100,000 | Worldwide | [13][14] | |
Multi-platform | 15,120,000 | [13][14][15] | |||
1990 | Donkey Kong | Multi-platform | 15,198,025 | Worldwide | [16][n 1] |
Pac-Man | Multi-platform | 17,054,156 | Worldwide | [12] | |
Duck Hunt | NES | 28,310,000 | Worldwide | [23] | |
Super Mario Bros. | NES | 40,000,000 | Worldwide | [24] | |
Multi-platform | 40,020,000 | [24][15] | |||
1996 | Super Mario Bros. | Multi-platform | 50,000,000 | Worldwide | [25] |
2004 | 57,340,000 | [n 2] | |||
2009 | Super Mario Bros. | Multi-platform | 58,000,000 | Worldwide | [n 2][27] |
Wii Sports | Wii | 60,690,000 | Worldwide | [28] | |
2010 | Wii Sports | Wii | 75,660,000 | Worldwide | [29] |
2011 | 79,160,000 | [30] | |||
2012 | 81,640,000 | [31] | |||
2013 | 81,990,000 | [32] | |||
2014 | 82,540,000 | [33] | |||
2015 | 82,720,000 | [34] | |||
2016 | 82,790,000 | [35] | |||
2017 | 82,830,000 | [36] | |||
2018 | Wii Sports | Wii | 82,870,000 | Worldwide | [37] |
Grand Theft Auto V | Multi-platform | 90,000,000 | Worldwide | [38] | |
2019 | Grand Theft Auto V | Multi-platform | 110,000,000 | Worldwide | [38] |
2020 | 130,000,000 |
Notes[]
- ↑ Arcade version sold 152,000 units.[17] Game & Watch version sold 8 million.[18] ColecoVision version sold 2 million.[19] Atari VCS version sold 4 million in 1982,[20] and 180,523 between 1987 and 1990.[21] Famicom version sold 840,000.[22] Atari 8-bit computer version sold 25,502.[21]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 More than 50 million units of Super Mario Bros. had been sold worldwide as of 1996.[25] Super Mario Bros. Deluxe version sold 5.07 million units on Game Boy Color, and Classic NES Series port sold 2.27 million units on Game Boy Advance.[26]
References[]
- ↑ Smith, Alexander (November 27, 2019). They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry. Vol. 1: 1971 ��� 1982. CRC Press. pp. 128–135. ISBN 978-1-138-38990-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=Cxy_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128.
- ↑ Baer, Ralph H. (2005). Videogames: In the Beginning. Rolenta Press. pp. 10-3. ISBN 978-0-9643848-1-1. https://archive.org/details/VideogamesInTheBeginningRalphH.Baer/page/n31/mode/2up.
- ↑ "U.S. News & World Report". U.S. News & World Report 115: 102. 1993. https://books.google.com/books?id=sFsnAQAAIAAJ. "First U.S. home video game: " Pong," a tennis game; units sold in its first year, 1972: 6,000 plus"
- ↑ Smith, Alexander (2019). They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry. Vol. 1: 1971–1982. CRC Press. pp. 150-3. ISBN 978-1-138-38990-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=Cxy_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT150.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Baer, Ralph H. (2005). Videogames: In the Beginning. Rolenta Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-9643848-1-1. https://archive.org/details/VideogamesInTheBeginningRalphH.Baer/page/n97.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ellis, David (2004). "Dedicated Consoles". Official Price Guide to Classic Video Games. Random House. pp. 33–36. ISBN 0-375-72038-3. https://archive.org/details/officialpricegui00davi/page/33.
- ↑ The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society: O-Z. 1999. p. 1095. https://books.google.com/books?id=WOfXAAAAMAAJ. "Pinball manufacturer Bally's Midway bought the rights to the game and distributed it, and in 1974 the companies produced more than 100,000 Pong games (although Atari manufactured only 10,000 of them)."
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://kotaku.com/nintendos-first-console-is-one-youve-never-played-5785568
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "After Pong". ACE (6 (March 1988)): 29–32 (29). February 4, 1988. https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_06_1988-03_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n28.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 Cartridge Sales Since 1980. Atari Corporation. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Atari_Sales.png. Via "The Agony & The Ecstasy". Once Upon Atari. No. 4. 23 minutes in.
- ↑ Game & Watch
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Pac-Man
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Business Tokyo". Business Tokyo (Keizaikai Company) 4: 4. 1990. Archived from the original on March 5, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220305163555/https://books.google.com/books?id=h_0dAQAAMAAJ. "Super Mario Bros. selling about 6 million copies"
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "The rise and rise of Nintendo". New Computer Express (39): 2. August 5, 1989. August 3, 1989. Archived from the original on September 24, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210924191058/https://retrocdn.net/images/1/1d/NewComputerExpress_UK_039.pdf#page=2.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Horowitz, Ken (July 30, 2020). Beyond Donkey Kong: A History of Nintendo Arcade Games. McFarland & Company. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-4766-4176-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=UXD0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA156.
- ↑ Kohler, Chris (2004). Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life. Indianapolis, IN: BradyGames. pp. 46-7. ISBN 978-0-7440-0424-3. https://archive.org/details/poweruphowjapane0000kohl/page/46/mode/2up.
- ↑ Donkey Kong
- ↑ Epstein, David (27 June 2019). "Chapter 9: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology". Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Pan Macmillan. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-5098-4351-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=oEGCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT196. "The Donkey Kong Game & Watch was released in 1982 and alone sold eight million units."
- ↑ McFerran, Damien (18 September 2010). "Feature: How ColecoVision Became the King of Kong". Nintendo Life. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2010/09/feature_how_colecovision_became_the_king_of_kong.
- ↑ Kitchen, Garry E. (March 5, 2010). "Garry E. Kitchen". Expert Report of Garry E. Kitchen. United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. p. 2. https://www.muddlawoffices.com/cases/allisonvwise/ohio/msj/064-12%20Exhibit%20M.pdf#page=27. "Designed & programmed Atari 2600 adaptation of hit arcade game Donkey Kong, 1982 wholesale revenues in excess of $100 million on 4 million units."
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Vendel, Curt (May 28, 2009). Site News. Atari Museum. Archived from the original on 2010-12-06.
- ↑ Japan Sales. Nintendojo (September 26, 2006). Archived from the original on July 30, 2008. (Translation (Best selling video games on the Internet Archive))
- ↑ Welch, Hanuman (April 23, 2013). 1984: Duck Hunt - The Best Selling Video Game Of Every Year Since 1977. Complex. Archived from the original on April 24, 2017.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Media Information Australia. Australian Film and Television School. 1993. p. 10. "By 1990, no less than 24 million units had been sold in the US, annual revenues had reached US$2 billion and Super Mario Bros had clocked up sales of 40 million worldwide."
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 The History of Mario: A look in Mario's roots may help gamers see Nintendo's famous mascot within a bigger framework. IGN (September 30, 1996). Archived from the original on March 11, 2002. “Nintendo's first U.S. home videogame console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released in 1985 with Mario starring in Super Mario Bros. The legendary title has gone on to sell more than 50 million units worldwide.”
- ↑ 2004 CESAゲーム白書 (2004 CESA Games White Paper). Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association. July 2004. pp. 58–63. ISBN 4-902346-04-4.
- ↑ Hatfield, Daemon (February 23, 2010). "WiiWare, Virtual Console Sales Exposed". IGN. Archived from the original on March 23, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190323023814/https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/02/23/wiiware-virtual-console-sales-exposed.
- ↑ Financial Results Briefing for the Nine-Month Period Ended December 2009: Supplementary Information. Nintendo (2010-01-29).
- ↑ Financial Results Briefing for the Nine-Month Period Ended December 2010: Supplementary Information. Nintendo (2011-01-28).
- ↑ Financial Results Briefing for the Nine-Month Period Ended December 2011: Supplementary Information. Nintendo (2012-01-27).
- ↑ Financial Results Briefing for the Nine-Month Period Ended December 2012: Supplementary Information. Nintendo (2013-01-31).
- ↑ Financial Results Briefing for Fiscal Year Ended March 2013: Supplementary Information. Nintendo (2013-04-25).
- ↑ Top Selling Software Sales Units: Wii. Nintendo (March 31, 2014). Archived from the original on 2015-03-13.
- ↑ Top Selling Software Sales Units: Wii. Nintendo (September 30, 2015). Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
- ↑ Top Selling Software Sales Units: Wii. Nintendo (September 30, 2016). Archived from the original on 2017-02-09.
- ↑ Top Selling Software Sales Units: Wii. Nintendo (September 30, 2017). Archived from the original on 2017-11-16.
- ↑ Top Selling Software Sales Units: Wii. Nintendo (March 31, 2019). Archived from the original on 2019-04-25.
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 "GTA 5 Revenue and Player Statistics". Mobile Marketing Reads. March 31, 2023. https://mobilemarketingreads.com/gta-5-revenue-and-player-statistics/.
External links[]
- List of best-selling video games at Encyclopedia Gamia
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