Well that is very interesting. I am actually pleasantly surprised that there isn't that much crap on there like I suspected.
How many of those are Nintendo games?
greydt
05-26-06, 01:05 PM
Wow, great list...although I'm kinda disturbed that the only PC games on the list are all of the Tomb Raider games... :(
mrpayroll
05-26-06, 01:12 PM
Thank you for posting this link. I love 'all time best' (http://www.mrpayroll.net/8701/index.html) lists.
Chris
IIG
05-26-06, 01:25 PM
Thanks... I've been recently looking for just a list.
DRG
05-26-06, 02:06 PM
I'm assuming that includes copies bundled with systems software (which would account for GB Tetris, Duck Hunt, and Super Mario Bros... how many people actually bought that one separately?)
Interesting some of the disproportion among the different markets. Grand Theft Auto, Halo, and even Goldeneye are non-factors in Japan.
The list does appear to have some notable omissions. First, anything from the Atari era is absent. I know Pac-Man for the 2600 sold something like 7 million copies. Plus the PC games only lists the Tomb Raider series, when games like The Sims, Myst, and Half-Life have easily sold over a million copies apiece. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_selling_computer_and_video_games
Here's top sellers by system:
NES - Super Mario Bros 40.24
GB - Pokemon Red / Blue / Green 31.37
SNES - Super Mario World 20.61
GBA - Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire 14.74
PS2 - Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec 14.36
N64 - Super Mario 64 11.89
PS - Gran Turismo 10.84
XBX - Halo 2 7.66
DS - Nintendogs 6.85
GC - Smash Bros Melee 6.05
GEN - Sonic The Hedgehog 2 4.92
DC - Sonic Adventure 2.47
PSP - Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories 2.40
PC - Tomb Raider 2 2.24
SAT - Virtua Fighter 2 1.93
SCD - Sonic CD 1.50
X360 - Call of Duty 2 1.26
The Franchise
05-26-06, 02:52 PM
I thought "The Sims" on the PC was the best selling game of all time?
pinata242
05-26-06, 03:06 PM
I wonder if you don't consider all (currently) 4 versions of Nintendogs as a single title, what the #1 DS game would be. My money's on NSMB taking that spot if not now in a few months.
Jeremy517
05-26-06, 03:25 PM
I wonder if you don't consider all (currently) 4 versions of Nintendogs as a single title, what the #1 DS game would be.
According to that chart, it would be Mario Kart DS.
pinata242
05-26-06, 03:30 PM
According to that chart, it would be Mario Kart DS.
Hmmm... I guess I could have looked at it too :p
I think that 1.48 million isn't enough to knock Nintendogs off. Even if it was evenly distributed 6.85/4 = 1.71. And I think it is safe to assume that they aren't even distributed. May take a while for any title to hit 2M on the DS to try to take that outright...
Silt
05-26-06, 04:50 PM
Wow, great list...although I'm kinda disturbed that the only PC games on the list are all of the Tomb Raider games... :(
This list is way incomplete when it comes to PC games....would make me think the rest of the list is a joke as well.
Off the top of my head there's The Sims, Diablo (I/II), Starcraft, Warcraft 2/3, AoE, Civ 3, Doom 1/2, Baldur's Gate, Half Life, WoW, and of course Myst which used to be the top selling PC game ever. Sure I could think of a ton more if I had a mind to.
mrpayroll
05-26-06, 05:25 PM
This list is way incomplete when it comes to PC games....would make me think the rest of the list is a joke as well.
Off the top of my head there's The Sims, Diablo (I/II), Starcraft, Warcraft 2/3, AoE, Civ 3, Doom 1/2, Baldur's Gate, Half Life, WoW, and of course Myst which used to be the top selling PC game ever. Sure I could think of a ton more if I had a mind to.
Well does anybody have any idea where there are lists of the top selling PC games? Because I would like to expand on this list to also include the year that the game was released. I am also going to try to link each game to GameRankings.com
Chris
Joe Molotov
05-26-06, 05:52 PM
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_selling_video_games#PC_2) has an (incomplete) list of PC million-sellers:
* The Sims (16 million) [4]
* Myst (11 million) [5]
* StarCraft (9 million) [6]
* Half-Life (8 million)
* World of Warcraft (6 million) [7]
* The Sims 2 (4.5 million) [8]
* Morrowind (4.5 million) [9] (includes xbox release)
* Diablo II (4 million) [10]
* Half-Life 2 (4 million) [11]
* StarCraft: Brood War (3 million)
* Warcraft II (3 million) [12]
* Warcraft III (3 million) [13]
* Age of Empires (3 million) [14]
* Diablo (2.8 million) [15]
* Civilization III (2.5 million)
* Riven (2.3 million) [16]
* Microsoft Flight Simulator (2.3 million)
* Tomb Raider II (2.24 million)
* Doom (2 million) [17]
* Doom II (2 million) [18]
* Baldur's Gate II (2 million) [19]
* Baldur's Gate (2 million) [20]
* Tomb Raider (1.89 million)
* Quake (1.8 million)
* The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (1.7 million) [21] (includes xbox 360 release)
* Age Of Empires III (1.5 million) [22]
* Battlefield 1942 (1.5 million)
* Tomb Raider III (1.49 million)
* Civilization IV (1.2 million)
* Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (1.04 million)
* Civilization IV (1 million) [23]
* Battlefield 2 (1 million) [24]
* Age of Mythology (1 million)
* Guild Wars (1 million)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth (1 million)
* Neverwinter Nights (1 million)
* Return to Castle Wolfenstein (1 million)
* Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (1 million) [25]
* Warcraft II (1 million) [26]
* Unreal Tournament (1 million) [27]
* Unreal (1 million) [28]
* Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome Expansion (1 million)[29]
* Sim City 2000 (1 million) [30]
* The 7th Guest (1 million) [31]
* Star Wars: Dark Forces (1 million) [32]
* F-15 Strike Eagle (1 million) [33]
(And I've asked this question before and never got an answer, but WHY WHY WHY is Sim_City a banned word on this forum?)
Jeremy517
05-26-06, 06:44 PM
Hmmm... I guess I could have looked at it too :p
I think that 1.48 million isn't enough to knock Nintendogs off. Even if it was evenly distributed 6.85/4 = 1.71. And I think it is safe to assume that they aren't even distributed. May take a while for any title to hit 2M on the DS to try to take that outright...
1.48 was just Japan. Mario Kart is at 4.28 million worldwide.
Quake1028
05-26-06, 07:06 PM
That list is outdated and wrong on a lot of titles.
Dazed
05-26-06, 08:59 PM
wow, Nintendo reigns supreme on thats list. Im surprised Sega isnt higher up with their Sonic franchise.
strife
05-26-06, 09:45 PM
Well that is very interesting. I am actually pleasantly surprised that there isn't that much crap on there like I suspected.
How many of those are Nintendo games?
my guess all the ones that have NES, SNES, etc next to them ;)
Decker
05-26-06, 10:25 PM
The GTA trilogy has sold a TOTAL of 830,000 units in Japan? That's hard to believe.
Joe Molotov
05-26-06, 10:56 PM
The GTA trilogy has sold a TOTAL of 830,000 units in Japan? That's hard to believe.
Most western games don't sell very well in Japan, generally speaking.
Green Smurf
05-28-06, 08:14 PM
Most western games don't sell very well in Japan, generally speaking.Very true, look at sales of 360 in Japan. Not very high because the games that have been released or not games that most Japaneese buy such as the pokemon series and games like xenosaga.
As far as I am aware of they aren't into racing or fps games as America's are.
Michael Corvin
05-28-06, 10:42 PM
That list is outdated and wrong on a lot of titles.
Source? Link?
Kinda cool that the most blasted Nintendo system, N64 snagged 4 of the top 30 spots. Pretty impressive if you ask me, especially since the GC doesn't garner an entry until around the 50 mark.
Mario 64
Mario Kart 64
Goldeneye
Zelda: OoT
Chris_D
05-28-06, 11:19 PM
I think the N64 sold twice as many units as the cube so it kind of makes sense. But yeah I enjoyed my n64 better than my cube for sure.
edytwinky
05-29-06, 03:08 AM
Great post. Very interesting stuff
mrpayroll
07-06-06, 12:22 AM
Okay, it's still a work in progress and I have a lot more to do, but this is what I've done so far. I've taken the original websites information and updated the sales info (they added almost 100 videos recently) and then used other information from other sources.
Once I'm done with all of the links, then I will just have to maintain and update all of the sales info for the future.
I think Wikipedia is a good source of information on these games and I've included GameRankings.com average score for each of the games. Of course the older ones (pre Internet) have less chance of having a score. I've also added the year that the games were released in either the U.S. or Japan.
I think the N64 sold twice as many units as the cube so it kind of makes sense. But yeah I enjoyed my n64 better than my cube for sure.
Not to mention the absolute drought when it came to titles at various times.
There were times people were so starved for a new title that when a game came out they bought it no matter what. I'm not saying some of those titles
don't deserve the praise they received, just that the above definately factored
into the sales numbers Nintendo received on certain titles.
SuperBatMan
07-06-06, 09:36 PM
That list seems oddly unaccurate.
Maybe it's just me though.
Drexl
07-06-06, 09:56 PM
Looking at that list again, one thing I find odd is that The Sims apparently isn't even sold in Japan. I can understand not bringing FPS and American sports games over there, but The Sims seems like something that could do well in that market.
mrpayroll
07-06-06, 10:08 PM
Looking at that list again, one thing I find odd is that The Sims apparently isn't even sold in Japan. I can understand not bringing FPS and American sports games over there, but The Sims seems like something that could do well in that market.
The list may be incomplete. There may have been no official press releases giving Japanese sales figures for The Sims.
I would say at the very minimum, these are the minimum copies sold of each game. I'm sure there are other games that have fallen thru the cracks that have sold one million copies.
The listing that they created is the best one out there so far and I'm going to go with that.
Unlike my other listings which list total Movie Box Office and Album Sales, there are no official definitive listings of Video Games Sales, until now.
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