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This is a list of the best-selling video games of all time. The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, a sandbox video game originally released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in 2011. The game has been ported to a wide range of platforms, selling over 176 million copies. Tetris and Grand Theft Auto V are the only other games to have sold over 100 million copies. The best-selling game on a single platform is Wii Sports, with nearly 83 million sales for the Wii console.
Of the top 50 best-selling video games on this list, over 20 were developed or published by Nintendo, including over half of the top ten. A further five games were published by their affiliate, The Pokémon Company. Other publishers with multiple entries in the top 50 include Activision, Rockstar Games, Electronic Arts, and Sega. Aside from Nintendo's internal development teams, Game Freak is the developer with the most games in the top 50, with six from the Pokémon series. The oldest game in the top 50 is Frogger, which was released in June 1981. Games reported on by player count instead of official sales figures, such as registered accounts, subscriptions, or free-to-play ownership, are not to be included; those belong on the list of most-played video games by player count instead.
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Title | Sales | Platform(s) | Initial release date | Developer(s)[a] | Publisher(s)[a] | Bundled with a console? | Ref. |
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Minecraft | 176,000,000[b] | Multi-platform | November 18, 2011[c] | Mojang | Mojang | [3] | |
Tetris | 170,000,000[b] | Multi-platform | June 6, 1984 | Elektronorgtechnica | Spectrum HoloByte[d] | [5][e] | |
Grand Theft Auto V | 110,000,000 | Multi-platform | September 17, 2013 | Rockstar North | Rockstar Games | [9] | |
Wii Sports | 82,870,000 | Wii | November 19, 2006 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [10] | |
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds | 50,000,000 | Multi-platform | December 20, 2017 | PUBG Corporation | PUBG Corporation | [11] | |
Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/Yellow | 47,520,000 | Multi-platform | February 27, 1996 | Game Freak | Nintendo | [f] | |
Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus | 43,800,000 | Wii | December 1, 2007 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [10] | |
Super Mario Bros. | 43,170,000 | Multi-platform | September 13, 1985 | Nintendo | Nintendo | [g] | |
Mario Kart Wii | 37,200,000 | Wii | April 10, 2008 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [10] | |
Wii Sports Resort | 33,100,000 | Wii | June 25, 2009 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [10] | |
New Super Mario Bros. | 30,800,000 | Nintendo DS | May 15, 2006 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [18] | |
New Super Mario Bros. Wii | 30,260,000 | Wii | November 11, 2009 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [10] | |
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim[19] | 30,000,000 | Multi-platform | November 11, 2011 | Bethesda Game Studios | Bethesda Softworks | [20] | |
Diablo III and Reaper of Souls | 30,000,000 | Multi-platform | May 16, 2012 | Blizzard Entertainment | Blizzard Entertainment | [21] | |
Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal | 29,490,000 | Game Boy Color | November 21, 1999 | Game Freak | Nintendo | [h] | |
Duck Hunt | 28,300,000 | NES | April 21, 1984 | Nintendo R&D1 | Nintendo | [23] | |
Wii Play | 28,020,000 | Wii | December 2, 2006 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [10] | |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | 27,500,000 | Multi-platform | October 26, 2004 | Rockstar North | Rockstar Games | [24] | |
Terraria | 27,000,000[b] | Multi-platform | May 16, 2011 | Re-Logic | Re-Logic | [25] | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 | 26,500,000 | Multi-platform | November 8, 2011 | Infinity Ward Sledgehammer Games | Activision | [26] | |
Call of Duty: Black Ops | 26,200,000 | Multi-platform | November 9, 2010 | Treyarch | Activision | [26] | |
Mario Kart 8/Deluxe | 25,130,000 | Multi-platform | May 29, 2014 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [27][28] | |
Grand Theft Auto IV | 25,000,000 | Multi-platform | April 29, 2008 | Rockstar North | Rockstar Games | [29] | |
Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum | 24,730,000 | Nintendo DS | September 28, 2006 | Game Freak | Nintendo / The Pokémon Company | [i] | |
Pokémon Sun/Moon/Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon | 24,520,000 | Nintendo 3DS | November 18, 2016 | Game Freak | Nintendo / The Pokémon Company | [j] | |
Call of Duty: Black Ops II | 24,200,000 | Multi-platform | November 12, 2012 | Treyarch | Activision | [26] | |
FIFA 18 | 24,000,000 | Multi-platform | September 29, 2017 | EA Canada | Electronic Arts | [32] | |
Kinect Adventures! | 24,000,000 | Xbox 360 | November 4, 2010 | Good Science Studio | Microsoft Studios | [33] | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 24,000,000 | Multi-platform | October 26, 2018 | Rockstar Studios | Rockstar Games | [34] | |
Sonic the Hedgehog | 23,982,960[b] | Multi-platform | June 23, 1991 | Sonic Team | Sega | [k] | |
Nintendogs | 23,960,000 | Nintendo DS | April 21, 2005 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [18] | |
Mario Kart DS | 23,600,000 | Nintendo DS | November 14, 2005 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [18] | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | 22,700,000 | Multi-platform | November 10, 2009 | Infinity Ward | Activision | [26] | |
Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald | 22,540,000 | Game Boy Advance | November 21, 2002 | Game Freak | Nintendo / The Pokémon Company | [l] | |
Super Mario World | 20,972,500 | Multi-platform | November 21, 1990 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [m] | |
Frogger | 20,000,000 | Multi-platform | June 5, 1981 | Konami | Sega | [41][42] | |
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | 20,000,000 | Multi-platform | October 27, 2002 | Rockstar North | Rockstar Games | [43] | |
Lemmings | 20,000,000 | Multi-platform | February 14, 1991 | DMA Design | Psygnosis | [44] | |
Borderlands 2 | 20,000,000 | Multi-platform | September 18, 2012 | Gearbox Software | 2K Games | [45] | |
Brain Age | 19,010,000 | Nintendo DS | May 19, 2005 | Nintendo SPD | Nintendo | [18] | |
Super Mario Bros. 3 | 19,000,000 | Multi-platform | October 23, 1988 | Nintendo | Nintendo | [n] | |
Call of Duty: Ghosts | 19,000,000 | Multi-platform | November 5, 2013 | Infinity Ward | Activision | [47] | |
Super Mario Land | 18,370,500 | Multi-platform | April 21, 1989 | Nintendo R&D1 | Nintendo | [o] | |
Mario Kart 7 | 18,260,000 | Nintendo 3DS | December 1, 2011 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | [31] | |
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing | 17,770,000[b] | Multi-platform | June 23, 2011 | Sumo Digital | Sega | [p] | |
Grand Theft Auto III | 17,500,000 | Multi-platform | October 22, 2001 | DMA Design | Rockstar Games | [54] | |
The Last of Us/Remastered | 17,000,000 | Multi-platform | June 14, 2013 | Naughty Dog | Sony Computer Entertainment | [55] | |
Pokémon X and Y | 16,390,000 | Nintendo 3DS | October 12, 2013 | Game Freak | Nintendo / The Pokémon Company | [31] | |
The Sims | 16,000,000 | Multi-platform | January 31, 2000 | Maxis | Electronic Arts | [56] | |
Need for Speed: Most Wanted | 16,000,000 | Multi-platform | November 11, 2005 | EA Black Box | Electronic Arts | [57] |
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Notes
- ^ abOnly developers and publishers for the original release of each game are listed, except where noted otherwise.
- ^ abcdeSales figure includes paid mobile downloads
- ^Although Minecraft was first publicly available on May 17, 2009,[1] and the 1.0 version on November 18, 2011, the first version of Minecraft which required a paid account was first publicly available on December 23, 2009,[2] therefore it started accumulating sales that year.
- ^Tetris was originally licensed and published by Spectrum HoloByte, although other publishers of early ports of the game included Mirrorsoft, Infogrames and Bullet-Proof Software. In 1996, the license to Tetris was officially transferred to The Tetris Company, which would publish later releases of the title with Bullet-Proof Software.[4]
- ^Tetris sold 70million physical retail units[6] (including 35million Game Boy version sales)[7] and 100million paid mobile game downloads.[8]
- ^Red, Green, Blue and Yellow versions sold 46.02million units on Game Boy[12][13] and 1.5million units on Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console.[14]
- ^Super Mario Bros. sold 40.24million units on Nintendo Entertainment System[15] and 660,000 units on Wii Virtual Console,[16] and Classic NES Series port sold 2.27million units on Game Boy Advance.[17]
- ^Gold and Silver versions sold 23.1million units[13] and Crystal version sold 6.39million units on Game Boy Color.[22]
- ^Diamond and Pearl versions sold 17.67million units,[18] and Platinum version sold 7.06million units.[30]
- ^Sun and Moon sold 16.15million units[31] and Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon sold 8.37million units.[31]
- ^Sonic the Hedgehog sold 15million units on Sega Genesis,[35] 482,960 units on Xbox Live Arcade,[36] 8million paid mobile downloads up until 2008,[37] and over 500,000 paid Android downloads between 2013 and 2016.[38]
- ^Ruby and Sapphire versions sold 16.22million units[39] and Emerald version sold 6.32million units on Game Boy Advance.[40]
- ^Super Mario World sold 20.61million units on Super Nintendo Entertainment System and 362,500 units on Wii Virtual Console.[16]
- ^Super Mario Bros. 3 sold 18million units on Nintendo Entertainment System[46] and 1million units on Wii Virtual Console.[16]
- ^Super Mario Land sold 18.14million units on Game Boy,[48] and 230,500 units on 3DS Virtual Console.[49]
- ^Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing sold 16.7million units on iOS[50] (where it was released as a paid download),[51][52] and 1.07million units on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and DS.[53]
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