Best selling games of all time?

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#1 deactivated-5a5cb94e21be4
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Hi all, does anyone know where to find accurate and up to date lists of the Best selling videogames of all time? Most of the ones I have found on google seem dated and vary in their listings.

I hope Ive put this in the right forum- apologies if not.

Thanks!

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Wii Sports - 67 million

Super Mario Bros. - 40 million

Tetris (Gameboy) - 35 million

Wii Play - 27 million

New Super Mario Bros. - 24.13 million

Mario Kart Wii - 24.01 million

Nintendogs - 23 million

Wii Fit - 22 million

Wii Sports Resort - 20.94 million

Pokémon Red/Blue - 20.68 million

Super Mario World - 20 million

Brain Age: Train Your Bran in Minutes a Day! - 18.72 million

Super Mario Bros. 3 - 18 million

Mario Kart DS - 17.9 million

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl - 17.39 million

It's interesting how these are all Nintendo games, but the next one isn't

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 17.33 million

New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 16.73 million

Wii Fit Plus - 15.22 million

Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec - 14.89 million

Pokémon Gold and Silver - 14.51 million

Super Mario Land - 14 million

Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! - 13.71 million

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire - 13 million

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen - 11.82 million

Super Mario 64 - 11 million

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins - 11 million

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver - 10.93 million

Gran Turismo (PS1) - 10.85 million

Animal Crossing: Wild World - 10.79 million

Gran Turismo 4 - 10.76 million

Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) - 10 million

Final Fantasy VII - 9.8 million

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 9.48 million

Gran Turismo 2 - 9.37 million

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - 9.21 million

Mario Kart 64 - 9 million

Pokémon Yellow - 8.86 million

Super Mario Galaxy - 8.84 million

Final Fantasy VIII - 8.15 million

Halo 3 - 8.1 million

Donkey Kong Country - 8 million

GoldenEye 007 (N64) - 8 million

Super Mario Kart - 8 million

Halo 2 - 8 million

Tomb Raider II - 8 million

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Wii Sports - 67 million

Super Mario Bros. - 40 million

Tetris (Gameboy) - 35 million

Wii Play - 27 million

New Super Mario Bros. - 24.13 million

Mario Kart Wii - 24.01 million

Nintendogs - 23 million

Wii Fit - 22 million

Wii Sports Resort - 20.94 million

Pokémon Red/Blue - 20.68 million

Super Mario World - 20 million

Brain Age: Train Your Bran in Minutes a Day! - 18.72 million

Super Mario Bros. 3 - 18 million

Mario Kart DS - 17.9 million

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl - 17.39 million

It's interesting how these are all Nintendo games, but the next one isn't

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 17.33 million

New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 16.73 million

Wii Fit Plus - 15.22 million

Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec - 14.89 million

Pokémon Gold and Silver - 14.51 million

Super Mario Land - 14 million

Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! - 13.71 million

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire - 13 million

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen - 11.82 million

Super Mario 64 - 11 million

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins - 11 million

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver - 10.93 million

Gran Turismo (PS1) - 10.85 million

Animal Crossing: Wild World - 10.79 million

Gran Turismo 4 - 10.76 million

Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) - 10 million

Final Fantasy VII - 9.8 million

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 9.48 million

Gran Turismo 2 - 9.37 million

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - 9.21 million

Mario Kart 64 - 9 million

Pokémon Yellow - 8.86 million

Super Mario Galaxy - 8.84 million

Final Fantasy VIII - 8.15 million

Halo 3 - 8.1 million

Donkey Kong Country - 8 million

GoldenEye 007 (N64) - 8 million

Super Mario Kart - 8 million

Halo 2 - 8 million

Tomb Raider II - 8 million

ZIVX

Where did you get this from? Im suprise cod isnt even on this list...

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#5 superfluidity
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Where did you get this from? Im suprise cod isnt even on this list...

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Or WoW, which has like 12 million active subs, let alone their sales numbers.

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My buddy , a manager at the Gamestop down the street said that COD Modern WArfare 2 was the best selling game of all time. How much truth is in that, I am not sure, but what I do know is that he told me Gamestop as a franchise had the most preorders of all time for this title.

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Where did you get this from? Im suprise cod isnt even on this list...

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It looks like the list similar to that of Wikipedia's list of best-selling video games. FYI the Wikipedia list did not include any cross-platform games or games that were bundled with consoles.

My buddy , a manager at the Gamestop down the street said that COD Modern WArfare 2 was the best selling game of all time. How much truth is in that, I am not sure, but what I do know is that he told me Gamestop as a franchise had the most preorders of all time for this title.daleerin24

COD:MW2 has sold just over 20 million copies world wide, which would put it at like 6-7 best selling video game of all time as far as copies sold, that's my own research so don't take that for fact but there have been a handful of games that have sold over 20 million copies.

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My guess is Pac-Man... Its a Pay-Per-Play game (aka Arcade game) and its been around for 30 years so it must be the best selling game.

Or WoW becouse you pay per month.

Nintendo lies about their stats to keep stocks up just like Enron did.

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#11 iAtrocious
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No, but I bet a reliable list would probably have at least one Mario game.

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#12 ZIVX
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My guess is Pac-Man... Its a Pay-Per-Play game (aka Arcade game) and its been around for 30 years so it must be the best selling game.

Or WoW becouse you pay per month.

Nintendo lies about their stats to keep stocks up just like Enron did.

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Any sources or are you just speculating?

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My guess is Pac-Man... Its a Pay-Per-Play game (aka Arcade game) and its been around for 30 years so it must be the best selling game.

Or WoW becouse you pay per month.

Nintendo lies about their stats to keep stocks up just like Enron did.

xxxDirtyJoexxx

:roll: *Sigh*

Seriously?...

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[QUOTE="GivemeUrCookies"]

Where did you get this from? Im suprise cod isnt even on this list...

trodeback

It looks like the list similar to that of Wikipedia's list of best-selling video games. FYI the Wikipedia list did not include any cross-platform games or games that were bundled with consoles.

My buddy , a manager at the Gamestop down the street said that COD Modern WArfare 2 was the best selling game of all time. How much truth is in that, I am not sure, but what I do know is that he told me Gamestop as a franchise had the most preorders of all time for this title.daleerin24

COD:MW2 has sold just over 20 million copies world wide, which would put it at like 6-7 best selling video game of all time as far as copies sold, that's my own research so don't take that for fact but there have been a handful of games that have sold over 20 million copies.

Well wikipedia isn't always right hopefully he knowns that since I know modern warfare should be at least in the top 20

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#15 xromad01
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i don't know of any accurate source online.even cge charts are estimations each year.and age,woodmont and most other expos get their numbers from cge.one thing that alot of people forget(or either aren't old enough to remember) is that early on millions of units were sold worldwide for one game,pong.even nintendo has tvg6 and 15,radio shack had multiples,radofin,bintatone,magnavox,sheen,sears,montgomery ward,atari,kmart,coleco,etc.some vendors deal in 300+ different pongs.if it even is possible to get figures for hundreds of brand names and decades of sales it should be a very large number.

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My buddy , a manager at the Gamestop down the street said that COD Modern WArfare 2 was the best selling game of all time. How much truth is in that, I am not sure, but what I do know is that he told me Gamestop as a franchise had the most preorders of all time for this title.

daleerin24

According to Good Game, and assuming we're including PC games, The Sims series has apparently sold more copies than the Halo and COD series' combined. I don't know how true this is, but it'd certainly have to be up there you'd think.

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super mario bros is the best selling game of all time , cause its sold so well on every s ingle platform it was made for , lol-nes snes gbc gbaand wii lol

-im talking about the first super mario bros game made not the arcade mario bros 3d mario or new super mario bros ,

rotflol @ cod mw 2 being the best of all time

it barely out sold goldeneye 007 -n64 as many fpses tend to do

it has not sold ----even 20 million copies , --this gen id say mariokart ds is the most sold , its still toping charts and its been out since 05 lol then on consoles its ----super mario galaxy /wii party wii play wii sports gta iv cod series not one title just the series ,

saints row pd0 etc many have sold over 1 million but mostall nintendo games break 10 or more million , so there for i cant consider cod the best of all time with nintendo doing this with not just one oftheir games but majority of them

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#18 TheOtherTheoG
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Modern Warfare 2 sold just over 20 million copies, making it the best ever selling non-Nintendo game. Black Ops has currently sold around 15 million and is planning on selling 2 or 3 million more, and I think GTA 4 sold around 18 million, but don't quote me on that. But yeah, Nintendo pretty much dominates, mostly for the reason that there are as many girls as boys in the world, and girls, realistically, have one console to chose from, and boys have 2, not counting boys under the age of, say, 8.
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#19 tricksta189
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WoW must be #1 in terms of raking in the most cash..not in number of sales obviously, but 12 million+ subscribers all paying $15 per month? Jesus..

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#20 m25105
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http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php Gives a good view.