This is a list of video games that have sold the highest number of software units worldwide. The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, a sandbox game released by Mojang in November 2011 for a wide range of PC, mobile and console platforms, selling more than 300 million copies across all platforms. Grand Theft Auto V is the only other video game known 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. In 2023, Minecraft became the first video game to surpass 300 million copies sold worldwide.[1]
Among the top 50 best-selling video games on this list, over half were developed or published by Nintendo; four Nintendo titles were published with their affiliate, The Pokémon Company. Other publishers with multiple entries in the top 50 include Activision and Rockstar Games with four games, and Blizzard Entertainment, CD Projekt and Electronic Arts with two games. Nintendo EAD is the developer with the most games in the top 50, with twelve titles on the list, followed by Game Freak with six[lower-alpha 1] Pokémon games. The oldest game in the top 50 is Pac-Man, released in May 1980, while the most recent is Hogwarts Legacy, released in February 2023.
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Pokémon games are typically released in pairs, such as Pokémon Red and Blue, and may include enhanced versions, such as Pokémon Yellow. For the purposes of this list, Pokémon titles released in pairs along with their enhanced versions are counted together.
Only developers and publishers for the original release of each game are listed, except where noted otherwise.
Although Minecraft was first publicly available on May 17, 2009,[2] and the full release on November 18, 2011, the game first accepted pre-orders on June 13, 2009, so it started accumulating sales at that time.[3]
Pac-Man:
- Arcade video game version (1980) – 400,000 arcade cabinets[22]
- Atari 2600 version (1982) – 8,095,586 game cartridges (7,956,413 by 1983,[23] 139,173 between 1986 and 1990)[24]
- Pac-Man Nelsonic Game Watch (1982) – 500,000+ units[25]
- Coleco tabletop version (1982) – 1.5 million units[26]
- Family Computer (Famicom) and Famicom Mini (Game Boy Advance) versions – 598,679 cartridges in Japan[27][28]
- Game Boy Advance re-release (2004) – 400,000 cartridges in North America[29]
- Atari 5200 version – 35,011 cartridges (between 1986 and 1988)[24]
- Atari 8-bit computer version – 42,359 copies (between 1986 and 1990)[24]
- Thunder Mountain's home computer budget release (1986) – 500,000+ copies[30]
- Mobile phone version – 30 million+ paid downloads[31]
FIFA 18 sold 24 million copies[45] and sold additional 2.4 million units throughout the year.[46]
Director/Producer: Magnus Temple; Executive Producer: Nick Southgate (2004). "Tetris: From Russia With Love". BBC Four. Event occurs at 51:23. BBC. BBC Four. Archived from the original on January 1, 2016. Retrieved May 12, 2020. The real winners were Nintendo. To date, Nintendo dealers across the world have sold 8 million Tetris cartridges on the Nintendo Entertainment system.
Cartridge Sales Since 1980. Atari Corp. Via "The Agony & The Ecstasy". Once Upon Atari. Episode 4. Scott West Productions. August 10, 2003. 23 minutes in.
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