Since the late 1970s, when the home gaming market started to grow quickly, it has continued to do so. Video games are now a big part of many people’s lives. They give you the chance to go on an adventure, compete with other people, be part of a group, and, depending on the game, even be scared or laugh.
Even though there have been millions of video games released over the years, some have become huge hits that have stood the test of time and become the best-selling games of all time.
To answer this question, we set out to make the most accurate list possible by talking to publishers and digging through financial reports, news stories, interviews, and more. Here is a list of the ten video games that have sold the most copies.
1. Minecraft
Microsoft said that as of April 2021, 238 million copies of Minecraft had been sold, but that number has likely gone up in the past year and a half. The company says that number is the total sales for all 22 of its platforms. And with film, Netflix, education, toy, and many other projects done or in the works, Minecraft has gone beyond the medium in a way that few others have.
2. Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto 5 has sold more copies than any other console or PC-only game ever (the top two entries on this list have mobile versions, too). As of September 30, 2022, more than 170 million copies of Rockstar’s most ambitious GTA game had been sold. This number is the sum of how many copies of the game have been sold on three console generations and the PC between 2013 and 2022.
GTA 5 was the fastest entertainment release of any kind to reach $1 billion, and Rockstar and Take-Two have made even more money from it since then. As of 2018, it is the most profitable entertainment release ever.
3. Tetris
Tetris is a puzzle video game made by EA Mobile for EA. You can play it on iOS, Android, BlackBerry OS, PlayStation, and Windows. Since it came out in 2006, the single-player mode game has kept getting better, and the number of people who play it keeps going up. It is now one of the most popular games of all time and has sold at least 100 million copies around the world.
4. Wii Sports
Nintendo’s official sales numbers say that Wii Sports is the game that has sold the most copies. Most of the games on this list came with a console at some point, but Wii Sports came with the Wii at launch almost everywhere. It has sold nearly 83 million copies, making it the best-selling game for a single platform.
5. PUBG: Battlegrounds
It’s not surprising that PUBG has sold so many copies, given how important it has been to the rise of battle royale games over the last five years. The creative director of Krafton, Dave Curd, told The Verge in December 2021 that 75 million copies of PUBG had been sold. That’s probably the last number of copies the shooter will sell since it became free to play a month later, in January 2022.
Even though free mobile downloads don’t count towards its sales total, it’s worth noting that as of March 2021, over 1 billion people had downloaded PUBG Mobile.
6. Super Mario
Officially, over 58 million copies of Super Mario Bros. have been sold, but the real number of people who have played it is much higher (per The Guardian). Remember that the game came with Super Mario All-Stars for SNES, which sold millions of copies on its own. Also, anyone with a Nintendo Switch Online account can play it for free right now.
7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Many people think that the kart racing game, which came out in 2014, is one of the most popular Nintendo Switch games of all time. In 2017, a deluxe version of the game came out, and both gamers and critics liked it. They liked how the developers took the initiative to expand the battle mode. Both the original version and the deluxe version of the game are very popular and have sold at least 55.2 million copies.
8. Overwatch
A Bloomberg report from April 2022 says that Blizzard’s hero shooter Overwatch has sold 50 million copies. Overwatch took the hero shooter genre to a new level with its great game design, well-thought-out heroes, and continued support for esports. Overwatch 2 will replace it in October 2022. Overwatch 2 will be free to play.
9. Pokemon Gen 1
The role-playing video games were made by Game Freak and came out in 1996 as Pokémon Red and Poke Blue. They were the first games in the popular Pokémon video game series. Two years later, the same people made Pokémon Yellow, which was an even better version of the already popular Game Boy game. As of 2022, Nintendo video games have been around for more than 26 years and have sold 47.5 million units.
10. Red Dead Redemption 2
The action-adventure game was made by Rockstar games and came out in 2018 as the second part of a series that started in 2010. Its plot is similar to that of the original. Still, it has more advanced features, such as a multiplayer mode where up to 32 players can compete in different game modes. It can be played on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows, and Stadia, among others. Like the original, it has been a big hit, with 45 million copies sold so far.
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