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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II from Activision Blizzard was the best-selling video game in the United States in 2022. The game outperformed the previous record-holders for the series, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from 2011 and Black Ops II from 2012.
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 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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- 1993: Street Fighter II. Console: Super Nintendo, MS-DOS, Amiga, Commodore 64. Release date: June 10th, 1992 (Japan SNES release. Original arcade release occurred February 6th, 1991.)
- 1994: Donkey Kong Country. Console: Super Nintendo. Release date: November 18th, 1994. Approximate copies sold: 6+ million.
- 1995: Mortal Kombat 3. Console: Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, PC, Game Boy, Game Gear. Release date: October 13th, 1995. Approximate copies sold: 2+ million*
- 1996: Super Mario 64. Console: Nintendo 64. Release date: September 29th, 1996 (in the United States) Approximate copies sold: 2+ million. Runners-up (U.S. sales)
Dec 25, 2019 · A video game industry analyst from the NPD Group released a list of the top-selling game of each year dating back to 1995, including physical and digital copies. While some games like "Tetris" and ...
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The best selling video game didn’t need multimillion dollar budgets, sixty-hour narratives, or celebrity voice actors and ad spots. The independently-developed (indie) Minecraft, with its pixelated blocks, takes the top spot on this list. Minecraft sold more units than the combined forces of Grand Theft Auto 5 (#2) and Red Dead Redemption 2(#8), bo...
Though the top selling games span various series of games, a few developers managed to repeatedly find success. Japanese video game titan Nintendo developed three games (Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart, Wii Sport/Fitness) in the top 10 and another eight in the top 20. That’s not including its co-ownership of Pokémon, the world’s highest-grossing medi...
The most popular genres in the top 10 give players the freedom to impose their will upon the world and pursue objectives at their leisure: Two games (Minecraft, Terraria) are classic sandbox games, where worlds are procedurally generated and there are no gameplay goals. Another two (GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2) are in the adjacent open-world genre...
Nov 8, 2018 · Crash Bandicoot, Gran Turismo, and Final Fantasy VII are the three games most synonymous with the original PlayStation, so it’s not at all surprising to see they’re also the platform’s best-selling titles. Metal Gear Solid is in there too, as is the first game in the Driver series: Sony PlayStation, has a pretty fascinating list.
Jan 26, 2024 · By Eddie Makuch on January 26, 2024 at 1:00PM PST. From 1998 to 2023, here are the top 20 best selling games of each year in the US.
