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Best-selling premium games by region. The following titles were 2021's top ten best-selling premium games by region (excluding microtransactions and free-to-play titles) on PC and console platforms, for Japan, the United States, and Europe.
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.
For best-selling individual video games, see the list of best-selling video games. The sales figures given below also do not include arcade video game sales, which can be found at the list of highest-grossing arcade games. The Mario franchise is the best-selling video game franchise of all time, with over 879 million units worldwide.
- Overview
- Best-selling games by units sold
- Regional charts
- See also
- Notes
- References
The following are lists of the best-selling video games of 2021, including a list of the highest-grossing games by revenue (covering both free-to-play and pay-to-play games) and a list of the best-selling games by software units sold (covering only pay-to-play games).
Note: Mobile downloads are excluded.
United States
1.Call of Duty: Vanguard 2.Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War 3.Madden NFL 22 4.Pokémon: Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl* 5.Battlefield 2042 6.Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales 7.Mario Kart 8 Deluxe* 8.Resident Evil: Village 9.MLB: The Show 21** 10.Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury*
United Kingdom
These are the top selling games in the UK according to the GSD. It includes digital for select publishers 1.FIFA 22 2.Call of Duty: Vanguard 3.Grand Theft Auto 5 4.FIFA 21 5.Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War 6.Red Dead Redemption 2 7.Spider-Man: Miles Morales 8.F1 2021 9.Far Cry 6 10.Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Europe
These are the top selling games across Europe according to the GSD. It includes digital for select publishers If they combine both Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, the combine title would have been No. 5 1.FIFA 22 2.Grand Theft Auto 5 3.FIFA 21 4.Call of Duty: Vanguard 5.Mario Kart 8: Deluxe* 6.Red Dead Redemption 2 7.Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury* 8.Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War 9.Assassin's Creed Valhalla 10.Spider-Man: Miles Morales
1.Dungeon Fighter Online (DFO) - $18 billion up until 2021
•Up until 2016 – $8.7 billion
•2017–2018 – $3.6 billion
•2019 – $1.6 billion
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3.Chapple, Craig (16 December 2021). "Record-Breaking Eight Mobile Games Surpass $1 Billion in Global Player Spending During 2021". Sensor Tower. https://sensortower.com/blog/billion-dollar-mobile-games-2021.
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5."Nexon courts Western game developers with creativity pitch". VentureBeat. March 6, 2017. https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/06/nexon-courts-western-game-developers-with-creativity-pitch/.
6.Special Report: Evolution of Mobile Esports for the Mass Market. Niko Partners. August 2019. pp. 18–9. https://nikopartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Evolution-of-Mobile-Esports-for-the-Mass-Market.pdf.
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- Assassin's Creed Valhalla - 12 Million Copies Sold In First 2 Months. Released in November of 2020, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Valhalla has enjoyed all of 2021 to sell as many copies as possible.
- Minecraft - Eclipsed Over 140 Million Users In 2021. With over 140 million monthly active users as of 2021, Minecraft continues to be one of the most lucrative titles in the industry according to Gamespot.
- Monster Hunter Rise - 7.5 Million Copies Sold By October. Upon debuting on March 26th, Capcom's Monster Hunter Rise sold 7.3 million copies by August 1oth, 2021, according to Gaming Bolt.
- Mario Kart 8 - 4.4 Million Copies Sold In Japan Alone. As iconic a title as they come, Nintendo's Mario Kart 8 has sold a total of 37 million copies for the Switch as of June 30, 2021, according to the Nintendo company themselves.
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