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https://brandon-chambers.github.io/charts/games/game_chart.html
Data scraped and collated from VgChartz.
Visualization tool for the bestselling games of all time. Tool is searchable and responsive.
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Posted by BChambersDataAnalyst
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What’s the difference between PUBG and PUBG in all caps?
Does this list include PC and console installs?
Edit: Corrected my poor grammar.
It sure would be cool if you could somehow incorporate the number of people playing games at the time. Be interesting to see how older games like original doom stack up against modern games with tons of players….
This doesn’t include world of warcraft and all the expansions it’s sold over the years. Including countless subs.
Even now there are millions of players.
How can something like this be omitted ?
Shadowlands: 3.7 million copies on launch day, setting a new franchise record.
Battle for Azeroth: Over 3.4 million copies sold on its first full day.
Legion: 3.3 million copies sold on launch day, matching “Cataclysm”.
Cataclysm: 3.3 million copies sold on launch day.
Wrath of the Lich King: 2.8 million copies sold on launch day.
The Burning Crusade: 2.4 million copies sold on launch day.
This is not a comprehensive list of the wow expansions. . But if all summed together it should be huge.
How accurate are the numbers from games released in the 80s and 90s are? I can’t imagine how hard it must have been to track worldwide figures + multi-tiered distribution channels using tech and systems back then.
Surely after such success from the previous opus, TES VI is right around the corner !
Wonder if sales of Skyrim includes all 273 versions / upgrades
Crazy success from indie games. Stardew valley was one developer.
The Sims seems a notable omission.
Wikipedia has The Sims 4 at 36 million copies sold which would put it quite high on your char
They should make a sequel to this Grand Theft Auto V game. It’d probably be a big hit.
The amount of GTA5 vs. Red Dead Redemption is surprising. RDR2 is amazing.
This list is missing Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 which is still the best selling Call of Duty title of all time.
It sold 43 million copies.
Modern Warfare 2019 sold 41 million copies.
Cold War sold 30 million copies.
All of these infos were leaked cuz of a court case awhile back.
https://twistedvoxel.com/call-of-duty-average-development-budget-sales/
Nothing says beautiful like a single colour bar chart
IMO Wii sports (and to some extent SMB) should have a big asterix next to them since they came with the console.
Why is no one talking about human fall flat? Never would have guessed it on the list let alone so high
I always hate that these charts include pack-in titles. I feel like that’s a completely different thing
Jesus how much money has the stardew valley guy made
I enjoyed Hogwarts Legacy but I am absolutely shocked it sold that well, top 20 games of all time is insane
Comparing games that were bundled with consoles (like Wii Sports), games that were free or very cheap (Battlegrounds, Minecraft) and games that actually cost people money (like GTA V) is imo completely useless. Newsflash: people will accept games they have no choice whether to take, and games that cost them nothing, in large numbers.
Dang, I’ve never even heard of half the top 10 and the first one I’ve played is #13 (Tetris).
Is this just console? No wow?
Tetris seems too low. Is this only counting the NES version?
Ok, I don’t game. Where is Fortnite?
It’s crazy that two small indie games, Stardew Valley and Terraria rank so high above many AAA titles (even if this list is incomplete). They are amazing games, but I didn’t realize their sales numbers were we so high.