Top 10 Best Selling Video Games Of All Time
The modern video game industry flattens the likes of film and music in terms of annual revenue and it's been like that for years dismissing video games as some kind of nerdy fad makes you look like an idiot now as I fight dragons say the geeks will inherit the earth with triple-a titles now being as hyped as a Star Wars sequel or new Beyonce album there have been many that have captured the hearts minds and hours of time of the populace so much so some have garnered a license to essentially print money so what about this hand pick 10 of the best-selling games of all time are they actually good well have they reached this spot because they were bundle with a console and reach this height simply by proxy I'm looking at you eSports i kid i absolutely love wii sports so we've looked at the top 25 best-selling games of all time and pick the 10 best games from those so here we go .
10-Call of duty modern warfare 2
22.7 million sales the 25th best-selling intervention ump-45 model 1887 akimbo Barrett 50 Cal predator missle pave low tactical nuke I'm just listing the many things that made me want to throw my 360 out the window back in the day I sucked up on warfare 2 but I still played it every night it's just that good the sequels the utterly perfect call of duty 4 modern warfare 2 had everything a hard-hitting campaign including the infamous no Russian mission the horrendously addictive multiplayer and the perfection seeking special ops modern warfare 2 had hours upon hours of entertaining to give even if the majority of it was spent dying due to the spas-12 sniper rifle.
9-Minecraft
144 million sales the 2nd best-selling since 2009 minecraft has become a force to be reckoned with many imitations have tried but nothing has ever managed to replicate its success not only being so successful it may as well need its own mint since it's making so much money so quickly it's also, a cultural phenomenon releasing on pretty much every platform you could think of minecraft simple sandbox design means that it's reached corners of a potential audience that no other title has been able to touch from just recreational play to use in schools minecraft is more than just another game all horribly tasteless jokes aside minecraft has helped children with autism the world over helping them make new friends and interact with one another all in all minecraft is one hell of a title it changed the world it helped the world.
8-Grand Theft Auto
25 million sales the 18th best-selling while GTA 4 was a pretty big deal upon release that lost our goggles are falling apart after the release of its successor and Nico's adventures in Liberty City are starting to wither with age now that doesn't at all mean it was a bad title it's still the same critically acclaimed beast today as it was back in 2008 taking a more serious tone in comparison to the previous and future games, it's stuck with some and missed with others however, compared to other open world titles at the time GTA 4 was definitely on top cinematic vast shooty and explodey the guinea-pig GTA of the seventh generation deserves every accolade it received.
7-Player unknowns battlegrounds
24 million sales the 21st best-selling aa pub G the game that ripped off fortnight no the game that ripped off paladin's battlegrounds named it all the game that ripped off red depredation 2 suppose a battle royale mode so well they did it before red they're too even released yeah that's the one player loans money printer has spearheaded a new genre of games one that as we've seen is being copied and shoehorn into every existing multiplayer property imaginable the endless replayability of pub G has massively accounted for its success the original steam release boasts over two million players online at any one time and pub she has a huge player base over on the Xbox one version even with the poor optimization of the pre-release PC version I should mention it runs pretty darn well now the Xbox version still has quite a few kinks to iron out but you can't slap a minimum frame rate on pure adrenaline-fuelled fun now can you yes you probably can as sound off they know.
6-Grand theft auto san andreas
27.5million sales the 16th best-selling looking back san andreas was a feat of video game design cramming that much content onto a single PlayStation 2 our Xbox disk was incredible not everything was completely beloved though with the need to eat and work out being a little polarizing but the praise for the title scope and sheer amount of things to do was almost unanimous with his premise firmly rooted in early 90s happenings of Los Angeles roping in tons of classic movie references and an all-star voice cast this is the point in time when GTA went from smash hit video game to full-fledged pop-culture phenomenon san andreas still stands tall in the series even against the later more impressive titles in the series simply put it's another testament to rockstars demented genius.
5-Mario Kart Wii
37 million sales the 6th best-selling could you imagine playing Mario Kart with a physical wheel you can actually, turn well that's what I was thinking about when I was playing Mario Kart Double Dash back in the day lo and behold in 2008 that's exactly what Nintendo did Mario Kart Wii is not only the sixth best-selling game of all time it's also the best-selling entry in the entire Mario Kart series furiously addictive great both when playing alone and with friends and especially when you're blind drunk at a house party Mario Kart stands alone atop the kart racing genre unless you ask Scott in which he'll go on about Crash Team Racing again hosting some great original tracks and picking some damn good ones for the four retro cups Sallah online gameplay with wiiconnect24 may it rest in peace you could sink hours upon hours into Mario Kart Wii and trust me we did.
4-Tetris
170 million sales for the 1st best-selling way before the tetris formula was changed up no end throwing power-ups Puyo Puyo and bloody microtransactions into the mix the most popular Tetris title was quite modest in comparison the version bundled with the original Gameboy is the best-selling version of the best-selling game franchise ever Alexey Pajitnov addictive block dropping line making smash is still going strong today simply because the gameplay and replayability is simply timeless I still find myself sinking time into tetris D s my personal favorite in the series but the original 1989 release of Tetris for the Game Boy is still regarded as the best it doesn't matter what platform you're on there will always be a Tetris waiting for you it's like your dog waiting by your front door when you come home from work tetris is a damn good boy.
3-Pokemon red blue and green
31.3 million sales the 8th best-selling the trio of games that made the Pokemon brand a commercial force of nature almost overnight these first iterations proved the formula to be instantly accessible and successful and subsequently created one of the biggest gaming franchises ever known collecting and battling hundreds of monsters was way ahead of its time even more so at the Game Boy link cable being able to trade and battle with other players while the graphics and audio weren't hugely groundbreaking they have gone down in videogame infamy irrelevance of that pokemon red blue and green were the epitome of substance over style putting aside the flashy graphics for solid hour draining gameplay highly addictive and highly successful pokemons continued through seven generations of games and countless spin-offs and shows absolutely no sign of stopping.
2-Grand theft auto 5
90 million sales the 3rd best salad goodness me it's Grand Theft Auto again returning to the sillier approach to GTA 5 is the most polished and innovative entry in the series as well as being one of the most complete sandbox games ever made as if a cinematic action paced story wasn't enough Rockstar really pushed the boat out with a character switching mechanic which is most likely changed the series forever in addition to the expansive single GTA online is one of the most consistent money printers we have ever seen and with a huge player base logging in every day online has kept GTA 5 going since its launch in 2013 even if it meant Rockstar haven't done much else since actually we can ignore that new game hiatus now that Red Dead 2 is on the way.
1-Super mario brothers
40.2million sales the 5th best-selling often cited as the greatest video game ever made Super Mario Brothers for the NES is the most iconic video game of all time one that kicked off the biggest selling character franchise ever not only did it save the industry from the video game crash of 1983 Thank You et it was the highest selling game for a single platform until we sports rocked up in 2006 anyone who is anyone has played Super Mario Brothers in some form be it on the NES or not and everyone knows what it's about Mario saves Princess Peach from Bowser simple but brilliant this plotline has pretty much never changed since the early days, it may not be the best selling of all time but it is simply one of the best Mario shigeru Nintendo we take our caps off to you.
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