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If a game was released on multiple platforms, the sales figures list are only for PC sales. This list is not comprehensive because sales figures are not always publicly available. Subscription figures for massively multiplayer online games such as Flight Simulator or Lineage and number of accounts from free-to-play games such as Hearthstone are ...
The Game Awards, honoring the best video games of the year, was held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. [68] 19 Sony and Kadokawa Corporation, the parent company of FromSoftware, Spike Chunsoft, and Acquire, agreed to form a strategic business alliance, with Sony becoming the largest shareholder in Kadokawa. [69]
The best-selling single platform game is Wii Sports, with nearly 83 million sales solely for the Wii console. Among these best-selling video games on this list, over half of them were developed or published by Nintendo; four Nintendo titles were published with their affiliate, The Pokémon Company.
Video game publishers Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts managed to enter the list of ten best-selling games every single year with at least one of their games for the last fifteen years in a row. Of the twelve best-selling games released in the last thirteen years, eleven were from Call of Duty franchise and published by Activision Blizzard.
2024 was a great year for Reddit. The company went public in March with a $6.4 billion valuation and reported its first quarterly profit in October. Shares have soared 230% since its IPO.
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 sold worldwide.
(Note: Should not be confused with SteamSpy) In 2018 there was a leak with Steam's API service and someone managed to extrapolate the player numbers of over 13'000 games. As Steam is a PC only platform these numbers would be of great interest for this list. As these numbers where calculated via achievements, they are not exact.
The Steam Awards are selected in two phases. In the first phase, Valve selects a number of categories, atypical of those used in gaming awards, and allows any registered Steam user to select one game available on Steam for that category. Valve subsequently reviews the nominations and then selects the top five games for final voting.