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An indie video game or indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games.
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Grand Theft Auto V is the only other video game that has sold over 100 million and 200 million copies. The best-selling single platform game is Wii Sports, with nearly 83 million sales exclusively for the Wii console. Three of the most represented video game franchises on this list feature Pokémon, Mario, and Call of Duty.
However, due to the NPD being unable to track Nintendo digital sales data, only physical sales are counted for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. [44] The NPD is also unable to track Battle.net sales for Diablo IV. Call of Duty finished 2023 as the best-selling video game series in the US market for the 15th consecutive year.
This page archives and organizes the charts released by such firms, to give Wikipedians easy access to information about games' commercial performance. The sales charts archive is dynamic —by design, it will never be completed—but it can be improved with the addition of links to reliable charts in the relevant subsections.
Indie art, fine arts made by artists independent of commercial fine arts establishments; Independent film, a film produced outside of the major film studios Indiewood; Indie game, video games created without financial backing from large companies; Indie role-playing game, a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means
These games typically were aimed at a core market of gamers with the latest consoles or high-end personal computers, and at the time, these games would only see most sales in the first few months after the game's initial release. DLC was seen as a means to extend the potential revenue from these games. [57]