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This is a listing of the best-selling video games in the United States annually by units sold since 1980, with sales figures from The NPD Group since 1994. [1] The United States is a very competitive market for video game developers. Games from different developers around the world have entered the annual lists of top ten best-selling games in ...
The game continues to have a wide following many years after its release and was listed on NPD Group's top ten PC games sales list as recently as 2010. [19] Then in 2004 , Blizzard wowed gamers with the release of World of Warcraft , which was the world's most-subscribed MMORPG at the time with over 10 million subscribers.
The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, a 2011 sandbox game released by Mojang for multiple platforms, eventually selling more than 300 million copies in 2023. Grand Theft Auto V is the only other video game known to have sold over 100 million and 200 million copies.
This is the sales charts subsection of WikiProject Video games' Reference library. Since the 1980s, many market research firms around the world (such as the NPD Group) have tracked and published data regarding the sales of video games. This page archives and organizes the charts released by such firms, to give Wikipedians easy access to ...
The year 2000 saw the release of numerous video games as well as the launch of the PlayStation 2.Critically acclaimed games originally released in 2000 include sequels such as Madden NFL 2001, NBA Live 2001, NBA 2K1, WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role, Baldur's Gate II, Diablo II, Dragon Quest VII, Final Fantasy IX, Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, NFL 2K1, Resident Evil – Code: Veronica, Spyro: Year ...
With the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown causing people to stay in their homes, people picked up video games which caused a big boom in sales throughout 2019 all the way into 2021. The NPD Group reported that video game sales in North America in March 2020 were up 34% from those in March 2019, video game hardware up by 63%. [76]
2000 video games (1 C, 759 P) 2001 video games (729 P) 2002 video games (759 P) 2003 video games (717 P) ... Statistics; Cookie statement; Mobile view ...
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.