Best Selling Video Games 1979 – 2020
Best Selling Video Games 1979 – 2020
This data visualization video shows the best selling video games since 1979. It includes all their ports for newer systems such as for Super Mario Bros for the Wii, Wii U, etc. It does not include Free-to-Play video games, I will include those in a different video.
For top selling I selected those with 1 million in sales units for the first few years, then those with 5 million in sales for the next few years, then 10 million, etc. This was to avoid crowding the chart and to avoid adding games that don’t even peek out for a single year.
These stats come from Wikipedia, articles and from Google Books searches. Some of the data includes approximate numbers as the data available skipped years.
In the video I included quick clips of how the games looked.
"Graphics make the game popular"
Minecraft, Tetris, Wii Sports: Are you sure about that.
june 2013 6:25 im sad now
Counting very different versions of Tertris as the same game….
Many games here in the Philippines are popular in game but not in the ranking of sales because of piracy 😆 . Real talk
Minecraft looks like the most stupid f@###&- game in the world. How did it make #1? DUMB!!
How about roblox
Free Fire
and the others games minecraft fortnite outlast 2 1 where they are
where the hell is roblox?
This is effectively just a list of games given away free with console or system purchases. They probably shouldn’t have even been included. Can you really say there were "sales" of Wii Sports and stuff like that?
And today I learned there was a "Mario brothers" before "super Mario brothers"
It’s noteworthy that sales may be a good indicator for "best" games, but sometimes it’s not, Doom was an extreme success, but sold not too much due to freeware release
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Huge achievement when Minecraft passed Tetris
Kinda surprised to not find a single game from the Zelda and the Warcraft franchise in here, considering these have been widely successful for decades.
Where is league of legends?
Alien shooter??
Mortal kombat??
Why playstation and xbox games not included
I call BS on this list. Where GTA or Witcher 3 bull butter lol
Glad to see Minecraft up there(:
Increíble que Tetris sea el mayor no imaginé para nada
I’m glad PUBG is on here and higher than call of duty 😉
No first place without blocks
Where world of Warcraft ?
I’m convinced Tetris is all played by our elders
didnt need to watch it to find out minecraft is best!
It’s amazing to me that there are no games originally released on PS1 or N64 on this list at any time.
Current Ukrainian favourite game: _Zeldensky_ 😂🇺🇦😀
Minecraft dominates
I have a dvd with Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort, but Resort was shown in this video only in 2018 section, it was unexpectedly late appearance
I have mobile horror games in my channel☠💀
NFS?
Fortnite battle pass
Im actually really surprised that the only Diablo game was D3.. also games like WOW didnt make an appearance..
How the hell could Frogger still be selling through the 90s?
If I remember correctly, Tetris was invented by a russian. He hasn’t seen a penny for his game.
6:42 entry of legend…
minecraft is 1st? really?
I’m pretty sure if we include pirated copies in the count this list would look entirely different. Back during school days there didn’t exist a computer that didn’t have DOOM on it.
3:45 That footage is not from Pokémon R/B/Y, but from Mystery Dungeon, which came out much later.
Where roblox?
I could of sworn that Ms. Pacman out sold Pacman.
I should make a block game.
I hear people complain about game prices. Back when Super Mario Bros 3 came out for the NES it was 60 bucks. Games cost about the same price today is not cheaper.
I really, really hate Minecraft.
This is wrong data where is clash of clans
Thought I was watching the most boring video games through the years.
Wtf is tetris🤔 lol
Admin’s definitely a Minecraft fan.
I wonder what the numbers would be if we removed all of the underaged players on GTA and other similar games.
Buenos videos pero la letra muyyyy y pequeña