Ever wondered which game did the best in taking everyone’s time and hooking them up until the very end? Yeah! Me neither. But here’s a list of the best selling video games of all time.
*Based on copies sold worldwide
Best Selling Video Games
COD: Black Cops
No of copies sold: 26 million
Call of Duty: Black Ops was released in 2010 in the hype of first-person shooter spy thriller video games. The game was developed by Treyarch, published by Activision, and released worldwide on November 9, 2010 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii consoles.
Cal of Duty: Black Ops takes place during the 1960s in the Cold War and focuses on CIA clandestine black operations carried out behind enemy lines.
COD: Modern Warfare 3
No of copies sold: 27 million
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a 2011 first-person shooter political war thriller video game, developed by Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games, and published by Activision. It is the third installment in the Modern Warfare saga, a direct sequel to 2009’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and the eighth Call of Duty installment.
The game sees the return of former Task Force agents who are on the run after killing the rogue U.S. Army Lt. General Shepherd who was the main antagonist of the previous game.
GTA: San Andreas
No of copies sold: 28 million
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas takes place in 1992 within the state of San Andreas, which is based on sections of California and Nevada. You being the player control Carl “CJ” Johnson, a young African-American gang member who serves as the game’s protagonist.
He returns home after he is prompted about a family tragedy, only to know that his city is being run over by different enemy gangs. He must take the control back before the city destroys itself.
Wii Play
No of copies sold: 28 million
Wii Play, was released as “Your First Step to Wii” in Japan, as a party video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii console.
Games included Shooting Range, Find Mii, Table Tennis, Pose Mii, and Laser Hockey.
New Warner Mario Bros. Wii
No of copies sold: 29 million
New Super Mario Bros. Wii was released in 2009 and is a side-scrolling platform video game published and developed by Nintendo for the Wii video game console.
The game follows the traditional storyline of Princess Peach getting kidnapped by Bowser, the Koopalings and Bowser Jr.
Pac-Man
No of copies sold: 30 million
Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and was first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. It was created by Japanese video game designer Toru Iwatani.
The player controls Pac-Man through a maze, eating pac-dots. When all pac-dots are eaten, Pac-Man is taken to the next stage. Four enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde) roam the maze, trying to catch Pac-Man. If an enemy touches Pac-Man, a life is lost and the Pac-Man itself withers and dies. When all lives have been lost, the game ends.
Diablo III
No of copies sold: 30 million
Diablo III is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the third installment in the Diablo franchise and was released in the Americas, Europe, South Korea, and Taiwan on May 15, 2012, and Russia on June 7, 2012, for Microsoft Windows and OS X. A console version was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on September 3, 2013. Versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were released on August 19, 2014.
The game takes place in Sanctuary, the dark fantasy world of the Diablo series, twenty years after the events of Diablo II. Deckard Cain and Leah are in Tristram Cathedral (the same cathedral that was the setting of Diablo) investigating ancient texts regarding an ominous prophecy. A mysterious star falling from the sky strikes the Cathedral, creating a deep crater into which Deckard Cain disappears.
New Super Mario Bros.
No of copies sold: 30 million
New Super Mario Bros. is a 2006 side-scrolling platform video game published and developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console.
What do you guess? It’s always about Princess Peach being kidnapped and Mario saving the day by confronting Bowser in the end.
Wii Sports Resort
No of copies sold: 33 million
Wii Sports Resort is a sports video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console, and is the successor to Wii Sports. It is one of the first titles which required the Wii MotionPlus accessory, which was bundled with the game.
Games included Swordplay, Wakeboarding, Frisbee, Archery, Basketball, Table Tennis, Golf, Bowling, Power Cruising, Canoeing, Cycling, and Air Sports (Parachuting and Piloting)
Mario Kart Wii
No of copies sold: 36 million
Mario Kart Wii is a 2008 racing video game and the sixth major and most successful installment in the Mario Kart series, developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console.
There’s no such plot of the game, all you had to do was to decide which car you want to take and beat the sh*t out of other racers.
Super Mario Bros.
No of copies sold: 40 million
Super Mario Bros. is a 1985 platform video game internally developed by Nintendo R&D4 and published by Nintendo as a pseudo-sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros. It was originally released in Japan for the Family Computer on September 13, 1985, and later that year for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America, Europe on May 15, 1987 and Australia in 1987.
Plot being same old same old.
Grand Theft Auto V
No of copies sold: 54 million
Grand Theft Auto V is an open world, action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 17 September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, on 18 November 2014 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and on 14 April 2015 for Microsoft Windows.
Nine years after a botched robbery in Ludendorff, North Yankton, former bank robber Michael Townley is living under witness protection with his family in Los Santos, San Andreas, under the alias Michael De Santa. When Michael discovers his wife, Amanda, has been sleeping with her tennis coach, he chases the coach to a mansion and destroys it out of anger. The mansion’s owner turns out to be the girlfriend of a Mexican drug lord named Martin Madrazo. Madrazo demands compensation under the threat of further violence, so Michael goes back into a life of crime to obtain the money. Together with his accomplice, Franklin Clinton, they perform a jewellery shop heist to help pay their debt. Michael’s sole surviving partner in the Ludendorff robbery, Trevor Philips, hears of the jewellery heist and realises that it was Michael’s handiwork. The two reunite after Trevor tracks Michael down in Los Santos.
Minecraft
No of copies sold: 54 million
Minecraft is a sandbox independent video game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” Persson and later developed and published by the Swedish company Mojang.
Minecraft is an open world game that has no specific goals for the player to accomplish, allowing players a large amount of freedom in choosing how to play the game. However the game consist of various playing modes, including Survival mode, Creative mode, Adventure mode, Spectator mode, Multiplayer.
Wii Sports
No of copies sold: 83 million
Wii Sports is a 2006 sports game developed and published by Nintendo as a launch title for the Wii video game console (and the first title for this console), and part of the Touch! Generations.
Wii Sports include tennis, baseball, golf, bowling, and boxing.
Tetris
No of copies sold: 135 million
Tetris is a Russian tile-matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984.
“Tetriminos” are game pieces shaped like tetrominoes, geometric shapes composed of four square blocks each. A random sequence of Tetriminos fall down the playing field (a rectangular vertical shaft, called the “well” or “matrix”). The objective of the game is to manipulate these Tetriminos, by moving each one sideways (if the player feels the need) and rotating it by 90 degree units, with the aim of creating a horizontal line of ten units without gaps. When such a line is created, it disappears, and any block above the deleted line will fall. When a certain number of lines are cleared, the game enters a new level.