Videogames are now one of the largest forms of media. In this guide, we break down the bestselling video games from the NES to the current console generation.
Although sales aren’t the only metric relevant to how good a game is, it’s a decent measurement of how influential certain titles have been over time. In this list, we’ll take a look at the cream of the crop, looking at the top bestselling video games of all time.
Some interesting notes before diving in: Almost all of the titles below were included as part of a hardware bundle at some point, with the exception of a small handful of games. Additionally, only six of the games below are exclusive to one console — five on Wii and one on Nintendo DS. All other games are available on multiple platforms. It’s also worth noting that many of the sales stats for the following games are a couple of years old at this point and are likely higher today.
Read less Read more The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt -- 30 million 95 % 4/5 M Platforms PC , PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Genre Role-playing , Adventure Developer CD Projekt RED Publisher WB Games, Bandai Namco Entertainment, cdp.pl, Spike ChunSoft Release May 19, 2015 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt certainly came out of nowhere, didn’t it? While its predecessor, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, was good, not many were expecting the follow-up to explode with popularity.