Top 10 best-selling video games of all time #shorts

10 Best Selling Video Games of All Time 10. Pokemon Gen 1 – 47 million In Japan, the era-defining game was available in two versions at launch (Red and Green) before coming to other territories as Pokemon Red and Blue. Yellow Version (aka Special Pikachu Edition) followed between 1998 and 2000, depending on the territory. 9. Super Mario Bros. – 48 million The lifetime sales total of Super Mario Bros. sits just over 48 million units, according to CESA. It’s the best-selling NES game ever, with an estimated 40.24 million copies sold on the console. Other versions factored into this sales total include the Game Boy Color remake Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (~5 million), GBA’s Classic NES Series: Super Mario Bros. (~2 million), and Virtual Console sales (~.66 million). 8. Overwatch – 50 million Blizzard’s massively popular hero shooter Overwatch has sold 50 million copies, according to a Bloomberg report published in April 2022. Overwatch elevated the hero shooter genre with brilliant game design, thoughtfully crafted heroes, and excellent esports support. In October, Overwatch will be replaced by its free-to-play sequel, Overwatch 2. 7. Red Dead Redemption 2 – 50 million The most recently released game to earn a spot in the top ten is Red Dead Redemption 2. Rockstar’s western epic has sold over 46 million copies as of September 30, 2022, according to publisher Take-Two’s latest financial report. 6. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe With 52 million copies sold (as of September 30, 2022), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best-selling Switch game, according to Nintendo. Factor in sales of the original Wii U release and that total rises to over 60 million, good for the sixth-best-selling game of all time. MK8 is unlikely to rise any higher on this list given the 15-million-unit sales gap between it and the next-best-selling game. 5. PUBG – 75 million Given its critical role in the rising popularity of battle royale games over the last five years, it’s unsurprising that PUBG has been such a massive sales success. Krafton creative director Dave Curd told The Verge it has sold 75 million copies of PUBG as of December 2021. That will likely be the shooter’s final sales tally, as it went free to play a month later in January 2022. 4. Wii Sports – 82.9 million According to Nintendo's official sales figures, Wii Sports is the company's best-selling game ever. While most entries on this list were bundled with a console at some point, Wii Sports was bundled with the Wii in nearly all territories at launch. At nearly 83 million copies sold, it’s the top-selling single-platform exclusive of all time. Initial Release Date: November 19, 2006 | Platform: Wii | IGN’s Review Score: 7.5 3. Grand Theft Auto V – 175 million+ Grand Theft Auto 5 is the best-selling console/PC-only game of all time (the top two entries on this list have mobile versions, too). Sales of Rockstar’s most ambitious GTA yet have surpassed 170 million units as of September 30, 2022. That number compiles the game’s sales totals from across three console generations and PC between 2013 and 2022. GTA 5 was the fastest entertainment release across all mediums to reach $1 billion — and it’s since earned Rockstar and Take-Two billions more, making it the most-profitable entertainment release ever, at least as of 2018. Initial Release Date: September 17, 2013 | Platforms: PS5, PS4, PS3, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC | IGN’s Review Score: 10 2. Minecraft – 238 million Minecraft had sold 238 million copies as of April 2021, according to Microsoft, though its sales total has certainly climbed higher in the year-plus since. The company notes that figure captures the sales total across its 22 available platforms. And with film, Netflix, education, toy, and many other projects either completed or in the works, Minecraft has transcended the medium in a way few others have before it. 1. Tetris – 520 million Arguably the most timeless video game ever created, Tetris sits comfortably atop the list of all-time bestsellers with 520 million copies sold, according to The Tetris Company. That number includes sales across all available platforms, with the majority coming from mobile: Henk Rogers, The Tetris Company's managing director, said Tetris had 425 million paid mobile downloads as of 2014. Modern variations of the classic are still being released: Tetris Effect: Connected brought the puzzler to current-gen consoles with an emotional twist, while most recently, in 2020, SEGA released Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.