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4.42 million Wii, 4.40 million 360, 2.00 million PS3
It took three forevers, but this game has finally stalled at about ten thousand units a month. It's unlikely that any music game will surpass it in the foreseeable future. June Writeup: The best-selling rhythm-based music game there is, Guitar Hero III defined music games on the current-gen consoles and its sales reflect that. This was the golden age of music games, and it will be remembered as such. With PS2 sales, this game eclipsed 15 million units. Yowza! |
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3.68 million Wii, 3.56 million DS, 1.64 million 360, 1.29 million PS3
This... this game is still selling, actually. If it has a strong holiday, it could end up surpassing Guitar Hero III. People love LEGO and Star Wars, no doubt. Still the best-selling Star Wars game! June Writeup: This is the epitome of all LEGO games: simple, accessible, fun, dealing with a property that nearly everyone loves, and able to be played in multiplayer. The Complete Saga has sold much (much) more than the first game or the Original Trilogy, and continues to sell as a Hell of a deal - apparently, few can resist this gem for twenty bucks. The other two games might have made this list, except that they never saw a Wii release. Go figure. Also, this is the best-selling Star Wars game of all time. Did I mention that? It is. |
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160 thousand sold in the dull months of summer. Ten million units should be very doable over the course of the holidays, or a few months after. Interesting point: at 10 million, Samus would be in more copies of Brawl than the entire Metroid series combined. of course that's also true for Captain Falcon, Marth, Ike, Olimar, Ness, Lucas.... you get the picture. June Writeup: What's that? A Smash Bros. game might break ten million units sold? You don't say. In spite of falling seven places since this list was created, Brawl continues to sell steadily just like its predecessors did, and ten million may not be the roof here. We'll see as time goes on. |
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As it turns out, this game very well could end up outselling Fire Red and Leaf Green! Go figure. Within the next year or two this could be the best-selling Pokemon remake ever... assuming Black and White doesn't cannibalize it. June Writeup: As Pokemon games go, Heart Gold and Soul Silver have quite a distance to walk before they can strut with the big boys, but for re-releases they've done all right. It's yet to be seen if they'll end up selling better than Fire Red and Leaf Green (3 million to go), but this is Pokemon we're talking about: anything can happen. |
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Super Mario Galaxy continues to sell in spite of its sequel making a fairly enormous splash. Will the magic that people raved about push this game past 10 million? It will be a long time in coming, but we'll see! Also, Super Mario Galaxy 2 should be breaking into the top 50 over the course of the holiday season. June Writeup: WAHOO! For a lot of people, Super Mario Galaxy was a return to form for 3D Mario, the harbinger of a new golden age for console platformers. Now we have two 3D Marios and a 2D Mario all on one system, and Marioboys couldn't be happier. This game hasn't quite stalled out - it's sold another ~450k since the last edition of this list - but it's slowing down and will likely hit its final shipiments sometime in the next year. It's unknown if its sequel, Super Mario Galaxy 2, will be able to match its sales, but we'll all be watching. |
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4.94 million 360, 3.80 million PS3
Assassin's Creed sales have tapered off, but it continues to sell relatively well. Its sequel is catching up quick. Also of note: Mario 64 DS didn't pass it up yet, but Mario Galaxy did. I didn't see that coming. June Writeup: Assassin's Creed is holding doggedly onto relevance, selling anothr 500,000 copies since its sequel was released. How's that for stayingn power? It's possible that Mario 64 DS will pass it up before too long, but time will tell. |
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3.56 million 360, 1.78 million DS, 1.78 million Wii, 0.84 million PSP, 0.70 million PS3
The fact that this game has managed to maintain its spot is pretty typical of LEGO legs. Also of note: I apparently failed to carry a one somewhere last time I added this game up. Oops! June Writeup: The smirk really says it all. The second major IP in the current-gen LEGO line, Indiana Jones was propelled into the top thirty thanks to some very savvy and aggressive 360 bundling during the 2008 holiday season. The best part? The game probably would have made it into the top 50 anyway. You go, Indy. |
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This game continues to sell incrementally but well, and has fallen two places since June. In terms of sales, 3D Mario definitely exists in the shadow of its elder 2D brother, but this game is not a slouch at all. It's unlikely that it will pass up Mario Galaxy at this point. I was wrong! June Writeup: What's that? A Nintendo game selling over eight million copies? Big deal. ...Wait, it's within a stone's throw of Mario Galaxy? And closing in? And it's a port of a game that was nearly a decade old when this came out!? Super Mario 64 DS is kind of the Cinderella story of the Nintendo DS: it had to get past crappy controls and a fragmented world system to do it, but it's gone on to stand proudly next to every single 3D Mario platformer. By the end of the gen it might be the second-best-selling of that line, with the best being the original Mario 64. |
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3.46 million PS3, 2.67 million 360, 0.88 million Wii, 0.76 million PSP, 0.49 million DS
I'm still tempted to say "GOOOOOOOOOOAL", etc. Will be interesting to see how this holds up when the '11 games start weighing in. June Writeup: The best-selling futbol game on this list by a considerable margin, there should be no explanation necessary: thtisi s the most popular sport in the world, and it's going to continue to move video games until buyers get sick of it (which menas it iwll move games forever). |
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4.14 million 360, 3.94 million PS3
As it turns out, this has plenty of potential to pass up the original, so long as Brotherhood doesn't cut its legs out from under it. Climbing positions at this point is pretty difficult, but it could end up going even higher. June Writeup: "We fixed everything wrong with the first game," Ubisoft said. Gamers said, "Oh. All right. I better get on buying that, then." It's yet to be seen if this can surpass the original in raw sales, but it's going to make a hell of a try at it. |
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