Current-gen megahits (5m+ sales) by genre

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oniyide said:

But there is no gaurantee that everyone who has that game will even log on to the leaderboards?? I have Braid myself and I never put my stuff up on Leaderboards

true but the numbers line up for games that have had sales numbers released, Castle crashers sold over 2 million and there are 2.5 million on the leader board, more than half of Super Meat Boy's sales were on PC after a few months of being released on steam the humble bundle which sold 350k which pushed it over a million which would mean there were  less than 650k sales total on both platforms whitch lines up with the ~250k number for XBLA. The fact that in theory multiple accounts could use a single copy of the game as long as they are played on the console that brought the game should make up for the people that aren't added to the leaderboard.

I very much doubt that more than 50% of players are not on the leaderboard so none of the games other than Limbo have any chance at a million. And the fact that Limbo had a million copies sold over 3 platforms lines up with the Gamasutra numbers anyway with almost 900k which would mean that Limbo only sold ~100k on PC and PSN combined for such a late port that seems about right if not a tad low.