VGChartz's Best-Selling Console Games of Gen 8: Updated Weekly!

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Worldwide as of April 12

 

Title	Year	Publisher	PS4	One	Wii U	Combined
Call of Duty Ghosts	2013	Activision	2.11	1.69	0.15	3.95
New Super Mario Bros U	2012	Nintendo	0	0	3.87	3.87
Battlefield 4	2013	Electronic Arts	1.73	1.28	0	3.01
Nintendo Land	2012	Nintendo	0	0	2.94	2.94
FIFA Soccer 14	2013	Electronic Arts	1.83	0.85	0	2.68
Assassin's Creed 4	2013	Ubisoft	1.55	0.75	0.16	2.46
Super Mario 3D World	2013	Nintendo	0	0	1.97	1.97
Killzone: Shadow Fall	2013	Sony	1.63	0	0	1.63
Titanfall	2014	Electronic Arts		1.47		1.47
New Super Luigi U	2013	Nintendo	0	0	1.45	1.45
NBA 2K14	2013	Take-Two	0.84	0.55	0	1.39
Forza 5	2013	Microsoft	0	1.22	0	1.22
Need For Speed Rivals	2013	Electronic Arts	0.86	0.34	0	1.2
Wii Party U	2013	Nintendo	0	0	1.19	1.19
Madden NFL 25	2013	Electronic Arts	0.61	0.53	0	1.14
Infamous: Second Son	2014	Sony	1.09			1.09
Knack	2013	Sony	1.03	0	0	1.03
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes	2013	Warner Bros	0.46	0.31	0.23	1
Dead Rising 3	2013	Microsoft	0	1	0	1
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker	2013	Nintendo	0	0	0.91	0.91

 

North America

Title	Year	Publisher	PS4	One	Wii U	Combined
Call of Duty Ghosts	2013	Activision	1.14	1.2	0.11	2.45
New Super Mario Bros U	2012	Nintendo			1.79	1.79
Battlefield 4	2013	Electronic Arts	0.82	0.85		1.67
Nintendo Land	2012	Nintendo			1.65	1.65
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag	2013	Ubisoft	0.69	0.49	0.1	1.28
NBA 2K14	2013	Take-Two	0.63	0.48		1.11
Titanfall	2014	Electronic Arts		1.03		1.03
Madden NFL 25	2013	Electronic Arts	0.51	0.48		0.99
Super Mario 3D World	2013	Nintendo			0.88	0.88
New Super Luigi U	2013	Nintendo			0.87	0.87

 

Europe

 

Title	Year	Publisher	PS4	One	Wii U	Combined
FIFA Soccer 14	2013	Electronic Arts	1.24	0.54		1.78
Call of Duty Ghosts	2013	Activision	0.76	0.4	0.02	1.18
Battlefield 4	2013	Electronic Arts	0.69	0.36		1.05
Assassin's Creed 4	2013	Ubisoft	0.69	0.21	0.05	0.95
Killzone: Shadow Fall	2013	Sony	0.8			0.8
New Super Mario Bros U	2012	Nintendo			0.72	0.72
Nintendo Land	2012	Nintendo			0.68	0.68
Need For Speed Rivals	2013	Electronic Arts	0.38	0.09		0.47
Super Mario 3D World	2013	Nintendo			0.44	0.44
Forza 5	2013	Microsoft		0.4		0.4

 

Notes:

• This week, Titanfall went up a couple of places worldwide, reaching the #9 overall spot, while Infamous: Second Son overtook Knack. In America, Titanfall overtook Madden NFL 25 for the #7 spot. In Europe, there were no Top 10 Changes in position.
• 19 games now have a million or more sales, with Dead Rising 3 now added to the list.
• Ground Zeros looks like it may overtake Wind Waker in a few weeks, but Zelda is putting up a fight. Depending on how long it takes, a game like Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8 or Wolfenstein, the three biggest 8th gen console games of May, might overtake them for the #20 spot first.
• Neither Kinect Sports Rivals or LEGO The Hobbit sold even 100,000 across gen 8 consoles their first week, making them unlikely to end up in the Top 20.
• It's worth noting that Europe is a bit of a dull region. Nearly 1.8 million copies of FIFA, but only about 0.4 million copies of the #10 game. That means the #10 game is only 22% as sucessful as the #1 game. Compare that to America, where the percentage is a more respectable 36%, or worldwide, which is 37%.
• In fact, even though Japan is technically a weeker region for Gen 8 consoles, Europe is in many ways the least 8th-gen-region so far. One has to go down to the #5 spot to find a game not available on platforms made last decade, and even big new names of 2014 so far like Titanfall and Second Son are doing worse in Europe than in America.
• IIn any case, there is still a shortage of big Gen 8 exclusives. This will be improved with time, but it's interesting that third parties, despite in some cases demanding a new generation, have mostly not taken advantage of it.