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

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May 3, 2014

Title	Year	Publisher	PS4	One	Wii U	Combined
Call of Duty Ghosts	2013	Activision	2.18	1.73	0.15	4.06
New Super Mario Bros U	2012	Nintendo	0	0	3.93	3.93
Battlefield 4	2013	Electronic Arts	1.79	1.3	0	3.09
Nintendo Land	2012	Nintendo	0	0	2.98	2.98
FIFA Soccer 14	2013	Electronic Arts	1.93	0.88	0	2.81
Assassin's Creed 4	2013	Ubisoft	1.6	0.77	0.17	2.54
Super Mario 3D World	2013	Nintendo	0	0	2.02	2.02
Titanfall	2014	Electronic Arts		1.69		1.69
Killzone: Shadow Fall	2013	Sony	1.66	0	0	1.66
New Super Luigi U	2013	Nintendo	0	0	1.5	1.5
NBA 2K14	2013	Take-Two	0.88	0.57	0	1.45
Forza 5	2013	Microsoft	0	1.26	0	1.26
Need For Speed Rivals	2013	Electronic Arts	0.89	0.35	0	1.24
Infamous: Second Son	2014	Sony	1.22			1.22
Wii Party U	2013	Nintendo	0	0	1.21	1.21
Madden NFL 25	2013	Electronic Arts	0.63	0.54	0	1.17
Knack	2013	Sony	1.05	0	0	1.05
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes	2013	Warner Bros	0.48	0.32	0.24	1.04
Dead Rising 3	2013	Microsoft	0	1.02	0	1.02
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker	2013	Nintendo	0	0	0.93	0.93
Ryse	2013	Microsoft	0	0.9	0	0.9
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes	2014	Konami	0.67	0.15	0	0.82
Pikmin 3	2013	Nintendo	0	0	0.76	0.76
LEGO City Undercover	2013	Nintendo	0	0	0.75	0.75
Thief	2014	Square Enix	0.43	0.26	0	0.69
Just Dance 2014	2013	Ubisoft	0.18	0.22	0.27	0.67
ZombiU	2012	Ubisoft	0	0	0.67	0.67
Skylanders Swap Force	2013	Activision	0.14	0.14	0.26	0.54
Tomb Raider	2014	Square Enix	0.39	0.14	0	0.53
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze	2014	Nintendo	0	0	0.53	0.53

 

Publishers

Company	PS4	One	Wii U	Combined
Nintendo	N/A	N/A	14.61	14.61
Electronic Arts	5.24	4.76	N/A	10
Activision	2.32	1.87	0.41	4.6
Sony	3.93	N/A	N/A	3.93
Ubisoft	1.78	0.99	1.11	3.88
Microsoft	N/A	3.18	N/A	3.18
Take-Two	0.88	0.57	N/A	1.45
Square Enix	0.82	0.4	N/A	1.22
Warner Bros	0.48	0.32	0.24	1.04
Konami	0.67	0.15	N/A	0.82

 

North America

Title	Year	Publisher	PS4	One	Wii U	Combined
Call of Duty Ghosts	2013	Activision	1.18	1.22	0.11	2.51
New Super Mario Bros U	2012	Nintendo			1.82	1.82
Battlefield 4	2013	Electronic Arts	0.84	0.87		1.71
Nintendo Land	2012	Nintendo			1.67	1.67
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag	2013	Ubisoft	0.71	0.51	0.11	1.33
Titanfall	2014	Electronic Arts		1.19		1.19
NBA 2K14	2013	Take-Two	0.65	0.49		1.14
Madden NFL 25	2013	Electronic Arts	0.52	0.49		1.01
Super Mario 3D World	2013	Nintendo			0.9	0.9
New Super Luigi U	2013	Nintendo			0.9	0.9

 

Europe

Title	Year	Publisher	PS4	One	Wii U	Combined
FIFA Soccer 14	2013	Electronic Arts	1.31	0.56		1.87
Call of Duty Ghosts	2013	Activision	0.79	0.41	0.03	1.23
Battlefield 4	2013	Electronic Arts	0.72	0.37		1.09
Assassin's Creed 4	2013	Ubisoft	0.71	0.22	0.05	0.98
Killzone: Shadow Fall	2013	Sony	0.82			0.82
New Super Mario Bros U	2012	Nintendo			0.74	0.74
Nintendo Land	2012	Nintendo			0.69	0.69
Need For Speed Rivals	2013	Electronic Arts	0.39	0.09		0.48
Super Mario 3D World	2013	Nintendo			0.45	0.45
Forza 5	2013	Microsoft		0.41		0.41
Titanfall	2014	Electronic Arts		0.41		0.41
Infamous: Second Son	2014	Sony	0.41			0.41

 

Notes:

• This week, the biggest jump came from Titanfall, which rose 60,000 units on just the Xbone. This allowed it to overtake Killzone: Shadow Fall, taking the 8th place for overall best-selling console game of the generation. The other notable shift worldwide was Infamous: Second Son overtaking Wii Party U, in addition to all the usual minor increases you'd expect.
• The difference between the #30 and #31 spot widdened this week, as Rayman Legends is being outpaced by both Tomb Raider and Tropical Freeze. Unless MLB: The Show sells over half a million units on the PS4 in its first few weeks, Wolfenstein looks to be the game to knock one of them off the table.
• From a publisher standpoint, this week belonged to Electronic Arts. They had a jump of roughly 140,000 games in the Top 30 worldwide, reaching 10 million in the Top 30, compared to Nintendo's 100,000 and, say, Activision's 30,000. Titanfall can only be accredited with less than half of this jump, the rest coming from launch games like FIFA. Whether EA can remain the fastest growing remains to be seen, as of course Watch Dogs and Mario Kart 8 are made by other companies already invested in this gen. If Mario Kart 8 only sells 100,000 copies a week for a while, that would be disappointing, but would still make Nintendo by far one of this gen's leaders as a software publisher.
• Although there was little change in North America this week, note that Titanfall is selling at the fastest pace. If Watch Dogs and Mario Kart 8 don't rustle its jimmies, it can overtake Assassin's Creed 4 as the #5 best-selling console game of the generation. However, it is unlikely to overtake Nintendo Land in the near future, at least before those two games intervene.
• In Europe, you may have noticed that there are 12 games listed. This is because the exclusives Infamous: Second Son and Titanfall are now on par with both Forza 5 and each other. Which of these three games breaks ahead and becomes the true #10 will be interesting to see.
• So far, four of the top ten best-selling games of the gen are shooters: Battlefield, CoD, Titanfall, and Killzone. Three more are platformers in the Mario universe, then we have Assassin's Creed, FIFA, and Nintendo's theme park party game collection. One one hand, this might not seem like the most inspiring gen so far. On the other, the gen's just started and two of the Top 10 games are new IP's (Titanfall and Nintendo Land).