Barozi on 09 February 2017
| Shadow1980 said: Very impressive. Well on its way to being the best-selling game ever, if we count only "regular" games that didn't benefit from widespread cheap digital downloads (so that takes Tetris and Minecraft out of the equation). However, not to downplay its success or anything, GTAV has benefited greatly from being a multiplatform release. I'd like to see a breakdown between all platforms, but I don't think it's a stretch to assume that, as far as individual releases go, no one version of GTAV has yet to come close to approaching Mario Kart Wii (36.83M), New Super Mario Bros. (30.8M), or New SMB Wii (29.9M), the three best-selling games excluding games benefiting from heavy bundling at and after launch (e.g., Super Mario Bros., Wii Sports, Sports Resort, & Play, and the Game Boy port of Tetris). Still, GTAV is the most successful third-party game ever. Even its individual ports dominate their respective platform. The PS3 port is still probably the best-selling non-exclusive individual release ever, and at last count it was I think at 21-22 million copies, damn close to Pokemon Red & Blue and Gold & Silver (which are kinda unfair comparisons as well since they're technically two games each) and Mario Kart DS, and way ahead of anything released on any PlayStation system. The 360 version was at last count closing in on 18 million, far ahead of anything else released on any Xbox system (excluding Kinect Adventures, which was bundled with the Kinect). If the PS4 port continues to retain a high attach rate it could possibly take the PS3 versions spot by time the generation ends (though the 30M mark may be elusive), and the XBO port could similarly end up at a very high spot in the all-time individual releases category. |
Both MK Wii and NSMB Wii were bundled (after they already sold a huge amount.)
https://wiiki.wii-homebrew.com/Wii/Konsolen-Bundles
With digital sales and same kind of bundles as the above games got, the PS3 version of GTA V would be over 30 million too.
