why even count wii sports. you know 99% of its sales are bundle sales. I bet if it wasn't bundled it would be at about 5 million tops, which is still amazing, but not 28 million or whatever it is now.

Interesting list. Given the split of many big titles across PS3/360 I'd like to see where they sit combined - i.e. to me GTA IV and COD4 don't represent two games, just one on multiple platforms. I think their position should be based on combined sales, as should Assassin's Creed, DMC4, etc.

 Actually, Wii Sports probably has a lower bundled rate than Marvel:Ultimate Alliance on X360.

It's not 99% either, as a matter of fact - it's below 90%.

Reasonable, going exact on where on the list the multiplats are, is hard, because you will have to take into account other games increasing.  I can say where they are on the singleplat list though, but remember that they're likely to be 5+ places lower if you include all multiplats from previous consoles.

Guitar Hero 3: 12.2M - 21st place

CoD 4: 9.9M: 29th place

GTA IV: 10.2M - 29th place

Assassin's Creed: 6.7M - 56th place

Devil May Cry 4: 2.4M - 311th place

i think we will see mgs4 in the list before the end of the year.mgs4 at 5 millions

this thread is confusing as fck..... thread=FAILED

Thanks anyway.  I'm always amazed at how well AC sold as I felt the end product was really just a tech demo with some basic mechanics on top and a drawn out, one big fight after another, finish.

Quick pre-Black Friday update.

Halo 3 passes Halo 2; GTAIV PS3 gets into top 100; 17 of 23 games are on Nintendo platforms

2 Wii Sports 33.67m
8 Nintendogs 20.24m
12 Wii Play 16.64m
13 Pokemon Diamond / Pearl 16.36m
14 New Super Mario Bros. 16.24m
18 Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day 14.75m
21 Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day 12.57m
22 Mario Kart DS 12.50m
27 Wii Fit 10.78m
30 Mario Kart Wii 10.03m
31 Animal Crossing: Wild World 9.94m
39 Halo 3 8.47m
49 Super Smash Bros. Brawl 7.43m
50 Super Mario Galaxy Nintendo 7.37m
56 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 6.63m
64 Super Mario 64 DS 6.28m
66 Grand Theft Auto IV 6.26m
69 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games 5.95m
72 Mario Party 8 5.65m
82 Big Brain Academy 5.43m
83 Gears of War 5.43m
96 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories 5.07m
100 Grand Theft Auto IV 4.93m

I posted this here in another thread.

Before Wii/DS the list was as this (top 10 best sellers)

1. SMB (NES) 40.24M

2. Pokemon Red/Blue (GB) Pokemon Red/Blue 33.33M

3. Tetris (GB) 30.26M

4. Duch Hunt (NES) 28.31M

5. Pokemon Gold/Silver (GB) 23.11M

6. SMW (SNES) 20.61M

7. SM land (GB) 18.14M

8. GTA:SA (Ps2) 17.48M

9. SMB3 (NES) 17.28M

10. The Sims (PC) 16.08M

 

NES - 3 titles

GB - 4 titles

SNES - 1 title

Ps2 - 1 title

PC - 1 title

 

And by generation

 

3rd gen - 5 titles

4th gen - 3 titles

5th gen - 1 title

6th gen - 1 title

 

Looked like fewer and fewer games were able to sell a lot. Now, after this gen, I believe we will see something around this.

 

How I believe the list will be (reasoning after the list).

1. Wii Sports (Wii) number doesn't matter - it will be 1st. 

2. SMB (NES) - 40.24M

3. Wii Play (Wii) 33-40M

4. Wii Fit (Wii) 33-40M

5. Pokemon Red/Blue (GB) 33.33M

6. Nintendogs (DS) 30-33M

7. Tetris (GB)- 30.26M

8. Duck Hunt (NES)- 28.31M

9. Pokemon Gold/Silver (GB)- 23.11M

10. NSMB -(DS) 20-23M

 

NES - 2 titles

GB - 3 titles

DS - 2 titles

Wii - 3 titles

 

So by generation.

3rd gen - 4 titles

4th gen - 1 title

5th gen - 0 titles

6th gen - 0 titles

7th gen - 7 titles.

 

Reasoning.

 

1. Wii Sports (Guaranteed 50M +)

2 + 3rd + 4th SMB/Wii Play/Wii Fit

Wii Play does now only sell 1/3 of the number of consoles sold on a weekly basis. The Wii would need to sell over 100M to make it beat SMB (no, not 120M, as Wii Play is higher on AR now than 1/3).

Wii Fit is huge, but it is not certain how long it will last. Still, it is likely that both Wii Play and Wii Fit will break 33M.

Nintendogs is possible too, but that depends on how much longer the DS' life is.

 

5th + 6th + 7th. Nintendogs/Pokemon Blue/Red and Tetris

Nintendogs is still selling 50-100K weekly. It "only" needs 13M more to get to Pokemon. Still, Nintendogs is slowing down, and sold a totally crappy 3M so far this year. This means that is should be selling 4-5M a year. I thus think that it should beat 30M, but 33M might be too much. Of course, Nintendogs could end 7th

 

8th. Duck Hunt - no question about it. Possibly Wii Fit/Nintendogs could get a sequel or something or stop up completely and sell 28M "only"

 

9th/10th. Has to beat Pokemon Gold/Silver (23M) and Super Mario World (20.61M)

NSMB is at 16.21M. Sells good overall, and should manage to overtake SMW. It is unlikely that it will make 23M though, and if another title beats NSMB and sells more than it, NSMB will not make it.

About (16.31M) the same as NSMB, but I don't think it will manage to beat NSMB in the long run, and does thus not have a change of entering the top 10.

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I don't really know how much relevance it has to this thread, but I still posted it.

Nah, I think its relevant to the thread, Oyvoy.

I'm trying to figure out your by-generation totals, though. I don't think they make sense. And the VGC number for Pokemon RGB is 31.38m, btw.

Taking it a little bit farther... Pre-7th gen, the top 30 are:

1  Super Mario Bros.  40.24m
2  Pokemon Red / Green / Blue  31.38m
3  Tetris  30.26m
4  Duck Hunt  28.31m
5  Pokemon Gold / Silver  23.11m
6  Super Mario World  20.61m
7  Super Mario Land  18.14m
8  Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas  17.48m
9  Super Mario Bros. 3  17.28m
10  The Sims  16.08m
11  Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire  15.40m
12  Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec  14.87m
13  Pokemon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition  14.64m 
14  Grand Theft Auto: Vice City   14.20m
15  Super Mario 64  11.89m
16  Pokemon Fire Red / Leaf Green  11.82m (Nintendo shipment number)
17  Grand Theft Auto III   11.60m
18  Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins  11.18m
19  Gran Turismo  10.85m
20  Super Mario All-Stars  10.55m 
21  Gran Turismo 4  10.18m (Polyphony shipment number)
22  Mario Kart 64  9.87m
23  Final Fantasy VII   9.72m
24  Gran Turismo 2  9.37m
25  Donkey Kong Country   9.30m
26  World of Warcraft   9.19m
27  Super Mario Kart  8.76m
28  Halo 2  8.46m
29  GoldenEye 007  8.09m
30  Final Fantasy X  7.95m

This list is being totally rewritten, basically. 7th gen games which have beaten or could beat that 7.95m mark of FFX at 30, include:

Wii Sports
Nintendogs
Wii Play
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
New Super Mario Bros.
Brain Training
More Brain Training
Mario Kart DS
Wii Fit
Mario Kart Wii
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Halo 3
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Mario Galaxy
Call of Duty 4 360
Super Mario 64 DS
Grand Theft Auto IV 360
Mario and Sonic at the Olympics Wii
Gears of War 2
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Gran Turismo 5
Wii Sports Resort

Etc. It's hard to try and peg all of those into the list, but you get the point... The barrier to being a top 30 all-time game will go from below 8m, to well over 10m, half of the top 10 and top 20 will be current-gen games, and the number of all-time 20m sellers could go from 6 to 12 or higher.