Minecraft recently breached 42 million units shipped across all its platforms, ranking it unarguably in the top three most successful video games of all time. The rankings charts get a bit fuzzy toward the top, where games like Nintendo's Wii Sports -- which shipped with every unit of the console -- are technically above Minecraft; that said, if we're counting Wii Sports, we might as well count Minesweeper for every unit of Windows sold.

The point is, I'm not counting games unless they were sold independent of their platform, which makes the rankings as follows (note: I've skipped a few slots to illustrate where some other popular games fall). Do keep in mind that some sales figures will not include digital distribution numbers, rendering a few of these games effectively untracked; Steam releases sales figures only to the game's developers, so it is at the behest of the developer whether they want to include these stats in their public releases. Most do -- for instance, Skyrim includes Steam sales figures, to the best of our knowledge, and games like Battlefield 4 include Origin figures (the nature of a public company).

Unfiltered List of Top Games (Including Console Bundles)

Most-Selling Video Games of All Time (Primarily Standalone)

For the full article, hit the link below;

http://www.gamersnexus.net/news/1308-minecraft-most-selling-game-all-time

I am not discounting the achievement but I do think it is worth mentioning that Minecraft is only $20 while the others were all $60 games. If anything I think more companies should do what Mojang has done. Sell your game for $20 and then bring in tons of money off of all the merchandise.

I think that 2nd list there is missing a couple COD's, or is that what those dots are for?

Yes.

Well that's just because you didn't count the millions of digital downloads on the NES.

It's on like 20 platforms now.

Wow. I wonder how Zach Barth sleeps at night :^)

It was launched across 4 platforms... It isn't worth mentioning. The real champion is still Mario Kart Wii.

Wow. Those are some top-NOTCH sales if you ask me.  Even if I do understand why people like Minecraft so much, I just can't get into that damn game for whatever reason.

What about Angry Birds?? You cant tell me it dosent count because its digital because so is Mineccraft