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Euphoria14 said:
BraLoD said:


Maybe he think it'll sell something at retail form? Dunno.

But seems like slarvax pointed it still didn't surpassed SMB. Still have to check it though.


Rockstar announced 45M GTA sales. Those include digital.

 

I am sure OP's numbers factor them in as well, since in February they announced 45M and in January this thread showed 43m+. So he wants to exclude digital then he needs to be consistent.

No, only shipped!!!

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-03-gta-5-has-sold-45m-units-to-retailers



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curl-6 said:
EricFabian said:

Wii Sports > GTA V. 

And not just in sales either. ;)

blasphemy!!!



Tetris, Super Mario Bros and Wii Sports are saying "hello"

(the fact that they were bundled don´t exclude them of being retail games)

And we still have Minecraft.......



Wii Sports is the best selling game of all time, actually.

 

edit: Actually i'll agree that Tetris is probably the best selling game of all time. But if it wasn't for that then it would be Wii Sports.



Ruler said:
Wright said:

Tetris is still the best selling game of all time, I'm afraid!

this


I back this. Counting all  console, computer and mobile releases, digital and retail sales, Tetris is  probably the best seller of all time



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No, it's actually not.



Game shipped 52M (this is without digital)!!!


Source: http://www.vg247.com/2015/05/19/gta-5-sales-figures-52-million-shipped-pc-ps4-xbox-one/



Oh yes, this thread is alive again!

Now we'll see again people trying to decide which game is the best selling one, and how many of them don't count because of reasons! It's a christmas miracle!



You know it deserves the GOTY.

Come join The 2018 Obscure Game Monthly Review Thread.

Darwinianevolution said:

Oh yes, this thread is alive again!

Now we'll see again people trying to decide which game is the best selling one, and how many of them don't count because of reasons! It's a christmas miracle!


The funniest thing is that the same people who would go out of the way to dismiss Wii Sports because "it's bundled" also tend to say that all 2D Mario games are the same... and based on this reasoning alone, Mario is the best-selling retail game of all time. :P



Except that it isn't, and this is a fact.

But lets not go through the debate of whether we should exclude certain games or not, it's a very impressive number. I do think the game is a bit overhyped and overrated, but it's basically the video game equivalent of a big hollywood action movie and it's fun to play.

Mostly I'm curious now how much GTA VI will sell. Can it outsell V?



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