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This is in response to the Japanese fastest sellers chart posted a day or so ago. This is a list I've been working on for awhile. Note: this is US only not NA. Data from vgchartz has been scaled down to US sales. Guestimate means I used some formulae looking at the monthly NPD sales and the time of its release to arrive at those sales figures and could be off up to 20% but it's probably the best we'll have. If there were press releases/articles giving initial sales for some of these titles that I 'guestimated' on then please let me know, I want this to be as accurate as possible. Anyways I'm going to bed; you guys enjoy discussing this...
US ALTIME FASTEST SELLING VIDEO GAME TITLES*1990-2008
No. SYS TITLE REL First Week Sales Source 1 X360 HALO 3 9 / 2007 2,700,000 PR & Vgchartz 2 XB HALO 2 11 / 2004 2,380,000 PR 3 PS2 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 10 / 2004 2,053,983 NPD 4 Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl 3 / 2008 1,420,000 PR & Vgchartz 5 PS2 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 10 / 2002 1,412,429 NPD 6 GB Pokemon Gold / Silver 10 / 2000 1,400,000 PR 7 PS2 Madden NFL 06 8 / 2005 1,170,000 PR 8 PS2 Madden NFL 07 8 / 2006 1,012,790 NPD 9 NDS Pokemon Diamond / Pearl 4 / 2007 1,000,000 PR 10 PS2 Madden NFL 2004 8 / 2003 850,000 Vgchartz proj. 11 PS2 Madden NFL 2005 8 / 2004 810,000 Vgchartz proj. 12 X360 Call of Duty 4 11 / 2007 733,000 Vgchartz beta 13 XB Madden NFL 06 8 / 2005 683,000 comp’d w/ PS2 ver. 14 X360 Madden NFL 08 8 / 2007 666,000 Vgchartz proj. 15 GBA Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire 3 / 2003 663,000 guestimate 16 N64 Zelda: Ocarina of Time 11 / 1998 641,072 NPD 17 N64 Pokemon Stadium 3 / 2000 632,000 guestimate 18 PS2 Gran Turismo 4 2 / 2005 618,559 NPD 19 PS2 Kingdom Hearts II 3 / 2006 614,436 NPD 20 GB Pokemon Yellow 10 / 1999 600,000 PR 21 GBA Pokemon Fire Red / Leaf Green 9 / 2004 596,000 guestimate 22 GC Zelda: The Wind Waker 3 / 2003 588,000 guestimate & PR? 23 PS2 Madden NFL 2003 8 / 2002 580,000 Guestimate 24 X360 Madden NFL 07 8 / 2006 570,463 NPD 25 X360 Assassin’s Creed 11 / 2008 563,000 Vgchartz beta 26 GEN Mortal Kombat 9 / 1993 550,000 guestimate 27 Wii Super Mario Galaxy 11 / 2008 540,000 PR & vgchartz beta 28 PS2 Final Fantasy XII 11 / 2006 533,000 Vgchartz proj. 29 PS2 God of War II 3 / 2007 517,000 Vgchartz proj. 30 X360 Gears of War 11 / 2006 491,000 Vgchartz proj. 31 PS2 Madden NFL 08 8 / 2007 469,000 Vgchartz proj. 32 X360 Guitar Hero III 10 / 2007 433,000 Vgchartz proj 33 PS2 Final Fantasy X 12 / 2001 423,000 guestimate 34 Wii Zelda: Twilight Princess 11 / 2006 411,862 NPD 35 PSX Final Fantasy VIII 9 / 1999 411,000 PR 36 GEN Sonic The Hedgehog 2 11 / 1992 400,000 PR 37 PS2 NCAA Football 06 7 / 2005 394,000 Vgchartz proj. 38 GB Pokemon Crystal 7 / 2001 384,000 guestimate 39 GEN NBA Jam 3 / 1994 379,000 guestimate 40 XB Fable 9 / 2004 375,000 PR
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