That would require an additional 12 Nintendo games to sell over 18.12 million, knocking San Andreas of the list. Don't think that is possible at all. Although there will be a few games knocking it down the list very soon such as New Super Mario Bros Wii, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus, Mario Kart DS (possibly Diamond/Pearl although I doubt it).

If you don't count bundles you have to slash some sales from Halo3, GTA San Andreas and so on...

Those games are also bundled. It "is not fair" to count those games but excluding them force us to slash sales in all games that were bundled in every console.

And since you also pay for a bundled game... well. It counts.

"But people are forced to buy them to have the system even if they don't play them"

True, but there's also many impulse buys for famous games like Halo, Gears and GTA, not at the same level as forcing people to buy bundled games to get a system, but that is impulse buys too. And I know many people like that specially in the case of GTA...

At the end, it isn't fair to include bundled games, but not doing that would mess up with the entire game library from all consoles and leave to "ignored bundled sales" or doing a dual ranking "retail sales" and "bundled sales"

Not gonna, happen. Too much work, and that's why games are ranked like this on pretty every website.

And I say, till the end of 2011 (Xmas) the Top 25 most sold games will be all Nintendo Except for GTA San Andreas, that should hold it's place at the 20's.

I feel like taking a bet for that =P
Anyone?

Almost half the games in the list had hardware bundles at one point or another... we'd have to remove...

1 Wii Sports Nintendo  58.35
2 Super Mario Bros. Nintendo  40.24
4 Tetris Nintendo  30.26
5 Duck Hunt Nintendo  28.31
7 Nintendogs Nintendo  23.46
8 Pokémon Gold / Silver Version Nintendo  23.10
10 New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo  21.01
12 Super Mario World Nintendo  20.61
13 Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day Nintendo  18.75
15 Super Mario Land Nintendo  18.14 
18 Super Mario Bros. 3 Nintendo  17.28 
21 PS2 - Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec Sony Computer Entertainment  14.89
25 Wii Sports Resort Nintendo  12.81

@ jarrod

So are you agreeing with me???

I didn't understand your post clearly...

looks hard, but not impossible

@topic

If Nintendo does manage such a feat it will take a long time. Currently there are probably 4 more Nintendo titles that will pass GTA:SA, and there are no other games that I'm aware of that will be able to pass that. I'm sure there are a few PC games (starcraft, sims, warcraft series for example) that have a shot, but since no one really tracks those it could only be proved by financial statements once it is done shipping.

I was thinking:

Pokemon
Mario Kart
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Wii Fit +
Wii Sports Resort

But that's 5. You thinking Pokemon won't do it? Or is it Wii Fit+?

@ killergran

Don't forget the possible ever greens Tomodachi Collection and Wii Relax...

Well, I was mostly going off of memory because I was looking at this yesterday or so. I think I missed Wii Fit Plus. Also, I'm not 100% sure that Pokemon will do it.

@Bamboleo

Tomodachi collection doesn't have a chance at all unless it manages to also take off in the west. Considering it isn't even being released outside of Japan, it is a no.