Top Ten Bestselling Videogames of All Time

[Doug]

Indeedie, Law and Order UK is quite good. I don't think it was hugely better than the original, partly because its harder to take my own country's legal profession seriously

Well, yeah, powdered wigs and robes will do that to you.

Also, do you also feel that some of the procedure is probably just wrong? Somehow the way they treat judges and the things judges say to lawyers just don't feel... well, European.

A friend of mine who's a lawyer explained to me that if he decided to "remind" a witness that he was under oath, for instance, he would get immediately held in contempt because that's actually the judge's job.

I miss the obsessive accuracy with procedure of The Practice. Come to think of it, The Practice UK would be a great idea for a show.

Hmmm... I wonder if I can take this thread even further off topic, somehow.

I've no idea about the procedure of the courts, but you should note Britain and especially England have normally done things very differently from the Europeans.

Also, from what I understand, the Europeans have judges being the main force of the court, whereas our system is much like the American system - the lawyers are the main force with the judges more acting as referees.

 

[Doug]

I've no idea about the procedure of the courts, but you should note Britain and especially England have normally done things very differently from the Europeans.

Also, from what I understand, the Europeans have judges being the main force of the court, whereas our system is much like the American system - the lawyers are the main force with the judges more acting as referees.

Yeah, judges here do what prosecutors do in Britain and the US, pretty much, but I'm not an expert, either.

And that's the last I'm saying about this. That's what you get for making a passing remark about Law and Order.

Hehe, yup

 

[theultimateend]

I'm shocked that the first Halo isn't on there. It was the best in the series. Though I am glad to see that my cocaine (Call of Duties 4, 5, and MW2) is on the list. And there's an N64 title in there! (Or, just a re-re-re-re-re-release. But an N64 game nonetheless)

Yeah the first Halo was the only one that deserved any Merit to me.

It just seemed to get more lackluster with each new one. But that's what sells so I'm not surprised they keep doing it.

 

[Revolutionary]

I have 5 of those.....only two are good COD :MW and MW2
...............actually GH3 is meh.

 

[Sevre]

It's unfair to put Namco Museum there, if you do that you should put Wii Sports and Wii sports resort in the same title or MW and MW2 in the same.

 

[Deathsong17]

This list seems kinda... crap.

 

[Jharry5]

Number one seems a bit unfair. If that was disqualified, I wonder what the new number ten would be...

Sad to say I own three of the ten games listed...
Sand Andreas deserves to be on there, but there are a few others that surprised me (I mean, I've never heard of number ten...)

 

[CriticalGriffin]

The Wii is bashed because it's not really a "gamer's" console. The Wii titles that made the list kinda reinforces that. If Twilight Princess made the list, then yeah, you'd have a point, but for now, viva la elitism.

...But they're not. Playing video games a couple hours a week doesn't make you a gamer. Being a kid that plays games in the hour that their parents allow them doesn't make one a gamer. It's when you make the conscious decision to devote enough time of your life to gaming to contribute to the culture that makes you a gamer. What you're saying is like saying that anyone who's ever played a sport is a jock.

Also, please be more respectful.

To clarify a bit here, you don't have to have a jock mentality to be a gamer. But let's be honest with ourselves here. The Wii is bashed by gamers for the same reason food critics bash McDonald's. It's mass produced, soulless and designed to be sold to the lowest common denominator. Oh yeah, and it sells to little kids. Nintendo didn't even try when they rolled out the Wii. They only succeeded with it because the fad stars happened to align for them. That and they purposely held back on supply to drive the consumer base nuts.

But the point is, your Wii Bowling granny is not a gamer. That should be fairly obvious and require no explanation.

As for the salecharts itself, I doubt it's genuinely true.

 

[martin's a madman]

I have 9 of the 10 games on this list.

I feel so ashamed....

How can you feel ashamed? Your Avatar is freaking sweet!

 

[Sillyiggy]

There is a little too much suck in this list. Oh well, guess I am a game snob or something.

EDIT: Funny enough I am not even referring to #1 even!

 

[RheynbowDash]

I have 9 of the 10 games on this list.

I feel so ashamed....

How can you feel ashamed? Your Avatar is freaking sweet!

Lol. Thanx.

 

[MessiahElephant]

Wii Fit doesn't deserve to be on this list. It is no game.
I am surprised that no Final Fantasy games were on this list. Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part...

 

[Da_Schwartz]

Ummm i'm too lazy to research but i highly doubt this is accurate.

 

[kronoset]

Odd, I seemed to have remembered seeing Pokemon yellow in the Guinness Book of World records as having the most sales in until 2001 (I think, maybe 2000). I guess Pokemon would be on the list is they didn't release a "new" iteration of the game each year or two. If you combined all the Pokemons together, or just counted the different versions as one entity (Diamond/Pearl/Platinum) then they would have made it onto this list.