Top Ten Ten-Million-Selling Games of the Third Millennium

[Andy Chalk]

Top Ten Ten-Million-Selling Games of the Third Millennium

There are hits, there are mega-hits, and then there are the top ten ten million selling games of the millennium, a new list compiled by the good and helpful folks at VideoGamesBlogger.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the list is dominated by two companies, World of Warcraft [http://www.rockstargames.com]. The full list of top-ten ten million sellers released since 2000:

10 - World of Warcraft: 10 million since 2004
9 - The Sims 2 [http://thesims2.ea.com/]: 13 million since 2004
8 - New Super Mario Bros. [http://mario.nintendo.com/]: 13.14 million since 2006
7 - Pokemon Gold and Silver [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver]: 14.1 million since 2000
6 - Pokemon Diamond and Pearl [http://www.pokemon-games.com/pokemondandp/]: 14.17 million since 2007
5 - Grand Theft Auto III [http://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto3/]: 14.5 million since 2001
4 - Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec [http://www.granturismo-3.com/]: 14.89 million since 2001
3 - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City [http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/]: 17.5 million since 2002
2 - Nintendogs [http://www.nintendogs.com/]: 17.79 million since 2005
1 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/]: 21.5 million since 2005.

The growth in popularity of videogames with mainstream audiences is evident in the growing number of ten-million-sellers released in recent years, as well as the number of relatively new titles that will soon achieve the mark. Four releases, three of which haven't even been on the market for a year, are rapidly approaching the ten-million sales figure: Grand Theft Auto IV [http://wii.nintendo.com/software_wiiplay.jsp], which has achieved sales of six million copies despite being released less than two months ago, in April 2008.


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[wrshamilton]

Nothin to see here.

 

[oneplus999]

Those are all in the third millennium.

Hah, good point. Gotta wonder how many people saw that title before publishing

 

[oneplus999]

There doesn't appear to be a link back the the original:
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2008/06/04/top-10-10-million-selling-games-since-2000.htm
They don't refer to it as the second millenium btw just games since 2000.

 

[Andy Chalk]

I am ashamed.

(and fixed)

 

[stompy]

I wasn't expecting GTA, but it does make sense.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

Don't they ship Nintendogs with every pink DS? Nintendo has a habit of listing the games they sell with their consoles separately.

Not that it really undermines it. Any rational person will be stunned at how many hours playing with your virtual dog can suck out of you.

 

[ArchAnemone]

The Nintendogs DS bundle was a very limited-time thing, and was a different version (of both the game and the DS) than the ones you can get separately (I know because I bought it for my daughter for Christmas).

 

[JakubK666]

It only proves how GTA-obsessed our society has become.Considering that GTA4 was a step back compared to San Andreas, perhaps this would be the right time for the franchise to die.

 

[Miral]

Ok, I'm calling shenanigans on the WoW numbers. Their press released said that that had 10 million active subscribers, which (since some people don't play any more) must mean that their actual sales are much higher than just 10 million.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Agreeing with Miral, and surprised to see GTA SA at number 1, as it seems it's possibly the least favourite of the GTA's since it went 3D.

As for letting GTA die, I still think GTA4 was an amazing achievement, just flawed, I'm sure GTA5 has the potential to be truly amazing.