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The Best-Selling Videogames of All-Time

Playing videogames is serious business. A look at the titles that transformed the way we define entertainment.

Playing videogames is serious business. In five years, say analysts, the industry could rack up $50 billion in sales and possibly eclipse Hollywood for dominance in the entertainment sector. That isn't as far-fetched a prediction as you might think. Last month's release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest in Rockstar Games' raunchy crime series, earned more than $500 million in its first week. That take topped the box office take of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," which pulled in just $406 million. In total, U.S. sales of videogame hardware and software skyrocketed 47 percent to $1.23 billion this April. Here, with Grand Theft Auto IV topping the list, are the trailblazing best sellers of the videogaming industry.

 
 
 

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  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/09/2008 7:06:36 PM

    Comment: In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He didnt realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
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    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?
    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
    Elect Obama Biden 2008


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  • Posted By: Charleana @ 10/08/2008 6:45:54 PM

    Comment: Who wrote this garbage? I can't find a citation on it. Sounds to me like the makers of Grand Theft Auto and Madden football paid someone to write an advertisement and disguise it as an "exclusive" new story. You're da*ned right it's exclusive, you're the only ones who got it WRONG. Sheesh, my six year old could do a better job of researching this article.

  • Posted By: RobinBowles @ 09/27/2008 11:29:25 AM

    Comment: A simple Wikipiedia search reveals that this information is simply false Most the the Super Mario Brothers line sold better than any of the GTA games. This information is unspeakably biased. For an actual list visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games

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