The Best-Selling Videogames of All-Time

I wonder if they took into account the number of PC's & gamers from ALL time & made the proper adjustments to the figures. I would think that Quake 2 would have been in the list IF they had taken all the facts into account. 2 of my MOST Favorite games EVER were Duke Nukem 3D & Quake 2 Expert CTF ! I know thousands & thousands of people played Q2, Heck I played it for over 5 years & the servers were ALWAYS full !

some people like to calim that video games like the grand theft auto series provoke thier kids into stuff like underage drinking, sex at a young age, or even becoming violent just because there is some fighting in their game. i think that is insulting, as if we dont have any common sense. maybe in some cases were the kid is very young and impresionable, but thats why they have rating labels on the back of the case, to tell the parents if the game is bloody, gorey, and has swearing in every other sentence then obviously your 6 year old kid shouldnt have that game. but despite the content, if the game isnt that great then you basically wasted your money. like what vgp2008 and sstallionn7 said, a good game is one that you will beat and then youll want to do it again 5 times more with out getting bored. all these diferent sports gmaes like the "maddens" they release every year are basically the same thing, same sport, same rules. you might as well just keep playing the same copy every year.

some people are claiming that games like the grand theft auto series might provoke their kids into underage drinking, or sex at a young age, or even makes their kids violent because there is a fight in the game. i think this is a load of bull, and i feel insulted by this. maybe in in some cases were your child is very young and easily impresionable, but the kids that are snacthing grand theft auto 4 off the store shelves are old enough to have atleast some common sense. the whole point of playing games is to just have fun, wether alone or with your friends, and then there is the point that vgp2008 has good games are the ones that you get captivated by you beat it and then you want to play it again and again.

where is mario kart wii fitness and halo 3 and ncaa 04

where is halo 3 and mario kart

That list just is 0% correct. Wikipedia.org gives a completely different list. The Sims alone is 50 million sold.

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The actual top 10 best selling games of all time according to Wikipedia: Pokemon Red/Blue/Green 20.08 million, Nintendogs 18.67 million, Super Mario Bros. 3 18 million, Gran Turismo 3 14.89 million, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl 14.77 million, Pokemon Gold and Silver 14.51 million, New Super Mario Bros 14.16 million, Super Mario Land 14 million, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire 13 million, Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day 12.98 million. I would think NEWSWEEK of all Ppeople could get their information right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games

This data should to be normalized to the number of consoles sold... In the past less people were gaming and consequently fewer games were sold. The absolute number of games sold if confounded with the number of people gaming. The best selling game should be determined by the relative (percentage) of gamers that bought it not the absolute number sold.

Uh... Super Mario 3, anyone? 18 million copies?

Uh... Super Mario 3 ring a bell to anyone? 18 million copies?

All this article does is take two well known franchises, throw in their past few iterations, and fill in the gaps with other well known games. It does not actually look at "the best-selling video games of all time". If it did, then Halo 3, notable for making more money than any other piece of media, be it movie, or video game, would be on the list.