This is a list of the best-selling video games of all time. The best-selling video game to date is Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally released for the Electronika 60 in 1984 and then popularised upon its Game Boy release in 1989. The game has been ported to a wide range of platforms and sold in excess of 170 million units, including 100 million paid downloads on mobile phones and 35 million as sales for the Game Boy version. Minecraft is the only other video game to have sold over 100 million units, with 122 million units sold as of February 2017. Excluding mobile sales, the best-selling video game of all time is Wii Sports with 82.81 million units sold, while Tetris is the fourth best-selling with sales of 70 million units.
Of the top 50 best-selling video games, 20 were developed or published by Nintendo, including seven of the top ten. Other publishers with multiple entries in the top 50 include Activision (seven titles, all in the Call of Duty franchise), Rockstar Games (five titles, four of which are Grand Theft Auto releases) and Electronic Arts (three games in three different series). Aside from Nintendo internal development divisions, Game Freak is the developer with the most games in the top 50, with seven titles from the Pokémon series included. The oldest game in the top 50 is Frogger, which was originally released on June 5, 1981; the newest games in the top 50 are Nintendo 3DS titles Pokémon Sun and Moon, which released on November 18, 2016.
Video games
See also
- Lists of best-selling video games by platform
- List of best-selling video game franchises
- List of best-selling game consoles
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