TLDR: Call of Duty.
Mario Kart mechanics peaked in MK64
No way. The Wii version was wild, using gestures for actions like jumping.
DS I reckon. It was just MK64 but slightly more refined.
disagree, Double Dash defined dynamic driving.
So pretty much history of COD with some other games alongside
It’s funny because the best COD wasn’t even #1 when it came out
Was Minecraft never a top 5 best selling game in any year?
Really speaks to Minecraft’s staying power that even without ever being in the top five for a single year it is the best selling game of all time. Cumulative COD clearly wins out but I would guess the majority of each game’s sales are repeat customers.
Honestly I expected it to be at one ☝️ nt but guess not
Would be interesting to take this list all the way back to Pong in the 1970s.
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As expected, Pokémon and then CoD primarily. Gamers just wanna catch cool monsters and kill dudes. Kinda messed up tbh but like, whatever.
I read that tears of the kingdom is the best selling game of 2023 so far. I wonder where the author got their numbers from.
Yeah, no way Harry Potter is selling more copies than TotK.
Call of Duty: The list
Pretty sure if they updated this year’s entry today that it’d be taken over by Baldur’s Gate.
Nah no way. I’m as big a BG fanboy as anyone but it’s a decidedly niche genre. The vast majority of people are not interested in CRPGs.
Possible counterpoint worth noting, that game has been breaking concurrent player records on steam for several days in a row, and the game has yet to release on consoles. So if it’s not the biggest game this year yet, it’s likely to happen in the nearby future.
COD, COD, COD, COD, Animal Crossing, COD, COD COD, COD
Lol.
Shout out to Elden Ring. It’s the only non-sequel, non-ip based game to chart since Destiny and Watch Dogs in 2014.
Seems wrong to not consider it a sequel to the Dark Souls games though. I know it’s not, but it’s more than a spiritual successor IMO.
Everyone here talking about CoD and all I want to know is how Star Fox on SNES beat out GoldenEye in 1997.
More people had a SNES and could afford Star Fox compared to buying a Nintendo64 console which was only one year old + GoldenEye.
eh, consoles maybe. Starcraft wasnt in that last though.
PC gaming was a much smaller market in the 90’s compared to today. 1998 was also an insane year for gaming. Starcraft wasn’t even in the top 10 for the year.
Nah, there is no way it outsold Pokemon Red/Blue.
It’s a shame that it doesn’t go back far enough to include DooM.
It does? The list starts in 1993, when Doom came out. Everyone played it, but I have never even seen a purchased copy. That might impact a lot of PC game sales, and explain why the list is dominated by console titles.
That Pokemon run from 1998 to 2001. Wow.
