Best-selling Video Games of All Time (1989-2024)

This video shows the best-selling video games of all time, between the years 1989 and 2024.

The video is a list of video games that have sold the highest number of software units worldwide. The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, a sandbox game released by Mojang in November 2011 for a wide range of PC, mobile and console platforms, selling more than 300 million copies across all platforms. Grand Theft Auto V and EA's Tetris are the only other known video games to have sold over 100 million copies. The best-selling game on a single platform is Wii Sports, with nearly 83 million sales for the Wii console. In 2023, Minecraft became the first video game to surpass 300 million copies sold worldwide.

Among the top 50 best-selling video games on this list, over half were developed or published by Nintendo; three Nintendo titles were published with their affiliate, The Pokémon Company. Other publishers with multiple entries in the top 50 include Activision and Rockstar Games with four games, and Blizzard Entertainment, CD Projekt and Electronic Arts with two games. Nintendo EAD is the developer with the most games in the top 50, with thirteen titles on the list, followed by Game Freak with five Pokémon games.

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Data Source: IGN, Companies annual sales reporting
Music: Scott Buckley - Terminus, Helios.

[metajore]

I find it amazing that Minecraft has 300 million downloads and is still increasong rapidly

[jerrodcorey]

TETRIS ! ! ! Held the crown until Aug. 2013. Born D-Day 1984. That's a pretty strong run

[alexandrerichter]

GTA 5 is the only game that comes close to Minecraft and is still light years away. Insane

[mmr]

If it's "of all time", why do you remove games when they are no longer being sale, if their number of sales is still better than the others ?? That's frustrating

[Vntilator]

I remember people said Microsoft were stupid for paying as much as 2 billions for Minecraft in 2014, 10 years ago.

[AtheistBelgium]

To be honest, I was expecting the first Tomb Raider to show up at some point in the nineties.

[LondonBusMaster]

the fact that Minecraft is rapidly growing against GTA V is amazing, and i'm proud to be one of the holders since 2015

[Storms]

No one actually bought Duck Hunt. It came free with a NES console. And you totally left out 1990s Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy games, which were huge sellers. In fact they're STILL selling to this day.

[هايالقناةفقطتجربة]

it's crazy how long did the new high budget aaa games took to catch up with the old classics

[barrenwuffethq]

This channel is pure gold. Keep them stats and trends coming. LOVE THIS! 10/10

[ibelieveinlove]

Wow! I didn’t know Lemmings was so darn popular. Me and my brothers would play it in the early 1990s on the Atari ST 500. Makes me feel so proud to have been a part of true gaming heritage.

[helpme]

Til this day I haven't got into Minecraft but i purely love its universe including players

[jerrodcorey]

What happened to DUCK HUNT??? It literally fell right off the chart. JAN. 1997 @ 2:17
28.2 MILLION COPIES

[kodiak]

Duck hunt shouldnt have dropped off the chart until enough games had past it. Even if they stopped making it it is supposed to be total sales.

[robert-adrian]

Let's see, the GTA VI of 2025 more million !!! King! I can't wait !! xD

[enthused]

An important note, this includes the 1996 launch of Pokemon Red/Green in Japan, as well as the world launch of Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow in the rest of the world in 1998-1999 since they're all effectively the same game. The greatest game of all time. No other game in my opinion has had the same effect on the gaming world or will have the same effect ever again. 95% of all kids in the US at least played this game in unison, trading and battling with their Gameboys at school and on playgrounds alike for 2 years straight.

[samkohlo]

I will never stop being shocked that Human: Fall Flat is on this list, and is rising on it as well, but I am proud of the devs for it.

[hudjames]

Props to Super Mario Bros for being on the board the whole time.

[rocktimes]

I started play Pac-man in 1981....amazing it is still here till 2022....

[Hito]

Diablo II and Warcraft III was my childhood man I thought these things were way more popular, looks like not really but whole village was playing it xD (needless to say everyone had a burned copy so yeah warez so that makes sense)