not that there was any doubt, but i think N64 classic will do extremely well in america, specially since it's guaranteed to have 4 of those 5 games included.
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NPD: The Best Selling Game By Year From 1995 - 2017 (Top 3 each year in OP)
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MatPiscatella ZhugeEX can you tell what percentage of the total market the top selling game made in terms of revenue and in terms of unit sales?
Just wanted to see if the sales or revenues are getting concentrated in few titles?
Just wanted to see if the sales or revenues are getting concentrated in few titles?
You are not wrong, but people will come at you for saying this.
I can handle COD, but I wanna puke seeing Madden (guitar hero and rock band too) up there.
I am not surprised that GTAV is the one game to stop the train that is CoD, but I am curious if the total of all of those CoD games beats GTAV's LTD sales numbers?
I didn't know DK64 was that successful. I assumed it'd be Pokemon Yellow.
Pretty boring list from 2001 onwards.
Pretty boring list from 2001 onwards.
Shows that the release of the PS2 really changed demographics for games in ways that not even the PS1 was able to achieve. Then the Xbox 360 changed it all over again. You can easily see the divide in trends for each generation on the chart.
Odd how the current gen didn't result in a similar change.
Odd how the current gen didn't result in a similar change.
Europe would not look very different. Maybe swap COD for FIFA.
While the dominant system changed, the demographics didn't. The PS4 took a lot of the 360 audience and simply gave them more of what they liked.
I wonder how much COD Gold Editions helped boost the numbers. Those would count towards this, right? They're not specifically DLC
didn't rdr2 have the biggest launch of anything ever in the history of all things? i think this year will be rockstar's.
Yeah, it definitely did super well. And considering NPD is US only will help it a lot, as Western themes play well to America. Still, I never count CoD out, it always manages to surprise.
This is a good question. Was basically 2-4% between 2000-08, since then it's been running 5-8%
Correct. If DLC is sold in the same package as the full game, the dollars are counted towards the game.
GTA beating COD isn't surprising but let's keep in mind that year was the worst Call of Duty ever created.
I'm actually shocked at Donkey Kong 64 being the top seller in 1999.
Sure it was heavily hyped and it included the expansion pak at no additional cost, but I would have thought FFVIII or something else would have been the best selling game of '99.
Sure it was heavily hyped and it included the expansion pak at no additional cost, but I would have thought FFVIII or something else would have been the best selling game of '99.
Doesnt really matter what kind of CoD they had delivered....GTA V was just too big.
That's really depressing... Since 2001, the top seller list consists entirely of just 5 franchises (and two of them are completely dead now)
To be fair, GTAV would have been number 2 if you compare it to the openings of a couple of earlier COD's.
Damn,
CoD is really ridiculous in the US. Must have had the global comparisons in my mind then, where GTA V def. had a sizable lead compared to CoD games of that generation.
How wasn't Mario Kart Wii the top selling game of the year it released? Isn't it one of the very highest selling games of all time? It's something crazy like 30+ million isn't it?
NSMB Wii?
NSMB Wii?
Same reason why GTA5 isn't on top of the list every year after 2014: just because something continues to sell doesn't mean that it sells the most of any game that year.
Slight correction: EA would be bumped down to 4, since they only distributed Rock Band. MTV Games was the publisher.
Matt can correct if this is wrong, but this is a list of best selling games within those calendar years - not best lifetime sales of games released in those years. Something like MKWii or GTAV would have a considerable portion of its sales outside of its launch year, and those sales would not be counted for the purposes of this list.
Also this is a revenue list, and not units list - so consider Rockband's MSRP back in 2008.
Thanks for that. 2009, the year the world died again. It's funny, you can tell when Ghosts launched.not that there was any doubt, but i think N64 classic will do extremely well in america, specially since it's guaranteed to have 4 of those 5 games included.
On a console like the NES where every publisher and developer was releasing games for it, more than 36% of the games sold were games published by Nintendo.
Nintendo business model is centered around the domination of the software sales on its consoles regardless of the third-party games available on them.
Nintendo is very atypical on this aspect because this is a business model that died out in late '90 (Nintendo is the sole big exception).
It's always weird to read how different gaming section and offtopic section behave here when it comes to top selling entertainment. When it comes to movies people celebrate their big blockbuster super hero movies topping the charts but at the same time on gaming side people loathe games like COD selling so much.
Can you share some Pokémon data of the 2 versions combined? Like Sun + Moon, Gold + Silver etc.
So pretty much : COD, COD, COD, COD, GTA, COD, COD, COD, COD, RDR, COD, COD, COD, COD, AGENT, COD...
A strong #2
I would love to see this same list but all the #2's
As always, hardcore gamers are the worst gauge of market success imaginable. They're too close to their games to see how the rest of the world sees them.
Call of duty, GTA, and Madden. I could've guessed. COD is an absolute monster despite how much you hear people say it's a dying franchise or how "fatigued" it is. All the Madden's on this list are basically the only Madden games I enjoyed, but at the same time these were when I actually cared about the NFL.. so.. I guess that's how it works.
None of the later entries on the list are sadder than Donkey Kong 64 and Pokemon Stadium making it, to be honest.
