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.