GTA: San Andreas tops US all-time game sales

[Darksaviour69]

Forbes recently ran a story focusing on the best-selling US games using updated NPD Group data.

Despite the fact that the data Forbes looked at went back 15 years, all of the titles on the list were released after 2001 - perhaps not so surprising when you consider that the best-selling console of all-time (the PS2) was released in 2000.

Three titles from last year - Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, both from Activision, and EA's Madden NFL 2008 - have now made the Top Ten list, no doubt bolstered by their release on multiple platforms.

The Top Ten best-selling titles in the US based upon units sold are:

* 1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (9.43 million)
* 2. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (8.2 million)
* 3. Madden NFL 2007 (7.7 million)
* 4. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (7.3 million)
* 5. Madden NFL 2006 (6.65 million)
* 6. Halo 2 (6.6 million)
* 7. Madden NFL 2008 (6.56 million)
* 8. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (6.25 million)
* 9. Grand Theft Auto III (6.2 million)
* 10. Madden NFL 2005 (6.1 million)

Via gamesindustry.biz

[brenner78]

Sorry few questioning this news but in my eyes this is absolute crap and probably just sponsored marketing.

Speaking of sales "Super Mario Bros" (NES) ist still the all-time leader with 29.5 million units sold in the US and more than 40 million worldwide!

Oh, right... "Forbes looked at went back 15 years" and SMB was released in 1985. Well, then how about this:

"Wii Sports" (Wii) sold almost 12 million units in the US so it is still 2.5 million ahead of GTA4.

I wonder who at Forbes did such a miserable job on researching their figures!?

[nambit]

Oh, right... "Forbes looked at went back 15 years" and SMB was released in 1985. Well, then how about this:

"Wii Sports" (Wii) sold almost 12 million units in the US so it is still 2.5 million ahead of GTA4.

But weren't those pack-in games with systems? It's hardly a fair comparison if you ask me.

[Shuichi]

Seems fair enough to me.

[NeoXCS]

Not really, you HAVE to get the game with the system. It's not really a game sale. I know personally a ton of people who could care less about the game and have a wii. And that is just locally. If people went and bought it separately I'd be more inclined to feel it deserved it, but the game is more like a tech demo.

[Ayla]

I really doubt that no Pokemon game is on the top ten.

[Peedo]

yeah, i thought resident evil 4 was the best selling one back in 05.

[JKKDARK]

This is my favorite Grand Theft Auto game, nice numbers

[hadrian]

I guess Nintendo doesn't exist to them.

[masterchief929]

i think that they didn't include Ninty because Ninty is in a whole other league, and that makes them cry.