Pokémon Sun / Moon / Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon The oldest game in the top 50 is Pac-Man, released in May 1980, while the most recent is Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, released in November 2022. Nintendo EAD is the developer with the most games in the top 50, with thirteen titles on the list, followed by Game Freak with seven Pokémon games. 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. Īmong the top 50 best-selling video games on this list, over half were developed or published by Nintendo five Nintendo titles were published with their affiliate, The Pokémon Company. In 2023, Minecraft became the first video game to surpass 300 million copies sold worldwide.
The best-selling game on a single platform is Wii Sports, with nearly 83 million sales for the Wii console.
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 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. This is a list of video games that have sold the highest number of software units worldwide.
