Talk:List of best-selling video games
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Add The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim to the eigth position on the list, below red dead redemption 2. It has sold 60 million copies according to Todd Howard as seen in this article. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/skyrim-is-now-within-the-top-10-best-selling-games-of-all-time/1100-6515101/ 202.7.251.143 (talk) 02:52, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
Not done: See the discussion immediately above this one. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 07:07, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- While the original consensus mentions that the 60 million number might be unreliable, keeping one of the biggest games in gaming history out of this list feels wrong.
- Regardless if actual sales is 60 million, 30 million or something in between, Skyrim deserves to be listed here.
- May I suggest adding it to the list either without a sales number, or with 60 million followed by a note that the number might not be reliable since it was taken from an interview rather than from an official statement.
- While not a reliable source, this old reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/35bxv6/is_this_statistics_correct_skyrim_has_only_sold/ mentions 2 statistics websites providing info about number of sales from 9 years ago as 8.6 million (13%) on steam and 86% (52.8 million) on consoles.
- First website still works and provides less precise number but still claims 5-10 million copies (confirming the 8.6 million claim).
- Second website no longer works but can be accessed via wayback machine co confirm the 14% PC sales.
- Both numbers combined give 61.4 million copies sold confirming number from the interview. 195.80.128.245 (talk) 06:24, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- No, the Reddit is entirely wrong. There were not 60 million sales 9 years ago. -- ferret (talk) 13:14, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
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Add change to best-selling games list to add Skyrim having sold 60 million copies.
Reference: https://www.gamesradar.com/skyrim-has-sold-60-million-copies-making-it-the-seventh-best-selling-game-ever/ 4.16.148.21 (talk) 20:07, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Not done: This request was literally just closed above. -- ferret (talk) 20:32, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Payday 2
[edit]According to starbreeze themselves, payday 2 has sold at least 40 million copies by January 2023. https://news.cision.com/starbreeze-ab/r/2023---the-year-of-payday,c3691450 AwesomeGuy2256 (talk) 11:07, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Change list from top 50 games to those that have sold over 20 million copies
[edit]Lists like list of best-selling books usually have a lower limit based on how many copies have been sold, rather than making a "top [number]" list. I also believe it just makes more sense to include all games that have sold over 20 million instead of a top 50 list. – Treetoes023 (talk) 13:43, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
Add the verfied figure of 30 million Skyrim copies
[edit]Although the 60 Million figure is unreliable, The last verified sales number was 30 million which still puts it on the 25th-23rd position on the list. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/skyrim-creator-on-why-well-have-to-wait-for-another-elder-scrolls-128377/ It makes no sense not to include it. 119.73.104.217 (talk) 20:16, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
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151.51.138.43 (talk) 22:02, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Literally the chart misses Skyrim with over 61 milion copies, i dont know how you've missed that
Declined - Please refer to Archive #10 of this talk page. MadGuy7023 (talk) 22:05, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- Archive links if anyone wants to see previous discussions:
- Talk:List of best-selling video games/Archive 9#Skyrim has apparently sold over 60 million copies
- Talk:List of best-selling video games/Archive 10#Skyrim should be included
- win8x (talking | spying) 22:09, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Pre-built games do count?
[edit]If Wii Sports can count on this list, solding over 80 million units, being a pack-in title that only sold that amount, because it was bundled with Wii console, shouldn't Astro's Playroom count as well, as it is also a pre-built game that came with the PS5 family of consoles? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.24.63.125 (talk) 21:08, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
EA's Tetris removal
[edit]EA's Tetris being removed does not make sense. Tetris in and of itself is practically the same game with each release, bar some major remakes. That's why I personally believe it should be considered number one on the list due to that fact, and so do many reliable sources. The article for Tetris even mentions as much, but that's beside the point. EA's mobile Tetris reached 100 million paid downloads; many news articles and press statements alike attest to that. Why was it removed? Man-Man122 (talk) 03:28, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- I removed the entry. The source for it said,
Blue Planet Software, Inc., the company that manages the exclusive licensing rights to the Tetris game, and EA Mobile, a division of Electronic Arts Inc., today announced at a press conference at the EA Montreal studio that Tetris has reached over 100 million paid downloads on mobile phones since 2005, making it the pre-eminent game for the platform. Since becoming the exclusive mobile publisher for Tetris in 2006, EA Mobile has brought a number of Tetris games to almost all mobile platforms including the App Store.
- Notes that the quote says that the sales figure counts sales since 2005, while EA became the exclusive publisher of Tetris mobile games in 2006. Clearly, the 100 million paid downloads are not referring to a version of Tetris by EA but to mobile versions of Tetris in general, which encompass mutliple different variants. That is why I removed the entry; it was not referring to a singular version. Also worth noting that the version that ultimately got a Wikipedia article was not released until 2008. Lazman321 (talk) 18:28, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- I don't see the relevance of that last sentence, but I see your reasoning; I'm still inclined to disagree with the decision to remove the entry,(Hell, I disagreed with the decision to remove Tetris from the top of the list when that happened) but there's not much I can do about that, I suppose Man-Man122 (talk) 22:14, 13 September 2024 (UTC)