I guess we just need more global pandemics. It’s a great boom to the video game industry, literally everyone was playing games when AC:NH released.
The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020
Submitted 6 hours ago by noumenon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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taiyang@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well, I know at least one part of this is pretty out of date. Baldur’s Gate 3 just got confirmed a few weeks ago as having sold over 20M copies. We have so many round numbers here because companies generally only share milestones.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
I did not know that It Takes Two was that popular.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 5 hours ago
I wonder how many of those are the free version that you can only play when playing with someone who has the paid version
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This is number of copies sold. It really did sell that high. And if that blows your mind, wait until you find out Human Fall Flat sold like 40M copies.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
Maybe, although the title says “best selling”
jeffw@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s crazy that I only own two of these games and they couldn’t be more different. Animal Crossing and Cyberpunk 2077.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 hours ago
I haven’t bought a single one of these. I’ve played It Takes Two with my brother over Parsec though.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Animal Crossing was a birthday gift. And technically Stadia refunded my money for Cyberpunk.
Unattributed@feddit.online 4 hours ago
You can hate me for saying this, but there’s no way Minecraft shouldn’t be on that chart. If this data is right Minecraft Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025), the sales between 2020 and 2023 would be ~100M.
Davel23@fedia.io 4 hours ago
I suspect these are the best selling games which released between 2020 and 2025. For instance, Breath of the Wild has sold about 33 million copies, over 10 million more than Tears of the Kingdom but was released in 2017.
Unattributed@feddit.online 4 hours ago
If that’s what they are counting, then the graphic should say that…
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
I had no idea Animal Crossing was that high. It’s a stupid game with no point to it… and I can’t help but play it 2-3 times a week, even if it’s just to check in. It definitely has its moments. I gave my wife shit for paying $60 for it, and I played it daily for most of the year since we got it. (She dropped it after a couple weeks, which tanked my progress since only the first player can advance the island. We started over with me starting an island and she played here and there. Then she quit, and I wanted to start over again… and she hasn’t used the new island yet, and I’ve had it for over 7 months now. It will be my forever island.)
And Hogwarts over everything but Animal Crossing? That’s kinda wild. I did not think that game was that big. Currently playing it, it was recently given away on Epic Game Store, I wonder if giveaways count (probably not). It’s basically the Harry Potter simulator we’ve all wanted for the last 20-25 years. Whenever those books and movies started coming out. Except it doesn’t have Harry Potter, or anything from the series but the places.
Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah, Helldivers 2 made it on the list!
For Super Earth! o7
Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Super Mario Bros Wonder sucked. I hope they don’t take it’s sales as a direction on the franchise because it is my least favourite.
Also how is Hogwarts so high and 90% off, must have had a huge fall off.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I think the reason it’s sold so many copies is because it’s been on perpetual sale everywhere. People were majorly against buying it and that dampened some people’s interest initially but when the game is $5, a lot of people will buy it just because it’s cheap.
7112@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Palworld numbers are amazing.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
It’s a disgrace seeing 2 COD games in the top 5
msage@programming.dev 2 hours ago
People keep buying calls of duty like their lives depend on it.
Make it make sense.
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I’ve stolen a handful of these
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m assuming they didn’t bundle Nightreign sales in this?
Yeah the choice of using Wylder here was sloppy
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Hopefully they didn’t, as it just would be inacurate data. But yeah I think whomever made the graph just put top image search result and nobody in the publication cared enough to check… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Hahahaha this is fantastic! X’D
Linktank@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
Shameful.
baatliwala@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Surprised at no minecraft, has it peaked?
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 hours ago
Switch Sports was quite bad tbh. I'll rather play the original Wii game.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m sad Howard’s legacy sold so well.
Also Cyberpunk sold better than I expected given the launch.
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
i’m wondering if the boycott had adverse effects and promoted the game in more gamer-centric spaces that otherwise wouldn’t have cared that much
obviously it’s a harry potter game, it was always gonna sell well. but 2nd best selling game of the last 5 years??? ouch