From what I interpret off the Wikipedia page, it had sold single digit millions by COVID and then went viral in China during COVID and that's how it ended up selling tens of millions more

Very fun multiplayer game. My son and I love it. I’m surprised of the sales count too though. I didn’t expect it to be that high.

I honesty thought it was more of a streamer game. Had no idea it sold that much.

I played it with my daughter and called it the flobby Bobby game.

Me neither. And I... have it on Steam, apparently?

At that point, it's combining SKUs of what they consider to be the main "game". Non-deluxe Mario Kart 8 is a rounding error. Tetris gets really weird to count.

If we’re going by THAT metric, Pokémon would top this list hahaha

It is a small indie game. And yes, it sold that much. Every time I see that stat, it blows my mind.

The game was super popular in China for some reason. Probably was a hype among Chinese streamers, like how Among Us suddenly got a meteoric rise in sales.

While blizzare is known for being a shitass company, readjng that some suit told Jeff Kaplan out of nowhere that overwatch needs to generate x million dollars by the end of the quarter or they are gonna fire 2000 people and it's gonna be on him. It left such a disgusting taste in my mouth.

Most people buying a Wii were doing so for Wii Sports anyway.

to be fair it was a console seller and A LOT of people bought the Wii just to play that at family gatherings and like inviting people over for dinner. My parents bought a Wii just for it and never bought another game for the Wii.

I was working at an EB Games when the Wii came out and a good chunk of people would just buy the console with no games attached to it. They just wanted Wii Sports. AND THEN when they brought out the new version of Wii Sports...man that thing sold like hot cakes.

Yeah especially since all-time peak active subs was 12m and still has 2.2m daily active players as of Jan 2025.

It would surely be on a chart for repeat customets, though.
...And all-time revenue generated, of course: ~$9b (also Jan 2025).

Okay but only if we also account for the increased variety of game options. SMB was the only game back then. lol

Also how is Tetris counted, because there are multiple Tetris games.

I think Tetris is in its own cateory here. We're talking about over 40 years of re-licensing the same thing to nearly every platform in existence, short of a number of 8-bit computers and consoles. And all that happened under many different publishers, sometimes multiple times on the same system. Added up, it's no surprise that it's in the top spot. Nothing else on this list even comes close to having numbers like that.

Meanwhile Minecraft and GTAV are closing that gap in a fraction of the time, on a fraction of as many platforms.

Not at launch; it became free-to-play later.

Mobile is but there are micro transactions everywhere. They likely make a shit ton of money off that because people are stupid.

Why would anyone not like it? Minecraft is great.