My problem with those stats is that with "Tetris" they always count every iteration of it
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If you're going to include pack ins like Wii Sports then Windows Solitaire and Minesweeper smoke everything...
Tetris really, truly shouldn't appear at the top of any best-selling games list. The only reason it does is because every installment of Tetris is still counted as just being Tetris for some reason.
To be fair, every installment of Tetris kinda is just Tetris /hj
I'm surprised World of Warcraft didn't make it :o
Isn't WOW a subscription?
you still have to buy the game before you pay the subscription.
That hasn't been true for years now
right but at the height of WoW's popularity you had to buy the game/expansions and you still have the buy the expansions to this day.
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).
Tetris!
Not a good chart. They mix franchises and titles in the same chart which is a strange choice. Mario Kart 8 certainly did not sell that much, seeing as there are only 13 million Wii U's. They meant Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Switch. ~~They also got the wrong logo for Super Mario Bros, somehow. It's the New Super Mario Bros. logo but with the "New" cut out.~~
e: I was wrong about the SMB logo, it did look like that ingame, just not on the box art.
Visual capitalist is a slop media creation. Content and traffic are absolute, actual real data be damned.
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.
Don't know about the numbers but Mario Kart 8 is for switch.
Mario Kart 8 is a Wii U game that was later ported to Switch under the name Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
The number looks like they added the sales numbers for both together, which I think makes sense. It’s expanded but not a new game.
I've literally never heard of "Human Fall Flat" before seeing this image
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.
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
Fascinating!
I'd be interested in seeing a list that was adjusted for the "number of gamers" at the time. A game selling a million copies today isn't the same level of accomplishment as selling a million copies in 1985 when there was a smaller global market.
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?
Including Wii Sports is kinda bullshit. It was a pack-in for the console. Not like people had a choice there.
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.
Most people buying a Wii were doing so for Wii Sports anyway.
has Human Fall Flat really sold more than Overwatch? I always thought it was a small indie game. It even beats out Stardew Valley
I’ve seen it on storefronts a lot but haven’t tried it before
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.
It is a small indie game. And yes, it sold that much. Every time I see that stat, it blows my mind.
Me too, because the game itself sucks pretty bad.
Skill issue.
Imo it doesn't suck. The gimmick just wears off after a couple hours/levels, so it gets repetitive fast. I still enjoy the aesthetics and wackiness of it though.
I wish charts like these could "adjust for inflation." Not the inflation of money I mean, but the inflation of the industry. The number of video game players globally has increased dramatically since the heyday of Super Mario Brothers. It was a much "smaller world" back then, so the success of SMB is likely more impressive than the success of e.g. Skyrim, and the success of Tetris would look just absolutely ludicrous lmao.
Okay but only if we also account for the increased variety of game options. SMB was the only game back then. lol
Didn't think the Witcher 3 had caught up to infinite releases Skyrim. TW3 will have another big bump when the new expansion hits. It'll probably get rewnewed interest from modders as well
Made me realize I have nearly every decent variant of Tetris for all the consoles my Brick Hammer can emulate installed. Probably play Apotris the most, though.