Top 10 in Sales - Sony Games - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 May 2012 / 14,577 Views
Welcome to the new ‘Top 10’ weekly feature. Each week we will be taking a look at the top 10 selling games in a particular genre, platform, most recent month, even sprinkling in the top 10 selling games from a past year. All sales specified will be worldwide, unless stated otherwise.
This week we will be taking a look at the top 10 bestselling games published by Sony Computer Entertainment, including games that were bundled. If there is a particular top 10 you want to see leave a comment and it may be featured in a future top 10.
Looking at the top 10 bestselling games published by Sony Computer Entertainment, six of them are for the PlayStation, while there are two apiece for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3. That does mean none of them are for Sony’s handhelds, the PSP and the PlayStation Vita which was just released. While there may only be two PlayStation 2 games, they are the bestselling Sony games to date.
The top 10 games sold a combined 86.34 million units. The six PlayStation games sold a combined 47.05 million units for an average of 7.84 million units per game. The two PlayStation 2 games sold a combined 26.24 million units for an average of 13.12 million units per game. The two PlayStation 3 games sold a combined 13.06 million unit for an average of 6.53 million units per game.
Four of the top five bestselling games are for the Gran Turismo franchise and Gran Turismo 5 should pass Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back soon, as the game is now less than 100,000 behind in sales. The five Gran Turismo games have sold a combined 54.24 million units, making it one of the bestselling franchises in gaming.
Taking a look at the top 10 bestselling games published by Sony Computer Entertainment as a bar graph really shows how Gran Turismo is the bestselling Sony games. Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec is not only the bestselling Sony game but is also the bestselling exclusive on a Sony platform. It is also the 26th bestselling game of all time and the third bestselling game on a Sony Platform. Sales would drop in the series but it remains the biggest exclusive that Sony has.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is the only game in a franchise in the top 10 to have started in the current generation. All of the other games are either on the PlayStation or the first game in that particular franchise was released on the PlayStation.
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Gran turismo will occupy the top five on the list soon
Gran Turismo should be on Vita, that would be a system seller.
agreed, but those games take so long to be released
Crash really raked in the greens according to these numbers.
yup back when the crash games were good. =(
Spyro and Crash!!
Should have kept Crash's Ip.
why do i remember Insomniac having the rights back then, and Naughty Dog developing Crash?
You probably remember that because people have been incorrectly saying it forever. Naughty Dog/Insomniac/Sony have never owned rights to these games. Here's a good read: http://www.insomniacgames.com/community/archive/index.php/t-36367.html
Hey, What about God of War? GOW 3.93 and GOW II 3.68, plus 2.47 of GOW HD collection gives 6.4 and 6.15
Uncharted really came through for sony, it will be able to be as big a hardware mover as GT
Almost
Hey look! There is Spyro! :D
So sad that GT5 will not beat GT1 :(
I am just amazed that the infinitely better Uncharted 3 is not on top of that list. It amazes me how high quality Sony games are, yet they still sell so much less than something like Wii Sports Resort.
you see,only 2 games form PS3 in this list.. so, PS old gen still the king in sales and better games than this gen.
God of War 3 (undertracked) and Uncharted 3 will probably make into this list soon. GT5 could really pass GT4 with some time.
I never imaginaed that Spyro sold so well !
Uncharted 3 and God of War 3 has a high chance in to be in this list and who knows maybe even Playstation Battle royal
Makes you wonder why Sony sold the Crash Bandicoot rights to Activision.
Uncharted 3 has not even soled 5 Million till now?
