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Top 10 in Sales - Take-Two Games - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 25 June 2012 / 8,543 Views

Welcome to the ‘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.

We are returning this week to looking at publishers, after looking at the top 10 bestselling games of May 2012 last week. This week we will be looking at the top 10 bestselling games published by Take-Two. If there is a particular top 10 you want to see leave a comment and it may be featured in a future top 10.

Take Two Top 10 Bestselling Games

Looking at the top 10 bestselling games published by Take-Two, eight of the games are on a Sony platform and two of them are for a Microsoft platform. Three games are for the PlayStation 2, three for the PSP, two for the PlayStation 3 and two for the Xbox 360. The Grand Theft Auto franchise dominates the top 10, with seven games.

The top 10 games sold a combined 94.11 million units. The three PlayStation 2 games sold a combined 50.06 million units, or 53.2 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The three PSP games sold a combined 15.63 million units, or 16.7 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The two PlayStation 3 games sold 13.89 million units, or 14.7 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The two Xbox 360 games sold 14.53 million units, or 15.4 percent of the total games sold in the top 10.

Take Two Top 10 Bestselling Games

Taking a look at the top 10 bestselling Take-Two games as a bar graph it is easy to that the Grand Theft Auto franchise on home consoles starting with last generation is a top seller. If you combine the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Grand Theft Auto IV it has sold 18.81 million units to date, just two million behind San Andreas for the PlayStation 2.

Red Dead Redemption one the biggest hits of the current generation is also the bestselling game for a new IP for Take-Two. The game has sold a combined 9.61 million units to date.

As a quick note the other new IP from Take-Two this generation L.A. Noire has sold a combined 4.72 million units to date, 2.48 million for the PlayStation 3 and 2.24 million for the Xbox 360. Despite selling so well the developer Team Bondi has closed its doors. Take-Two has had 36 games sell more than one million units.

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9 Comments
Salnax (on 25 June 2012)

"Red Dead Redemption one the biggest hits of the current generation is also the bestselling game for a new IP for Take-Two. "

What about that other Red Dead game, Revolver?

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withdreday (on 25 June 2012)

Damn, I had no clue San Andreas kicked that much ass on PS2.

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Sal.Paradise (on 26 June 2012)

One of the few installments of these 'top 10 sales' charts with high quality games across the board, refreshing.

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Significant_leap (on 25 June 2012)

Im pretty sure the Carnival game for WIi sold more than Midnight club....
3.87m here in VGchartz
i know you guys hate the Wii but come on...

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Troll_Whisperer (on 30 June 2012)

I'd really like for these charts to show combined sales. It would allow for more different games to be in the top 10 and it would better show how one game fared in general. The platform the game was on is secondary in my opinion, especially this gen when you have 50/50 sales across the HD twins for so many games.

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cusman (on 26 June 2012)

This just shows that new IPs can be more successful than rehashing on past successes. I do consider GTA 3 to be a new IP as it completely reinvented the game and genre.

Interesting that GTA IV didn't do new releases with re-use of existing engine like GTA 3 did which surprisingly had increasing sales rather than diminishing.

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LevelUP (on 26 June 2012)

SAN ANDREAS F*** YEAH!

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Millenium (on 25 June 2012)

GTA, Red Dead and Midnight Club... nothing unexpected. :)

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