Top 10 in Sales - PlayStation 2 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 25 September 2012 / 14,921 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.
This week we will be looking at the top 10 bestselling games on the PlayStation 2. Last week we looked at the top 10 bestselling games in August 2012 and the week before that the top 10 bestselling games on the PSP. 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 for the PlayStation 2, three games are first party, published by Sony Computer Entertainment, and the other seven games are third party. The third party games have been published by three different publishers, three games by Take-Two, three by Electronic Arts, and one by Konami.
The top 10 bestselling games for the PlayStation 2 sold a combined 11.33 million games. Grand Theft Auto: Sand Andreas is the one game to sell more than 20 million units, while the top five, three for the Grand Theft Auto franchise and two for the Gran Turismo franchise, sold more than 10 million units. All 10 games sold more than five million units.
Looking at the game sales in the top 10 by publisher, the three first party games, published by Sony Computer Entertainment, sold a combined 34.29 million units or 30.8 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The three Take-Two games, all for the Grand Theft Auto franchise, sold a combined 50.06 million units or 45.0 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The three Electronic Arts games sold a combined 20.93 million units or 18.8 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The one Konami game sold a 6.05 million units or 5.4 percent of the total games sold in the top 10.
Taking a look at the top 10 bestselling games for the PlayStation 2 really shows how popular the Grand Theft Auto and Gran Turismo franchises were last generation. The three Grand Theft Auto games sold a combined 50.06 million units, while the two Gran Turismo games sold a combined 26.24 million units.
As a quick note here are other software sales for the PlayStation 2. 1.26 billion games were sold on the PlayStation 2. 18 games sold more than five million units and 133 games sold more than two million units. 325 games sold more than one million units and 628 games sold more than 500,000 units.
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This gen is all about bullets. Last gen was all about cars.
I did not know that FFX was published by SCE... You learn something new everyday lol! Impressive sales indeed! I would like a top 10 of RPG's if this hasn't already been done!
It was published by SCE only in Europe. Square and EA handled it here in the US.
Damn San Andreas was a monster! im proud to be one copie of those 20 milions!
heh, pretty class, I still have each one of these games still in my games storage, feels good to have contributed to all the top sellers :D Really a completely different story to any Nintendo top 10 in sales tho, only 3 first parties, Sony just spend more time getting those 3rd parties aboard than doing their own thing.
I like how the top five all begin with 'Gran' XD
Wow, reminds me of when Medal of Honor was popular.
Can you do top ten sales for the Sega Genesis
bleh.. who the hell was buying those need for speed games? Come out and shame yourself! :P
I wonder if GTA still makes it to the charts nowadays.
Salnax youre king
GTA San andreas was the casual game last gen
I always found it baffling that the PS2 with it's amazing userbase, had such 'weak' top selling games. Yes, there is an unprecedented amount of million sellers total, but you would expect the top 5 (even if it includes the #1 selling third party game ever) to be the highest there would ever be. Instead, the top 5 falls short of some other consoles.
*GTA San Andreas
I'm surprised the Wii has so many more 10 and 20 million sellers (9/7 vs 5/1). Does this mean the PS2 collected more dust than the Wii?
I think it mean than on Wii there more third party games that collected dust on stores...
