Top 10 Best-Selling SNES Games - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 November 2015 / 43,220 Views
Today we take a look at the top 10 best-selling games for yet another platform. Up to this point we have looked at the original PlayStation, the Nintendo 64, the PlayStation 2, the original Xbox, the GameCube, the Nintendo DS, the PSP, the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. This week it's the turn of Nintendo's second home console, the Super Nintendo, also known as the SNES.
The SNES is the 12th best-selling video game platform in history and the seventh best-selling home console in gaming history. It is also Nintendo's third best-selling home console, behind the Wii and NES, and sold 49.10 million units lifetime.
The SNES proved most successful in North America, but also sold well in other regions. It sold 22.88 million units in North America, 17.17 million units in Japan, and 8.15 million units in Europe. It has also sold a combined 0.90 million units across the rest of the world.
48 games for the console managed to sell over one million units and six games sold more than five million units. Below we've compiled the 10 best-selling SNES games:
10th. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! - 3.51 Million
9th. Street Fighter II Turbo - 4.10 Million
8th. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - 4.12 Million
7th. The Legend of Zelda: A link to the Past - 4.61 Million
6th. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - 5.15 Million
5th. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior - 6.30 Million
4th. Super Mario Kart - 8.76 Million
3rd. Donkey Kong Country - 9.30 Million
2nd. Super Mario All-Stars - 10.55 Million
1st. Super Mario World - 20.61 Million
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I would have loved to see Chron Trigger in that list.
SO MANY GREAT GAMES X_X this console was amazing
Would love to see a top 50!
U can.......on the game database
Yup, pretty obvious Top 10 list right there. Only real surprise is DKC3 at #10... for a game that came out so late in the console's lifecycle and released in the shadow of the N64's launch to boot to sell that much is pretty impressive. I would've thought an older game like one of the Mortal Kombat games, a popular RPG like FFIII/VI, or possibly a Disney game like the Lion King or Aladdin which were super popular at the time would've cracked the top 10 in sales instead.
The Diseny games were more popular on Genesis as well as MK.
I am not so surprised about DKC3, the series was arguably the best part of the SNES. note that DK3 sold insanely well in Japan for quite a while
It was good time back then. God, i love Snes/Genesis days. :D
I would shave my eyebrows just to have such a wonderful line-up of games on a console again, though the ps2 came very, very close (maybe even tied)
I'm really happy to see Donkey Kong Country 3 in the list.
Why? It was pretty awful... :(
Much better than DKC 1 (better visuals, gameplay, bosses, levels, secrets, etc.) but not as good as DKC2. The game is hated on so much despite DKC1 having aged the worst out of the 3.
@Moonhero: No, it wasn't.
@iLikeEggs: The entire trilogy was pretty much awesome, but 3 is still my favorite.
However, I have to agree that DKC2 soundtrack was the best in the series.
Oh man, this list gives me goosebumps... TwT Such a good time of the industry...
There's some great memories here. I'm sad to say this is the only nintendo console I don't own today though... I really need to fix that.
This and the NES are my favourite retro consoles. I'm a Mario World fan boy. My biggest dissapointment was not owning my own copy of Mario Kart. I recently acquired it, and it's as good as I remember it!
I really didnt expect to see the donkey kong trilogy here!But its really nice to see that different types of games sold really well on the Super Nintendo, the best system ever!
I was always disappointed buy the sales of Zelda 3, it was THE game to have, maybe it came to early when the installed base was small and then second-hand market stole new sales.
Incredibly strong list
Now here's a decent list. The PS3 and 360 lists were depressing. Nothing but CoD, GTA and Need for Speed cluttering the top ten. Proud to say I've been playing most of these games since their release.
I got all these games, except the super street fighter 2.
A good list :)
Dissapointed that Super Metroid didn´t make it into the top ten, then again the metroid franchise is not the best in sales
well it at the very least sold over a million (it has the GH million seller edition) so that's not bad at all for that time period and considering that its somewhat a niche type game
Wow, unsurprising list.
SNES wasn't always my favorite console, but it was a good one.
The SNES to me is 2nd only to the PS2, it had an amazing and really diverse lybrary.Many SNES games had a really unique feeling that we just don't get in today's games.
so pretty much nintendo games except street fighter.
shocked? Mario RPG did not really sell that well!
@mountaindewslave You don't think over 2 million in 1996 is not selling well? It was literally a few months before the Nintendo 64 launch! I'd say that some pretty good numbers myself. I don't believe EU even got the game so that's sales in just NA ad JP as well.
