Mario Kart mechanics peaked in MK64
No way. The Wii version was wild, using gestures for actions like jumping.
DS I reckon. It was just MK64 but slightly more refined.
disagree, Double Dash defined dynamic driving.
I’m surprised that Gran Turismo was number one is 2005. I remember Star Wars Battlefront II being the hot new game everyone was playing at the time, and Star Wars being huge in general due to Episode III releasing that year. Just the fact that a PS2 exclusive driving sim, beat out a multi-platform Star Wars game that was one of the most hyped releases at the time is insane to me.
Was Minecraft never a top 5 best selling game in any year?
Really speaks to Minecraft’s staying power that even without ever being in the top five for a single year it is the best selling game of all time. Cumulative COD clearly wins out but I would guess the majority of each game’s sales are repeat customers.
Would be interesting to take this list all the way back to Pong in the 1970s.
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As expected, Pokémon and then CoD primarily. Gamers just wanna catch cool monsters and kill dudes. Kinda messed up tbh but like, whatever.
Shout out to Elden Ring. It’s the only non-sequel, non-ip based game to chart since Destiny and Watch Dogs in 2014.
Seems wrong to not consider it a sequel to the Dark Souls games though. I know it’s not, but it’s more than a spiritual successor IMO.
Pretty sure if they updated this year’s entry today that it’d be taken over by Baldur’s Gate.
Nah no way. I’m as big a BG fanboy as anyone but it’s a decidedly niche genre. The vast majority of people are not interested in CRPGs.
Possible counterpoint worth noting, that game has been breaking concurrent player records on steam for several days in a row, and the game has yet to release on consoles. So if it’s not the biggest game this year yet, it’s likely to happen in the nearby future.
Call of Duty: The list
Everyone here talking about CoD and all I want to know is how Star Fox on SNES beat out GoldenEye in 1997.
More people had a SNES and could afford Star Fox compared to buying a Nintendo64 console which was only one year old + GoldenEye.
It’s a shame that it doesn’t go back far enough to include DooM.
It does? The list starts in 1993, when Doom came out. Everyone played it, but I have never even seen a purchased copy. That might impact a lot of PC game sales, and explain why the list is dominated by console titles.
eh, consoles maybe. Starcraft wasnt in that last though.
Nah, there is no way it outsold Pokemon Red/Blue.
I distinctly remember everyone playing Ocarina of Time in 1998. I didn’t know anyone that was playing Pokemon Red/Blue.
You have a really small circle then. Pokemon literally was making the news with how much it was dominating media at the time of it’s western release in 1998.
To be fair, it’s not like OoT wasn’t popular. Even the article says it was second. But Pokemon was a phenomenon
It’s probably something to do with age. In 1998 I was 22. I was probably too old for Pokemon. I remember my nephews played the card game throughout the 90s. I didn’t play Ocarina or Pokemon, but I knew tons of people into Ocarina, like my nephews. Memory is also unreliable and yes, it’s listed as number 2, which surprised me, my poor or selective memory would have placed it number 1.
That Pokemon run from 1998 to 2001. Wow.
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