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NPD Reveals Best Selling Games Of Last 15 Years
Every month the NPD research group delivers console sales numbers and a list of the best selling games from the previous month. Now they’ve reached all the way back to the year they started their research, 1995, to provide us a list of the best selling games of the past decade and a half.
Nintendo’s controller-bundled Wii Play tops the list, with a deluge of other Wii games and Call of Duty titles. I’m happy for the game creators and their success, but if you ask me this list is really, really boring. Save for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, this top 10 list shows that the masses need more variety in their gaming diet.
1. Wii Play (Wii)
2. Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock (PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360)
3. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2, Xbox)
4. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3, Xbox 360)
5. Wii Fit (Wii)
6. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
7. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3, Xbox 360, DS)
8. Madden NFL 07 (PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2, PSP, DS, GC, GBA, Wii)
9. Call Of Duty: World At War (PS3, Xbox 360, DS, Wii)
10. Namco Museum (DC, GBA, PS2, GC, Xbox, PSP, N64, PS3, Wii, DS, PSP, PS, Xbox 360)
Anybody surprised by the list? What awesome games have released since 1995 that you’re surprised didn’t make the top 10?
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