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boxoto
09/10/2025
10:44 PM
#1
not too surprising

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Charged151
09/10/2025
10:45 PM
#2
So in terms of dollars, 11 of the 20 games are from the Call of Duty Franchise? Guess that is to be expected.
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Pechabust
09/10/2025
10:47 PM
#3
Charged151 posted...
So in terms of dollars, 11 of the 20 games are from the Call of Duty Franchise? Guess that is to be expected.

Those are sales, these are the revenue makers

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/gta-5-call-of-duty-genshin-impact-and-5-other-games-alongside-2-subscription-services-make-up-53-
percent-of-playstation-store-revenue-more-than-the-other-12-000-combined/
VRX3000
09/10/2025
10:51 PM
#4
I find that unusual. Like I know Spider-Man did well but. GTA5 sold like 80 million copies. Spidey couldnt have outsold all but 5 games in the history of PlayStation. Even things like Horizon got like 20 million under their belt.
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party_animal07
09/10/2025
10:53 PM
#5
Makes sense. All of those games and series are super popular with the casual crowd. If they included mobile games, it'd probably take us half the list.

I'm surprised Horizon isn't on the units side though. It sold like 26mil if I remember correctly.
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sabin017
09/10/2025
10:53 PM
#6
Odd how GTA4 and RDR1 didn't make it.
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party_animal07
09/10/2025
10:55 PM
#7
VRX3000 posted...
I find that unusual. Like I know Spider-Man did well but. GTA5 sold like 80 million copies. Spidey couldnt have outsold all but 5 games in the history of PlayStation. Even things like Horizon got like 20 million under their belt.
Spiderman might actually be a top 10 ip worldwide. I was surprised to find out just how popular the Spiderman brand is outside of the US.
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rick_alverado
09/10/2025
10:59 PM
#8
I've played two or three games on that list, and other than the potential third game, it wasn't on Playstation. I've played Guitar Hero 3 on Wii, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on Wii U. I have vague recollections of having played one of the other Call of Duty games on a PS3 with friends one time, but I couldn't tell you which one.
Quezovercoatl
09/10/2025
11:59 PM
#9
That's a lot of fishing games
GrandConjuraton
09/11/2025
12:06 AM
#10
And yet Rockstar considered RDR2 a failure.

I just don't get it.
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OmegaShinkai
09/11/2025
12:10 AM
#11
GrandConjuraton posted...
And yet Rockstar considered RDR2 a failure.

I just don't get it.
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YellowSUV
09/11/2025
12:13 AM
#12
Secretly shows how dominate the Xbox 360 was. San Andreas and GTA5 are in the top 5 but GTA4 isn't even on the list because most copies were likely sold on the 360.
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VRX3000
09/11/2025
12:15 AM
#13
Okayso the biggest number I can find is that the first Spider-Man game sold 25m worldwide. Butthat puts it below horizon.

now, the SERIES has sold 36 million worldwide counting the 11m of spidey 2, and up to 44million adding in miles morales game as well.

so at 44m I can see it bring on the list, but why would this series count as 1 entry, when individual games in series count otherwise?

something screwy is going on with this.
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