List of best-selling Xbox video games explained

This is a list of video games for the Xbox video game console that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. The best-selling game on the Xbox is Halo 2, first released in the United States on November 9, 2004. It went on to sell over 8.46 million copies worldwide. The first game in the series, , was a launch title which ultimately became the second best-selling game, selling over 5 million copies.

List

GameCopies soldRelease dateGenre(s)Developer(s)Publisher(s)
Halo 2million[1] First-person shooterBungieMicrosoft Game Studios
million[2] First-person shooterBungieMicrosoft Game Studios
Sneak Kingmillion[3] Blitz Games StudiosKing Games
Fablemillion[4] Action role-playingBig Blue Box StudiosMicrosoft Game Studios
Grand Theft Auto III and million[5] [6] Action-adventureDMA Design (III) Rockstar North (Vice City)
Rockstar Vienna		Rockstar Games
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cellmillion[7] StealthUbi Soft MontrealUbi Soft
Dead or Alive 3million[8] [9] FightingTeam Ninja
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republicmillion[10] Role-playingBioWareLucasArts
Counter-Strikemillion[11] [12] First-person shooterValveSierra Studios
Ninja Gaidenmillion[13] Team NinjaTecmo
millionAction-adventureRockstar NorthRockstar Games
million[14] RacingEA Black BoxEA Games
Madden NFL 2005millionSportsEA TiburonEA Sports
Madden NFL 06millionSportsEA TiburonEA Sports
millionFirst-person shooterTreyarchActivision
ESPN NFL 2K5millionSportsVisual ConceptsSega
millionRole-playingBethesda Game StudiosBethesda Softworks
Star Wars: BattlefrontmillionPandemic StudiosLucasArts
Project Gotham RacingmillionRacingBizarre CreationsMicrosoft Game Studios
Star Wars: Battlefront IImillionPandemic StudiosLucasArts
Tom Clancy's Ghost ReconmillionTactical shooterRed Storm EntertainmentUbi Soft
millionRacingEA Black BoxEA Games

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Halo 2: One Year Later. https://web.archive.org/web/20071204171823/http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=7139. December 4, 2007. Bungie. September 11, 2005. August 30, 2020.
  3. Linley, Edward (April 2007). "Advent of Advergaming – Blitz Games' Burger King Games". Game Developer. UBM Tech.
  4. News: Molyneux driven by past failure. BBC News. February 25, 2008. August 30, 2020. Darren. Waters. January 11, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220111072634/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262202.stm. live.
  5. Web site: US Platinum Videogame Chart . The Magic Box . August 30, 2020 . December 27, 2007 . October 9, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211009200207/http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml . live .
  6. Web site: January 30, 2005. Xbox Software Best Seller Ranking (From: Feb 22, 2002 - Jan 16, 2004). ja, en. https://archive.today/20050227195038/http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~hokora/xbrank.html. February 27, 2005. Shrine of Data . August 30, 2020.
  7. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20071028115051/http://www.next-gen.biz/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3537&Itemid=2&pop=1&page=1 . The Top 100 Games of the 21st Century. Campbell, Colin . Keiser, Joe . July 29, 2006 . . October 28, 2007 . dead . August 30, 2020.
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  10. Web site: ELSPA Sales Awards: Silver . August 30, 2020. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100417223849/http://www.elspa.com/?i=3942 . April 17, 2010 .
  11. Book: Issue 187: Full Steam Ahead. 67–70. Game Informer. November 8, 2008.
  12. Web site: Analysis: Valve's Lifetime Retail Sales For Half-Life, Counter-Strike Franchises. December 3, 2008. August 30, 2020. Gamasutra. August 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210825044246/https://gamasutra.com/view/news/112269/Analysis_Valves_Lifetime_Retail_Sales_For_HalfLife_CounterStrike_Franchises.php. live.
  13. News: Kotaro Tsunetomi . ja:テクモが急騰、業績予想を増額－「ＮＩＮＪＡ ＧＡＩＤＥＮ」好調 . Bloomberg Japan . July 6, 2007 . https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=90001002&sid=azaEyzbR0k7w&refer=jp_home . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930064738/https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=90001002&sid=azaEyzbR0k7w&refer=jp_home . 2007-09-30 . Japanese.
  14. Web site: ELSPA Sales Awards: Gold . August 30, 2020. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090319031650/http://www.elspa.com/?i=3943 . March 19, 2009.

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