The best-selling video games of 2008 (so far)

[zatoicchi]

A new alliance of organizations that monitor video game sales has released the Top Global Markets Report, the first in a new series of monthly tallies detailing video game software sales across the U.S., U.K., and Japan.

Grand Theft Auto IV--6,293,000 units sold (despite the fact that the game was only released in late April in the U.S. and U.K. and has yet to hit the Japanese market)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl--5,433,000 units sold
Mario Kart Wii--4,697,000 units sold
Wii Fit--3,604,000 units sold
Guitar Hero III--3,475,000 units sold

That's 23,502,000 units sold just for the top five games in the U.S., U.K., and Japan only.

The best-selling video games of 2008 (so far) | Negative Approach

[anon]

Grand Theft Auto IV--6,293,000 units sold (despite the fact that the game was only released in late April in the U.S. and U.K. and has yet to hit the Japanese market)

GTA4 was very expected by fans, that's why

[Aurion]

damn,23,502,000 sounds a Huge figure tho ! disregarding the millions of copies obtained thru Bittorrent Networks,that would make a much higher number of sold/obtained copies of those 5 games !! Still lots of users are waiting for the new GTA to be officially sold in their countries

[anon]

disregarding the millions of copies obtained thru Bittorrent Networks

Yes! What if they could accurately add the number of P2P downloads to those numbers..?

Still lots of users are waiting for the new GTA to be officially sold in their countries

And some others are waiting for it to be unbanned...

[Aurion]

LOL yeah in both case,I guess GTA got itself a new market slice category since sales were overexpected regarding last year

[anon]

Everybody wants to see the new sandbox-game in the GTA series that lets you do anything, and a lot more than before

[Aurion]

hmm,then I guess it's gonna be out soon,they won't risk their records for any delays