The Bestselling Video Games Of 2011
If you are doing last-minute shopping for a video game player this year, it might help you to know what video games, across all platforms, have been the bestselling of the year so far. While Mario Kart 7 has been tearing up the global gaming sales charts for the past week, Nintendo came shockingly late to market with the game. It did not even register on the top ten bestselling games of the year! Sure, that could change in the last few weeks of the year, but it would have to overcome several titles like Batman: Arkham City and Just Dance 3, which are desperately clawing their way up the Top Ten list for the bestselling games of 2011. What might well surprise video game enthusiasts is that in 2011, three of the top six bestselling games of the year were not released in 2011! The Top Five bestselling video games in the world (across all platforms) for 2011 are:
5. Wii Sports. Beating out Wii Sports Resort by just over one hundred thousand units, the exceptionally popular game for the Nintendo Wii managed to add over five million sales to land in the top five, even after five years on the market! Nintendo rightly realized that video game enthusiasts are not adverse to moving around and people who like sports enjoy them even as a video game!
4. Kinect Adventures! A late-release in 2010, this adventure game had a strong 2011. While it might have only sold 5.3 million units in 2010, Microsoft has a real hit on its hands with over 12.5 million units sold total! It might not have sold as many units as the Wii Sports games, but Microsoft is showing it knows how to produce successful sports games as well.
3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Who says every sequel stinks?! Not video game players! Bethesda Softworks hyped the fantasy role playing game for over a year and when it released in mid-November, the market was primed for it. With just under six million units sold, Skyrim is a very safe bet for fantasy game enthusiasts if you need a late gift!
2. Battlefield 3. Almost seven million people decided that being a first-person shooter along the Iran/Iraq border sounded cool. As U.S. troops were withdrawing from Iraq, gamers across all platforms were experiencing virtual combat situations through this game.
1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. This first-person shooter game buried its peers. With over 16.3 million units sold, the latest installment in the Call Of Duty franchise outsold even Battlefield 3 by almost ten million units! With the Internet-based companion service, Call Of Duty: Elite, it is unlikely that video game enthusiasts will run out of interest in this game and franchise, promising Activision a good 2012 as well!
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