"Welcome to the ‘Top 10’ weekly feature. Each week we will be taking a look at the top 10 selling games in a particular genre, platform, most recent month, even sprinkling in the top 10 selling games from a past year. All sales specified will be worldwide, unless stated otherwise. If there is a particular top 10 you want to see leave a comment and it may be featured in a future top 10. As a note all sales figures are retail only.
This week we will be looking at the top 10 selling Microsoft games (Updated through the week ending September 21). Last week we looked at the top 10 selling Sony games (Updated through the week ending September 14) and the week before that the top 10 selling games Nintendo games (Updated through the week ending September 7)."
Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox will be discontinued in April and has confirmed that weekly streaks will also be coming to an end.
For those who don't have time for massive open worlds or role-playing games with epic tales, these 15 games are worth checking out.
It feels like the video game console is at a crossroads. With Xbox Series X and S floundering in the ‘console war’, Sony suggesting PlayStation 5 is approaching the second half of its life after missing sales targets, and uncertainty around the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, there is growing concern that the traditional video game console business could be under threat.
It's obvious that MS is leaving the console biz. MS may have tons of money, but that doesn't mean they want to keep losing money on the gaming division to prove a point. Thanks Phil
Good article and this is not a duplicate. The link that @Maximus Prime shared is just a small portion of the full interview. This post is the full interview.
Times are changing quick, the same ol way the industry been is changing. Where people play is changing.
“What I think Phil is doing is setting up some smoke signals that we're thinking very differently”
I’m surprised how slowly Microsoft is moving toward Xbox as a software platform. They usually don’t care so much about upsetting their customers with unpopular changes like they do with every other version of Windows.
This "console market hasn't grown narrative " is overblown. The market has grown just not as fast as say smartphones. But so what? There is still money to be made in the business and just because Microsoft has failed doesn't mean the entire industry is facing sudden collapse. Gaming will be fine, every industry has to go through periods of restructuring. AAA games are made becuase its what attracts gamers the most and is where they spend the most money. (Demand/supply) Microsoft abandoning hardware should have happened years ago, they clearly lost interest at a base level in producing games and/or paying 3rd parties to back during the tail end of the 360 generation. Tired of hearing about the future of gaming, just make great games and/or invest in one's made by other to attract people to your platform.
Halo & Gears fest :( .... Lack of variety and diversity in genres right there.
Most Kinect Adventures sales are likely from the kinect bundles but funny & surprising none the less :p.
Safe to say Halo and Gears did okay on the 360 lol.
Interestingly they didn't launch with one of those games. I'm curious to see what Ryse, DR3, and Forza are going to do sales wise. Forza will probably do well but Ryse and DR3 are not your typical Xbox best seller type games...
I think it would be better to do the review based on franchise sales rather than game sales, or for a single console (360 / PS3 / Wii).
Whatever game sells best on that console is going to dominate the list. I'm sure if you looked at Sony and Nintendo Gran Turismo 1 - 5 & maybe some other exclusives and Mario & Pokemon would dominate those list as well.
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Just like it thought here's the Sony list
http://www.vgchartz.com/art...
Gran Turismo, Crash, and Uncharted only make the list.
Nintendo's list is dominated by bundled games.
http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...
The exclusive arcade games should not be overlooked smh
It would be good if Nintendo released numbers for its digital sales. All of my Wii U games purchases and 3/4 of my 3DS games purchases have been digital.