Top 10 Best-Selling PlayStation 3 Games

VGChartz's William D'Angelo: "Today we take a look at the top 10 best-selling games for the PlayStation 3. Up to this point we have looked at the original PlayStation, the Nintendo 64, the PlayStation 2, the original Xbox, the GameCube, the Nintendo DS, the PSP, and the Nintendo Wii. This week it's the turn of Nintendo's most popular home console, the Xbox 360.

The PlayStation 3 is the sixth best-selling video game platform in history and the fourth best-selling home console in gaming history. It is also the third best-selling home console by Sony, behind the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, and has thus far sold 85.96 million units lifetime."

[trunkswd]

GTAV was a beast with more than a 20% attach rate.

[AizenSosuke]

Agreed.

[I_am_Batman]

Literally half of the list consists of CoD games. No wonder Activision keeps pumping them out every year. Funnily I don't own any of those games on the list.

[Foehammer]

True

9 out of the 10 are actually 3rd party, but COD is dominant.

6 FPS in total

[FlexLuger]

wow...if GT was not on there I would have sworn, that was an X360 list. This list kind of kills the notion that people buy consoles for exclusives.

[nix]

Flex, sadly yes. I would also want to see more exclusives up on that list. I personally buy for exclusives. 80% of my games are exclusives.

I don't have any CODs or BFs. I got GTAIV, got burnt. Skipped GTAV.

[Crashbandicoot77]

If they write an article on Top 10 Best-Selling PlayStation 2 Games they would mostly be exclusives since Sony had all the best exclusives in the PS2 era. Sony lost a lot of their exclusives after the PS3 release.

[rocketleague]

Always weird to think that the most popular first party game by Sony is Gran Turismo. Always seems so forgotten

[Imalwaysright]

By the sales it had it doesn't seem like people forget about it. Also, I think that is common knowledge that GT is the most important Sony franchise.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Its one of the most important Sony franchises.

[rocketleague]

I know it's near common knowledge but it just seems to not generate the hype that series like Uncharted does considering the sales

[Imalwaysright]

_-EDMIX-_

Nah It's the most important Sony franchise.

PS1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

PS2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

PS3

http://www.vgchartz.com/art...

GT is without any doubt Sony's flagship franchise and has been since their 1st console.

[_-EDMIX-_]

They can have more then one important franchise....

The PS doesn't just die with no GT as GT is not even half of PS's sales, its not even near that.

What...15 million or so per PS console.....out of systems that do 80 to 100 million? lol.

Its important to PS, yes....but many series are, combined they all help PS sales. Series like Uncharted are just as if you combine the sales of the series thus far.

I'm not doubting their importance, merely that Sony has more then 1 important franchise.

[Imalwaysright]

Did I say that Sony only had one important franchise? All I'm saying is that GT is the most important Sony franchise.

"What...15 million or so per PS console.....out of systems that do 80 to 100 million? lol."

And Sony's other franchises managed to do less! How many "lol" does this statement deserve? lol... lol..lo..l... ?

[DarXyde]

I'm a bit sad to see only one exclusive on that list.

Start supporting first party titles and exclusives, darn it. Give incentive to make great sequels, not the annual releases that comprise like 70% of this list.

[zodiac909]

Lists like these should be about best selling EXCLUSIVES for the console, Everyone knows/Doesn't care to see COD or GTA pop up several times.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Those sales show otherwise. You can right now list the best selling if you want to, this article is not about that and we can have more then one list bud lol.

Also note....this is why I state 3rd party titles sell consoles, many don't want ot realize this fact, but MOST buy consoles for those titles.

Look at Wii U, no Fallout, no GTA, no Mass Effect 4, no COD, no Battlfront etc.

The systems that failed over the years, have been the systems with no 3rd party support.

Many might want to say systems sell due to exclusives....

What real numbers do we have to really support that claim? I've looked it up numerous times and I've yet to find a correlation from exclusives and sales. MOST times low sales might be due to lack of 3rd party, lack of a better performing system in regard to those 3rd parties, lack of world wide appeal, lack of diversity etc.

I've yet to find exclusives as the reason a system might have failed, as crazy as that sounds, only a few actually really buy a system solely for exclusives, those numbers show MOST buy them for 3rd parties.

[zodiac909]

They could just make a separate list and I dunno maybe call it "Best selling Multiplatform Games"?? When they say "Best selling on a particular console", seeing what exclusives sold the best is way more interesting than seeing the same Multiplatform pop up on 100 lists. EVERYONE knows what the best selling series are anyway...We all know 3rd parties sell more consoles than Exclusives..

[_-EDMIX-_]

"We all know 3rd parties sell more consoles than Exclusives" not all of us do as this site many times thinks exclusives sell platforms.

I disagree too, they are all interesting list, its cool to see what platforms games did the best on. Exclusive or otherwise.

[FallenAngel1984]

I've noticed something interesting about these VGC top selling software articles that some people may tend to neglect.

Wii had 157 games that sold over one million units and 21 games that sold over 5 million units.

PS3 had 235 games that sold over one million units and 27 games that sold over 5 million units.

[_-EDMIX-_]

PS3 also had a much more healthy install base vs a fluctuating install base.

ie...we don't know how many gamers own Wii vs parents, grand parents, casuals etc.

Not a bad thing, but hard to gauge the install base. It merely means many got the Wii for a few titles vs hardcore gamers which buy consoles for much more titles.

[FallenAngel1984]

Indeed, the Wii's casual audience is also the explanation for why the highest selling console of the 7th eventually after 9 years now has the lowest amount of software sold.

It's also important to mention that since many retail PS3 games are sold digitally as well, so that means the actual numbers would be higher than what VGC currently lists them as.

[Crashbandicoot77]

Not surprise