List of best-selling PlayStation video games
The best-selling video game of all-time on Sony's original PlayStation console is Gran Turismo. A sim racing game developed by Polyphony Digital, Gran Turismo was originally released in Japan on December 23, 1997, and went on to sell 10.85 million copies worldwide.[1] The second game in the series, 1999's Gran Turismo 2, sold 9.37 million units to become the third best-selling PlayStation game of all-time.[1] The second best-selling title on the console is Final Fantasy VII, which sold just shy of 10 million units.[2] Tekken 3 is the fourth best-selling PlayStation game, with over 8.3 million units sold,[3] while Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is fifth.[4]
A total of 110 PlayStation games have sold one million units or more. Of those, 41 titles were published in one or more territory by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI). Other publishers with multiple million-selling games include Electronic Arts (13 games), Capcom (nine games), Eidos Interactive and Namco (seven games each). The developer with the most games to sell a million copies or more is Square, with ten titles in the list of 110. The most popular franchise on PlayStation is Tomb Raider (25.9 million combined units), followed by Final Fantasy (24.15 million units), Crash Bandicoot (21.79 million units) and Gran Turismo (20.22 million units).
As of March 31, 2007, a total of 962 million units of PlayStation software had been shipped worldwide.[5]
Video games
† | Game was shipped with PlayStation consoles during its lifetime |
See also
- List of best-selling video games
- List of best-selling PlayStation 2 video games
- List of best-selling PlayStation 3 video games
- List of best-selling PlayStation 4 video games
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