As of today, February 9th, Monster Hunter: World has shipped 6 million copies across the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, making it not only the fastest -
selling game of the series but also the fastest - selling game in all of Capcom history.
Resident Evil 5, despite the criticisms it received, was the best -
selling game of the series, and we expect similar if not better sales this time round.
Not exact matches
Gaming geeks get ready — it looks like Rockstar Games has brought its infamous Grand Theft Auto
series back to the West coast, site
of the
series» best -
selling game GTA: San Andreas.
Still, with upwards
of 100 million copies
sold, the FIFA
series is Canada's biggest video
game export to the world ever, and deserves some mention.
Last year, not long after
selling his
game to Microsoft for $ 2.5 billion, the creator
of Minecraft sent out a
series of telling tweets:
It would be
selling the pitching from both sides short to suggest this matchup would be a
series of 12 - 10
games, but it would lack a certain nuance.
With
sold out
games in London, Manchester and Coventry against national and international opposition, this
series is going to provide lots
of opportunities for us to test out combinations.
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action revives the top -
selling Jagged Alliance
series of mercenary - themed strategy
games with significant updates to visuals and gameplay.
Three years into the reboot
of the R.B.I. Baseball
series and it's still a completely uninspired mobile - quality
game being
sold for four times as much on consoles.
As part
of the best -
selling Jewel Master
series, Cradle
of Egypt 2 builds on the previous
games» formula that has made the
series a phenomenal success.
It's an essential purchase if you're new to the
series and love role - playing
games, but a harder
sell if you've already explored every nook and cranny
of the vast and beautiful
game world on a bigger and more capable screen.
Pro Evolution Soccer
series used to be the top
selling football
game during the PlayStation 1 era, but its reputation quickly faltered thanks to a string
of bad decisions and the emerging popularity
of EA Sports» FIFA
series.
The
game's main
selling feature is the fact that it is based off the old Voltron TV
series from the 80's and it's low price
of ten dollars.
Here's a conundrum that would get even ol' Professor Layton's puzzle - solving knickers in a twist; how do you do justice to a
series of best -
selling puzzle
games on the big screen?
A particular breakout success since the «Metal Gear Solid» instalment that was released on PlayStation in 1998, the
series» popularity continued to soar up to the release
of the fifth main episode «Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain» on PlayStation IV in 2015, the top -
selling METAL GEAR
game of all time. - via Press Release
Beloved by millions
of fans, the video
game series has
sold more than 50 million units worldwide over the 30 years since its release.
With EA's SSX
series being one
of the hottest
selling games on the consoles, it was no surprise that Microsoft would try their luck on snowboarding when they released Amped for the Xbox as a launch title.
Rockstar Games doing Red Dead Redemption 2 should not come as a surprise to fans as the original
game sold whopping 13 Million copies worldwide and Take - Two Boss Strauss Zelnick has already stated that Red Dead Redemption is one
of the their «Permanent»
series similar to Grand Theft Auto V.
Considering R. L. Stine's wildly popular «Goosebumps»
series books have
sold over 400 million copies worldwide, including forays into a TV show and video
games, it's a major surprise that Goosebumps represents the first big - screen association
of these childhood staples for many kids over the last couple
of decades.
In 1978, Douglas Adams penned the script for British radio an eccentric SF comedy entitled «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy» (or H2G2), and its success led to a run
of five best -
selling books (the first appearing in 1979), a BBC television
series (1981), a computer
game (1998), and now, over a quarter
of a century after its first radio outing, a big - screen feature film.
With the upcoming holiday period, it should easily be able to
sell at least 100 000 units before the end
of the year, though it will still be the lowest -
selling game in the
series (it's unlikely to catch up with Style Savvy 2: Fashion Forward, that ended up
selling over 225 000 units LTD according to Famitsu).
The first
game in the
series did not
sell well on Xbox 360 or Xbox One last year, so there might be a possibility
of sales figures playing a role in this decision.
Even after 11 years and almost 20
games, Capcom's Monster Hunter
series is still one
of its best -
selling franchises.
March 11, 2009 is the fifth anniversary
of the release
of the first
game in the Monster Hunter
series, which to has
sold a cumulative 8.5 million units.
At 30.855 units
sold, the
game sold decently enough when compared with the other remake
of a classic Metroid title, Metroid: Zero Mission on the GBA during the height
of the
series» popularity.
With more than 279 million video
games sold worldwide, 21.5 billion TCG cards shipped to 74 countries, and an animated
series spanning 19 seasons, Pokémon is one
of the most successful entertainment brands in the world.
Despite the Legend
of Zelda franchise being quite popular, Hyrule Warriors is still quite a hard
sell: there's no
series name in the title, it's a Wii U
game, and many people still aren't fond
of the Warriors gameplay.
Its a smart strategic move in many aspects, and they'll both be great and fun
games (i LOVED 3D Land and MK7, some
of my favorite in the
series) and I'm sure it'll
sell well, its just disappointing and im not sure how much hardware it'll push.
Every year in Japan it's one
of the top -
selling games and has
sold well over 40 million copies across the entire 14 - year life
of the
series so far.
Tomb Raider: Legend became the fastest
selling game in the
series and remains one
of the highest rated
games in the Tomb Raider empire.
The
series is consistently in the top
selling games lists, year on year, and it's unlikely that Black Ops 4 is going to be any different, even with all
of the major changes that Treyarch is bringing.
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc was the third title in the million -
selling platforming
series by visionary
game designer and creator
of Beyond Good & Evil — Michel Ancel.
Monster Hunter: World «s new milestone trumps the
game's previous achievement
of being the fastest
selling Capcom
game and
series, as
of early February.
Monster Hunter World has established itself as one
of the best in the
series by becoming Capcom's best -
selling game ever and players continue to take on the many quests and monsters with regular updates.
Most recently Kyd scored Crytek's Sony VR and Oculus Rift virtual reality
game ROBINSON: THE JOURNEY, the # 1 Chinese fantasy / sci - fi movie CHRONICLES
OF THE GHOSTLY TRIBE (based on the best - selling Chinese novel «Ghost Blows Out The Light») directed by Lu Chuan (City of Life and Death, The Last Supper) and the Warner Bros. series MORTAL KOMBAT X: GENERATIONS directed by Garrett Warre
OF THE GHOSTLY TRIBE (based on the best -
selling Chinese novel «Ghost Blows Out The Light») directed by Lu Chuan (City
of Life and Death, The Last Supper) and the Warner Bros. series MORTAL KOMBAT X: GENERATIONS directed by Garrett Warre
of Life and Death, The Last Supper) and the Warner Bros.
series MORTAL KOMBAT X: GENERATIONS directed by Garrett Warren.
The 12 Years A Slave star has already signed up for the big screen version
of the best -
selling computer
game series and now it seems filmmaker Justin - who recently worked with the actor on an adaptation
of Macbeth - might be getting on board.
Call
of Duty: Advanced Warfare has been confirmed as the eleventh installment in the highest
selling first - person shooter video
game series.
An instalment in the Zelda
series arriving on a Nintendo console is as inevitable as the sun rising to the East or a
game with the word «Wii» in its title
selling millions
of copies.
Digital comics Anthony Ha looks at the success
of the Pocket God comic, which is marketed alongside the
game; more than 200,000 copies
of the first issue have been
sold, and sales for the whole
series total 600,000.
Blizzard's «Cute But Deadly» is a
series of figures
sold in blind boxes, featuring cute versions
of some
of the villains and enemies from the company's
games.
And, since then, more than 275 million copies
of Pokémon videogames have been
sold worldwide, not to mention their Trading Card
Game (TCG), TV
series, movies and more!
There's a tutorial mode to help guide you through the basics
of the
game before moving into a singleplayer campaign where you're given a
series of objectives, like
selling X amount
of copies
of one
game, for example.
The Legend
of Zelda: Breath
of the Wild arrives on Nintendo Switch and Wii U very soon, and with March 3rd fast approaching we thought it'd be good to take a look at what the The Legend
of Zelda: Breath
of the Wild
series of amiibo (
sold separately) can do in the
game!
That number confirmed «World» as the fastest
selling entry in the
series and surprised even the top executives
of the company, who had projected the
game to have a much slower adoption by the public.
Oh, and btw, Xenoblade 2, the
game you claimed «isn't a masterpiece», just became the best -
selling game in Monolith's Xeno
series history, and it's got plenty
of high - scoring rave reviews backing it up.
This came as a very unpleasant surprise to many fans
of the
series in both countries considering the facts that the original Gears
of War managed to move 33,212 units in its first week in Japan and that the
game to date has
sold 3 million units worldwide.
The first
game was to
sell the power
of the snes, second one even more so with you being able to board ships, but
of course that was cancelled, 2 was canceled so 64 could look all the more impressive and really show off what made the n64 so different, it also was bundled with the rumble pack to push it, much like the wii motion plus bundles from last gen, assault was the worst
game in the
series by a longshot, and the first one created without the idea
of pushing something (as far as anyone knows), adventures
of course isnt even a starfox
game so why include it, and
of course command had forced stylus controls which may or may not have been to convince people to touch can work for hardcore
games too, but thats just me assuming they arent just jerks.
A particular breakout success since the «Metal Gear Solid» instalment that was released on PlayStation in 1998, the
series» popularity continued to soar up to the release
of the fifth main episode «Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain» on PlayStation IV in 2015, the top -
selling METAL GEAR
game of all time.
A lot
of this I think is simply by
game - by -
game basis to because Ubisoft tried with Assassin's Creed Watch Dogs and other franchises but clearly they had to move on and made a decision to stop putting
series like that if they're not moving units I think they're doing a good job this time around on the switch with the rabbits Mario
game in Just Dance and that starlink
game as they're showing that you can't put anything on this system and expected to
sell you have to Taylor make it for that install base which might mean making it very Mario or Kiddy like.
With over 45 million
games sold, the TEKKEN
series is the bestselling fighting
game franchise
of all times.