The 20 best-selling Xbox 360 games in the US

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Just posted by Senior Director Mat Piscatella of market research center Circana. Not sure if I'd want an Xbox 360 mini system with this line-up:

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Makes me happy to see Rock Band up there. I'd honestly kill for a new era of Rock Band, but I don't think this world is social enough for that to ever work again.

But man… My friend and I used to set up Rock Band in the quad at college almost every Thursday night. Didn't matter who you were, that was a party in a box. Such an easy way to meet girls, too.

I don't think it'll happen, but I hope we get a Rock Band revival someday.
 
Dacvak said:
Makes me happy to see Rock Band up there. I'd honestly kill for a new era of Rock Band, but I don't think this world is social enough for that to ever work again.

But man… My friend and I used to set up Rock Band in the quad at college almost every Thursday night. Didn't matter who you were, that was a party in a box. Such an easy way to meet girls, too.

I don't think it'll happen, but I hope we get a Rock Band revival someday.
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Def loved some Guitar Hero and Rock band

I could play through the fire and flames on medium pretty well

Also the drums on Rock Band was my jam
 
Dacvak said:
Makes me happy to see Rock Band up there. I'd honestly kill for a new era of Rock Band, but I don't think this world is social enough for that to ever work again.

But man… My friend and I used to set up Rock Band in the quad at college almost every Thursday night. Didn't matter who you were, that was a party in a box. Such an easy way to meet girls, too.

I don't think it'll happen, but I hope we get a Rock Band revival someday.
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We would first need a rock/metal, shit a music revival. Or at least have bands again. Kids /young people would need to listen and make better music. Call me a jaded late 40 something rocker/headbanger, but music today sucks!

Gen z as far as I can tell thinks rock and guitar music is some freak names Machine Gun Kelly.who barely plays. And they like Sam Smith and other corporate produced weirdos all who don't actually have bands.

If I am wrong, I apologize, but damn going on Spotify or in popular culture it doesn't seem like I am.

Once that is done then they can make their gaas rockband to nickel and dime you again. Or they will just put it in Fortnite
 
Incidentally, notable Xbox 360 console exclusives that failed to make more money than Gears of War 3:

Left 4 Dead
Fable II
Dead or Alive 4
Dance Central
Viva Pinata
Dead Rising
Crackdown
Saints Row
Condemned
Lost Odyssey
Ninja Gaiden II
Kameo
Metro 2033
Call of Juarez
 
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I assumed the list for PS3 would be similar (minus the Halos), but no. Here are the best-sellers for PS3 (although this is global, not Circana).
  1. GTA V
  2. Gran Turismo 3
  3. Uncharted 3
  4. Last of Us
  5. Uncharted 2
  6. MGS 4
  7. Batman Arkham City
  8. GT 5 Prologue
  9. GT 6
  10. God of War 3
  11. Final Fantasy XIII
  12. Uncharted Drake's Fortune
  13. Call of Duty MW2
  14. Resident Evil
  15. Little Big Planet
  16. GTA IV
  17. Batman Arkham Asylum
  18. Motorstorm
  19. Call of Duty Black Ops
  20. Heavy Rain

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List of best-selling PlayStation 3 video games - Wikipedia

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I remember the x360 being the shooter machine eventho it had way more to offer, in fact I only owned all the Halo but only modern warfare 4 as fps GoW 1 and 2 as tps and the rest plenty of other genres, even some jrpg!

Best console I've owned, then Xbox one came and ruined it all for the most hardcore fans (me) so I switched to PC and never looked and probably will never look back again.
 
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Surprised to see Rock Band and Guitar Hero III so high up the list! I still love these games and play my silly plastic guitar on the regular.
 


From 1 vs. 100 to Halo 3, these are the 20 games that aren't necessarily the very best games on the Xbox 360 (though many of them are), but the ones that defined the second Xbox as we look back on 20 years of Microsoft's best-ever console. Written by Ryan McCaffrey.

1:00 - 1 vs. 100

2:36 - Viva Piñata

3:50 - Lost Odyssey

5:02 - Dead Rising

6:57 - Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved

7:58 - Ninja Gaiden II

9:13 - Braid

10:27 - Crackdown

11:52 - Forza Motorsport 3

13:13 - Left 4 Dead

14:37 - Limbo

15:51 - Rock Band

17:26 - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

18:46 - BioShock

19:54 - Fable II

21:11 - Grand Theft Auto IV

22:38 - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warcare

23:45 - Mass Effect

25:16 - Gears of War

26:40 - Halo 3
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Dacvak said:
Makes me happy to see Rock Band up there. I'd honestly kill for a new era of Rock Band, but I don't think this world is social enough for that to ever work again.

But man… My friend and I used to set up Rock Band in the quad at college almost every Thursday night. Didn't matter who you were, that was a party in a box. Such an easy way to meet girls, too.

I don't think it'll happen, but I hope we get a Rock Band revival someday.
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They need to go back to classic guitar hero, with the simple guitar, adding too many instruments made it too niche.

I think if my 9 year old nephew or his friends ever tried Guitar Hero, they would think it's the coolest shit ever.
 
kpopSuperstar said:
They need to go back to classic guitar hero, with the simple guitar, adding too many instruments made it too niche.

I think if my 9 year old nephew or his friends ever tried Guitar Hero, they would think it's the coolest shit ever.
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My nieces and nephews love playing rock band when they visit. It's still such a good time, and I feel like we need a revival for the younger generation!
 
Humdinger said:
I assumed the list for PS3 would be similar (minus the Halos), but no. Here are the best-sellers for PS3 (although this is global, not Circana).
  1. GTA V
  2. Gran Turismo 3
  3. Uncharted 3
  4. Last of Us
  5. Uncharted 2
  6. MGS 4
  7. Batman Arkham City
  8. GT 5 Prologue
  9. GT 6
  10. God of War 3
  11. Final Fantasy XIII
  12. Uncharted Drake's Fortune
  13. Call of Duty MW2
  14. Resident Evil
  15. Little Big Planet
  16. GTA IV
  17. Batman Arkham Asylum
  18. Motorstorm
  19. Call of Duty Black Ops
  20. Heavy Rain

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List of best-selling PlayStation 3 video games - Wikipedia

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If you're willing to take VGChartz with a grain of salt, US sales would thus look like this:
  1. Grand Theft Auto V - 6,370,000
  2. Call of Duty: Black Ops - 6,010,000
  3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 5,540,000
  4. Call of Duty: Black Ops II - 4,990,000
  5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 4,990,000
  6. Grand Theft Auto IV - 4,790,000
  7. Call of Duty: Ghosts - 4,110,000
  8. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - 3,280,000
  9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - 3,130,000
  10. Gran Turismo 5 - 2,960,000
  11. Battlefield 3 - 2,860,000
  12. Red Dead Redemption - 2,820,000
  13. LittleBigPlanet - 2,800,000
  14. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - 2,770,000
  15. Call of Duty: World at War - 2,750,000
  16. God of War III - 2,740,000
  17. Batman: Arkham City - 2,720,000
  18. Assassin's Creed III - 2,650,000
  19. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - 2,630,000
  20. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 2,570,000
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20200301020957/http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/3/playstation-3/
 
electricmastro said:
If you're willing to take VGChartz with a grain of salt, US sales would thus look like this:
  1. Grand Theft Auto V - 6,370,000
  2. Call of Duty: Black Ops - 6,010,000
  3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 5,540,000
  4. Call of Duty: Black Ops II - 4,990,000
  5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 4,990,000
  6. Grand Theft Auto IV - 4,790,000
  7. Call of Duty: Ghosts - 4,110,000
  8. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - 3,280,000
  9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - 3,130,000
  10. Gran Turismo 5 - 2,960,000
  11. Battlefield 3 - 2,860,000
  12. Red Dead Redemption - 2,820,000
  13. LittleBigPlanet - 2,800,000
  14. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - 2,770,000
  15. Call of Duty: World at War - 2,750,000
  16. God of War III - 2,740,000
  17. Batman: Arkham City - 2,720,000
  18. Assassin's Creed III - 2,650,000
  19. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - 2,630,000
  20. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 2,570,000
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20200301020957/http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/3/playstation-3/
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Ok, so not so different after all. Thanks for pulling that up.
 
kpopSuperstar said:
They need to go back to classic guitar hero, with the simple guitar, adding too many instruments made it too niche.

I think if my 9 year old nephew or his friends ever tried Guitar Hero, they would think it's the coolest shit ever.
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I left all my rock band gear at my old house with my ex wife when I moved out in 2019. By the time I realized I didn't have it, she threw it all out. So a few years back I seen guitar hero 2 at a retro shop when out with my wife and had a blast playing it.

I still have a ps2 and they had a kit for sale, guitar hero guitar with rock band 1 and 80s disk. Sold. I quickly found world tour, gh 2 and 3 as well as Metallica and of rock band.

I could of got the 360/ps3 era games but they require dongles and every rb instrument for sale is missing the dongle and they don't sell after market dongles. The ones who had dongles were and are still like 120 to $140 a pop. $30 with no dongle. And there are 100s for sale with no dongle. So I just collected for ps2. (I'd love another guitar though).

So going back to guitar hero, guitar only is way more pure gameplay wise. I really like it and it's easy to pull out when you want to play.

The problem is now that younger kids and much of Gen z think rock/metal is dad music as they seem to only like pop and rap (if Spotify is anything to go on). Which sucks the torch for good guitar rock was not passed. So the audience would be people over 35 and their young kids. I doubt any publisher is going to take that on, sadly.

Open source could revive but who wants to play guitar hero on desktop computer? On console means you can play on the living room couch.
 
Side by side comparison of the most successful Xbox games in the US:

Xbox:
  1. Halo 2 - 6,670,000
  2. Halo: Combat Evolved - 4,910,000
  3. Fable - 1,970,000
  4. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - 1,800,000
  5. Grand Theft Auto Double Pack - 1,590,000
  6. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 1,480,000
  7. Madden NFL 2005 - 1,420,000
  8. Madden NFL 2006 - 1,410,000
  9. Project Gotham Racing - 1,400,000
  10. Call of Duty 2: Big Red One - 1,390,000
Xbox 360:
  1. Call of Duty: Black Ops II
  2. Call of Duty: Black Ops
  3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  4. Halo 3
  5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  6. Grand Theft Auto V
  7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  8. Halo: Reach
  9. Call of Duty: Ghosts
  10. Halo 4
Xbox One:
  1. Grand Theft Auto V
  2. Call of Duty: WWII
  3. Call of Duty: Black Ops III
  4. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
  5. Battlefield 1
  6. Star Wars: Battlefront
  7. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
  8. Halo 5: Guardians
  9. Destiny 2
  10. Fallout 4
 
electricmastro said:
It took over the console. Wii was for families, PS3 was for adventurers, and 360 was for college fratboys, basically.
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I knew at least 5 360 owners who're close to me and I really didn't understood them as 360 owners and all of them later on switched to PC. I really didn't feel they're loyal to Xbox and their view towards the 360 was no more than an experimental box. I feel these people fit with the original Wii consumers category more than they do with PlayStation where you find genuine fans who knew what they're doing and the reason why they bought their console for, not a bunch of aimless losers who their sole purpose is filling Xbox and Nintendo charts cause if you ask me, these people genuinely didn't mean much for Microsoft and Nintendo.
 
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