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Best Selling Star wars game ever?

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What is the best selling star wars game? The new Battlefront commercials keep saying "the sequel to the best selling Star Wars game ever!" I find that hard to believe, and I would have thought I heard something about the first one doing so well. Does anyone have any numbers?
 
Yeah i heard Star Wars BF is the best selling star wars game also. Seems right as the only ones i could think that might top that are KOTOR or shadows of the empire
 
I've heard about Star Wars: Battlefront being the best-selling Star Wars game in the commercials for the sequel, and I've read it somewhere else, too. If I wasn't told otherwise, I would've thought it would've been one of the Atari 2600 games (particularly Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back), or one of the SNES games, as those appeared to be huge hits back in their respective periods.

Then again, Star Wars: Battlefront was released on three different platforms, and sold very well on all three of them.
 
I would of thought that the first Rogue Squadron sold the best.

Oh well, I would think that they know what sold the best.
 
Didn't Episode 1 Racer sell over 2 million in North America alone (1.6 million normal, 400k through system bundles) for the N64? It was also on the Dreamcast so you have to add in those sales too. I think Shadow of the Empire might've gone multiplatinum in NA too. I find it hard to believe that these games surpassed these games already, even when combining all system sales.
 
According to Gamehead (?), some Gaming Show that randomly popped on Spike after TNA (for the first time seeing it, it blew Xplay out of the water), Battlefront IS the highest selling SW game, grossing over 78 million, and selling a crapton of copies. I'm sorry I only remembered the amount of gross, yet forget the # of copies. The higher number stuck out in my head more I guess.
 
If it made 78 million and the majority of those copies sold for $50 a pop, that only comes to a little over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide.
 
Kieyran said:
If it made 78 million and the majority of those copies sold for $50 a pop, that only comes to a little over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide.
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That sentence made no sense to me.
 
According to sonycowboy's NPD list Battlefront has sold about 1.8 million combined on the PS2 and xbox. It is possible that it is the best selling Star Wars game. It is for this generation.

The N64 versions of SotE, RS and E1 Racer were not published by Lucasart, but Nintendo. So they may not be counting them.
 
JJConrad said:
According to sonycowboy's NPD list Battlefront has sold about 1.8 million combined on the PS2 and xbox. It is possible that it is the best selling Star Wars game. It is for this generation.

The N64 versions of SotE, RS and E1 Racer were not published by Lucasart, but Nintendo. So they may not be counting them.
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Battlefront holds the crown, both in the US and worldwide.
 
What's not to understand. $78 million divided by $50 a unit comes to 1.56 million units total. Given it dropped in price, but I'm assuming (And rightly so I think) that the vast majority sold at full price. So it's of course higher than 1.56 million worldwide, but even then 2 N64 SW games sold far more than that on the NPD charts alone.

And according to sales figures posted, if you combine the sales of both the bundled and nonbundled versions of Episode 1 Racer, it comes out to 1,997,123 units.
 
I just want to say that Battlefront doesn't deserve that Crown.

A better game, say: Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight deserved it more.


Damn that game rocked.
 
Kieyran said:
What's not to understand. $78 million divided by $50 a unit comes to 1.56 million units total. Given it dropped in price, but I'm assuming (And rightly so I think) that the vast majority sold at full price. So it's of course higher than 1.56 million worldwide, but even then 2 N64 SW games sold far more than that on the NPD charts alone.

And according to sales figures posted, if you combine the sales of both the bundled and nonbundled versions of Episode 1 Racer, it comes out to 1,997,123 units.
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Well, NOW it makes sense. You originally just said "78 million" -- no dollar sign. I was trying to figure out dividing 78 million units by a price would result in a smaller number of units.
 
Through January 2003,

Code: 
N64	SW EPISODE 1: RACER+BUNDLE #	1997123
N64	STAR WARS SHDW OF EMP		1731758
N64	SW ROGUE SQUADRON			1380864

LTD from sonycowboy's >500K thread,

Code: 
PS2	SW: BATTLEFRONT			1043040
XBX	SW: BATTLEFRONT			 750804

Highest selling Star Wars game sold after 1995 on a single console:
SW EPISODE 1: RACER

Highest selling Star Wars game sold after 1995 on home consoles (excluding PC):
SW EPISODE 1: RACER

I think they are being careful how they calculate/filter to say SW Battlefront is the highest selling Star Wars game. :-P

Also, is this the same as the N64 version?

Code: 
DC	SW EPISODE 1: RACER		  81914
 
Battlefront sold insanely well because it was heavily promoted with the original trilogy DVD release; they're doing the same thing with BFII and Episode III's DVD.
 
My memory is a bit hazy, but I heard that the original Battlefront sold around 3 or 4 million worldwide for all platforms.
 
They never said best selling console game, so there is nothing even somewhat deceptive about their advertising (as far as I know). PC games count.
 
Kieyran said:
Well the Xbox version is also considerably superior, isn't it?
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Yep, the Xbox version loaded menu's faster, better framerate, and better onilne stuff :)

Hope that translates into an awesome Xbox version for #2
 
Kreuzader said:
Battlefront sold insanely well because it was heavily promoted with the original trilogy DVD release; they're doing the same thing with BFII and Episode III's DVD.
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Yeah, regardless of whether people think there have been better Star Wars games that should have sold better, the timing couldn't be beat.
 
The commercial also says "and for the first time ever you can fight in space". :lol

I haven't played the original Battlefront so I'm assuming that they are talking about space battles being new for this particular series. Of course they don't tell you that. They act like there have never been space battles in a Star Wars game before.

The commerical is misleading as hell.
 
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