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[Razoric]

Is it still SMB3 or has another game stolen the sales crown? Source too please.

 

[Speevy]

Bundled: SMB
Non-bundled: I'm pretty sure it's still SMB3.

 

[vitaflo]

I'm pretty sure SMB3 is still the best selling stand alone console game. 17.28 million is a lot of units.

 

[GaimeGuy]

I'm pretty sure SMB3 is still the best selling stand alone console game. 17.28 million is a lot of units.

It's actually sold around 19-20 million...

 

[jarrod]

Super Mario Bros on NES sold 40.24M and holds the title for best selling console game ever, though at least half of those were probably bundled with the machine. The original Pokemon set (Red, Green, Blue) is around 29 million making it the best selling handheld game ever.

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

It's amazing the numbers that single games used to sell back in the day. Of course, there's some amazing numbers nowadays too, but they can't compare.. simply because there are just many more games nowadays vying for people's attention/wallets..

 

[GaimeGuy]

Super Mario Bros on NES sold 40.24M and holds the title for best selling console game ever, though at least half of those were probably bundled with the machine. The original Pokemon set (Red, Green, Blue) is around 29 million making it the best selling handheld game ever.

Actually, the original game boy tetris sold around 30 million (granted, it was a pack in, but the whole concept of portable tetris was what sold the gameboy in the first place; lots of people just bought a game boy with tetris bundled in it and never bothered with anything else.)

 

[jarrod]

Actually, the original game boy tetris sold around 30 million (granted, it was a pack in, but the whole concept of portable tetris was what sold the gameboy in the first place; lots of people just bought a game boy with tetris bundled in it and never

Some of your numbers are off...

Tetris (GB)~ 30.26M
Super Mario Bros 3 (NES)~ 17.28M

...though I don't have an exact Pokemon figure (only R+G+B+Y at 44.56M) I do believe it probably outsold Tetris.

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

All this talk of Tetris makes me wonder how much Tetris DX for GBC sold. Best version of Tetris to date, in my own wonderful opinion..

 

[Mac the KNife]

Is it still SMB3 or has another game stolen the sales crown? Source too please.

Checking up on Randy's "Did you know?" fun facts? I was wondering the same thing myself...

 

[jarrod]

All this talk of Tetris makes me wonder how much Tetris DX for GBC sold. Best version of Tetris to date, in my own wonderful opinion..

Only 1.88M worldwide. Kinda low actually, myabe that's why Nintendo dropped the license? :/

 

[vitaflo]

It's actually sold around 19-20 million...

According to Nintendo, its 17.28 million. I'll tend to believe their numbers.

 

[teruterubozu]

Best version of Tetris to date, in my own wonderful opinion..

So true - I still play Tetris DX for GBC on long flights.

 

[jarrod]

I wish Broshnat wasn't banned so he could give us updated sales from the CESA white pages. I don't wanna pay $60. :/

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

Only 1.88M worldwide. Kinda low actually, myabe that's why Nintendo dropped the license? :/

Ouch, that does suck... compared to the original anyways. Tetris DX is just plain awesomeness. AND it saves high scores.. heh I should make an official Tetris DX high score thread..

And it should be a rule that Tetris can only be started on level 9, because it's just not right to start on a level/speed before that.

 

[acidviper]

Does Tetris DX have the origianl russian music. I can't play Tetris without that music.

 

[soundwave05]

Super Mario Bros. 3 is the highest selling standalone console game worldwide and also the highest selling console game in North American history.

Super Mario Bros. is the highest selling console game in Japanese history.

I dunno if either of those records will ever be beat console wise. Some of Nintendo's software sales records are incredible.

 

[PC Gaijin]

It's amazing the numbers that single games used to sell back in the day. Of course, there's some amazing numbers nowadays too, but they can't compare.. simply because there are just many more games nowadays vying for people's attention/wallets..

Yeah, the sales figures for some games in the NES/Famicom days in particular were incredible. Considering the development budgets for games back then, Nintendo and some of the third parties must have been making obscene amounts of cash on games, even taking into account the higher cost of media.