Game Sales

[sealboy6]

Does anybody know any good links or websites where I can find out how many of each game was sold?

[zmweasel]

Does anybody know any good links or websites where I can find out how many of each game was sold?

For current North American numbers, use Google to find NPD/TRST lists in game-related forums. (Gaming Age is a good place to start.) These sales stats are only available to subscribers who shell out thousands of bucks, hence the need to search for 'em.

For current Japanese numbers, I believe The Magic Box website has weekly hardware and software sales stats.

For historical numbers, you won't find any except the best-sellers of all time.

-- Z.

[pacmanhat]

For historical numbers, you won't find any except the best-sellers of all time.

Now there's a list I wouldn't mind seeing...anyone have one handy?

[roushimsx]

For historical numbers, you won't find any except the best-sellers of all time.

Now there's a list I wouldn't mind seeing...anyone have one handy?

I've seen lists for 32bit era onwards, but I don't think there's really much in the way of hard data for anything before that.

[SoulBlazer]

I've seen some information that is accurate. For example, on the Blue Sky Rangers website (the home of the Intelivision programers) they give sales figures on the best selling games for the system up to mid 1983.

Here is the part I'm talking about, copied directly from their website:(http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/people/askhal/askhal.html#A4)

"We only have sales figures through June 1983 and only for Mattel, but at that point Major League Baseball was in the lead with over 1 million games sold. Just below 1 million at that point, and certainly joining the million-selling club soon thereafter, were NFL Football, Astrosmash, Space Battle and Space Armada. Star Strike and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, with sales in June '83 of 800,000 and 700,000 respectively, may have also ultimately broken 1 million. Of the games released after June 1983, BurgerTime and Masters of the Universe: The Power of He-Man were both best sellers, but with the industry collapse that year it's doubtful either reached the 1 million sales mark.

While we don't have sales figures for any of the third-party publishers of Intellivision games such as Activision or Coleco, it is also doubtful any of their titles reached 1 million in sales, given the short time they were on the market before the collapse.

The most distributed cartridge was Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack, which came free with the Intellivision master component the first two years it was on the market. About two million of that cartridge were shipped. It should also be noted that for several months, Astrosmash came free with the master component, which boosted its sales figures."

I've also seen some reliable sales figures on other major hit -- or major bust -- games such as Pac-Man and ET for the Atari 2600, Super Mario Brothers 3 for the NES, and Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System. You just have to look around and read the reliable books and websites, and talk to the right people.

I'm sure that companies DID keep track of how many copies of games they shipped, but for most of it that information was never released so the best that we cand o is make educated guesses.

[sealboy6]

I know this might sound stupid, but I want to see how many copies each of the Ratchet and Clank games sold. I just want to compare each game.