List of best-selling Xbox video games

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This is a list of video games for the Xbox video game console that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. The best-selling game on the Xbox is Halo 2 , first released in the United States on November 9, 2004. It went on to sell over 8.46 million copies worldwide. The first game in the series, Halo: Combat Evolved , was a launch title which ultimately became the second best-selling game, selling over 5 million copies.

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List

GameCopies soldRelease date [a] Genre(s)Developer(s)Publisher(s)
Halo 2 8.46 million [1] November 9, 2004 First-person shooter Bungie Microsoft Game Studios
Halo: Combat Evolved 6 million [2] November 15, 2001 First-person shooter Bungie Microsoft Game Studios
Fable 3 million [3] September 14, 2004 Action role-playing Big Blue Box Studios Microsoft Game Studios
Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2.49 million [4] [5] [6] October 21, 2003 Action-adventure DMA Design (III) Rockstar North (Vice City)
Rockstar Vienna 		Rockstar Games
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 2.4 million [7] November 17, 2002 Stealth Ubi Soft Montreal Ubi Soft
Dead or Alive 3 2 million [8] [9] November 15, 2001 Fighting Team Ninja
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1.58 million [4] [6] July 15, 2003 Role-playing BioWare LucasArts
Counter-Strike 1.5 million [10] [11] November 18, 2003 First-person shooter Valve Sierra Studios
Ninja Gaiden 1.5 million [12] March 2, 2004 Team Ninja Tecmo
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 1.46 million [4] [13] October 26, 2004 Action-adventure Rockstar North Rockstar Games
Need for Speed: Underground 2 1.44 million [4] [13] November 15, 2004 Racing EA Black Box EA Games
Madden NFL 2005 1.42 million [4] August 9, 2004 Sports EA Tiburon EA Sports
Madden NFL 06 1.41 million [4] August 8, 2005 Sports EA Tiburon EA Sports
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One 1.39 million [4] November 1, 2005 First-person shooter Treyarch Activision
ESPN NFL 2K5 1.38 million [4] July 20, 2004 Sports Visual Concepts Sega
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 1.36 million [4] June 6, 2002 Role-playing Bethesda Game Studios Bethesda Softworks
Star Wars: Battlefront 1.22 million [4] [6] September 21, 2004 Pandemic Studios LucasArts
Project Gotham Racing 1.2 million [7] November 15, 2001 Racing Bizarre Creations Microsoft Game Studios
Star Wars: Battlefront II 1.17 million [4] [6] October 31, 2005 Pandemic Studios LucasArts
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 1.13 million [4] [5] November 11, 2002 Tactical shooter Red Storm Entertainment Ubi Soft
Need for Speed: Underground 1.1 million [4] [6] November 17, 2003 Racing EA Black Box EA Games
Forza Motorsport 1.05 million [14] May 3, 2005 Racing Turn 10 Studios Microsoft Game Studios

Notes

  1. ↑ Only the initial release date on this platform is listed.

References

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  2. ↑ "Halo 2: One Year Later". Bungie. September 11, 2005. Archived from the original on December 4, 2007. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ Waters, Darren (February 25, 2008). "Molyneux driven by past failure". BBC News. Archived from the original on January 11, 2022. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
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  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "ELSPA Sales Awards: Silver". Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association. Archived from the original on April 17, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  7. 1 2 Campbell, Colin; Keiser, Joe (July 29, 2006). "The Top 100 Games of the 21st Century". Next Generation . Archived from the original on October 28, 2007. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
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  9. ↑ Itagaki, Tomonobu (January 16, 2021). "Full Tomonobu Itagaki 2021 Bloomberg Interview (shared via Facebook)". Facebook . Archived from the original on January 18, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  10. ↑ Issue 187: Full Steam Ahead. Game Informer. November 8, 2008. pp. 67–70.
  11. ↑ "Analysis: Valve's Lifetime Retail Sales For Half-Life, Counter-Strike Franchises". Gamasutra . December 3, 2008. Archived from the original on August 25, 2021. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  12. ↑ Kotaro Tsunetomi (July 6, 2007). "Politics - Bloomberg" テクモが急騰、業績予想を増額－「ＮＩＮＪＡ ＧＡＩＤＥＮ」好調 (in Japanese). Bloomberg Japan. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
  13. 1 2 "ELSPA Sales Awards: Gold". Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association. Archived from the original on March 19, 2009. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Forza Motorsport - Sales History". VGChartz . 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
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