NPD Releases List of the Top 20 Selling Games of the Past Decade

Written by Brandon Hofer on January 16, 2020

News: Not a whole lot of surprises but it is interesting to see what sold the best the past ten years, with one franchise dominating the chart.

The NPD Group has released the list of the Top 20 selling games in the U.S. of the past decade. The Top 20 titles include the following games:

Grand Theft Auto V

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Call of Duty: Ghosts

Red Dead Redemption II

Call of Duty: World War II

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII

Minecraft

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Mario Kart 8

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Battlefield 1

Battlefield 4

Destiny

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Star Wars Battlefront (2015)

Call of Duty is obviously the big winner of the last decade. With that said Grand Theft Auto V is in the top spot and that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. It was reported a couple of months ago that Grand Theft Auto V had eclipsed the 115 million copies sold mark (source: Windows Central) and there really doesn’t seem to be any signs of it slowing down. The only thing that might slow down Grand Theft Auto V is the inevitable release of Grand Theft Auto VI, whenever that takes place.

Red Dead Redemption II and Minecraft are in the top 10 as well but as I said above, one look at the overall list and you can clearly see who dominated the decade. I have personally had a lot of fun with every single one of these games and I know a bunch of other people who have as well so this isn’t all that surprising to me.

One has to wonder what the next ten years will bring us. Call of Duty is still going strong and Rockstar seems to always put out extremely high-quality titles that the majority seem to love. Will we see any other studios in this list ten years from now though? Perhaps one of Microsoft’s new studios? How about CD Projekt Red or From Software? Capcom has had a big resurgence recently so could they be on this list in ten years? Only time will tell.

source: Venture Beat