by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 July 2012 / 16,338 Views
Welcome to the ‘Top 10’ weekly feature. Each week we will be taking a look at the top 10 selling games in a particular genre, platform, most recent month, even sprinkling in the top 10 selling games from a past year. All sales specified will be worldwide, unless stated otherwise.
This week we will be looking at the top 10 bestselling games published by Konami. Last week we looked at the top 10 selling games published by Take-Two and the week before that the top 10 selling games of May 2012. If there is a particular top 10 you want to see leave a comment and it may be featured in a future top 10.
Looking at the top 10 bestselling games published by Konami, all 10 games are on a Sony Platform. One is for the original PlayStation 2, one for the PlayStation 3, and eight are for the PlayStation 2. Four Metal Gear Solid games made the list, while there are five Winning Eleven / Pro Evolution Soccer games. The other game is for the Crash Bandicoot franchise.
The top 10 games sold a combined 46.29 million units. The eight PlayStation 2 games sold a combined 34.62 million units, or 74.8 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The eight games averaged 4.33 million units sold each. The one PlayStation game sold 6.03 million units, or 13.0 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The one PlayStation 3 game sold 5.64 million units, or 12.2 percent of the total games sold in the top 10.
Taking a look at the top 10 bestselling Konami games as a bar graph it is easy to see how Metal Gear Solid is Konami’s biggest franchise. The first two sold more than six million units and the four games in the top 10 sold a combined 21.95 million units or 47.4 million percent of the total games sold in the top 10.
As a quick note 26 Konami games sold more than two million units and 61 games sold more than one million units. The Metal Gear Solid franchise has sold more than 30 million units. The Winning Eleven / Pro Evolution Soccer franchises have sold more than 50 million units. The Crash franchise including the game published by Sony has sold more than 40 million units.
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15 Comments
Kresnik (on 02 July 2012)
You have Crash Bandicoot at number 4 in your list, with 5.42 million. Konami only published the game in Japan, it was published by Universal Interactive everywhere else in the world. If you take the Japan-only sales of the game (which is all Konami would have seen), it's only 0.82 million. I don't really understand why it's included on this list.
cusman PabloAimar (on 03 July 2012)
Interesting that the least liked MGS game as per the vocal majority fan base actually sold the most?
torok Mnementh (on 02 July 2012)
That's because they made just one MGS and EA made some good improvents to Fifa, basically crushing PES.
Pesmerga7551 Mnementh (on 03 July 2012)
The problem with that is...They only made ONE Metal Gear Solid game this generation. The 5th will prolly be on the PS4 to be completely honest. If they made 2 or 3 full MGS games, they would have 2-3 games on that list. It's all their fault because they focused on side projects that are mostly garbage.
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