{"id":358142,"date":"2023-01-17T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/?p=358142"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:01:53","slug":"the-best-selling-video-game-titles-of-all-time-ranked-by-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/the-best-selling-video-game-titles-of-all-time-ranked-by-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"The top 10 best-selling video game titles of all time, ranked by quality"},"content":{"rendered":"
Video games are a pretty darn profitable industry. As it turns out, a lot of people are willing to pay a lot of money to press little buttons. But only a select few button-pressing facilitators can claim to have made the\u00a0most<\/em> money. And only an even more select few can claim to actually be good.<\/p> High sales don’t always translate into high quality. That’s not a secret \u2014 there’s a reason the fine folks at the British Film Institute don’t factor box office take into the Sight & Sound poll (I like Avengers: Endgame<\/em>, but it’s not standing side-by-side with 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>). Still, the Top 10 best-selling games in history have turned a lot of copies, and there’s got to be some reason they connect with so many players.<\/p> So let’s look at that Top 10 list and see which of these games are worth playing, and which are collecting dust on many millions of shelves. Before we get started, I’d like to clarify \u2014 there are a lot of different metrics by which one can measure the “best-selling games of all time,” but for the purposes of this ranking, I’ll be borrowing IGN’s rigorously maintained top 10 list<\/a> and backlinking to original sources.<\/p>