Halo 3 Beats Out Wii Play For Best Selling Video Game of 2007

Today's NPD sales numbers reveal that Bungie's Halo 3 was the best selling game in the United States in 2007, with a whopping 4.82 million copies sold. Nipping at Master Chief's heels was Nintendo's own Wii Play. It sold through a staggering 4.12 million units to the masses.

01. Halo 3 (Xbox 360) - 4,820,000
02. Wii Play with Remote (Wii) - 4,120,000
03. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) - 3,040,000
04. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) - 2,720,000
05. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) - 2,520,000
06. Pokemon Diamond (DS) - 2,480,000
07. Madden NFL 08 (PS2) - 1,900,000
08. Guitar Hero II (PS2) - 1,890,000
09. Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360) - 1,870,000
10. Mario Party 8 (Wii) - 1,820,000

[PS360WII]

Noooooooo! lol well that's a good thing isn't it? Wii Play sells well for people are really buying the controller. I like the Wii but even I can admit that ;)

[Shaka2K6]

call of short 4 (best on PS3) sold alot more then halo 2.1 world wide.

[BLaZiN PRopHeT]

are you joking?

[toughNAME]

the best game on PS3 sold A LOT more on the 360

EDIT - I didn't include PS3 in the sections...hopefully most of your kind will stay away

[TheSadTruth]

The PS3 fanboyism on this site is so bad that they are a lot of them have become delusional. CoD 4 on the PS3 probably didn't break 1 million copies.

[ParaDise_LosT]

....

Ohh...

[The BS Police]

This dream that you must live is a disease for which there is no cure.

[LanRanger]

"CoD 4 on the PS3 probably didn't break 1 million copies."

CoD4 has sold 1.61 million copies on the PS3, about half what it sold on the Xbox 360. One out of every 5.7 PS3 owners bought the game; one out of every 5.1 Xbox 360 owners bought the game (a 12% higher attach rate).

The only conclusions you can draw from more sales on the 360 is that the 360 has a larger install base, particularly in the US which accounted for well over half of CoD4 sales.

[Iron Man 2]

Halo 3 Beats Out Wii Play For Best Selling Video Game of 2007,yeah barely...LMFAO!XD

[ElementX]

And where are your precious PS3 games?

[toughNAME]

thats being reported as offensive kermit

your new here...your fanboy/homophobic comments dont belong here

[xboxrumble]

seems like someone got under ur skin, you sony butt puppet you.

[Shadow Man]

Ya calla tu puta boca hijo de perra.

[wiizy]

with all the hype halo had going for it.. wii play almost outsold it. and i expect mario galaxy to outsell it soon

[akaFullMetal]

pretty impressed by the halo numbers, wow even beat wii play, congrats bungie

edit: and i got a disagree why???

[xboxrumble]

is not impressed, with you being impressed by an xbox 360 game that will probably have 1 of the highest grossing of sales this gen of consoles.

tisk tisk

[LanRanger]

There will certainly be a handful of games that sell far more than Halo 3 (15 million+ isn't unheard of), but given the number of Xbox 360s on the market it's extremely impressive. The PS2 only had six games that sold more copies despite having an install base 8x the size.

[Snukadaman]

besides the Wii everyone I know who purchased one bought a wii play for the extra controller....700K is pretty immpressive for the holiday season.

[OOG FunK]

coocoo nice numbers for cod 4 as well on the 360 sold a lot of damn copies

[Jack Bauer]

comparing Wii Play to halo 3 is like when people compared the burger king games to Gears of War... 10 bucks (controller 40 bucks, which is why people bought it) Vs. 60 Bucks

[candystop]

Wow the PS3 sucks lol! Not even on the list and one would think with the size of the PS2 install base it would of sold 10 million copies of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock but I guess the Playstion brand in no longer known for selling games! Way to go HAlo 3 but what happened to the 8.1 million games apparently sold

[Ferrite]

**An impressive feat for Nintendo, but more impressive for Microsoft, considering Wii Play had a seven month head start on the first-person shooter.**

Wow, even with a seven month lead it couldn't topple Halo 3, LULZ!!

[Ureval]

I played Wiiplay. Quite terrible actually. Half the games suck.

[LanRanger]

Assuming you liked even 4 of 9 games, that means you paid $2.50 apiece for them. Is that really such a bad bargain? People have expectations that are entirely too high for a $10 game.

[xboxrumble]

R&C, HS, uncharted, COD for PS3? I figured those would push some consoles..

If those are suppose to be great games, what makes you think the other shooters in 08 will do better? kz2, haze? more unknown titles

[RecSpec]

Halo 3: most promoted game EVER! (Before you disagree, think of this, preorders over a year in advance) Plus it's Halo, of course it's gonna sell.

Wii Play: Let's forget to mention it came with a controller.

COD4: Halo Killer, multiplayer-wise anyways. That is greatly exaggerated but hey, I know a lot of people that play COD4 and not even touch Halo.

Guitar Hero 3: Well, duh. This is the choice for non-gamers too macho for a wii. With PS2's still all over, this isn't a shocker. I wonder though, after a year from release, I bet GHIII will outsell Halo. Just the PS2 version too.

Super Mario Galaxy: The Super Mario 64 sequel people wanted, not community service Mario fighting Bowser in his love tub.

Pokemon Diamond: both of my siblings, three of my cousins, and myself own this game. The perfect gift for kids and veterans of the series. Unfortunately I never finished it. DQJ was better imo.

Madden: Well, it's Madden, and you know, the football game competition was tight as ever these days. Quick name another football game! Blitz 2001 doesn't count sorry.

Guitar Hero II: 95 percent of people who bought this game bought it to play Freebird. Only 1 percent of them can beat it on hard or higher.

Assassin's Creed: There is no such thing as bad publicity.

Mario Party: You want to know why this game sold so well? Knock a few back and play with some friends. You'll see. Just move all valuable items out of the room.

[ParaDise_LosT]

at the time
I saw Heavenly swords commercial air ALOT more than I saw Halo 3s 'Belive' Commercial.....Heck...HS commercial went until the end of november....

Edit- Your missing the point, My point is WHATS YOUR POINT.
By your logic If I take dog crap off the floor and put it on amazing commercials, a burger king ad , and other crap like that it would sell MILLIONS.......

Halo 3 sells because its good...live with it...

[RecSpec]

The game has been getting hyped well in advance. Plus, Heavenly Sword wasn't on Burger King's Fry cartons and Cups. Oh and there wasn't a Heavenly Sword soft drink either. I saw the commercial for Game Fuel more times then I saw commercials for the game.

[ngg12345]

It is forgetting the fact that 2 million wii play's have sold in japan.

[MK_Red]

Great news. I'm not a Halo fan but it's a realy good game while Wii Play is hardly a game.

[MaximusPrime]

best-selling non-HD, repetitive, crap storyline game.

[Robocod]

While i dont personally like the Halo series (granted i only played the first two) i am glad it came out on top over this Wii effort. We all know Wii Play is in there due to the extra controller and i am just glad that something that sets out to be a "proper game" was the best seller.

The fact that Wii Sports won so many awards last year still grates on me. I aint a Wii hater (it has the best game of 07 in Mario) i just dont think these mini game efforts should be given as much credit as full games.

[FirstknighT]

Halo 3 is still outselling any ps3 game including Uncharted and UT3. Not even MGS will hit the sales of Halo. Sorry Sony but you just don't have a seller like this.

[LanRanger]

The bestselling MGS games sold just over 5.5 million copies with a much larger installed base than MGS:4 will have. You're almost certainly right.

[ParaDise_LosT]

But, I think in time MGS4 will outsale Halo3s total sales....granted Ps3 gains the lead....by lead i mean 2nd place....or atleast a bigger install base than now....

But I see No way for MGS4 to outsale H3s release date record.....
GTA4, has a good chance though...