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.
List
Game | Copies sold | Release date[a] | Genre(s) | Developer(s) | Publisher(s) |
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Halo 2 | 8.46 million[1] | November 9, 2004 | First-person shooter | Bungie | Microsoft Game Studios |
Halo: Combat Evolved | 5 million[2] | November 15, 2001 | First-person shooter | Bungie | Microsoft Game Studios |
Sneak King | 3.2 million[3] | November 19, 2006 | Blitz Games Studios | King Games | |
Fable | 3 million[4] | 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[5][6][7] | October 21, 2003 | Action-adventure | DMA Design (III) Rockstar North (Vice City) Rockstar Vienna | Rockstar Games |
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell | 2.4 million[8] | November 17, 2002 | Stealth | Ubi Soft Montreal | Ubi Soft |
Dead or Alive 3 | 2 million[9][10] | November 15, 2001 | Fighting | Team Ninja | |
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | 1.58 million[5][7] | July 15, 2003 | Role-playing | BioWare | LucasArts |
Counter-Strike | 1.5 million[11][12] | November 18, 2003 | First-person shooter | Valve | Sierra Studios |
Ninja Gaiden | 1.5 million[13] | March 2, 2004 | Team Ninja | Tecmo | |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | 1.46 million[5][14] | June 7, 2005 | Action-adventure | Rockstar North | Rockstar Games |
Need for Speed: Underground 2 | 1.44 million[5][14] | November 15, 2004 | Racing | EA Black Box | EA Games |
Madden NFL 2005 | 1.42 million[5] | August 9, 2004 | Sports | EA Tiburon | EA Sports |
Madden NFL 06 | 1.41 million[5] | August 8, 2005 | Sports | EA Tiburon | EA Sports |
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One | 1.39 million[5] | November 1, 2005 | First-person shooter | Treyarch | Activision |
ESPN NFL 2K5 | 1.38 million[5] | July 20, 2004 | Sports | Visual Concepts | Sega |
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind | 1.36 million[5] | June 6, 2002 | Role-playing | Bethesda Game Studios | Bethesda Softworks |
Star Wars: Battlefront | 1.22 million[5][7] | September 21, 2004 | Pandemic Studios | LucasArts | |
Project Gotham Racing | 1.2 million[8] | November 15, 2001 | Racing | Bizarre Creations | Microsoft Game Studios |
Star Wars: Battlefront II | 1.17 million[5][7] | October 31, 2005 | Pandemic Studios | LucasArts | |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon | 1.13 million[5][6] | November 11, 2002 | Tactical shooter | Red Storm Entertainment | Ubi Soft |
Need for Speed: Underground | 1.1 million[5][7] | November 17, 2003 | Racing | EA Black Box | EA Games |
Notes
- ^ Only the initial release date on this platform is listed.
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