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.

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Game Copies sold Release date[a] Genre(s) Developer(s) Publisher(s)
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

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  1. ^ Only the initial release date on this platform is listed.

References

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  13. ^ Kotaro Tsunetomi (July 6, 2007). テクモが急騰、業績予想を増額－「ＮＩＮＪＡ ＧＡＩＤＥＮ」好調 (in Japanese). Bloomberg Japan. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
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