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October 4th, 2007, 08:26 GMT · By Alexandru Stanescu

Nintendogs Sells More Copies Than Halo!

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Are you familiar with Wikipedia? Everyone is these days, but what the site lacks is reliability, specially since anyone can edit the content that's available on the world-famous Wiki. Get a decent number of complaints and any fake info will be changed. However, there's a funny list of "best-selling video
games" which features figures and stats that seem surreal.

It's not open for editing so we suppose that the information is not fake. I, for one was stunned by the record sales of some seemingly uninteresting titles that surpassed the blockbusters we knew and loved. Nintendogs, for example (the cute, dog-petting title on the DS) seems to be the third best-selling console title ever... Also, it has sold more than the first two installments in the Halo series. Believe it or not God of War is not that popular, since it has sold less than Silent Hill 2, an oldie for many of us.

We've all heard about Final Fantasy VII, a gaming cult that must have sold millions of copies, but still it managed to fall below Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, that have been launched a year ago in Japan! How's that for a selling spree? The Wiki page also includes info about Crash Bandicoot and the famous PlayStation-based series, which has sold more than Tomb Raider, Mega Man and Resident Evil. Didn't see that coming, did you?

You'll see the full list of best-selling oddities on Gamesradar, as we've had enough shocks to last for a long while... I never would have imagined that Nintendogs is such a popular title and that the Pokemon frenzy has reached such a high level. Halo 3 seemed huge before reading that Wiki page, but now it has turned into just another medium-sized blockbuster, compared to gaming cults like Mario or Pokemon.

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