List of best-selling PSP video games

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PlayStation Portable

This is a list of video games for the PlayStation Portable video game console that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. The best-selling game on the PlayStation Portable is Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. An action-adventure game developed in a collaboration between Rockstar Leeds and Rockstar North, Liberty City Stories was originally released in North America on October 24, 2005, and went on to sell 8 million units worldwide. The second-best-selling game on the console is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006), which sold just over 5 million units. The top five is rounded out by Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (2010) selling 4.9 million units, Gran Turismo (2009) with over 4 million units sold, and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (2008) with 3.8 million units sold.

As of March 31, 2012, over 331 million total copies of games have been sold for the PlayStation Portable.[1]

List[]

No. Game Copies sold Release date[a] Genre(s) Developer(s) Publisher(s)
1 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories 8 million[2] October 24, 2005 Action-adventure Rockstar Games
2 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories 5.03 million[2] October 31, 2006 Action-adventure Rockstar Games
3 Monster Hunter Portable 3rd 4.9 million[3] December 1, 2010 Action role-playing Capcom Capcom
4 Gran Turismo 4.22 million[4] October 1, 2009 Sim racing Polyphony Digital Sony Computer Entertainment
5 Monster Hunter Freedom Unite 3.8 million[3] March 27, 2008 Action role-playing Capcom Capcom
6 Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters 3.73 million
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February 13, 2007 Platform High Impact Games Sony Computer Entertainment
7 God of War: Chains of Olympus 3.2 million[5] March 4, 2008 Ready at Dawn
  • WW: Sony Computer Entertainment
  • JP: Capcom
8 Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII 3.1 million[6][b] September 13, 2007 Action role-playing Square Enix Square Enix
9 Monster Hunter Freedom 2 2.4 million[3] February 22, 2007 Action role-playing Capcom Production Studio 1 Capcom
10 Daxter 2.3 million[7] March 14, 2006 Platform Ready at Dawn Sony Computer Entertainment
11 Tekken: Dark Resurrection 2.2 million[c] July 6, 2006 Fighting 8ing Namco
12 Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker 1.99 million[9][d] April 29, 2010 Kojima Productions Konami
13 Dissidia Final Fantasy 1.81 million[e] December 18, 2008 Fighting Square Enix Square Enix
14 Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition 1.4 million[f] June 27, 2005 Racing Rockstar San Diego Rockstar Games
15 Need for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0 1.32 million[g] November 15, 2005 Racing
Electronic Arts
16 Monster Hunter Freedom 1.3 million[3] December 1, 2005 Action role-playing Capcom Production Studio 1 Capcom
17 Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep 1.27 million[16] January 9, 2010 Action role-playing Square Enix Square Enix
Star Wars: Battlefront II 1.27 million[h] October 31, 2005
Pandemic Studios LucasArts
19 God of War: Ghost of Sparta 1.2 million[5] November 2, 2010 Ready at Dawn Sony Computer Entertainment
20 God Eater 1.05 million[19][i] February 4, 2010 Action role-playing
  • WW: Bandai Namco Entertainment
  • NA: D3 Publisher
21 Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee >1 million[23] December 12, 2004 Golf Clap Hanz Sony Computer Entertainment
22 Wipeout Pure 1 million[24] March 24, 2005 Racing Studio Liverpool Sony Computer Entertainment
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 1 million[25]
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November 13, 2007 Sports Yuke's THQ

Notes[]

  1. ^ Only the initial release date on this platform is listed.
  2. ^ Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII sales breakdown:
    • Japan – 830,000[6]
  3. ^ Tekken: Dark Resurrection sales breakdown:
    • Europe – 1 million[8]
  4. ^ Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker sales breakdown:
    • Japan – 958,461[10]
    • United States – over 52,000[11]
  5. ^ Dissidia Final Fantasy sales breakdown:
    • Japan – 995,398[10]
    • United States – 440,000[12]
    • Europe – 380,000[12]
  6. ^ Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition sales breakdown:
    • United States – 1.1 million[13]
    • United Kingdom – 300,000[14]
  7. ^ Need for Speed: Most Wanted sales breakdown:
    • Japan – 27.151[10]
    • United States – 1.1 million[13]
    • United Kingdom – 200,000[15]
  8. ^ Star Wars: Battlefront II sales breakdown:
    • Japan – 17,878[10]
    • United States – 910,000[17]
    • United Kingdom – 100,000[18]
  9. ^ God Eater sales breakdown:
    • God Eater
      • Japan – 617,828[20]
    • God Eater Burst

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