This is a list of video games for the original PlayStation

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that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. The best-selling game on the PlayStation is '' Gran Turismo''. A

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game developed by

Polyphony Digital Polyphony Digital is an internal Japanese first-party video game development studio for PlayStation Studios. Originally a development group within Sony Computer Entertainment known as Polys Entertainment, after the success of '' Gran Turismo'' ...

, ''Gran Turismo'' was originally released in Japan on December 23, 1997, and went on to sell 10.85million units worldwide. The second-best-selling game on the console is '' Final Fantasy VII'' (1997), which sold over 10million units. The top five is rounded out by '' Gran Turismo 2'' (1999) selling 9.37million units, '' Final Fantasy VIII'' (1999) with 8.6million units sold, and ''

Tekken 3 is a fighting game, the third entry in the ''Tekken'' series. It was released to the arcades in 1997, before being ported for the PlayStation in 1998. The arcade version of the game was released in 2005 for the PlayStation 2 as part of ''Tekke ...

'' (1998) with 8.3million units sold. There are a total of 117 PlayStation games on this list which are confirmed to have sold or shipped at least one million units. Of these, 41 were published in one or more regions by

Sony Computer Entertainment Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), formerly known as Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), is a multinational video game and digital entertainment company wholly owned by multinational conglomerate Sony. The SIE Group is made up of two legal co ...

. Other publishers with multiple million-selling games include

Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the ...

with thirteen games,

Namco was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Namco Taiwan in Kaohsiung, ...

with ten games, Capcom with nine games, and Eidos Interactive with seven games. The developers with the most million-selling games include

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with ten games, Namco with nine games, and Capcom,

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, and

, with six games each in the list of 113. The most popular franchises on PlayStation include ''

Final Fantasy is a Japanese video game, Japanese science fantasy anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square (video game company), Square). The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and ...

'' ( combined units), ''

Tomb Raider ''Tomb Raider'', also known as ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' from 2001 to 2008, is a media franchise that originated with an action-adventure video game series created by British gaming company Core Design. Formerly owned by Eidos Interactive, ...

'' (25.9million combined units), ''

Crash Bandicoot ''Crash Bandicoot'' is a video game franchise originally developed by Naughty Dog as an exclusive for Sony's PlayStation console. It has seen numerous installments created by various developers and published on multiple platforms. The series c ...

'' (25.53million combined units), '' Gran Turismo'' (20.22million combined units), and '' Tekken'' ( combined units). The oldest game on this list is '' Ridge Racer'', first released on the platform on December 3, 1994, while the most recent is '' Dancing Stage Party Edition'', released November 15, 2002, when the PlayStation 2 had been out for more than two years. As of March 2007, a total of 962million copies of PlayStation software had been shipped worldwide.

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