Top 20 Game Franchises of All-Time!

[Lee-yoshi]

A report on the 20 top-selling videogame franchises of all time has pinned Nintendo's Mario at the number one spot, with a total of 193 million sales worldwide.

Published by The Independent, London, the report has put Pokémon in second place with 155 million sales during its lifetime, Final Fantasy following with 68 million. Popular series like The Sims and Grand Theft Auto also appear in the top 10, the former with 54 million sales worldwide and the latter 50 million.

The full top 20 list, with sales figures, is as follows:

1) Mario, 193 million
2) Pokémon, 155 million
3) Final Fantasy, 68 million
4) Madden NFL, 56 million
5) The Sims, 54 million
6) Grand Theft Auto, 50 million
7) Donkey Kong, 48 million
8) The Legend of Zelda, 47 million
9) Sonic the Hedgehog, 44 million
10) Gran Turismo, 44 million
11) Lineage, 43 million
12) Dragon Quest, 41 million
13) Crash Bandicoot, 34 million
14) Resident Evil, 31 million
15) James Bond, 30 million
16) Tomb Raider, 30 million
17) Mega Man, 26 million
18) Command & Conquer, 25 million
19) Street Fighter, 25 million
20) Mortal Kombat, 20 million

Shame there's no Phantasy Star there, but i never realised that fat ol' plumber had never sold so many games, over tripling the combined sales of others!

[pink]

That's only because of how many more Mario related games there are than any of those other series. Still a little surprising though. XD

[Reigast]

I DO find it odd that Half-life and Halo aren't on here. As well as the Elder Scrolls series.

[Kitsadoodles]

I've never seen or heard of a few of those, but I'm not surprised to see what's on that list. And I very much agree with Reigast, I guess those games just didn't make the cut!

[Cye Zero]

Mario made #1 and deserves to be there but I'm surprised Mortal Kombat made the top 20.

[Reigast]

And Doom as well! Are you sure this is accurate?

[pink]

Well when it comes to Half-Life and Halo... both games only have two games in their series, so really... even if they did sell in high numbers, that's only a high number multiplied by two. Whereas, a lesser series with a ton of games sells a lot more simply because a higher multiplier makes a bigger difference than what's being multiplied (for the most part).

[Reigast]

Mmmmhmmm. But think of how many re-releases Doom has had over the years. And how many people have bought said games/films/merch.

I'm actually shocked it's not in there. I supposed because it's Pc, it's really piratable. =[

[Beat X500]

Mortal Kombat?!

Gah, this list lies. LIES!

[pink]

Yes. Sales for PC games would be much... much lower. Due to its highly piratableness.