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[KàIRóS]

Seems kinda iffy, the channel has only 100+ subs but the video looks super elaborate with a lot of data for each game, anyway here's the list:

#100 Rayman
#99 Portal
#98 Yoshi
#97 Tales of
#96 Farming Simulator
#95 Duck Hunt
#94 Nintendogs
#93 Devil May Cry
#92 Splatoon
#91 Wii Play
#90 Spyro
#89 Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
#88 James Bond 007
#87 Dying Light
#86 Command & Conquer
#85 Ratchet and Clank
#84 Age of Empires
#83 Tom Clancy Splinter Cell
#82 Tony Hawk's
#81 Naruto
#80 Saints Row
#79 Horizon
#78 Half Life
#77 Football Manager
#76 Tom Clancy Ghost Recon
#75 NBA Live
#74 Brain Age
#73 Dark Souls
#72 Tom Clancy Rainbow Six
#71 Kingdom Hearts
#70 The Last of Us
#69 Medal of Honor
#68 Megaman
#67 Guitar Hero
#66 World of Warcraft
#65 Gears of War
#64 Bioshock
#63 Spider Man
#62 Total War
#61 Wii Fit
#60 Uncharted
#59 Terraria
#58 Fallout
#57 Kirby
#56 Warriors
#55 Destiny
#54 Crash Bandicoot
#53 Bejeweled
#52 The Walking Dead
#51 Street Fighter
#50 Far Cry
#49 Lego Star Wars
#48 Tekken
#47 Diablo
#46 Harry Potter
#45 Metal Gear
#44 The Oregon Trail
#43 Donkey Kong
#42 Counter Strike
#41 Civilization
#40 God of War
#39 Dragon Ball
#38 WWE 2K
#37 Just Dance
#36 Mario Party
#35 Super Smash Bros
#34 Worms
#33 The Witcher
#32 PUBG
#31 Animal Crossing
#30 Battlefield
#29 Red Dead
#28 Mortal Kombat
#27 Halo
#26 Borderlands
#25 Dragon Quest
#24 Gran Turismo
#23 The Elder Scrolls
#22 Monster Hunter
#21 Sonic the Hedgehog
#20 eFootball
#19 Wii Sports
#18 Madden NFL
#17 NBA 2K
#16 Tomb Raider
#15 Resident Evil
#14 The Legend of Zelda
#13 Need for Speed
#12 Mario Kart
#11 Final Fantasy
#10 The Sims
#9 Assassins Creed
#8 Lego
#7 Minecraft
#6 EA Sports FC
#5 Mario Bros
#4 Grand Theft Auto
#3 Call of Duty
#2 Pokemon
#1 Tetris

 

[M.W.]

No.

 

[Arcadialane]

Highly inaccurate.

 

[KàIRóS]

Description says it's only counting units sold and not revenue made by the franchise btw

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Worms games are the 34th best selling franchise ever? No way.

 

[Three]

Worms games are the 34th best selling franchise ever? No way.

Possible In terms of units. It's old yet popular even if it isn't making a lot of money these days.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Not sure why that video creator did so much work to get wrong results TBH

List of best-selling video game franchises - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[KàIRóS]

Not sure why that video creator did so much work to get wrong results TBH

List of best-selling video game franchises - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Hmm I don't know man A lot of big sites like IGN and such do put Tetris at the top, remember that anyone can edit in wikipedia

The 10 Best-Selling Video Games of All Time - IGN

Contemporary classics Minecraft and GTA V have dominated the last decade, but where do they rank among the all-time best-selling games?

www.ign.com

 

[rofif]

I still don’t believe anyone ever bought tetris

 

[Arsic]

Cap.

 

[Iced Arcade]

I still don’t believe anyone ever bought tetris

Tetris was a global phenomenon when it first came out.

 

[elcapitano]

It's pretty much an impossible list to make.

It's often years in between data updates for franchises.

So take Bioshock for example. If the last reported sales figure for that franchise was a few years ago who knows how many it sold since then.

Only possible way to do this would be of all major companies released detailed sales reports every year or every quarter.

Without that it'll always be highly inaccurate.

 

[Futaleufu]

EA Sports FC at #6 means its a fake list. Maybe FIFA was supposed to be there but thats another franchise.

 

[blacktout]

Hmm I don't know man A lot of big sites like IGN and such do put Tetris at the top, remember that anyone can edit in wikipedia

Uh, you're comparing a list of the best -selling franchises to a list of the best-selling individual games.

Also, the difference between the list in the Wikipedia page and the list in the OP seems to be a function of how the different franchises are defined. Wikipedia treats all Mario games as a single franchise and the video sorts them into multiple franchises.

 

[ReBurn]

I still don’t believe anyone ever bought tetris

I bought the Tengen version for NES.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I bought the Tengen version for NES.

Our fam did too. Excellent version of it, which included that 2 player coop mode.

 

[LakeOf9]

Nope

 

[Fredrik]

Not sure why that video creator did so much work to get wrong results TBH

List of best-selling video game franchises - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Skyrim alone has sold over 60 million copies but on that list the whole IP is at 58 million. Extremely outdated data.

 

[nial]

#100 Rayman

I stopped reading there.

 

[nial]

Hmm I don't know man A lot of big sites like IGN and such do put Tetris at the top, remember that anyone can edit in wikipedia

The 10 Best-Selling Video Games of All Time - IGN

Contemporary classics Minecraft and GTA V have dominated the last decade, but where do they rank among the all-time best-selling games?

www.ign.com

That's because Wikipedia is including the Mario series as a whole, whereas IGN is separating the spin-offs from the main series.

 

[KàIRóS]

I think the numbers come from VGchartz which would explain the separation of the Mario and Wii franchises and the combination of Rayman with Raving Rabbids.

I stopped reading there.

Yeah that's the one that was making me go "wait what!?"

 

[Mephisto40]

Worms games are the 34th best selling franchise ever? No way.

They've sold 75 million units as of 2020, it was insanely popular in the 90's

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Minecraft as of very recently is the first game to sell 300m, but in reports on this Mario was said to be the biggest franchise, having sold 800m.

Minecraft first video game to hit 300m sales - BBC News

The Lego-like block-building game cements its position as the best-selling video game of all time.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Drizzlehell]

I still don’t believe anyone ever bought tetris

Because it was so easy to pirate on GameBoy, huh?

 

[Chastten]

I still don’t believe anyone ever bought tetris

I bought it at least 5 times, even if you don't count the original Game Boy game that came with the hardware. So there's that

 

[SaucyJack]

I still don’t believe anyone ever bought tetris

Almost everyone who had a Gameboy bought Tetris. Must have sold 30 million plus on Gameboy alone.

 

[Sweden85]

I stopped reading there.

The series has sold over 25 million copies over the years..

 

[archangelmorph]

By units sold?
By revenue?

Also I’m pretty sure there are a load of MMOs and mobile gatchas that shit on most of that list

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I still don’t believe anyone ever bought tetris

I bought it as recently as a few weeks ago lol.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Rayman?
I saw Rayman on a thumbnail for a new Netflix animation.
What is that about anyway?