Infographic: The Best-Selling Video Game Franchises (2024)

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What is the highest selling video game franchise? ›

The sales figures given below also do not include arcade video game sales, which can be found at the list of highest-grossing arcade games. The Mario franchise is the best-selling video game franchise of all time, with over 879 million units worldwide.

GTA 5 is the second best-selling video game of all time with 175 million copies shipped.

Final Answer. The best-selling video game franchise of all time is the Mario franchise by Nintendo.

The best-selling video game of all time goes to the timeless classic known as Tetris. IGN says 520 million copies of Tetris have been sold, citing data from The Tetris Company.

1. Marvel Cinematic Universe. The overall highest-grossing franchise by almost $6 billion, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an immortal giant that towers over all other franchises mentioned here.

Looking purely at the number of active players worldwide, PUBG is comfortably at the top of the most popular games pile right now, with over 100 million gamers enjoying this Battle Royale classic.

The three best-selling franchises on the platform have been Mario at 237.63 million units sold, Pokémon at 102.42 million units, and The Legend of Zelda at 67.07 million units. Other major selling franchises include Splatoon which sold 25.56 million units and Kirby which sold 13.36 million units.

Sales-wise, though, there's no contest: Mario and Luigi dunk all over Link and Zelda. In fact, as you can see, there are two other Nintendo franchises in addition to Mario that have outsold the over two dozen Zelda games released over the last 35 years.

1. PlayStation 2 – 159 million* *PlayStation 2 remains the best-selling video game console of all time. Sony's beloved system tops Nintendo DS by roughly 5 million units sold, while handily outselling every other console in existence.

What is the highest-grossing game of all time? ›

Space Invaders (1978) is the highest-grossing video game adjusted for inflation. It was originally released for arcades by Taito (now owned by Square Enix) and is estimated to have grossed over $13 billion, equivalent to about $30 billion adjusted for inflation.

With 304 million downloads, the classic Subway Surfers takes the top spot. Not too bad for a game that just celebrated its tenth birthday. Stumble Guys, a multiplayer battle royale game that saw 254 million downloads in 2022, is located close by. Roblox, Candy Crush Saga, and Race Master 3D come after that.

It is the best-selling video game franchise of all time, with more than 830 million copies of games sold, including more than 430 million for the Super Mario games alone.

The Super Mario franchise, in all its incarnations, is the top-selling video game franchise of all time, nearly doubling the second-place franchise, Tetris.

This is a listing of largest video game publishers and developers ranked by reported revenue. Sony Interactive Entertainment is the world's largest video game company, followed by Tencent and Microsoft Gaming.

What is this? Pokemon is worth $88 billion, that's more then Mickey Mouse ($52 billion), Star Wars ($46 billion), Marvel ($32 billion for the MCU), and Batman ($29 billion).

The PlayStation 2 was first released in 2000 in response to Sony's hugely popular original PlayStation. The PS2 has become the best-selling video game console of all time. As of February 2024, it had sold over 158 million units worldwide.

Going off the Pokemon Company the Pokemon franchise has raked in about 60 billion dollars. A lot of people would think Mario isn't even close but they would be wrong. Mario has made 40 billion off games alone using vgsales estimates.