Games & Play1985–2025
Best-Selling Video Game Franchises
The biggest game series ever made, racing by cumulative copies sold across every platform. Mario's four-decade head start meets Tetris's viral ubiquity, Pokémon's monster catalogue, and the streaming-era juggernauts Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto. Totals span every entry in each franchise, so a bar climbs with every new hit release.
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Source: Publisher sales reports & Wikipedia franchise totals Illustrative reconstruction: franchise totals aggregate lifetime unit sales across all titles; historical year-by-year splits are estimated from release timelines. illustrative data Updated 2026-07-03
The race in numbers
3lead changes
40years covered
15contenders
Super Mariolongest reign — 30 yrs at #1
Final standings · 2025
- 1Super Mario890M
- 2Tetris520M
- 3Call of Duty510M
- 4Pokémon495M
- 5Grand Theft Auto445M