Comments on: Top 10 Best-Selling Game Franchises

By: girl

girl — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:12:51 +0000

By: Norbit

Norbit — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:35:39 +0000

Half Life sold around 8m copies. According to the only figures available the entire Half Life franchise has collectively sold around 16m.

If you disagree just read this where last year Valve said the series had sold ‘over 15m’.

http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=648

By: Terdog

Terdog — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:22:24 +0000

I’m sorry, but Half Life has sold more than 15 million, the first game sold about 15 million.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:42:58 +0000

Heres the top 50 if anyones interested.

Mario (193 million)
Pokémon (155 million)
The Sims (90 million)
Final Fantasy (75 million)
Tetris (60 million)
Madden NFL (60 million)
The Legend of Zelda (52 million)
Grand Theft Auto (50 million)
Donkey Kong (48 million)
Gran Turismo (47 million)
Sonic the Hedgehog (44 million)
Lineage (43 million)
Dragon Quest (41 million)
Crash Bandicoot (35 million)
Tomb Raider (32 million)
Resident Evil (31 million)
James Bond (30 million)
Mega Man (27 million)
Medal of Honor (27 million)
Command & Conquer (25 million)
Street Fighter (25 million)
Mortal Kombat (20 million)
Castlevania (20 million)
Tekken (20 million)
Frogger (20 million)
Metal Gear (20 million)
Rayman (20 million)
Warcraft (19 million)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (18 million)
Spyro the Dragon (17 million)
Winning Eleven (17 million)
Diablo (17 million)
SimCity (17 million)
Brain Age series (17 million)
Age of Empires (16 million)
Half-Life (16 million)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (16 million)
Halo (15 million)
Need for Speed Underground (15 million)
Nintendogs (14.79 million)
Driver (14 million)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon (14 million)
Disney series (13.2 million)
Metroid (13 million)
Wii Series (12.81 million)
Myst (11 million)
Super Smash Bros. (10.89 million)
Lord of the Rings (10 million)
Dragon Ball Z (10 million)
Ace Combat (10 million)
Kingdom Hearts (10 million)
Prince of Persia (10 million)

By: Joelteon7

Joelteon7 — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:11:42 +0000

The jump between 2 and 3 is astonishing. Really, that’s a heck of a lot.

Cool list, though. Obviously I can’t disagree with cold hard facts, but I don’t think there is any up there that *shouldn’t*.

By: Stephany

Stephany — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:09:33 +0000

LightAce: I provided the link to Yahoo Games where I got the list, and it was written by Ben Silverman who wrote it for Yahoo.

Here is the link in case you missed it. Hope you enjoyed it!

http://videogames.yahoo.com

By: LightAce

LightAce — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:33:59 +0000

I think I read this somewhere before, it might of been on gamefaqs or something