Highest-Grossing Video Game Franchises by Total Revenue
Key Findings
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Pokemon leads in Estimated Total Revenue Incl. Merchandise (USD Billions) with 115.
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Average Estimated Total Revenue Incl. Merchandise (USD Billions): 25.58 · median: 14.67.
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Gap: Pokemon is 15.6× larger than Sonic the Hedgehog.
About This Dataset
Highest-Grossing Video Game Franchises by Total Revenue
This chart ranks video game franchises by estimated total lifetime revenue in US dollars, including game sales plus related merchandise, trading cards, mobile and other media. Figures are published estimates and differ from pure game-sales rankings.
Analysis
Pokemon (115), Call of Duty (31) and Dungeon Fighter Online (22) take the top three in Estimated Total Revenue Incl. Merchandise (USD Billions). Pokemon and Call of Duty together hold 57.1% of the combined total of all 10 entities. Only 1 of the 10 reaches even half the leader's figure (57.5 or more). It takes the next 7 entities (Call of Duty, Dungeon Fighter Online, Candy Crush, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Warcraft, Mario) added together to match Pokemon.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia (List of highest-grossing media franchises)
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Estimated Total Revenue Incl. Merchandise (USD Billions)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
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