Best-Selling Video Game Franchises of All Time
About This Dataset
Best-Selling Video Game Franchises of All Time
Video game series ranked by total estimated units sold across all titles in the franchise since launch. Nintendo's Mario franchise is the best-selling video game series in history with over 800 million units sold — a total spanning 40+ years of gaming history, more than 200 individual game titles, and genres ranging from platforming and racing to role-playing and sports, making it the most commercially dominant entertainment franchise ever created.
Analysis
Mario (Nintendo) heads the table on 810, ahead of Tetris (520) and Pokemon (480) in Units Sold (Millions). The total is spread widely: even Mario (Nintendo) accounts for only 24.5% of the 8 combined. Only 4 of the 8 reach even half the leader's figure (405 or more).
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Mario (Nintendo) leads in Units Sold (Millions) with 810.
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Average Units Sold (Millions): 414 · median: 410.
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Gap: Mario (Nintendo) is 5.4× larger than Need for Speed (EA).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Units Sold (Millions)
- 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
All external sources cited in this dataset
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