Report: Mario is biggest videogame franchise ever

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January 10th, 2007, 17:55
wraggster

Report: Mario is biggest videogame franchise ever

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A report on the 20 top-selling videogame franchises of all time has pinned Nintendo's Mario at the number one spot, with a total of 193 million sales worldwide.

Published by The Independent, London, the report has put Pokémon in second place with 155 million sales during its lifetime, Final Fantasy following with 68 million. Popular series like The Sims and Grand Theft Auto also appear in the top 10, the former with 54 million sales worldwide and the latter 50 million.

The full top 20 list, with sales figures, is as follows:

Mario, 193 million

Pokémon, 155 million

Final Fantasy, 68 million

Madden NFL, 56 million

The Sims, 54 million

Grand Theft Auto, 50 million

Donkey Kong, 48 million (centre)

The Legend of Zelda, 47 million

Sonic the Hedgehog, 44 million

Gran Turismo, 44 million

Lineage, 43 million

Dragon Quest, 41 million

Crash Bandicoot, 34 million

Resident Evil, 31 million

James Bond, 30 million

Tomb Raider, 30 million

Mega Man, 26 million

Command & Conquer, 25 million

Street Fighter, 25 million

Mortal Kombat, 20 million
January 10th, 2007, 17:56
PSP 101

Yeah! Go Mario!
January 10th, 2007, 18:00
stimo

Final Fantasy, 68 million yeeee

3 wo ho
January 10th, 2007, 18:13
Airdevil

Im sorry but i dont see how the hell donkey kong is in the top ten... beating zelda....
January 10th, 2007, 18:28
doverkiller

lol Madden NFL 4th place..
I just don't get it.. american football is just so pointless.. :D
January 10th, 2007, 19:29
jimmi

Quote:

Originally Posted by doverkiller

lol Madden NFL 4th place..
I just don't get it.. american football is just so pointless.. :D

Dnt let the americans hear u say that!
January 10th, 2007, 19:49
inlovewithi

Nes

Quote:

Originally Posted by Airdevil

Im sorry but i dont see how the hell donkey kong is in the top ten... beating zelda....

I think Donkey Kong Country sold over 8 millions, but still. I guess Donkey Kong was very succeful for Nintendo back in the NES days. Nintendo has very succeful franchises.
January 10th, 2007, 20:03
S34MU5

probably because of the amount of mario games....

they take about 10minutes to complete, whereas most final fantasy 10 minutes and your not even begun
January 10th, 2007, 20:21
sinjinn

lol @ street fighter.........probably has a 100 different versions selling 250000 each
January 10th, 2007, 20:33
Basil Zero

Of course mario takes the 1st place

heck it was because of mario many people like ME got into gaming

i feel sorry for Final Fantasy though, they've been in existince since 1987, yet even their 10 years extra of existence couldnt beat Pokemon which has been out since 1998, more than 10 years after FF existed....sad really...lol
January 10th, 2007, 21:07
cartmandude14

Man I wish DOOM was on here... I love that game....:)
January 10th, 2007, 21:17
robman84

Surprised at the low-ish figures for Sonic, given how many games and how popular they seemed to be.
January 10th, 2007, 21:26
baracki96

wow, look at the gap between pokemon and Final Fantasy:eek: If You hae ever been to japan then you now how huge FF is there. OF course in tokyo airport I saw a what looked like a boeing 737 BUT It had a pokemon paintjob one the entire plane, so I understand why pokemon is huge.
January 10th, 2007, 21:44
Makaveli777

Whoever is suprised about the mario sales isnt a gamer. I wonder if they are counting every single game with the word mario in it because that would be about 1000 titles aready lol. Good see final fantasy doing well.
January 10th, 2007, 22:43
psp411

hahahaha I like this list.

Mario will always be @ the top... cmon ppl... if I ask u bout mario rite now i bet u dat u can name me at least 2 mario games.
Also pokemon.... wow

Reallly, I would be surprised to see any other games @ the top best sellers. :D :cool:
January 10th, 2007, 22:57
S34MU5

Yeh i could also name you a bunch of Final Fantasy games, probably about 15+

most people on the spot could name at least 5. its easy thought. just cause you know its name dusnt make it good
January 10th, 2007, 23:35
pt9087

Yer mario, that is 100% correct because i bought all 193 million
January 10th, 2007, 23:53
Hungry Horace

hardly a surprise given the number of sequels the game has spawned, and the general fanboyish-wankfest that goes on with regards to Nintendo stuff, in particular Mario, which imho is one of the least-enjoyable platform games i've ever played....

quite a feat considering i love both platformers and retro games.
January 11th, 2007, 01:12
Broadus

Who wouldn't like the little fat guy with the big mustache?
That's one hot mustache.
January 11th, 2007, 04:27
IndianCheese

This list is SOOOOOO quantity-over-quality. You cannot say that Pokemon is better than Sonic, ever, in the history than ever, and in no way does it ever take the #2 spot instead of Sonic. Sonic rules video games, and quite possibly (and sadly) the only person here who might agree with me is Kaiser.

This is an outrage!
LOL
January 11th, 2007, 05:23
ICE

mario=1st??? thank you captain obvious
January 11th, 2007, 05:27
Shadowblind

See, I can understand this, as there are so many different Mario games. If it came down to just 1 game of each franchise, Doom would win by thousands.

I am NOT saying The other games arent AWESOME.
January 11th, 2007, 12:29
souLLy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadowblind

See, I can understand this, as there are so many different Mario games. If it came down to just 1 game of each franchise, Doom would win by thousands.

I am NOT saying The other games arent AWESOME.

I sincerely doubt it, have you seen the sales figures for Mario 3 ;)