For those of you game lovers, you must know that there are some best-selling game franchises that are unforgettable until now. So famous, these games are still played by people even though they have crossed various ages.
Games are an entertainment that is most popular among children and adults. Especially now that the type of online games is increasingly boosting the popularity of games in society.
If you are a true gamer, playing games is something you have to do almost every day. Games always accompany us to relieve stress or as an object of our free time.
Well, speaking of famous game franchises. Here are the most hitfranchise games of all time with franchise sales exceeding above 100 million copies. What are the games? Here’s the list.
The Best-Selling Game Franchises of All Time
15. Pro Evolution Soccer
Starting the list of the Best-Selling Game Franchises of All Time is the most popular soccer game, Pro Evolution Soccer or better known as PES.
In Japan PES is known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven. There’s no denying that Winning Eleven and Pro Evolution Soccer are among the best soccer games of all time.
The fame and number of gamers on earth who have played both games is one proof of Konami’s success in developing WE and PES. Even this game is able to match the most licensed game, FIFA. Here’s a piece of history about WE and PES games.
At the beginning of its release in 1995, PES was known as J-League Jikkyou Winning Eleven. But as the franchise grew, PES has now sold more than 100 million copies.
Until now, Konami as the developer of PES continues to develop the game.
14. Assassin’s Creed
Di urutan selanjutnya ada franchise game Assassin’s Creed. Assassin’s Creed merupakan video game action adventure garapan Ubisoft.
Game ini bisa kalian mainkan melalui console game Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, OS X, Nintendo DS, Playstation Portable, Playstation Vita, Handphone, dan Wii U.
The first series of the franchise was released in 2006 for the Playstation 3 console and 2008 for the PC console. At the beginning of its release, the game immediately received an E3 award in 2006.
Until now, the Assassin’s Creed franchise has reached 11 titles and the best of all series according to gamers is Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
13. Lego
Since 1995, there have been a total of more than 69 titles in the Lego game series created by The Lego Group. This Lego game had several times moved developers and publishers ranging from Mindscape then Lego Media which is now Lego Software and 2002 to Lego Interactive.
Lego in Danish comes from the word leg godt which means “to play well.” The creator later learned that lego also has a Latin meaning, which is “I assemble” or “I put together.” That’s how the idea of a stacking toy was inspired.
In 1947, Lego replaced the material with plastic. From year to year, the Lego company continues to develop their products to make it easier and safer for gamers to play.
In 1968, Legoland Park or Lego Playground opened in Billund, Denmark. At that time, Lego was already popular and was even sold to various places around the world.
12. Sonic The Hedgedog
The Hedgehog character is the main protagonist in Sega’s Sonic game series. The character is also the official mascot of the Japanese giant, just like Nintendo’s Mario Bros.
As the name implies, Sonic is depicted as a blue hedgehog who is strangely always 15 years old.
The emergence of Sonic was motivated by Sega’s desire to create an original character that would replace Alex Kidd, who was then their mascot. Sega also wanted the new character to be able to match the success of the Super Mario game.
This game franchise made its debut in 1991. Sega created the Sonic Forces series which was released in November 2017 for PS 4, Xbox One and PC platforms. This game earned as much as 4 Trillion.
11. Madden NFL
This one game may be less popular in Indonesia, even so the Madden NFL game can still compete with other popular games. The first series of this game was first released in 1988.
NFL may not be popular in Indonesia, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be played. The very challenging playing style makes you won’t want to stop playing this game.
In 2013 this franchise has generated fantastic sales figures of more than USD 4 billion or equivalent to IDR 57 Trillion. Fantastic isn’t it?
10. Final Fantasy
The beginning of Final Fantasy’s history was in the mid-1980s, when Square was just entering the Japanese video game industry by making simple RPG games, racing games, and platformers for Nintendo’s Famicom Disk System.
Then in 1987, field designer Hironobu Sakaguchi chose to create a new cartridge-based fantasy role-playing game, which was inspired by the popular fantasy games Dragon Quest and The Legend of Zelda.
Throughout its history, Playstation wasn’t the only platform to host Final Fantasy, Nintendo was the first console to host the game.
Looking at its history, Final Fantasy itself has changed the creator team, Hironobu sakaguchi himself as the inventor only directed the first final fantasy until Final fantasy V.
Later Sakaguchi served as producer for subsequent games until he left Square in 2001. Yoshinori Kitase then took over directing the game until Final Fantasy VIII. Until now Final Fantasy has had 14 series that are fairly successful.
9. Need For Speed
Need for Speed is one of the most successful racing games in the world, and one of the most successful franchises of all time. As of October 2009, more than 140 million copies of games in the Need for Speed series have been sold.
The Need for Speed (NFS) series was first released in 1994 and continues to this day. The series changed its name to Over Drivin upon its release in Japan.
The one feature that is most often a mainstay in every NFS series is the hot pursuit feature between police and racers.
In total, this game franchise has reached 25 series with the Most Wanted series as the best-selling game series, which of course if you are a gamer, you must know the series. To date, Need for Speed has sold 150 million copies.
8. Minecraft
Minecraft, which currently has 3 spin-offs namely Story Mode, Education Edition and Dungeons, is also on the list of the best-selling game franchises of all time. Created by Swedish game designer Markus “Notch” Persson, it was first released on November 18, 2011.
Minecraft is a sandbox game created by Mojang led by Markus ‘Notch’ Persson from Sweden. After Persson left, in 2011, Jens ‘Jeb’ Bergensten took over the reins of Minecraft as Mojang’s Game Developer.
To date, the number of active players is incredible according to reports in mid-2018 reaching 91 Million active players from all over the world every month.
In September 2014, Microsoft officially bought Mojang and this IP for 2.5 billion dollars. And in October 2018, Microsoft announced Minecraft had sold up to 154 million copies.
7. The Sims
Next on the list is The Sims franchise which is a simulation game. This game was first released in 2000. This franchise is the forerunner of the popularity of games with the simulation genre.
The Sims was developed by Maxis & published by Electronic Arts, created and designed by Will Wright. Since that day, The Sims has sold over 100 million copies of its sequels and expansions, generating a total revenue of USD 2.5 Billion, making it the biggest-selling computer game in history.
When the game was released in 2000, it was not only successful, but it also managed to become one of the most sold computer games of all time. Thanks to its popularity, the game sold 200 million copies.
6. Call Of Duty
In fourth place in the list of the Best-Selling Game Franchises of All Time goes to Call Of Duty. Present for the first time by raising the concept of World War II and looking at the PC platform as the beginning of the marketing strategy, making Activition as the publisher continue to develop.
So that this game series is able to be present on various platforms as it is today, ranging from PC to Playstation, Xbox, and iOS platforms also taste this game.
The game, which in the development process involves many developers, does have its own characteristics in its style of play, especially the most dominating series made by Infinity Ward and Treyach developers.
As time goes by, this game is increasingly developing its theme with a more interesting, contemporary, futuristic. To date, Call of Duty has released 14 series with revenues of around Rp 3 trillion, making it the most successful game in the FPS genre.
5. Grand Theft Auto
In third place on the list of Most Selling Game Franchises of All Time goes to Grand Theft Auto. Grand Theft Auto or GTA is a game made by Rockstars Games. The first series of this game was released in 1997 and the last series was released in 2013, GTA V.
As we know, GTA V accounted for sales of 100 million copies. With that, the income earned from this game franchise is fantastic, generating more than IDR 82 trillion since its 2013 release.
4. FIFA
In fifth place is the soccer game FIFA. The success of this FIFA game began when the Electronic Arts company launched a game called FIFA International Soccer or commonly known as FIFA 94.
At that time the game was launched to the public on July 15, 1993 offering attractive and stunning graphics that were designed in such a way that it was practically perfect at that time.
Recorded to date, FIFA has reached sales of 260 million copies of all series that have been released since July 15, 1993 entitled FIFA International Soccer.
Of all the FIFA series the best-selling falls to FIFA 18 which made it into the best-selling video game of all time in 21st place with sales of 24 million copies. It is even known if Guiness World Records makes FIFA the best-selling sports game franchise worldwide.
3. Pokemon
In second place on the list of Most Selling Game Franchises of All Time goes to Pokemon games. The first series of this game, Pokemon Red and Blue, was released in 1996.
As we know, this game once broke the popularity of smartphone games with its series, Pokemon Go, although now its popularity is declining unlike when it was first released.
On November 16, 2018, Pokémon also took the world by storm again with the latest series titled Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! that attracted a lot of attention.
However, this game is only available on Nintendo Switch.
2. Tetris
Next on this list is the game Tetris. This game was first released in 1984 and was designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. At that time the game wasn’t called Tetris, it was called Tetrominoes. Pajitnov created it using an ancient computer, the first of its kind.
Tetris became a popular game starting in 1988 in the form of an electronic game called Game Boy launched by Nintendo. Nintendo had wanted to incorporate its own game, Super Mario Bros, into the Game Boy.
However, this idea was eventually scrapped as Tetris was more appealing to everyone than Super Mario bros, which at the time was only favored by children.
It wasn’t until 1996 that a company called Tetris Company was founded to take care of all the licenses, training, and permits.
Tetris is now also available on Xbox One and Playstation 4 under the name Tetris Ultimate, which is a collaboration between Ubisoft and Tetris Company.
1. Mario Bros
At number one on the list of the Best-Selling Game Franchises of All Time goes to Mario Bros. At first, the main character in this game was called Jumpman. The name came to Miyamoto’s mind because the program requires jumping through obstacles.
Reporting from The Guardian, Nintendo’s office in the United States thought of a better name for the game release. Finally, they came up with the name “Mario”.
Until now, no one can beat the sales of this game. How could I not, from the entire series this game has reached sales of 570 million copies. With the highest series being Super Mario 327 million copies, then the Mario Kart series 125 million copies.
Those are the 15 best-selling game franchises of all time that have survived to this day and will continue to grow and possibly shift positions. Is there one of the game franchises above that is your favorite?
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