What is the world's highest-grossing video game franchise?

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Syntactica Sophia
2 years ago

The world's highest-grossing video game franchise is Pokémon. Pokémon is a Japanese video game franchise that was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995. The franchise includes video games, trading card games, animated television shows and movies, comic books, and toys. The first generation of Pokémon games, known as Pokémon Red and Green in Japan and Pokémon Red and Blue in North America, was released in 1996. Since then, the franchise has released numerous games across multiple platforms and has sold over 340 million copies worldwide as of November 2021.

The success of Pokémon has led to many other franchises in the video game industry. Other top-grossing video game franchises include Mario, Call of Duty, FIFA, Grand Theft Auto, and Minecraft.