List of best-selling video game franchises
At least 50 million copies

List of best-selling video game franchises

Section Title: At least 50 million copies
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Franchise name	Original release date	Sales

The Legend of Zelda	February 21, 1986	91.01 million

The Legend of Zelda is a high fantasy action-adventure video game series created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, developed and published by Nintendo.

NBA 2K	November 10, 1999	90 million

NBA 2K is a series of basketball sports games. The series was originally published by Sega, under the label Sega Sports, and is now published by 2K Sports.

Resident Evil	March 22, 1996	90 million

Resident Evil is a media franchise consisting of a survival horror video games series, comic books, novelizations, five Hollywood motion pictures, and a variety of collectibles, including action figures, strategy guides and publications, created by Shinji Mikami and developed by Capcom.

Tom Clancy's	August 21, 1998	82 million

Includes sales from Tom Clancy–sponsored games made by Ubisoft, including Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, and The Division.

Gran Turismo	December 23, 1997	80.4 million

Gran Turismo (Italian for "grand tourer" or "grand touring"), abbreviated GT, is a series of racing video games produced by Kazunori Yamauchi for the Sony PlayStation gaming systems by Polyphony Digital.

Star Wars	May 1983	81.37 million

Star Wars is a sci-fi, fantasy, action-adventure video game series based on the popular movie series. The series is published by LucasArts.

Dragon Quest	May 27, 1986	76 million

Dragon Quest, published as Dragon Warrior in North America until the 2005 release of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, is a series of role-playing video games created by Yuji Horii, with character design by manga artist Akira Toriyama and published by Square Enix (formerly Enix).

Tomb Raider	November 15, 1996	74 million

Tomb Raider is a series of video games formerly developed by Core Design and currently developed by Crystal Dynamics, with publishing formerly by Eidos Interactive and currently by Square Enix Europe.

Halo	November 15, 2001	70 million Halo 3: 14.5 million

Halo is a science fiction video game series created by Bungie and published by Microsoft Studios, which was later adapted to eight novels, several comic series, a graphic novel, numerous action figures, and an anime series.

The Oregon Trail	December 3, 1971	65 million

The Oregon Trail is a series of educational computer games that began with the very first edition originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974.

Battlefield	September 10, 2002	63.5 million

The Battlefield franchise is a series of video games developed by Digital Illusions CE and Visceral Games, published by Electronic Arts.

Just Dance	November 17, 2009	63 million

Just Dance is a series of dance and music video games that includes games like Just Dance and Just Dance 2, published by Ubisoft, and released on the Wii.

Crash Bandicoot	September 9, 1996	60 million

Crash Bandicoot is a Platform game series originally created and developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation.

WWE 2K	February 29, 2000	60 million shipped

WWE 2K (formerly WWF SmackDown!, then WWE SmackDown vs. Raw, then WWE) is a series of professional wrestling video games released by 2K Sports (formerly by THQ).

Donkey Kong	July 9, 1981	58.02 million

Donkey Kong is a video game series created by Shigeru Miyamoto when he was assigned at Nintendo during the early 1980s to build a game that would appeal more to Americans on the arcade hardware of Radar Scope, a game that had been released to test audiences with poor results.

Super Smash Bros.	January 21, 1999	54.67 million

Super Smash Bros is a series of Nintendo fighting games created by Masahiro Sakurai that features characters from several other Nintendo franchises and a few third party franchises and is known for both its unique gameplay style and countless nods towards the company's history.

Metal Gear	July 13, 1987	53.8 million

Metal Gear is a series of stealth games created by Japanese game designer Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami.

Dragon Ball	September 27, 1986	53.5 million

Dragon Ball, created by Akira Toriyama in 1984, is an internationally famous media franchise. It consists primarily of two manga series, five different anime, nineteen animated feature films, a collectible trading card game as well as other collectibles like action figures.

Monster Hunter	September 21, 2004	53 million

Monster Hunter is a series of action role-playing video games released by Capcom, where players take the role of a hunter in a fantasy environment and complete quests by seeking out monsters to hunt or capture.

The Elder Scrolls	March 25, 1994	52 million

The Elder Scrolls (abbreviated as TES) is an action role-playing open world video game series developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

Bejeweled	May 30, 2001	50 million

Bejeweled is a puzzle game first developed as a browser game by PopCap Games in 2001. A sequel to this game, Bejeweled 2, was released by PopCap Games in 2004, with a third installment debuting in 2010 along with two spin-offs: Bejeweled Blitz and Bejeweled Twist.

Counter-Strike	November 8, 2000	50 million Half-Life: Counter-Strike: 4.2+ million Counter-Strike Xbox: 1.5 million Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: 2.1+ million Counter-Strike: Source: 2.9+ million Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: 25 million

Counter-Strike is a series of tactical first-person shooter games that began as a mod for the game Half-Life. The series has since been developed by Valve Corporation, and published by Sierra Entertainment and Valve.

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The NBA 2K series has established itself as one of the best-selling video game franchises.

final_sentence: The NBA 2K series has established itself as one of the best-selling video game franchises.