The highest selling franchise for anime games is Pokémon; originally released on February 27, 1996, this game has racked more than 368 million in sales, which is remarkably impressive.  Next comes the Dragon Ball franchise, which was released first on September 27, 1986, and has sold more than 53.5 copies of games to date. Street Fighter sits at the third position, with 45 million sales since the start of the franchise, established on August 30, 1987. Gundam and Yu-Gi-Oh are the next in line to these top three bestselling games, with 30.90 million and 21.8 million sales, respectively.