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Series Unit Sales 01. Resident Evil Series (50 titles, 34,500,000) 02. Mega Man Series (120 titles, 28,000,000) 03. Street Fighter Series (59 titles, 25,000,000) 04. Disney Series (33 titles, 13,200,000) 05. Devil May Cry Series (10 titles, 9,500,000) 06. Onimusha Series (12 titles, 7,800,000) 07. Monster Hunter Series (10 titles, 6,300,000) 08. Dino Crisis Series (13 titles, 4,400,000) 09. Ghosts 'n Goblins Series (15 titles, 4,300,000) 10. Final Fight Series (10 titles, 3,200,000) 11. Breath of Fire Series (15 titles, 3,000,000) 12. Ace Attorney Series (11 titles, 2,800,000) 13. Commando Series (2 titles, 1,200,000) 14. 1942 Series (3 titles, 1,200,000) Platinum Games Unit Sales FC: NES SFC: Super NES MD: Genesis GB: Game Boy GBA: Game Boy Advance PSP: PlayStation Portable DC: DreamCast PS: PlayStation PS2: PlayStation2 GC: GameCube Wii: Wii 01. Street Fighter II (released June 1992, SFC, 6,300,000 units sold) 02. Resident Evil 2 (January 1998, PS, 4,960,000) 03. Street Fighter II Turbo (July 1993, SFC, 4,100,000) 04. Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (September 1999, PS, 3,500,000) 05. Resident Evil (March 1996, PS, 2,750,000) 06. Dino Crisis (July 1999, PS, 2,400,000) 07. Devil May Cry 4 (January 2008, PS3, Xbox 360, 2,300,000) 08. Devil May Cry (August 2001, PS2, 2,160,000) 09. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (February 2007, PSP, 2,150,000) 10. Onimusha: Warlords, (January 2001, PS2, 2,020,000) 11. Resident Evil 4, (December 2005, PS2, 2,000,000) 12. Super Street Fighter II (June 2006, 1994, SFC, 2,000,000) 13. Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny, (March 2003, PS2, 1,990,000) 14. Aladdin (November 1993, SFC, 1,750,000) 15. Devil May Cry 2 (January 2003, PS2, 1,700,000) 16. Duck Tales, (January 1990, FC, 1,670,000) 17. Street Fighter II' Plus (September 1993, MD, 1,650,000) 18. Ghosts'n Goblins (June 1986, FC, 1,640,000) 19. Resident Evil 4 (January 2005, GC, 1,600,000) 20. Onimusha 3: Demon siege (February 2004, PS2, 1,520,000) 21. Mega Man 2 (December 1998, FC, 1,510,000) 22. Lost Planet Extreme Condition (December 2006, Xbox 360, 1,500,000) 23. Final Fight (December 1990, SFC, 1,480,000) 24. Resident Evil Outbreak (December 2003, PS2, 1,450,000) 25. Duck Tales (September 1990, GB, 1,430,000) 26. Resident Evil Code Veronica X (March 2001, PS2, 1,400,000) 27. Dead Rising (August 2006, Xbox 360, 1,400,000) 28. Resident Evil (March 2002, GC, 1,350,000) 29. Mega man Battle Network 4 (December 2003, GBA, 1,350,000) 30. Devil May Cry 3 (February 2005, PS2, 1,300,000) 31. Resident Evil 0 (November 2002, GC, 1,250,000) 32. Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition (May 2007, Wii, 1,250,000) 33. Magical Quest Starring Mickey (November 1992, SFC, 1,210,000) 34. Resident Evil DC Dual Shock (August 1998, PS, 1,200,000) 35. Chip'n Dale Rescue Rangers (June 1990, FC, 1,200,000) 36. Dino Crisis 2 (September 2000, PS, 1,190,000) 37. Mega Man X (December 1993, SFC, 1,160,000) 38. Monster Hunter Freedom (December 2005, PSP, 1,150,000) 39. Resident Evil Code Veronica (February 2000, DC, 1,140,000) 40. Commando (September 1986, FC, 1,140,000) 41. Resident Evil Director's Cut (September 1997, PS, 1,130,000) 42. Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts (October 1991, SFC, 1,090,000) 43. Mega Man 3 (September 1990, FC, 1,080,000) 44. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (November 2007, Wii, 1,050,000) 45. Final Fight 2 (May 1993, SFC, 1,030,000) 46. Street Fighter Alpha 3 (December 1998, PS, 1,000,000)

source: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10630&Itemid=2


Being the stat whore that I am, I found these numbers to be pretty interesting. Seeing SFII for SNES as their top selling game ever makes me happy. It was the reason I bought a SNES, and even though it wasn't arcade perfect, I still played the shit out of it. Good times. I'm kind of surprised that the RE series has outsold Street Fighter by such a wide margin. I also knew there were alot of fuckin Megaman games, but 120!?! Damn. Also, the SNES version of Aladdin, despite being considered as the inferior Aladdin game, somehow sold more units than more coveted titles like RE4 on gamecube and Megaman 2, wasn't expecting that. Megaman 2 particularly, deserved better. Despite it being their 2nd best selling franchise, none of the individual titles have sold particularly well (relatively speaking). Devil May Cry 4 also sold a whole lot better than I was expecting. I still need to pick that one up...

Yea, I knew that, but it still seems like a lot to me. With all the variations and ports of street fighter only adding up 59, the megaman count is double that.

The Street Fighter series includes the versus games probably, but it is surprising that none of the versus games appear on the individual title list. I would have expected at least MvC2 to sell over 1 million copies. Maybe its sales were just diluted over the various platforms...