Gaming
Data stories from the games industry — sales trends, franchise trajectories, and the numbers behind the titles people are playing.
Which Street Fighter Game Sold the Most?
Capcom publishes fourteen Street Fighter releases past a million units. Which game leads depends on whether you count releases or games.
Video Game Franchise Sales: Official Figures, Series by Series
The best-selling game in every franchise we track, with the figure its publisher actually states.
Best-Selling Resident Evil Games: Sales by Game, Capcom Figures
Fifteen Resident Evil games ranked by lifetime sales on Capcom’s own figures.
Best-Selling Zelda Games: Sales by Game
Twenty-six Legend of Zelda games ranked by reported lifetime sales. Nintendo publishes a figure for only three of them.
Best-Selling Final Fantasy Games: Sales by Game
Square Enix has counted five Final Fantasy games twice. VII leads at 15.7M+, but VIII and IX cannot be ranked from the official record.
Persona Series Sales: 11 to 30 Million Copies, 2019–2026
Persona passed 30 million copies in June 2026, from 11.1 million in 2019. Two re-releases made up 73.9% of the latest year.
Best-Selling Monster Hunter Games: Sales by Game, Ranked
World leads Capcom's official Monster Hunter list at 22.4 million units, but nothing sits between 5.4 and 11.8 million: two eras, one 6.4 million-unit gap.
Best Couch Co-Op Games on PS5: All 14 Ranked by Rating
Fourteen PS5 games confirmed for genuine couch co-op, ranked by PlayStation Store rating count. Minecraft leads at 1,989,494 ratings and four titles reach PS5 only through backward compatibility.
Best Xbox Co-Op Games 2026 - Ratings Collected
Fifteen games confirmed for local, same-console Xbox co-op, ranked by Xbox Store score. Split Fiction leads at 4.9 and Minecraft's 4,185,746 ratings dwarf every other title.
Kingdom Hearts Sales by Game: All 11 Titles, 2002 to 2026
Eleven tracked Kingdom Hearts releases add up to 30.4 million lifetime units. Kingdom Hearts III sells the most, Kingdom Hearts II reviews the best, and four HD remasters combined outsell KH2.
Are Games Really Getting More Expensive? Prices in 2026 Dollars
Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox launch prices in 2026 dollars: sticker prices rose, but real prices fell 22% to 36% since launch.
Best-Selling Fire Emblem Games: Sales by Game, 2012–2026
A decade of Fire Emblem mainline sales, from Awakening's 2012 near-cancellation to Three Houses' 4.12 million-unit record and Engage's 30% dip, with Fortune's Weave now entering on reveal hype alone.