10 Highest-Selling Video Game Franchises Of All Time
3. Call Of Duty - 310 Million Approx. Units
While Call of Duty certainly didn't start out as a flop, hitting the first person shooter scene as a relatively successful World War II title, it wasn't until a ground-breaking turn to the Modern Warfare series that the franchise became a market-leader on numerous fronts.
The CoD train is now 15 games in and chugging along at a very good rate with an annual release schedule.
Four of the Modern Warfare and Black Ops titles sit as some of the highest-selling single games of all time. Even the less-fancied Call of Duty: Ghosts sits inside the top 50 of the same list, such is the name value and hype that the franchise caries upon each new game.
The series has faced competition in the FPS market over time from titles like Battlefield, Medal of Honor and the evergreen Counter-Strike, but none have quite had the commercial or pop-culture relevance that has stemmed from Call of Duty.
While the first Modern Warfare and Black Ops titles have been remembered for their stand-out single player campaign, it's in the multiplayer online sphere that CoD dominates.
In an era of massive online scale, Call of Duty managed to stand out from the crowd early, and in a unique enough way to build an empire off the back of it.
Not to mention it's home to one of the best protagonists in gaming, Captain Price.