First off, most of Pokemon on that list is because of the card game itself. That isn't part of this discussion as that isn't part of video games itself. A better list would be this. Without the card game, you are looking at a FAR less number, something FAR less than the CoD franchise itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ame_franchises
Highest on this list is the Mario franchise followed by Tetris, Pokemon, CoD and GTA. However, if you look at that list, action games combined total absolutely crush Pokemon. CoD, Zelda and FF combined has more sales than Pokemon.
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While Pokemon does sell a LOT of games, I was pointing out the fact that action oriented games like CoD, GoW, Elden Ring, Zelda and others combined are far more in sales and popularity than turn based games. Hell, even Pokemon is slowly turning into an action oriented game. That is why FF is going to go that route as the appetite for action oriented games is far higher than turn based games. I mean, we could add in WoW to it along with EQ and other MMOs as, while there are turn based MMOs, they are very few and far between and nearly all are action based games.