A graph of the best-selling FPS franchises

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  1. ichbinverwirrt420

    Borderlands being second is insane,considering I never even seen any kind of gameplay from one of these games.

  2. shutyourbutt69

    I love Borderlands and I’m surprised it’s second

  3. Artorias330

    when you go outside, and talk to people this chart makes alot more sense…

  4. Would this graph change any if it averaged how many games were in the series?

  5. PontusFrykter

    I think the only reason Battlefield has only 88 millions and not ~300-400 is just because DICE love to reinvent the wheel and they don’t have a pipeline to release a game every year.

  6. forevertired1982

    Bot surprising when there’s over 20 cod games so its pretty obvious that as a franchise it would rank higher than games which only have 6 games.

  7. A-Total-Rookie

    CoD releasing a new game every year (or half year) certainly helps “sales.”

    Half-Life had 2 games.
    Counter Strike is ancient.
    Medal of Honor died off after their last attempt to compete with Battlefield and CoD.
    Battlefront was abandoned after 2 games.
    Destiny has 2 games and is fairly old now.

    Like – I could go on. Most of these games don’t have 10 to their name, but CoD has what? More than 20? Quantity =/= Quality.

  8. SinSinSushi

    Borderlands being second is a wonderful surprise

  9. NeedsSomeSnare

    Half Life 2 alone has sold 29 million on Steam. There were also 2 episodes and half life 1 of course, as well as console releases.

    This makes me think that all the figures here are very poorly sourced.

  10. ZeeBuffer

    I’d like to see this graph as average number of sales per game. Call of Duty went annual and they’ve had more than 20 “mainline” games now.

  11. ArbbyM9er

    Man seeing Halo low on this list is such a shame. 343i did not carry on that torch well at all.

  12. Brash_Attack

    We are on Call of Duty 75 or something by now. Borderlands is at 4.

  13. Cloud_N0ne

    Borderlands being above Halo and Battlefield is kinda insane

  14. lawlianne

    Wikipedia being cited as a source is a thing my teachers would grill us for back in the day.

  15. savagesaint

    Ok, but do it as sales per capita, or whatever you would call it. I want to see sales divided by number of game releases.

  16. InfinityPainPlus

    The exact reason why COD is now literally the same game with just different pay-to-win skins every year. they know idiots will buy it over and over again even though nothing has changed.

  17. Supernova_Soldier

    Only one legit surprising is Borderlands, I expected COD to be in first, matter of fact, anything other than first is crazy ngl

  18. Doom, Quake and Unreal Tournament oddly not on this list.

  19. Minions-overlord

    A quick google says there is 23 CoD games. Divide the 500 by 23 and you have just shy of 22 units per game. Quantity of games boosting their numbers

  20. DramaExpertHS

    I love Bioshock but I doubt it sold more than Half-Life even if it’s 3 games against 2.

  21. kinda surprised that medal of honor is even on that list still considering that franchise has been dead for the better part of the last 20 years. I guess I didn’t realize how popular it was back in the day before call of duty was a thing.

  22. Elfeniona

    I’m not even gonna bother why it’s first, same shit for almost 20 years, the ultimate sports game clone

  23. Logical_Cicada_2854

    COD is like

    “The air is different up here”

  24. chargeorge

    Destiny number seems suspect to me. What are they counting here? 25 million each purchased d1 and d2? Individual expansion purchases? The original source is in Portuguese so I can’t tell

  25. DifficultCarob408

    Surprised with both Borderlands being that high, and Halo not being higher (despite being an xbox exclusive).

  26. SQUIDWARD360

    If you read a post in the cod sub they say cod is dead.

  27. I can’t stand borderlands. And this just data just makes me sad cause there will never be Brothers in Arms because borderlands is making them too much money.

    Come on, Randy Pitchford and Gearbox Software. Just give me another Brother in Arms games.

  28. Cheesetorian

    Guaranteed they’ll still be complaining how “expensive creating games” and up the price AND increase microtransactions.

    We know why…because y’all will buy their slop regardless.

  29. I wonder if counter strike is so low because it’s free. It’s constantly on top of the charts for steam db and it’s not even close

  30. underratedtired

    Medal of Honor, now thats a name I haven’t heard in a long time. It is missed

  31. Some of these numbers are outdated af, like literally 10 years

    CSGO alone sold 29M copies before it went f2p, total franchise is 70M+

    This is why we don’t use Wikipedia as a source.

  32. Metalicks

    Aren’t there like 30 CODs compared to less than ten for everything else?

  33. astrozombie2012

    How the fuck is Doom not on there at all… unfuckinbelievable!

  34. Reylo-Wanwalker

    It’s still crazy to me BioShock was so successful. It’s like an art house game and typically niche in genre as an immersive sim and horror game.

  35. iLLiCiT_XL

    And what has it done, other than devolve into a Fortnite wannabe or becoming the Madden of shooters?

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