Top 70 best selling games EVER in Japan

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Sorted by franchises (sorted by total units sold):

franchise/number of titles/units sold/Average units per title

Mario - 18x - 51,974,078 - 2,887,449

Pokemon - 9x - 38,625,561 - 4,291,729
*Wait a second, where's Pokemon Yellow? They forgot about that one, it sold 3.16 million according to VGC.

Dragon Quest - 12x - 30,834,582 - 2,569,549

Final Fantasy - 10x - 23,935,358 - 2,393,536

DS Training Series - 5x - 13,787,716 - 2,757,543

NES Sports Series - 7x - 12,820,000 - 1,831,429

Wii Series - 3x - 8,639,000 - 2,879,667

Tetris - 2x - 6,040,000 - 3,020,000

Donkey Kong - 2x - 5,200,000 - 2,800,000

Gran Turismo - 3x - 5,085,085 - 1,695,028

Street Fighter - 2x - 4,980,000 - 2,490,000

Animal Crossing - 1x - 4,743,000

Monster Hunter - 2x - 4,138,387 - 2,069,194

Yu-Gi-Oh! - 2x - 3,763,134 - 1,881,582

Super Smash Bros. - 2x - 3,313,055 - 1,656,528
*VGC has Brawl and the original considerably higher. Also Melee is at 1.45 million in Japan.

Zelda - 2x - 3,300,000 - 1,650,000
*According to VGC OoT sold 1.46 million in Japan.

Kirby - 2x - 3,110,000 - 1,555,000

Resident Evil - 1x - 2,154,975

Mah-Jong - 1x - 2,130,000

Chronno Trigger - 1x - 2,030,000

Nintendogs - 1x - 1,779,603

Hot Shots Golf - 1x - 1,777,895

Derby Stallion - 1x - 1,737,819

Mana - 1x - 1,500,000

Dragon Ball - 1x - 1,450,000

Virtua Fighter - 1x - 1,417,034


I've left out some cause I'm tired, but they were only games with 1 entry and selling low.

Interesting facts:
Mario is the best selling franchise.
Pokemon is the franchise with more than 1 game, with the more units/title sold.
DQ series > FF series in units sold.
DQ series > FF series in average untis/title sold.