What are the top 10 Biggest JRPG Franchises in Japan?

[Mike_L]

tbone51 said:

Of course after pokemon/dq/ff/Yo-kai Watch! These are by far the million sellers in Japan. But what are the top 10 after these monsters? 

 

The list below is not entirely accurate as it includes a few spin-offs that are not RPGs (e.g. Pokémon Pinball/Snap/Stadium/etc.) and as it doesn't show which franchises currently sell the most (e.g. Yokai Watch > Tales of). But it does give some kind of a picture.

 

Pos	Game	Genre	Publisher	Japan (million)
1	Pokémon	Role-Playing	Nintendo	77.43
2	Dragon Quest	Role-Playing	Square Enix	57.41
3	Final Fantasy	Role-Playing	Square Enix	48.73
4	Monster Hunter	Role-Playing	Capcom	26.11
5	Tales of	Role-Playing	Bandai Namco	12.31
6	Yokai Watch	Role-Playing	Level-5	9.43
7	Yu-Gi-Oh!	Role-Playing	Konami	8.92
8	SaGA (Frontier/Romancing/etc.)	Role-Playing	Square Enix	6.43
9	Shin Megami Tensei (Persona/etc.)	Role-Playing	Atlus (Sega)	6.18
10	Kingdom Hearts	Role-Playing	Square Enix	5.70
11	Fire Emblem	Role-Playing	Nintendo	4.46
12	Inzuma Eleven	Role-Playing	Level-5	4.23
13	Chrono (Trigger/Cross)	Role-Playing	Square Enix	3.20
14	Mana (Secret/Legend/Sword/etc.)	Role-Playing	Square Enix	3.15
15	Phantasy Star	Role-Playing	Sega	3.01
16	God Eater	Role-Playing	Bandai Namco	2.76
17	Star Ocean	Role-Playing	Square Enix	2.45
18	Arc the Lad	Role-Playing	SCE	2.42
19	Mario & Luigi	Role-Playing	Nintendo	2.41
20	Dragon Ball	Role-Playing	Bandai Namco	2.30
21	Paper Mario	Role-Playing	Nintendo	2.27

Pos	Game	Genre	Publisher	Japan (million)
22	Digimon	Role-Playing	Bandai Namco	1.95
23	Xeno (gears/saga/blade)	Role-Playing	N/A	1.95
24	Suikoden	Role-Playing	Konami	1.88
25	Atelier	Role-Playing	Tecmo Koei	1.87
26	Puzzle & Dragons	Role-Playing	GungHo	1.84
27	Souls (Demon's/Dark/Bloodborne)	Role-Playing	Bandai Namco/SCE	1.73
28	The Legend of Heroes	Role-Playing	Nihon Falcom	1.60
29	Super Mario RPG	Role-Playing	Nintendo	1.45
30	Valkyrie	Role-Playing	Square Enix	1.40
31	.hack//	Role-Playing	Bandai Namco	1.31
32	Wild Arms	Role-Playing	SCE	1.24
33	Disgaea	Role-Playing	Nippon Ichi	1.09
34	Parasite Eve	Role-Playing	Square Enix	1.05
35	Etrian Odyssey	Role-Playing	Atlus (Sega)	0.99
36	Ys	Role-Playing	Nihon Falcom	0.91
37	Dragon's Dogma	Role-Playing	Capcom	0.89
38	Sword Art Online	Role-Playing	Bandai Namco	0.88
39	Mother/Earthbound	Role-Playing	Nintendo	0.84
40	White Knight Chronicles	Role-Playing	SCE	0.72
41	Valkyria	Role-Playing	Sega	0.66
42	Bravely (Default/Second)	Role-Playing	Square Enix	0.66
43	The Elder Scrolls	Role-Playing	Bethesda Softworks	0.65

 

Square Enix: 10
Bandai Namco: 7
Nintendo: 6
Sega/Atlus: 4
SCE: 4
Capcom: 2
Konami: 2
Level-5: 2
Nihon Falcom: 2
(the rest: 1)