What is a bigger Franchise? God of War or Animal Crossing?

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You can look at this in several ways, but sales is the most obvious for "size".

1 Animal Crossing has been released on DS.

2 God of War titles have been released on Ps2.

These titles fight against equally strong oponents. Ps2 has a bigger userbase, but also slightly bigger competition.

Animal Crossing Wild World is the 7th best selling game on DS. As a system seller, it beats all below except for Phantom Hourglass and possibly Mario and Sonic. The title has sold almost 10M, and is still selling heaps.

God of War 1 is the 50th best selling game on Ps2. Alone, it is by no means a huge system seller, but nonetheless a partly system-seller. The title has sold 3.2M

God of War 2 is the 104th best selling game on Ps2. It has little power as a system seller, and sold only 2.11M

 

You could add the GC one, which sold 2.98M. It is the 6th best selling game on GC, and this game didn't even sell in Europe. If they had marketed it there, Animal Crossing GC could have been Zelda: Wind Waker size. Remember that this was also sort of the first AC (even though there was a N64 one, it was only released in Japan). In Japan, it is the 2nd best selling GC game.

 

So sales wise, God of War doesn't stand a change at all. This is almost like comparing Mario to Zelda. One sells great, but the other sells so insanely much more it's not even funny.

 

To put it another way, Animal Crossing is on par with Kingdom Hearts. Now, Kingdom Hearts is a lot bigger than God of War, right?

 

For quality, they're, as bleu-ocelot said, apples and oranges.