Why don't you put forward some figures instead of completely guessing, christ.

The only part of the pokemon platform that is still successful is the games. The anime, cards ect are not remotely popular anymore.

COD by far if you look at it logically. They sell 20 million+ every single year. GTA is gonna sell maybe 30 million, but that's once every 5 years or so.

It's not even a contest.

Except... for some reason the OP is counting the whole franchise.  So maybe 2 COD games...

and then Pokemon.  The games are really subserviant to the franchise at this point.

Between 1995 and 2005, Pokemon made around 30 billion dollars.   So like, 3 Billion a year... and that number is probably backloaded, though lower then that backloaded number.

I can't find anything more recent... but it would be far from shocking if the Pokemon franchise eclipsed that via all it's liscensing, television show, card games, toys...

Basically, looking at Pokemon's sales by looking primarily at the games, is like looking at Marvel comics as a primary example of the profit of the company.  (Or Star Wars for that matter.)

The main product now is now more used to just keep up the marketing juggernaut that is everything else.

I'd look up the financial reports but my PDF reader is all fucked up for some reason and won't load anything.

Edit: Found it.   It made about 1.6 Billion last year.

http://www.licensemag.com/license-global/top-150-global-licensors

Assuming Pokemon XY, are bigger then Black and White 2.  Pokemon seems like to take it... by quite a bit hoenstly, as the new pokemon will likely lead to an increase in revenue.

Looks like a premature statement.

2012 looks like Pokemon did about 1.6  billion between games and liscensing.  This year can only be expected to grow much more, thanks to X-Y offering plenty of brand new liscensing oppurtunities.

With the Pokemon trading cards still be an industry leader in the TCG market.

http://www.licensemag.com/license-global/top-150-global-licensors

Guys quit bringing in facts and figures, lets try and keep it a fair fight.

Pokemon, by far. Because it will eventually outsell the others, and Nintendo has spent far less money developing it.

You think X/Y will sell more than the originals? Because GTA is basically guaranteed to at this point.

Why on earth did pokemon get more votes then COD ? (This site should limit the voters to actual users and not some stranger obsessed with some corporations.)

with Kasz Info I change it to Pokemon.

Currently GTA is at 1.25 billion, and I'd guess it could get to 1.8ish billion this year. Subtracting Dev costs would put it at ~1.6 billion. But if you want to get technical, not all dev costs are associated with this since it's been in development a few years.

Pokemon I'd think would undoubtedly pass 1.6 billion from last year and I'd guess the X and Y release with enhanced merchandising would be enough to put it past my guess for GTA's mark.

Over a longer less arbitrary time frame that's actually more meaningful, GTA would be in last by a lot, since it essentially has to compete with 5 Call of Duty's and ~8 Billion Dollars of Pokemon.

well a lot of people think pokemon have great profit power.... and COD have a bad reputation in VGChartz unfortunately...