What are the top 10 Biggest JRPG Franchises in Japan?

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Ruler on 19 March 2016

Darwinianevolution said:
Monster Hunter counts as an RPG, an Action JRPG, so I'd count it.

Then So are all monster hunter type games and the Souls series

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Ruler said:

Darwinianevolution said:
Monster Hunter counts as an RPG, an Action JRPG, so I'd count it.

Then So are all monster hunter type games and the Souls series

Are the Souls games big in Japan?

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Mike_L on 19 March 2016

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)

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baloofarsan on 19 March 2016

Mike_L said:

tbone51 said:

This is not entirely accurate as it includes spin-offs (not all spin-offs are RPGs) and as it doesn't show which franchises currently sell the most (e.g. Yokai Watch games sell more than Tales of). But it gives some kind of a picture.

Nice list! I like lists!

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Mike_L on 19 March 2016

baloofarsan said:

Mike_L said:

This is not entirely accurate as it includes spin-offs (not all spin-offs are RPGs) and as it doesn't show which franchises currently sell the most (e.g. Yokai Watch games sell more than Tales of). But it gives some kind of a picture.

Nice list! I like lists!

Thanks :)

I think it's a Scandinavian thing as you and several Danes on this site (e.g. LordLichtenstein) like lists as well :p

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painmaster212 on 19 March 2016

Well besides the big ones you mentioned, I'd go with.. (Active series only)

Tales of
Monster Hunter
Fire Emblem
SMT/Persona
Mario & Luigi/ Paper Mario
The Legend of Heroes (I hear it does better then Falcom's Ys series now)
Star Ocean
Disgaea