Oh you find it terrible? Well why didnt you say so earlier? No more Tetris for me then...

Replace LoL, PUBG and fortnite with Street fighter, Final fantasy and Elders scroll

Street Fighter isn't anywhere close to these others. It was only a top 10 franchise in the 90s with SFII.

It was probably the most popular fighting game if not the most popular game of the 90s therefore it deserves to be in the top 10. We are talking about of all time right not just recently. Sf2 was as popular if not more popular than fortnite,  LoL and PUBG 

These three have all been significantly bigger and more popular for a longer time than Street Fighter's high in the early 90s and make much more money even relatively to today's market size compared to back then.

SF2 sold across all versions less than 15mil copies with a lot of repeated buyers. SF4 didn't reach 10mil after several versions. If Smash Bros. is just an honorable mention Street Fighter shouldn't be in the top 10 either.

Donkey Kong and Pacman in the early 80s were even bigger than Street Fighter ever could have hoped to be. One high point followed by being irrelevant for almost 15 years until SF4 doesn't make it one of the biggest franchises ever. Staying power is important. None of these franchises managed to stay big.

I love Street Fighter and as much as I want to put it in the Top 10, it won't due to lack of consistency, staying power, and poor current state compared to its former self. I would definitely put it in the Top 20 tho and it's really close to making the Top 10. Maybe if SF6 blows up going into the Pro Tour.

I don't even like some of these games on the list, but I'm rating it from an unbiased opinion. I do value the impact SF did to the industry, and revenue wise it doesn't even lose to modern games if we include cabinet numbers. It's also really impressive for the population back then + the size of the gaming market. However, realistically speaking it's difficult to put Street Fighter above them right now. It would've been top 10 if its status had remained on par with some of these modern franchises. It would for sure make the list if it was restricted to games before the 2000s. 

So, Mario and Pokémon from Nintendo have got to be in. Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto too. Minecraft definitely. Also Tetris.

As much as it pains me, Fortnite has to be included. It's just ridiculously big and influential.

That leaves three slots left. As for RPG contenders, I'd argue ES deserves to be on the list more than Zelda.

I thought about adding Warcraft but LoL might come a little ahead.

The last spot maybe goes to someone between PUBG and the RPGs of FF, Zelda, and Warcraft. Add Assassin's Creed to the dispute too if you're feeling spicy.

I’m not a fan of Street Fighter. But people are drastically underplaying its success, influence, and legacy. First off, Street Fighter 2 is one of the most successful games of all time earning 10.6 billion dollars in arcades during the 1990s (a lot more now considering inflation) the game is the main inspiration for the entire fighting game genre, and has generated tens of billions of USD (considering inflation) mainly from arcade sales, and given it’s significantly older.

Also, I don’t like fighters, but even I’m well aware of its greater importance than the likes of Fortnite, PubG, and League of Legends based on the criteria listed… I mean, I didn’t even know the latter three were franchises, I thought they were just games, and relatively new ones… far too new to be considered the greatest game franchises in history.

There are also franchises like Warcraft that popularized two genres: MMO RPGs and RTS.

The Sims franchise have sold a combined 200 million copies (Sims 4 has more than 70 million players) and became a major influence on a variety of genres as well as nearly two decades of popularity, and was a benchmark game franchise in the sandbox genre vastly exceeding SimCity. Although, SimCity and the Sims can be said to be part of the same franchise in the way the various Mario game series are.

Then, of course, there’s Pacman which brought PC, Arcade, and Home console videogaming into the mainstream, and is still played to this day over 40 years later.

Yeah I did think about Warcraft, but the condition has been pretty bad for the past few years and I couldn't find a big factor that would put it to Top 10. It's probably somewhere in the Top 20.

I think Zelda is above Elder Scrolls in every way possible. Revenue, popularity, impact, WW, current state, continuity, history, etc. There also hasn't been a new proper Elder Scrolls game for like 10 years and it's looking like another 5 years to that so yea.

For PUBG I considered mobile and how big it is.

Assassin's Creed is probably Top 20-30 as well.

Skyrim actually sold as much as Breath of the Wild did since the latter was released, though, which is just nuts for what was a 5+-year-old game at the time. And Elder Scrolls Online is probably also a 20+ million seller by now.

Besides, Zelda was honestly not that big before BOTW (smaller than Final Fantasy, in fact).

Assassin's Creed I think the same as Sims: while the games aren't exactly top-notch, they still sell some 20 million a pop each time. So definitely a popular and enduring franchise.