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Video game numbers should shoot up in 2025. Image via The Pokemon Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Pok\u00e9mon <\/em>also maintains its second-place ranking in the best-selling video game franchise of all time with that updated 480 million total units sold, well ahead of Call of Duty\u2019s <\/em>400 million units and Grand Theft Auto\u2019s <\/em>335 million total. Pok\u00e9mon <\/em>trails only the Mario <\/em>and Tetris <\/em>franchises, depending on which criteria you check under. <\/p>