Recently, the stashbird.com portal has conducted a interesting study, aimed at electing the most popular video game character within the global community. To do this, several parameters were considered, which include: sales totaled by the franchise, global searches over the last year, number of hashtags on Instagram, number of mentions on Reddit, results of a popularity survey among players . Below, you will find the complete Top 10 resulting from the study conducted by stashbird:
Mario (Super Mario), with 451 points; Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic), with 394 points; Link (The Legend of Zelda), with 377 points; Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong), with 354 points; Master Chief (Halo), Crash (Crash Bandicoot), Sora (Kingdom Hearts) are tied for fifth place, all with 323 points; Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy), with 314 points; Pac-Man (Pac-Man), with 308 points; Kirby (Kirby), with 306 points; Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher), with 294 points; Ezio Auditore (Assassin's Creed), with 291 points; To triumph was the iconic and immortal Super Mario, with 653 million copies sold over the course of its 35-year history. Second place for the blue hedgehog, with Sonic delivering notable results in terms of mentions on Reddit and in search engines. In this sense, it is possible that part of his popularity was also supported by the publication of the dedicated film. Finally, a bronze medal for Link, first for mentions on Reddit (over 3.9 million) and for popularity in the survey proposed to players.