Which game series has the most iterations..?

[SiD the Turtle]

Fifa I'm guessing, or something like Final Fantasy.

 

[GSXRMovistar]

Madden NFL sprang to mind, I think that has had a yearly version since the early nineties.

 

[Frapple]

Sims
Sims 2

 

[Kainz]

Command & Conquer and FIFA come to mind atm.

 

[Hostile_18]

Fifa has the street, world cup and euro versions and the yearly additions since 95 wasn't it?

 

[KNiVES]

13 editions? in total Although it is fair to say they are very different as the series progressed.

There's a lot lot lot more than 13 for sure. There's Tactics, remakes, ports with alterations, spinoffs, etc.

 

[sargatanas]

MARIO! so many mario games its unbelievable, hes been in more than 200 games in total and around 40 of them are mario games specifically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mario_games_by_year

 

[Metalface Mark]

Fifa has to be up there - 16 versions since 92, add in champions league, world cup, road to world cups and european championships, you would have another 10 or so, then if you factor in the major differences between the console versions, such as the wii, which are different enough to count as a different version.

 

[Gackt]

Final Fantasy I
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII Agito
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Final Fantasy IV the After: Tsuki no Kikan
Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
Final Fantasy Legend I
Final Fantasy Legend II
Final Fantasy Legend III
Final Fantasy Adventure
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
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Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon
Chocobo's Dungeon 2
Chocobo Racing
Chocobo Stallion
Dice de Chocobo
Chocobo Collection
Hataraku Chocobo
Chocobo Land: A Game of Dice
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales
Chocobo de Mobile
Choco-Mate
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
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Final Fantasy: Unlimited on PC Adventure - Labyrinth
Final Fantasy: Unlimited with U
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as King
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding
Dissidia: Final Fantasy
Crystal Guardians

39 without the Chocobo, 51 with. This doesn't include the different versions, ports, or collections. 110 with all the different versions, ports and collections.

 

[KNiVES]

Well the OP is using different versions ports and collections as criteria so we can safely say Final Fantasy easily wins the roost here.

 

[Wiggis]

It really depends on how you define iteration.
Generally an iteration is the next level of an existing design.
Therefore FF and Mario do not count as each game is different in both design and implementation. they all play differently, have different engines, mostly built from scratch etc..

Fifa on the other hand is basically the same game just updated every year both graphically and new functionality added. But essentially its the same game.

SF2 is another example.

Therefore I say FIFA is the out ant out winner.

 

[KNiVES]

Your definition sucks.

 

[Gackt]

It really depends on how you define iteration.
Generally an iteration is the next level of an existing design.
Therefore FF and Mario do not count as each game is different in both design and implementation. they all play differently, have different engines, mostly built from scratch etc..

Fifa on the other hand is basically the same game just updated every year both graphically and new functionality added. But essentially its the same game.

SF2 is another example.

Therefore I say FIFA is the out ant out winner.

FIFA often has different engines, and they often play differently. You can see this as they've changed over the years.

Therefore I say Final Fantasy is the 'out ant out' winner.

 

[Warbie]

I'd say SF2 - the same games has had umpteen releases with pretty minor changes.

 

[sargatanas]

Super Mario/Super Mario Brothers have had dozens and dozens of games so I still say Mario even with those definitions.

 

[Warbie]

I don't think you could count Mario Kart and Mario Golf as iterations. Nor the flagship Super Mario Bros. games, or Mario Tennis etc. Each is a series on their own.