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Nintendo Holds 20 Best Selling Games in Japan

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-lot-of-winning dept.

moderatorrater writes "Nintendo's dominance of the Japanese sales charts continues, as Gamasutra reports on the top games for Japan's 'Golden Week' celebration. The top 21 titles sold in the country were all on Nintendo formats; most actually developed by Nintendo itself. FFXII: Revenant Wings topped the list at number one, and along with five other DS or Wii titles was the only sign of third-party competition in the Japanese best-sellers market. 'With the holiday period functioning somewhat like the Christmas period in the West, there were no new entries in the top thirty - although a number of family friendly titles did reappear in the top ten, with Yoshi's Island DS at number four with 58,948 units sold. New Super Mario Bros. on DS re-emerged at number eight with 51,681 units sold, with the second Brain Training game at number ten.'"

3 of 89 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Wii Sports? by Zarxrax · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wii sports is not a pack-in in Japan, so those people actually bought the game.

  2. Other info by lpangelrob · · Score: 3, Informative

    This story would also be a good time to mention that the Wii continues to outsell the PS3 7-or-8 to 1 in Japan, on a week-by-week basis.

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    -Rob

    Biblical fiscal responsibility

    1. Re:Other info by Krommenaas · · Score: 3, Informative

      And that Wii software outsells PS3 software at over 25 to 1 (31 to 1 this week).