Now that the recent assault on the US sales charts is underway, everyone seems to be getting caught up in the "classic" error - putting too much emphasis on 1st-week sales.
To that end, based on the current weekly chart - I will list and rank any titles that meet the following criteria:
- have been released at least 30 weeks ago
- (or) have sold at least 2m units
- (and) are currently listed in top 100 - in this chart: http://www.vgchartz.com/aweekly.php?date=39334
- (and) are not "heavy" pack-in titles (i.e. Wii Sports will be ignored)
...
| Nintendo | 30 | 84,958 | 2,263,966 |
| Nintendo | 20 | 51,807 | 3,627,711 |
| Activision | 44 | 37,431 | 3,104,678 |
| Nintendo | 107 | 33,475 | 5,549,270 |
| | | Nintendo | 69 | 19,928 | 3,107,890 |
| | | Nintendo | 95 | 17,477 | 2,612,862 |
| | | Nintendo | 73 | 16,807 | 1,804,382 |
| | | Nintendo | 42 | 16,794 | 1,932,874 |
| Microsoft | 44 | 16,249 | 2,925,133 |
| | | Nintendo | 146 | 8,254 | 2,187,418 |
These titles truly represent success (some more than others). I'll do a further analysis next post:
