Top 50 Seventh Gen Games (all platforms)

[Erik Aston]

This is a list of the top 50 best-selling games of the current generation of consoles and handheld systems (DS, PSP, XBox 360, PS3 and Wii), now accurate through VGC worldwide numbers for the week ending November 14th. Since the original list, from the middle of September, there is only one new entry to the list, and one other game to make a large climb, but all the sales numbers and many of the blurbs have been updated.

The Top Ten

1. Wii Sports - 50.59 million sold Hitting 50 million doesn't even seem like a big milestone anymore. That's partly because it was totally expected to the point of inevitability, but also because Wii Sports isn't the big hardware driver anymore. Wii Sports conquered the world, but now Nintendo is looking to Wii Sports Resort and New Super Mario Bros. Wii to do it again.

2. Wii Play - 24.75 million sold In 2007, this was amazing content for only $10. But now more expensive, content-rich games are coming pretty close to it in total sales. Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus combined have actually beat it to 25 million.

3. Nintendogs - 22.94 million sold This game has sold more than every Sonic game ever released for SEGA hardware combined. It has surpassed the total sales of the Yoshi series, and is a matter of months away from beating the Donkey Kong Country trilogy, including the Game Boy remakes. Miyamoto always laughs last.

4. Wii Fit - 22.68 million sold Ongoing sales will soon drop close to 0, as Wii Fit Plus emerges onto and starts climbing this list. But even if it falls from this gen's top 5 best-sellers, it has a strong case to be the game which will leave the biggest industry-changing legacy of the generation.

5. New Super Mario Bros. - 19.73 million sold The worst thing that can be said about this game's popularity is that it might not become such a classic that it can sell 5 million copies as a remake, as SMB, SMB2, SMB3, SMW and SM64 have all done. But if it sells 25 million copies in the first run, that's not exactly a big knock against it.

6. Mario Kart Wii - 18.44 million sold Since the initial list, this title has sold exactly 1.00 million, leapfrogging Brain Age for the #6 spot in the process. More importantly for fans, it has become a generation-bridging modern classic that was Nintendo's first game in a long time to challenge and best their classics in terms of pure fun and quality.

7. Brain Age - 18.09 million sold The first great game of Nintendo's comeback. But several years out from any Nintendo brain game, one starts to wonder if there is a future for this franchise or this genre in general, or if the closest thing to a successor will be brain-teasing games like Professor Layton.

8. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl - 17.14 million sold All eyes are now on Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver, which has already sold 3 million in Japan. Pokemon Platinum is eating up what sales this game could have in the West, which leaves it vulnerable to fall from the top 10 by generation's end.

9. Mario Kart DS - 16.18 million sold The two Mario Kart games of the generation are closing in on 35 million combined sales. When this game hits 16.35 million, that will triple the sales of the only other handheld Mario game.

10. Brain Age 2 - 14.22 million sold It is not a question of if, but when one of the Modern Warfare games will take the final top 10 spot from Nintendo. The question is which one. And the other question is if Wii Sports Resort, NSMBWii or Wii Fit Plus can take it back.